Scripting armies/squads

Arralen · #1 November 2nd, 2006, 10:32 AM

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Jack_Trowell said:
What i didn't know yet is this :
Do units on "guard commander" fire their bows/xbows if commander is on 'hold' and no ennemy is in melee yet ?

Sadly, no!

And units set to "bodyguard" do not count as un-routed units for general routing purposes ...

calmon · #2 November 2nd, 2006, 10:55 AM

The main problem is, that if you make tactical combat more complex the AI will lose on the battlefields more and more. Look at the traditionals like Master of Magic and Master of Orion 2. With some experience You could win battles with only a fraction of the enemy units. Just because you use retreat tactics or equal thing. Galactic Civ 2 refuses any tactical combat because of that.

And the combat AI isn't only in single player games important. MP Independence are anyway already in a bad position.

You can't make a tactical AI as good like a good human player. This advantage raises with the complexity of combat options!

Jack_Trowell · #3 November 2nd, 2006, 12:24 PM

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Arralen said:

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Jack_Trowell said:
What i didn't know yet is this :
Do units on "guard commander" fire their bows/xbows if commander is on 'hold' and no ennemy is in melee yet ?

Sadly, no!

Argh, I was hoping they could !

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And units set to "bodyguard" do not count as un-routed units for general routing purposes ...

... and now I remind why I didn't use this tactic in dom2.

When they said that routing and morale had been redone, I was thinking this was changed ...