Problems with the AI

[Michael Dnes]

I'm working on my cold war scenario and I can't get the Soviet player to attack. I've tried giving them a huge army in the next square to the city I want attacked, which worked in earlier versions. I don't think the problem has anything to do with stats or AI role, they are attack heavy and put into role '0'- attack.
I made a lot of changes from the earlier version, the biggest being that I merged several civs into one large 'allies' civ. Does anyone know how I can get them to attack?

[St Leo]

Have you tried giving them a bad rep?

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[Michael Dnes]

10 black marks. Should it be worse? The neutrals, with perfect rep, lay into the Soviets in turn 2.

[Michael Daumen]

Have you given them the worst attitude towards Europe? And made them on permanent vendetta? And force them to attack each round with a MAKEAGRESSION event? And move Soviet units into Europe each turn with a MOVEUNIT command?

[Michael Dnes]

Yes to all. I've also given them more units & cities. I also disbanded all the allied units. Still they won't attack.

[Captain Nemo]

Are all civs set as agressive, militaristic, expansionist?

No one should have UN or Great Wall

All civs should be in contact with eachother and have embassies...

I usually also set "no negotiations" in event file.

Also set bad reputation and high dislike for the other party.

If the scenario has objectives put a few 3x within reach of the AI you want to attack.

[Michael Dnes]

Still no joy. I've tried all of the above. The Soviets make a small attack in Turkey, but still don't enter Germany, just fortify all their offensive units along the border.

[BeBMan]

I´m remembering another thread, where someone had the same problem. He had the "WW II AI" ON. If this is also the case in your scn, turn it OFF.

[Civfan]

Michael Dnes, have you checked ther roles of the units, make sure they all are attack units not defence units. They might only fortify because there to weak to launch a attack. Might increase attack value by 1.

[Michael Dnes]

Eternal gratitude to BeBro- it worked.