Bloody clever AI

[Castellon]

I think it is more a case of luck.
Think of the whole infinate monkeys on typewriters thing, eventualy they will produce every book ever writen by a human.

For instance in one of my first games I noticed that the AI sent small groups of troops into an ongoing battle. I thought wow this AI is great, it co-ordinated it's battle among multiple armies.
AI is my field so I was impressed. Later study revieled that the AI just got lucky and I had Attacked one of it's collector nodes.

 

[Castellon]

Originally posted by Owen


Castellon. I think some people would call this an exploit. You might think I'm joking, and I kind of am, but in one of my games I found myself subconsciously dumping a large army in the same province (one of the ones next to Hepei) during each successive war against China. It took me a while to realise that I was deliberately trying to rack up war score by attacking the collector node as an instinctive tactic. Much easier than taking a lot of medium fortresses.

I bet you would be impressed if some sort of AI testing/codewarrior-style evolution at Paradox prerelease had come up with that particular tactic itself. Admittedly it wouldn't work against the human player, but impressive nonetheless.

As I said, this was in my first game and I lost that battle.
The armies were arriving just in time to prop up the morale of the AI. Since I did not have any armies in the area, my morale kept going down while the AI's kept getting a boost.

Yup I know of that exploit, A lot of people use it to rack up undeserved War score. Same as with fleet battles.

 

[Castellon]

Originally posted by King of Men


(Or pod beings from the planet Zog...)
Obviously you're right, but I thought it was rather striking - June 27th, "Denmark offers us peace." June 28th, "We have captured the province of Sjælland." Since my literary part was itching a bit, I decided to write it up AAR-style - "Glimpses from the Roman Reconquest," style of thing.

I think it is great that stuff like this happens, It keeps the game interesting.