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The AI in this game must cheat like crazy, by turn 35 the dwarfs have 3 full stack armies plus their main lord has all his purple gear plus some blues.

There goes my Orc campaign.
 
How do I deal with the chaos tribes in the north? The main crusade is crushed, but I'm having to deal with a constant stream of at least 5 stacks of chaos running round in their boats.
I've tried razing their villages but they repopulate faster than I can take them out and the attrition means I can't have a standing army up there. Diplomacy isn't an option....Any solutions?
 
Don't think I can be bothered to play this until the AI movement is fixed. They can just run around the map attacking and raiding anything they like over and over again. They can also change from march to battling instantly too so they basically have +50% campaign movement.

You'll have an enemy run over, attack you with 3 stacks, you retreat and then they just attack you again instantly.

They gain multiple massive armies way to quickly too. I just started as Chaos and everyone had 2/3 15 stack armies that would just wipe me out.

I wiped out one enemy lord 3 times in a row and every time he spawned right where I killed him with a full army.
 
Finished first campaign and got short victory as empire. Lovely game, though like others chose seemed to have got crushed before properly getting to me. Not entirely a fan of only being able to colonise like settlements either. Also stumble on getting a hero going early and the enemy heroes outlevel you so quick it becomes a joke.
 
Antony101 said:
Don't think I can be bothered to play this until the AI movement is fixed. They can just run around the map attacking and raiding anything they like over and over again. They can also change from march to battling instantly too so they basically have +50% campaign movement.

You'll have an enemy run over, attack you with 3 stacks, you retreat and then they just attack you again instantly.

They gain multiple massive armies way to quickly too. I just started as Chaos and everyone had 2/3 15 stack armies that would just wipe me out.

I wiped out one enemy lord 3 times in a row and every time he spawned right where I killed him with a full army.
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Who are you playing as? Never had the AI speed issues. With slow ass dwarves never he this issue once. No offence intended but are you playing dumb? Know your enemy, know their speed, know their goals and its easy to manage their movements. Never had any of your issues with dwarves against Chaos, Orcs or Vamps because I play smart and I am cautious.

The only genuine dumb **** I'm seeing is agents which really need slaPped down.

With regard to armies are you sure you are managing your faction properly? As dwarves never had any issues getting enough armies in the field.
 
Antony101 said:
Don't think I can be bothered to play this until the AI movement is fixed. They can just run around the map attacking and raiding anything they like over and over again. They can also change from march to battling instantly too so they basically have +50% campaign movement.

You'll have an enemy run over, attack you with 3 stacks, you retreat and then they just attack you again instantly.

They gain multiple massive armies way to quickly too. I just started as Chaos and everyone had 2/3 15 stack armies that would just wipe me out.

I wiped out one enemy lord 3 times in a row and every time he spawned right where I killed him with a full army.
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"Killed 3 times in a row" do you mean that you actually killed him in a battle you manually fought or auto-resolved it and he backed off? It's rare the AI kills a lord but you can focus-fire him on the map and he goes down (actually a really valid tactic. A properly built lord gives huge buffs to his army, go in cheap and just assassinate the lord with ranged/cavalry/whatever works, even if you can't win the fight. Leave a crap unit with high morale behind to die as the rearguard and retreat the rest of your army. The next time you fight them, all the units will have lost the lords buffs and be easier to rout/kill).
The "full stack" as well - the numbers in a unit go down but you only see the unit type, not the size on it's card in the campaign map (only shows you that once you're in the "compare armies prior to battle" screen iirc). There might only be 2 guys left from a starting unit of 80+, it'll still show the unit card and might still be at 20/20 units total. Give it time and yeah, it'll build back up, same way yours do.
Ahh and the attack/retreat thing is intended, it works both ways, so long as there's enough movement left to attack again you can fully expect them to push their advantage. If you hit a weak force with an uber-stack expect it to back off too, hit it again to kill it.

Got the short campaign victory with the dwarves, decided to wrap that up and check out empire :)
 
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Mercutio said:
"Killed 3 times in a row" do you mean that you actually killed him in a battle you manually fought or auto-resolved it and he backed off? It's rare the AI kills a lord but you can focus-fire him on the map and he goes down (actually a really valid tactic. A properly built lord gives huge buffs to his army, go in cheap and just assassinate the lord with ranged/cavalry/whatever works, even if you can't win the fight. Leave a crap unit with high morale behind to die as the rearguard and retreat the rest of your army. The next time you fight them, all the units will have lost the lords buffs and be easier to rout/kill).
The "full stack" as well - the numbers in a unit go down but you only see the unit type, not the size on it's card in the campaign map (only shows you that once you're in the "compare armies prior to battle" screen iirc). There might only be 2 guys left from a starting unit of 80+, it'll still show the unit card and might still be at 20/20 units total. Give it time and yeah, it'll build back up, same way yours do.
Ahh and the attack/retreat thing is intended, it works both ways, so long as there's enough movement left to attack again you can fully expect them to push their advantage. If you hit a weak force with an uber-stack expect it to back off too, hit it again to kill it.

Got the short campaign victory with the dwarves, decided to wrap that up and check out empire :)
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I mean i actually played a battle, three turns in a row and outright killed the lord every time and the size of his army never changed. I even had the pop-up after saying an enemy lord had been defeated.

The main issue is, the AI don't actually have to pay per turn for their units, and because they can just change from march to battle whenever they like they effectively have 50% more movement than the player.
 
Started playing my dwarf campaign properly the last couple of days, doing my usual turtleing and slow build up. Allied with Barak Var who then aggressively expanded around me. However, they expanded too quickly and without the armies to defend their provinces and got wiped out by the Greenskins.

I tried to help but lost a full stack army against a greenskin full stack backed up by a Waaagh...didn't stand a chance. In hindsight I should have left them to it but was trying to do the honourable thing and respect our alliance. Now waiting for Thorgrim to recover and slowly building up an army to defend against the greenskins at my doorstep...epic.
 
I've never once noticed armies switching same turn between March & combat or any other stance, you can see it visually. You not just being paranoid because they are running rings round you? :p
 
No1newts said:
I've never once noticed armies switching same turn between March & combat or any other stance, you can see it visually. You not just being paranoid because they are running rings round you? :p
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Richdog said:
Same here, I didn't think it was even possible.
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There are posts all over about the "cheats" the AI get. It's been the same in TW games for a while.
 
Is there a guide out there for this?
Not played a Total War game in a long time and as the Dwarfs Im getting my ass kicked by green skins constantly.
If its not them my provinces are in a constant state of unrest.
 
Started getting owned for a bit with the skaeling and varg pushing me back in the north and vampires declaring war in the east. Fortunately the vampires are easy to force into a peace treaty with them giving me much needed gold. I picked up some cheap units up north and it seems to be keeping the enemy at bay while I build up the settlements.

My forces are hugely split though and if the orcs push quickly I am stuffed.
 
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