is it just confirmation bias, or has the AI become even worse since 2.5.2. when it comes to military decisions?
I just survived a Djihad, after roughly 10 years of fighting, but my liege did not help at all.
What happened? I was a byzantine vassal, holding a despot title, and some counties and duchies in the balkan area. I also had a vassal-duchy, Tripolitania, in North Africa, it was a very profitable holy war.
Then, Civil War breaks out in the ERE (as usual..), and the Sunni Calpih exploits the situation by declaring a djihad for Africa against the ERE i.e. to gety my duchy. My not-so-bright liege finished his civil war rather quickly, and had around 22000 men at his disposal to defend against it, i also had roughly 5500 men of my own. So far so good.
What happened? The byzantine troops did not engage the enemy a single time. He just wandered his army between Anatolia nad Tripolitani back on forth via land, doing absolutely nothing except eating attrition, not even bothering to use ships.
I had to defend myself with some measly 5500 men against perhaps 6-7 times as many muslims. Fortunately they were not well organised, and were swarming around in stacks of 2-3000 each. Even so, no warscore was gained by my battles, because the war was technically declared on my liege, not on me. Also, my vassals did not recognize it as a defensive war, pestering me with the "raised levies" malus (even the duke of tripolitania was upset about my audacity to defend his miserable life and his duchy).
So this horrible war dragged on for 10 years or so, until 100% was reached by ticking warscore, my liege not bothering to make white peace anytime sooner, leaving me with the duchy intact, but with debt, a shattered army, dead generals (including a son) and angry vassals.
Mind, this is just one example of extremely bad AI in terms of war. Anyone else seeing this? I´m pretty sure that the AI was better some versions ago.
I just survived a Djihad, after roughly 10 years of fighting, but my liege did not help at all.
What happened? I was a byzantine vassal, holding a despot title, and some counties and duchies in the balkan area. I also had a vassal-duchy, Tripolitania, in North Africa, it was a very profitable holy war.
Then, Civil War breaks out in the ERE (as usual..), and the Sunni Calpih exploits the situation by declaring a djihad for Africa against the ERE i.e. to gety my duchy. My not-so-bright liege finished his civil war rather quickly, and had around 22000 men at his disposal to defend against it, i also had roughly 5500 men of my own. So far so good.
What happened? The byzantine troops did not engage the enemy a single time. He just wandered his army between Anatolia nad Tripolitani back on forth via land, doing absolutely nothing except eating attrition, not even bothering to use ships.
I had to defend myself with some measly 5500 men against perhaps 6-7 times as many muslims. Fortunately they were not well organised, and were swarming around in stacks of 2-3000 each. Even so, no warscore was gained by my battles, because the war was technically declared on my liege, not on me. Also, my vassals did not recognize it as a defensive war, pestering me with the "raised levies" malus (even the duke of tripolitania was upset about my audacity to defend his miserable life and his duchy).
So this horrible war dragged on for 10 years or so, until 100% was reached by ticking warscore, my liege not bothering to make white peace anytime sooner, leaving me with the duchy intact, but with debt, a shattered army, dead generals (including a son) and angry vassals.
Mind, this is just one example of extremely bad AI in terms of war. Anyone else seeing this? I´m pretty sure that the AI was better some versions ago.
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