Armies avoiding field battles because they are completely focused on a siege

[Midnitewolf]

I have been joining up with other lords armies because I found it the easiest way to level up tactics, well that is if you fight a field battle. However, I can't count the times I have seen two enemy lords armies walk right past each other because the AI is 100% focused on doing a siege.

I think there would be a hell of a lot less snowballing if they coded the AI so that if any decent sized enemy army got within a certain distance of an enemy army it would forget about the siege and go after the enemy army. I would also like to see armies that managed to take a city or town spend at least a few days "Patroling" around that city or town to defend it against re-capture. This would also help prevent an army from chain conquest. For example, I was with one Army that all they did is literally march from one town or castle to another taking 2 towns and a castle before the influence timer ran out. If the army had to spend time patroling/defending the newly captured city, it wouldn't have enough time to take 2-3 castles/towns before disbanding and there would be more field battles.

While I am at it, and off my own topic, I wish there was a cooldown time on calling armies, like maybe 10 days progressing before a lord could call up another army, anything to slow down the conquest rate.

 

[Madae]

I agree. The AI tends to do a lot more siege than field battles, and it mostly just ends up being a land trade. I also feel like the AI should go for peace a lot sooner.

 

[Midnitewolf]

I agree. The AI tends to do a lot more siege than field battles, and it mostly just ends up being a land trade. I also feel like the AI should go for peace a lot sooner.

Totally agree on the peace agreements. Wars last an excessively long time. There should be some sort of war weariness mechanic where even a faction winning a war decides enough it enough. Hopefully that is one of the missing "features" that will be added.

Honestly, the game just needs to slow down in general. You blink and half the map has been captured. Seems like I rarely have time to build out my fiefs, attempt to get married, try out smithing or even attempt to work on building relations with lords to a meaningful extent.