Pretenders useless?

[alexti]

krpeters said:
Thank you all for the responses... I've learned a lot!

Firstly, from what you're saying, the small game/AI is a big part of it. It sounds like early magic is much more effective against intelligent humans than against giant AI hordes. It's hard to outwit someone who has no wit to begin with

Early magic is pretty effective vs AI. It's actually easy to outwit AI

krpeters said:
Secondly, my playing style favors mass armies... although I think this is a response to the mass armies the AI likes to hit me with. When you suddenly see 600 troops show up on your doorstep, a pretender or a group of mages will probably get eaten up and spat out... at least, again, in the early game. Meanwhile, my War Minotaurs will happily stomp them flat.

I foresee 400 dead and 200 fled troops and one much more experienced pretender

Against AI you don't *need* to use any sophisticated strategies, but using them is more fun

[KissBlade]

I wish the AI troops weren't so morale starved to flee when 400 of their troops are dead. More like 100 with 500 fleeing. Damn mop ups -.-.

[alexti]

It depends what do you use to kill them. If you're freezing or frying them, the morale seems to suffer much less.

[NTJedi]

KissBlade said:
I wish the AI troops weren't so morale starved to flee when 400 of their troops are dead. More like 100 with 500 fleeing. Damn mop ups -.-.

What really sucks is when you have a mix of mindless summoned units and regular troops then the mage(s) controlling the mindless summoned units flee with the regular troops... despite the fact the mechanical men and/or other mindless troops could have easily won.

On a second note... these mindless troops start vanishing even before your mages have retreated off the battlefield. Even an unconcious mage has its mindless troops start vanishing after the retreat begins.