A little story to make you laugh, or cry. I had the most annoying AI annoyance ever yesterday in a SP game.
I was playing EA Ulm, had lucky to have got two heroes quite early in the game, the H3 shaman and the Son of steel. Then comes a big battle in an enemy capital. In one square, I had my prophet (a hero with nice gear and all), my main thug (Son of Steel with some nice gear) and one antlered shaman.
Prophet was scripted to cast divine blessing and fanaticism. The shaman was scripted to 'cast spells'. And the thuggie was scripted to hold thrice, then charge. I had around 150 other units around, melees 'hold and attack' and archers various fire orders. Included in the soup was a w9 bless.
Now, would you ever imagine what happens? Battle begins. My prophet casts divine blessing, yay, that went well.
Next comes the turn of the shaman... GUESS WHAT this brilliant guy comes up with? A N2 spell. Yep... nothing more, nothing less. BERSERK. Well, nothing wrong with that, it's an ok spell. Guess who he casts it on? Yep, you guessed right, on these same three commanders, who with the w9 bless can start running the very same turn!
Now imagine my horror when I see my two most valued commanders charging right through the lines of my sacred troops into countless of enemy light and heavy infantries. I also was lucky enough to NOT have any extra commanders aboard, since they had all died (I was deep inside enemy lines).
The end result? The son of steel thug actually gave up a nice performance, he being the only one geared up for melee. He probably cost the lives of a dozen or so enemy infantry and actually lived long enuogh that my steel warriors carved through the enemy army up to him. But, he fell, last of the three commanders. Sending my over 50 w9 blessed steel warriors routing - with no province to flee to. Also there were around 50-100 of those warrior maidens (or whatever those better EA archer types are).
... I was so pissed off I just had to quit that game
Aaargh the AI!
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