It's me and the Mamluks against QQ but they decided to send 30k troops to one of my provinces and are just sitting there suffering attrition... I tried to reload the game and nothing changes... is the AI broken?
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It's me and the Mamluks against QQ but they decided to send 30k troops to one of my provinces and are just sitting there suffering attrition... I tried to reload the game and nothing changes... is the AI broken?
Short answer? Yeah, seems to be.
Mamluks seem most dramatically affected by it, but it happens to others as well. AIs freezing, wandering off to absurd places during a war, taking needless attrition, etc. It doesn't always malfunction - my overall impression is that it's generally better than it was before - but there are definitely some bugs in need of fixing.
If you want to upload a save in the bug reports forum, it might be helpful for the AI programmers.
Mamluks seem most dramatically affected by it, but it happens to others as well. AIs freezing, wandering off to absurd places during a war, taking needless attrition, etc. It doesn't always malfunction - my overall impression is that it's generally better than it was before - but there are definitely some bugs in need of fixing.
If you want to upload a save in the bug reports forum, it might be helpful for the AI programmers.
They broke the army AI quite a bit in 1.23, but the Mamluks AI has always been 10 times dumber than normal AIs in my experience. Even in situations where you'd think they have the advantage, they still manage to mess everything up. I sometimes wonder if it's hardcoded, even though it's probably not.
The Mamluk AI just seems spectacularly bad, like they get stuck 10x more often than every other AI combined.
It sure is fun fighting the Ottomans as Karaman and having it be 50/50 whether the Mamluks help or just sit their entire army in a 3 development province in north Egypt suffing attrition as you get destroyed. It seems like the middle east and north-east Africa are particularly bad for AI getting stuck, with the Mamluks being a mess because of their location more than anything.
While it usually feels like it is always your allies breaking like this it works both ways can it seems like the AI bugging out can actually help you out, In my own Mamluk game I was at war with the Ottomans and their allies a mega blobed papal state & Morocco , when the papal state landed a 44k stack to siege down my fort in Tunis, merged with the entire Moroccan army, and sat their entire war which let me wear down the ottomans and take a bunch of Anatolian land.
It sure is fun fighting the Ottomans as Karaman and having it be 50/50 whether the Mamluks help or just sit their entire army in a 3 development province in north Egypt suffing attrition as you get destroyed. It seems like the middle east and north-east Africa are particularly bad for AI getting stuck, with the Mamluks being a mess because of their location more than anything.
While it usually feels like it is always your allies breaking like this it works both ways can it seems like the AI bugging out can actually help you out, In my own Mamluk game I was at war with the Ottomans and their allies a mega blobed papal state & Morocco , when the papal state landed a 44k stack to siege down my fort in Tunis, merged with the entire Moroccan army, and sat their entire war which let me wear down the ottomans and take a bunch of Anatolian land.