How Did Norb Do This?
Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 12:55 pm
I set up a corp vs corp Kansas sandbox scenario to retest my grand battery strategy with the new patch. I placed my 5 batteries in line about 20 yds in front of the infantry. My intention was to see if the artillery alone could hold off the enemy.
The last time I tried this, the enemy came at me with sucessive waves of brigades. One after the other, they would march into cannister range and disintegrate. In that scenario, my infantry never engaged. I had defeated two divisions with artillery alone.
This time things began in a similar vein. A rebel brigade assembled and marched into glory, lasting less than 2 minutes. After that, nothing happened for 5 minutes except that three rebel commanders rode over the hill and surveyed the matter. Then a couple of couriers brought them messages and they gallop back over the hill. A few minutes later another brigade marches towards me. I thought this was just going to repeat my first scenario; another wave crashing on the rocks. Nope! Instead, the brigade waits about 500 yards away for several more minutes while the rest of the division joins them, assembling in front of my center and right flank. I think, "this will be interesting. Let's see if the grand battery can shift and hold off a whole division." Nope.
The division stands there for several more minutes, when I notice that over on my left flank another division assembles. The AI has decided to throw its entire force at me!
Once everyone is assembled and the lines are dressed, the AI is in no hurry, both divisions advance simultaneously! I have never seen the AI perform like this before. To patiently assemble such a large force and to apply it like this is just what a human would do.
Needless to say, my grand battery wasn't going to stave off this assault, so I began to deploy my infantry. Too late. The rebels double timed it to my lines fixing my infantry just coming into formation, while tasking a regiment or two to capture my artillery, again just like a human! Since I was caught bunched up and half deployed, I never had a chance.
Hubris has a very bitter taste. Norb, how did you make the AI do this? :S
The last time I tried this, the enemy came at me with sucessive waves of brigades. One after the other, they would march into cannister range and disintegrate. In that scenario, my infantry never engaged. I had defeated two divisions with artillery alone.
This time things began in a similar vein. A rebel brigade assembled and marched into glory, lasting less than 2 minutes. After that, nothing happened for 5 minutes except that three rebel commanders rode over the hill and surveyed the matter. Then a couple of couriers brought them messages and they gallop back over the hill. A few minutes later another brigade marches towards me. I thought this was just going to repeat my first scenario; another wave crashing on the rocks. Nope! Instead, the brigade waits about 500 yards away for several more minutes while the rest of the division joins them, assembling in front of my center and right flank. I think, "this will be interesting. Let's see if the grand battery can shift and hold off a whole division." Nope.
The division stands there for several more minutes, when I notice that over on my left flank another division assembles. The AI has decided to throw its entire force at me!
Once everyone is assembled and the lines are dressed, the AI is in no hurry, both divisions advance simultaneously! I have never seen the AI perform like this before. To patiently assemble such a large force and to apply it like this is just what a human would do.
Needless to say, my grand battery wasn't going to stave off this assault, so I began to deploy my infantry. Too late. The rebels double timed it to my lines fixing my infantry just coming into formation, while tasking a regiment or two to capture my artillery, again just like a human! Since I was caught bunched up and half deployed, I never had a chance.
Hubris has a very bitter taste. Norb, how did you make the AI do this? :S
