Forum Overview :: Age of Empires 3

Re: I changed my mind: The AI has gone from retarded to suicidally retarded by N 10/18/2009, 10:26pm PDT The tactical AI is way worse than even Shogun (or maybe I became a much better Total War player, or the simplicity of Shogun was easier to deal with): - Sending a lone regiment of pikemen to charge my cannons, then form square right inside musket range isn't going to stop those cannons (from grapshotting the pike into oblivion). - If the army is half cavalry and half line infantry, clearly the best course of action is a cavalry charge across the entire field, letting my line to form into squares, then after the cavalry is broken and fleeing, try your luck with an infantry charge. - Shelling entrenched line infantry is clearly higher priority than the lone regiment of cavalry slowly making their way around the battlefield to the selfsame mortar battery. Playing as Russia, I took the advisor-recommended port in the Crimea. The Ottomans immediate blockaded it with a 18 unit fleet. Good move, I might've gotten 1000 gold a turn from foreign trade. Better stop me with that 4000 gold a turn naval stack. I seized Istanbul and it's whopping 26 resistance to foreign occupation, so I burned down all the schools (and their clamor for reform penalties) to build brothels and monestaries. It didn't help, the rebel army spawned with better artillery than I have. Maybe I should just burn everything down and let the rebels have it? The Ottomans seem to have run out of money, probably from maintaining their uselessly large navy. Russia seems like cheating; they get low-cost police-capable shock cavalry and low-cost line infantry with concealment bonuses. At the start of the game. So all the garrison units double as a rapid-response force (and the army's cavalry units extra repression bonuses when they occupy a region) and they have 25% more line infantry (or an extra set of cannon) than other countries. Are all the national bonuses that awesome? I didn't check. As flawed as it may be as a game, perhaps the AI's stupidity is an accurate reflection of the idiocy of that era's aristocratic leadership? And the rebellions - Bavaria seemed to rebel against Napolean's puppet leadership every time the French regulars marched out.

I totally called the expansion. Also this game is now playable by Fortinbras 10/12/2009, 11:54am PDT     Re: I totally called the expansion. Also this game is now playable by N 10/12/2009, 4:02pm PDT         The Warpath expansion is BULLSHIT by Fortinbras 10/12/2009, 5:10pm PDT             GAWD HOW MANY POLACKS DO I HAVE TO KILL BEFORE THEY MAKE PEACE?! NT by Fortinbras. And maybe Hitler. 10/13/2009, 3:26pm PDT                 The Creative Assembly has fucking RUINED this game by Fortinbras 10/13/2009, 9:30pm PDT                     I changed my mind: The AI has gone from retarded to suicidally retarded by Fortinbras 10/14/2009, 8:21am PDT                         Re: I changed my mind: The AI has gone from retarded to suicidally retarded by N 10/18/2009, 10:26pm PDT                             The square formation is just embarassing by Fortinbras 10/19/2009, 5:06pm PDT                     fortinbros doesnt understand what a quagmire is he thinks its a family guy NT by gruman 10/14/2009, 3:14pm PDT                     Re: The Creative Assembly has fucking RUINED this game by FABIO 10/14/2009, 6:54pm PDT                         I don't remember unrest being a problem in Medieval Total War by Fortinbras 10/14/2009, 8:19pm PDT