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Has anyone noticed how in certain situations the AI seems determined to throw it's best units away like there's no tomorrow?
Here's the situation. Early 20th Century. Playing the Celts I'm on a large continent (using the largest map size and about 9 civ's in total) with the Spanish and Germans. Despite having run at second place in the scores for the first 1500 years I've sunk back quite badly, and now the Spanish are quite a bit ahead in tech, with the Germans also ahead, although not by as much.
My best units were Infantry & Cavalry. The Germans declared war on me, so I obliged and wiped out two of their cities and replaced with my own to give me smaller borders to defend, plus access to a third oil that had been within their borders.
Anyhow, skip forward 30 years and the Germans have now got motorised transport and are cranking out the Panzers. I'm still trying to get motorised transport, but i do have over 300 infantry covering 19 cities and my coasts and borders (compared to the German's less than 100 infantry and marines).
Now the Germans seem keen to get at me. As per my standard operation practice, I've destroyed all their roads and rail that I can that are within reach of my artillery, so any Panzer reaching my lines is only going to get one attack in.
So what do they do? Do they stockpile Panzers for a series of lightning raids on my cities where they'd stand a chance of capturing them if they attack in numbers?
No. Instead the Germans send their panzers in groups of four and five against fortifed positions with around 5 infantry and 2 or 3 artillery in them.
Result?
At worst i lose a couple of easily replaceable Infantry, while I can pound any surviving Panzers with artillery and polish them off with my cavalry.
At best they don't even break through the piles of elite infatry they're creating for me, and I'm able to nurse my units to avoid losses.
Subsequently the Germans struggle to have double figures of Panzers and by the time i get motorised transport I'm able to stockpile around 50 units before launching an attack to cut off the German's mainland supplies of rubber.
Here's the situation. Early 20th Century. Playing the Celts I'm on a large continent (using the largest map size and about 9 civ's in total) with the Spanish and Germans. Despite having run at second place in the scores for the first 1500 years I've sunk back quite badly, and now the Spanish are quite a bit ahead in tech, with the Germans also ahead, although not by as much.
My best units were Infantry & Cavalry. The Germans declared war on me, so I obliged and wiped out two of their cities and replaced with my own to give me smaller borders to defend, plus access to a third oil that had been within their borders.
Anyhow, skip forward 30 years and the Germans have now got motorised transport and are cranking out the Panzers. I'm still trying to get motorised transport, but i do have over 300 infantry covering 19 cities and my coasts and borders (compared to the German's less than 100 infantry and marines).
Now the Germans seem keen to get at me. As per my standard operation practice, I've destroyed all their roads and rail that I can that are within reach of my artillery, so any Panzer reaching my lines is only going to get one attack in.
So what do they do? Do they stockpile Panzers for a series of lightning raids on my cities where they'd stand a chance of capturing them if they attack in numbers?
No. Instead the Germans send their panzers in groups of four and five against fortifed positions with around 5 infantry and 2 or 3 artillery in them.
Result?
At worst i lose a couple of easily replaceable Infantry, while I can pound any surviving Panzers with artillery and polish them off with my cavalry.
At best they don't even break through the piles of elite infatry they're creating for me, and I'm able to nurse my units to avoid losses.
Subsequently the Germans struggle to have double figures of Panzers and by the time i get motorised transport I'm able to stockpile around 50 units before launching an attack to cut off the German's mainland supplies of rubber.
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