bug or just really unlucky?

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ever since i downloaded the 1.07 patch, the AI has been getting absurdly lucky with tiny armies. I can beat him in a battle if its like 17k to 12k, but the same 17k gets attacked by a 1k army and it runs for its life (yes, it had full morale). The worst example was a 7k army that got attacked and whipped by a 350 man army, which i counterattacked with a 5k army, which also ended up running for its life. Its rediculous, and starting to tick me off.

Jeez even in Thermopylea, the little guys got killed to the last man in the end.

 

[BiB]

Really unlucky.

 

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Guess i wont be gambling for a while :-/

 

[Owen]

Either that or a combination of sliders very bad for morale.

Hmm. Are you playing Novgorod in 1419?

 

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I thought of the slider thing too, but i do win battles that are closer to even, so its not that. And no, i wasnt playing novgorod.

 

[Peter Ebbesen]

In an assault on a minimum fortress recently, I had 4 (count 'em FOUR) rebel artillerists holding out against my ~10,000 assaulters for five or six combat phases after the 5006 other defenders had died. (My tech level was > 30 at the time)

The last lone artillerist survived for both a fire and shock phase, nearly forcing the assaulters morale to break, before he finally succumbed.. He really ought to get a statue.

Lesson: Sometimes, weird things happen.