Good game, but....the AI is very bad.

[mlepinski]

I'll certainly agree that the dominions 2 AI isn't perfect, but it's not nearly as bad as threads like this would indicate.

In particular, it is definately possible to play a challenging game against the AI, you just need to adjust the map to put the AI in an advantagous position.

I find the most significant AI shortcoming to be the fact that the AI doesn't build forts. (The AI builds much more effective armies when it has multiple forts to recruit troops from). Therefore, I often play games where I start the AI with 2 forts (or even 3). Additionally, I'll stick some extra independent forts on the map for the AI to conquer.

In my opinion, playing a single game against 4 pairs of allied 'Difficult' AIs (8 AIs total) each starting with 2 forts on a map scattered with independent forts is an interesting single-player experience which is much more challenging than a 'standard' single-player game of Dominions.

So, even though the AI isn't perfect, I am satisfied because it's good enough to give me a challenging game under the right circumstances.

Just my 2 cents,
- Matt Lepinski :->