SP AI definitely still questionable.

[JaydedOne]

Arralen,

I think you misunderstand my point. By back-up commander, I mean that he had roughly 200 units in nearby provinces. I assassinated a single commander. The AI brought the Pretender and another two commanders without squads, ending up with about 12 units against my 120. I don't know why it didn't split squads up between commanders (as most players I know usually do).

Furthermore, I'd been consistently assassinating in the support province for about three turns. So it wasn't a complete surprise, although I wouldn't fault the AI for not being able to root out assassins or anticipate future attempts.

So I'm not "whining" about a bug. I just feel that my assassination, decent as it was, shouldn't have yielded the surplus results that it did. Particularly since the AI called the God back within about three turns and then proceeded to do the exact same thing all over again.

[Taqwus]

Fairly odd choice of items: the LA Marignon Bahomet that my Starspawn killed lately was wearing a fire-resistance ring, giving it a rather high Fire Resistance of 200. *shrug*

Odd choice of spells: watching a Starchild, fighting solo in an assassination, cast 'Communion Master'.

[Twan]

Real AIs (AIs who learn after a mistake and adapt to your strategy like a chess bot) are very rare even in big budget games. So I think you shouldn't expect the dom AI not to repeat the same errors. Games AIs don't think like humans, and the dom AI certainly don't have a memory to remember past failures to take a province or past assassinations.

Anyway to make assassinations less effective, the AI may be coded to split armies between as many commanders as possible each time several commanders moving to the target province are available, or may be coded to evaluate more efficiently province defence ; but don't expect it to ask itself "why did I've failed" then adapt its strategy.

[Agrajag]

Maybe the AI is trying to use his pretender as an SC, but isn't very good at it