Asking the wrong person, he works on the campaign map AI and simulation, AI in battles is someone else's jobs. They have said they are working on weapon swapping for AI tho, so it should get better at some point.@mexxico
I know you get hit up a lot, but will there ever be the option to force spear use? Kind of like fire at will, but in this case force polearm and spear units to use them. For example, I put my pikemen in a formation and they mostly have their pikes/polearms on their backs and use swords which is not what I want them to do. Recruits are much better spearmen then elite pikemen because they only have spears in their inventory and not all the other crap like throwing weapons and swords. A block of pikemen should be a viable tactic in this game which currently and sadly it is not because of this very issue.
I am Sorry that it took this long, but we had to make substantial changes to ranged combat and therefore AI. Archer AI is pretty good now and patch is close to shipping. AI weapon swapping improvements are being worked on (future patch) and cav AI improvements are next.
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