Does the AI respect artillery?

[Tiberius]

You mean, use offensively. The AI does use artillery, but only from within their cities, mostly to attack your ships or to destroy tile improvements (if the city is near the border). They rarely attack ground units, and only if you have units gathering near their city.

Edited: Oh, sorry, it was a response to fittstim's post, I didn't see the other replies.

[Patroklos]

I use artillery almost to excess, and I do believe they respect it. I have seen the AI use artillery offensivly and defensivly, but I think the offensive use was because the unit happend to move within range of my units when it was bieng moved across the field.

[statusperfect]

The AI is quite good at air combat though. Wonder why they master air combat/carriers but not catapults.

[planetfall]

Experiment-- edit AI preferences for bombard units from defensive to offensive and then play a game with those values. You should see a difference in AI action. {No I haven't tried it yet, but should treat bombard units same as other units and maximize for either defensive or offense.}

== PF