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Every now and then I come by to look at my old posts. It also now occurs to me as I type this that my profile is nearing ****ing 20 years of age. Jesus ****ing christ.

First song of my band Sepulchral Curse's sophomore album is out!

Or are they cavalry but without horses?

Actually, scratch that. I'm doing it now with 500 vs 500 and the spearmen are using their spears a lot. Some switch to swords. I'm guessing the latter are the ones doing the damage.

EDIT: Nope. Once they're engaged, it looks like vast majority of the spearmen have switched to their sidearm.

EDIT#2: So I did all the factions as 500vs500. Here are the results.

Sturgian Spearmen vs Sturgian archers:

Lost, 479 dead. Won, 365 dead

Sturgian Spearmen vs Aserai Archers:

Lost, 485 dead Won, 289 dead

Sturgian Spearmen vs Vlandian Hardened Crossbowman:

Lost, 484 dead Won, 282 dead

Sturgian Spearmen vs Battanian Hero(gee I wonder what's gonna happen):

Lost, 481 dead Won, 138 dead

Sturgian Spearmen vs Khuzait Archer:

Lost 481 dead Won, 256 dead

Sturgian Spearmen vs Imperial Archer:

Won, 268 dead Lost, 474 dead

Apocal said:

Wait, were the archers actually using their bows at first? Because that's the only way I've seen them win in melee against sword-wielding troops at even odds.

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Yup. What I did was have 100 Sturgian Spearmen on the attacking side, and myself on the defending side with 100 ranged units of all the factions. In each fight I told the ranged units to hold arrows, and to charge. I assume because of the simplicity of the battle, the AI had the spearmen charge from the start. They were just running at us with their spears on their back. And then got hacked to bits.

It's not even that. I was on defending side with my various archers, and the spearmen were charging us. They had their spears on their back and backup sword or whatever in their hands.

Dunno if I ever disgraced this new thread that we have, so this is me playing live a month or so back:

What's on my mind is what a ghost town this place now appears to be. Well, I haven't been active in OT for like 5+ years so I'm one to talk.

Chaosreaper187 said:

oh great, on performance. how are sieges doing? I remember always having crashes or low framefrates during those as well as the troops generally not wanting to go up the ladders but I guess that falls under AI

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Playing on an aging system with medium-high graphics and 1000 battle size, the siege performance varies a lot. In my current game(after months of not touchign the game) some sieges work surprisingly smoothly performance-wise, other not so much. Battanian castle sieges really chug like all the sieges in the older version when some troop pathing bug would cause the fps to drop into single digits. Vlandian castle and town sieges seem to have been alright.

I've taken part in maybe a dozen sieges so far, and let the AI do its thing in each one. So far I've only seen catastrophic failing in the siege of Pravend, where I brought down the walls first but most of my troops couldn't navigate through the holes on their own so they did the next best thing and just licked the outside walls while I died inside.

NOTE: when the walls aren't down, I always go through with the battering ram though. So the AI Might've been complete idiots with ladders and towers and I just wasn't there to notice. I always had troops on the walls when I got inside, though.

Go back to your rocking chair old man

Yea, I've gone back to the regular branch.

So that's what was going on. I thought troop types may have had an effect on it, as one battle worked fine, then I went on a recruitment world tour in Battania and in the next battle my shieldwall was this. I guess I'll split them up until a patch.

Update: with total annihilation looming ever closer, Monchug goes and declares war against Northern Empire as well. I get the feeling declaring wars is the AI's go-to solution for lack of land and wealth. Even when said shortage is because they're being dryholed to hell and back in their ongoing wars. I guess that would explain why so many people report Raganvad going crazy with his war declarations when Sturgia is once again getting boned. In my game Sturgia is doing fabulously and I don't think I've seen mr. Fief Hogger declare war once.

Badcritter said:

At some point since (1.3 maybe?) the AI has been given motivation to make peace if they are fighting multiple wars, and if they are losing badly. The single war with minor losses you describe in your game is consistent with a war the Khuzaits wouldn't be motivated to end.

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I don't know if I'd consider them minor, with them losing half their towns and over 30k dead(Sturgia's losses are half of that.) Maybe the AI does.

Update: No idea how long the war has lasted, but the Khuzaits have lost a bit over 30k men. Through persuasion and conquest we've brought them down to a 3-4 towns, a small bunch of castles and less than 3k manpower. No willingness to back down. Monchug did just declare war against Southern Empire, though, who are by far the most powerful faction in the game currently. I usually see them mooching about with 2-3k armies. The strategic AI really is something else in this game

Are the peace/war declarations a faction-wide calculation thing, or is it the AI of faction leaders making those decisions? I'm considering lopping off the head of Monchug to see if his successor might consider giving it a ****ing rest. I'm sick of the Steppe and endless horse archers.

hruza said:

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Looks like the only thing they've managed to conquer is that one Battanian castle. Maybe that one castle North-West of Mazhadan as well? I don't remember who owns that at the start of the game. Well that's better than their usual fate. How far into the game is that?

I would be happy if the low-mid tier infantry were armoured better. Right now the infantry units below tier 5 are protected well enough to walk their dog, so they tend to die before making it to Shock Troop/Veteran Warrior. I'm in team Sturgia but without the imperials my infantry would be ****ed.