Deerheart
20-11-2004, 02:27
This post may be a little lengthy but worth checking out.
Someone on this board stated that the AI remembers your gameplay style and reacts accordingly. I believe this is the case. Conquered all of Europe on easy no problem for my first game. But for the second on normal difficulty the following occurred:
Tried to play the perfect game, that is "turtleing" by progressively upgrading all defences to the max on each Province, Catapault, Ballista and corner towers, full garrisons etc. where I worked using two armies in tandum backing each other up. After gaining about 60% of the whole territory Using the same the same knight line-up in the Court.
Suddenly I had two Kings in succession die without heirs. When the first died all of my Marshalls rebelled. I immediately cleared out the Court completely except for the Marshall King who was recalled. With just the King there I promoted four sets of Marshalls where each set rebelled in succession. This continued until I made the king a spy where no more marshalls were promoted. I had about 20 ex marshalls five of which were topped out with bonuses and seige equipment wandering around burning everything up.
Then some character not related to my Court was caught. Then I promoted two more junior marshalls and suddenly noticed that six Provinces recently taken had been taken over uncontested. Each a separate Kingdom and at war with me. Of course each was fully defenceable where I had only two junior marshalls with no seige equipment.
Back up now to four marshalls with lots of opportunity to gain experience. With the King as spy in place in Court, army rebellions have stopped and attrition by other Kingdoms has knocked off most of my rebelling ex-marshalls.
But I can't detect where the spies were coming from especially after I cleared out my Court. This I think is an example of how the AI adapts and even cheats a little, because this is contrary to the rules according to the manuel. My synopsis impression is that this is one Great! game. Even when you prepare to minimize any challenge, the AI still gives you one and turns all your preps against you. Many Cudo's to the Devs and writers of this program.
My question after all this is has anyone else had a similiar game experience?
Someone on this board stated that the AI remembers your gameplay style and reacts accordingly. I believe this is the case. Conquered all of Europe on easy no problem for my first game. But for the second on normal difficulty the following occurred:
Tried to play the perfect game, that is "turtleing" by progressively upgrading all defences to the max on each Province, Catapault, Ballista and corner towers, full garrisons etc. where I worked using two armies in tandum backing each other up. After gaining about 60% of the whole territory Using the same the same knight line-up in the Court.
Suddenly I had two Kings in succession die without heirs. When the first died all of my Marshalls rebelled. I immediately cleared out the Court completely except for the Marshall King who was recalled. With just the King there I promoted four sets of Marshalls where each set rebelled in succession. This continued until I made the king a spy where no more marshalls were promoted. I had about 20 ex marshalls five of which were topped out with bonuses and seige equipment wandering around burning everything up.
Then some character not related to my Court was caught. Then I promoted two more junior marshalls and suddenly noticed that six Provinces recently taken had been taken over uncontested. Each a separate Kingdom and at war with me. Of course each was fully defenceable where I had only two junior marshalls with no seige equipment.
Back up now to four marshalls with lots of opportunity to gain experience. With the King as spy in place in Court, army rebellions have stopped and attrition by other Kingdoms has knocked off most of my rebelling ex-marshalls.
But I can't detect where the spies were coming from especially after I cleared out my Court. This I think is an example of how the AI adapts and even cheats a little, because this is contrary to the rules according to the manuel. My synopsis impression is that this is one Great! game. Even when you prepare to minimize any challenge, the AI still gives you one and turns all your preps against you. Many Cudo's to the Devs and writers of this program.
My question after all this is has anyone else had a similiar game experience?