Spartan / Gates of Troy

[Boron]

deccan said:
What is so bad about the AI in R:TW?

-It rarely uses its archers wise . Mostly it "abuses" them as light infantry and lets them rush towards you .
-If you are attacking the ai just stands still very often and you can encircle it or just kill it with archers/onagers .
-The ai is very stupid at town attacks with walls . If you open the gate and place a phalanx unit in the open gate it rushes towards the gate and gets slaughtered by burning oil , the archer towers , your archers and can't break your phalanx anyway .
-The ai often does suicide attacks with their general .
-The ai manages its reserves bad . Either it attacks only with very few units and has a way to big reserve or it just rushes with all it has towards you . It rarely does good flanking .

I could continue for ages .

If you play as a horse rider fraction it becomes ridiculous . You will suffer 90% of your casualities from friendly fire . The ai normally builds not many cavalry units .
Especially as Armenia it is extremely easy . You need no other unit than cataphract bowmen .
This is similiar with parthia and scythia as well .

If you play carthago or seleucids no matter what the ai does it can't beat an army consisting of 2 elephant units and 6-8 cavalry units . You don't even need to use all 20 stacks , 10 stacks are enough to beat all AI armies with minimal casualities .

You can even do with any nation an army consisting of only family members . Very rarely one of your family members is killed and their bodyguards replenish very very quick .


The problem is that if you want a somewhat hard game you have to take numidia and play on vh/vh .


I have big hopes though that the path will do wonders because in medieval total war i never encountered such big ai difficulties and found normal or hard difficulty enough .