Quick bits of feedback after about 100 hours of play

[diamondspider]

I did come up with an alturnative possiblility for what happened in terms of my commander being targetting now that I'm more familiar with how the AI works.

I think that the Xbows were told to "fire rearmost" and what the AI does is select a random squad in back and concentrates fire on it. Even if several units are in back (and it seems that the commander counts as a squad although it is possible that the commanders have a lower chance of being picked over other "normal" squads).

So, while my commanders were, indeed, singled out in these cases, that doesn't mean that it was purposefully targeting them.

It is probably yet another example of the "sticking" problem in this game in that once the AI picks a target it keeps shooting at or attacking it until is is dead or broken. This usually works fine, but there are cases in about 1 in 5 battles where something obviously odd happens due to this general approach.

That is my current theory in regards to this and my suggestion would be to have it both be a lower probablility of choosing a commander over a squad (again, probably already works that way) then to have a chance of switching off of it since with 100s of men in the way, there is no way they'd be able to "lock on" to a commander in all of the fracas.

[ January 30, 2004, 07:00: Message edited by: diamondspider ]