Yea the AI is just sooo far behind.
Horse Archers if set to Auto Delegate, run right into enemy infantry and get destroyed, or the enemy melee cav runs through 3 ranks of my infantry and kills a T5 unit but doesnt get stop and takes no damage. 10 minutes ago, I closed the game, when I had about 15 deaths when the enemy cav ran right through my infantry, WTF are those polearms on the Legionaries used for?? When I go to charge, I got some peasant with a twig, and he sticks it in the ground and my 200 skill in Horse riding and a War horse, comes to a complete halt and I get destroyed.
Also, when I get wounded, the AI does that dumb **** that I call the noob circle. Where the entire army stops my orders, they search for high ground and spend about 3-4 minutes trying to have infantry to form a circle around my archers, all the meanwhile they get shot to **** from the enemy archers, and this will go on for a few minutes until the AI says "well **** this isn't working" and then attempts to charge and by then its to late, most of my party/army is dead/wounded by then.
Also, I have to spend 90% of my time, "freeing" small pockets of men by killing routers. In a large battle this happening in 10+ locations as seen below.
Thats 14 people chasing 1 guy. Those are Tier 4+ units.
Sieges... fought one of the rare defensive sieges and the enemy AI all piled into one area. Defensive siege engines cannot have their distance changed, can only move to the left or right. So I have 300+ enemy units in a area that I cannot attack. For offensive sieges, having 100+ units at the bottom of those siege towers was funny like 10 months ago, but not really.
Cant tell your clan parties to do anything. Cant order them to roam and engage enemies in a area. I have to gather my clan parties from time to time, to remove all the looters from their parties.
I play on Realistic difficulty on a unrealistic product. This **** is no longer fun.