magical summons anyone ?

[licker]

Interesting observations...

I've seen Marg using Summer Lions by turn 20, two summonings worth. I've seen small amounts of undead in Jotun and Ermor (go figure... ) The tac AI likes to summon during combat though, but that's not really the same issue...

I've also noticed that the AIs seem to have really bad gem incomes (compared to mine anyway). Its a bit difficult to tell how poor they are since mine are often giganitc, and there's no scale to measure against, well I guess its reletive and the bottom is zero... I'm just to lazy to do that math

I've seen some mages in enemy armies, but I've not seen the enemy do alot of searching, though usually when I do hit a province that has sites it has 2 or 3... does the AI cheat at all in knowing where the sites are? (probably not, but it seemed strange to me).

There has been alot of productive discussion about the AI and army composition. Though many of the suggestions may not be workable, I think the key point is that the formulas that control the ratios of units and also commanders should be looked at again. The formulas for fort, lab, and temple building are connected to the AIs ability to field different unit and commander mixes as well, so they need to be taken into consideration.

Really if Illwinter were able to externalize those forumulas so that they could be tweeked by mods I'm certain that the community would quickly create tweeked formulas to give the AI 'better' army composition. I'm also certain that Gandalf would figure out some way to randomize the values in the formulas to make a skitzo AI that might or might not 'whomp ***'

[PvK]

I've seen some Mandragoras from Jotunheim, IIRC. The AI has had better gem income than I have in the few games I played. Of course, there are a lot of other ways it could be using those gems.

BTW, I saw Mictlan evaporate from zero dominions too after I and the other AI's had reduced them to a few provinces for a while.

I sort of thought their standing armies would remain as independent defense forces, at least, but when I marched in, I met no resistance at all. Seems to me it'd be more interesting if the old armies and defense forces had to be overcome.

Also, the other neighboring AI's didn't hurry to gobble up the undefended provinces. Seems like the AI might be wanting a priority tactic to attack any really weak adjacent provinces, especially if an pretender evaporates and this has the effect of leaving completely up-for-grabs provinces.

PvK