Carrion Woods ideas please

[Gandalf Parker]

Did you have minor troops attached to him? Maybe bodyguards? Were they scripted or did they rush in to the attack?

The basic AI pretty much has to have a "if I have bodyguards, and they die, then Im in trouble and should retreat" type of thinking.

[Cainehill]

Sounds like Saxon did what is normally the smart thing to do with a single SC in a province: he didn't recruit, didn't buy any PD, so there usually wouldn't have been anything to rout and cause the SC to retreat.

But, at the beginning of the turn, before movement, a carrion beast was auto-generated by his friendly dominion. That single carrion beast was killed, causing his pretender to retreat.

It's one of the frustrating things about Dominions, and sadly I don't expect it to change in Dom3, since troops causing retreat is nominally part of the balancing of SCs.

Hmm - maybe if retreating couldn't be caused by the death of mindless units? A militia event could still cause you to retreat / get you killed, but carrion / undead freespawns, etc, could not.

[shovah]

or just take 1 or 2 centaur archers way at the back set to fire.

[ologm]

Some ideas: http://www.the-battlefield.com/forum...?showtopic=426

Growth and magic will increase the quality of randomly generated carrion critters.