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Originally posted by Jubala:
True, the EU AI can also make stupid decisions. But you can't accuse it of not being aggressive and following up on attacks.
I wasn't accusing it of that, The Austrians were certainly aggressive, if stupid. But it is uneven. I had the French declare war on me (English) early in the game and attempt to take Calais. Over a period of months there were a furious set of battles with several provinces changing hands several times. Though I had captured two provinces to none lost, I was on the ropes having only a force numbering 23,000 left on the continent with no prospects of reinforcing them. Meanwhile France was bringing up several large armies in excess of 70,000 troops each. So what does he do, he offers a peace treaty surrendering to me the provinces I had captured which I immediately accepted. That would have never have happened against a human who would have pressed his advantage, surely to the point of retaking the lost provinces if not kicking me out of Calais altogether. That 23,000 was all I had left to prevent his victory.
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Imo the EU AI is better than the SE4 at going after a goal so to speak.
I would agree to a point. What I'm not sure of is how much of that "going after a goal" is due to the RTS nature of the game? How frequently did it evaluate making changes to those goals? SE4 is turn-based and essentially it makes that evaluation every turn. There were many times the EU AI clearly did not follow through when any human would have and to me that is part of the going after a goal such as above. Did it suffer from a memory lapse same as SE4 due to a re-evaluation of its goals? Clearly SE4 would benefit from some ability to recognize a goal and remember what it was doing in future turns.
Re: AI needs to be MUCH more aggressive
Hybrid Mode
