Threatening armies

[unmerged(139685)]

Consider the following situation:
I have a big army in one of my border provinces, and I am sieging an enemy province adjacent to it with a smaller army. I'm not going to place the big stack on the siege due to attrition issues. However, the enemy tries to move a medium stack on the siege; then I set my big stack to march towards the siege; at that point the medium stack chickens out. So far no problem. But then I also cancel the movement of my big army... at which point the whole dance begins again.

Isn't there a way to teach the AI that it's not useful to try again until the circumstances change?

 

[Fawr]

In CK2 I tend to wait a few days before sending my army in/cancelling it. Less clicks that way.

 

[unmerged(139685)]

Yes, but it still remains a useless drain on your attention.

 

[Kaiser Ludwig]

As the AI can see your big stack... it's actually quite rational. If the AI wasn't omnicient, you'd try it too if you could handle all other nation-things at the same time on the off chance you catch the other guy off guard!

 

[trcanberra]

I find the army dance the most annoying aspect of CKII - seems it will be my pet peeve here as well, otherwise all is looking good.

 

[unmerged(139685)]

As the AI can see your big stack... it's actually quite rational. If the AI wasn't omnicient, you'd try it too if you could handle all other nation-things at the same time on the off chance you catch the other guy off guard!

In that case I want an AI flunkie to dance the fools' dance for me while I attend the royal banquet

 

[Rey]

The AI is smarter now, their armies run away when faced with a bigger army of yours and then they group into a bigger stack with their allies' armies to improve the odds vs you. Yeah I also hate to chase them around the map and while doing this the enemy often attacks your 2-stack armies sieging their provinces.

 

[trcanberra]

The part I hate is that it makes it impossible to speed up play during a siege as you have to micro-manage the chase; maybe an auto follow button?