A.I. in detailed battles

[Joram]

Kudos to you for adding in some real tactics. I did lose one battle when I was totally outflanked and they took my one VP hex (this was before I realized that would immediately rout your army!). Other than that though, they still by and large attack piecemeal even if nominally part of the same group.

[Hard Sarge]

the AI just broke my southern flank, close to 3000 losses from that area

I need a rush counter attack in the middle to break them now, or I will also lose one of my guns

I lose Gardner

(dang, why do you always lose the commanders you like ?)

[Hard Sarge]

gonna be close

rush out a Inf Bde that is past the breaking point to put pressure on the Union Gun, I need one round of good Vollies, before the Union can pull off another round of charges, or I lose the southern flank (don't care about the land, the troops will be slaughtered)

[Hard Sarge]

and just in case, trying to show, that not all battles are going the way it is being reported, now why, we getting the odd ones, I am not sure

this was a good battle

[steveuk]

ORIGINAL: ericbabe

If their unit strength is listed as zero, then it doesn't seem likely that they have 23 brigades in the battle.  Since their will-to-fight is 2 to your 20, the AI is "reluctant" to engage your units.  Perhaps the AI should withdraw from the battle in situations such as this rather than wait it out?  Thanks for the report.

By the way, the AI does have a few definite strategies that it uses when attacking and each are attempts to avoid piecemeal attacks.

The figure of 23 brigades were from the military advisor screen. It must have been correct because when the Union routed it list's all the brigades one by one and there were a lot [:D]
The issue is definately down to will to fight so I hope you can adjust this please Eric.

Hard Sarge....thanks for enclosing some screen shots. I have just fought my first major battle in Fredericksburg as the A.I. actually started with a will of 7....I even had to call on reinforcements for my 4 elite brigades [X(]

Do you know how generals can increase there star rating apart from when you assign one at the end of each turn? Also, does this assigning of stars stop at any point as a couple of times the option never appears?

[Malagant]

I've also run across several fights where the AI will force an engagement that it really has no hope of winning...but instead of withdrawing it just sits there, or maybe sends a small attack (which to me seems like it's a probe to try to find me?) which is beaten badly, then a lot of waiting.

As the others have posted, I've found myself hitting the Skip All button quite a bit. I've also recently learned to place all my units on Sentry once I have my position established...then I can do something constructive that I haven't done since I bought this evil game...bathe, eat, speak to my family, sleep... [&o]

[Knu]

If someone wants, I can send my saved game via email.

It is not just the detailed battle that is worrying me, but the whole shape of the Union army. There is about 400.000 men in and around of Washington, which do nothing at all.

However in the West (Kentucky), the disposition for the Union army is getting lower and lower. Now it is -3 (Dec. 1862), when in the Autumn of 1862 it was -2. It isn't launching the piecemeal attacks in Fredericksburg anymore, but in Kentucky and as far as I can see, it isn't receiving replacements, at least not as much as I am.

I'm not experiencing anything like shown in Hard Sarges screenshots. The only major battle was when I moved most of the Army of N.Virginia to Maryland. Only then the Union army moved with a force to Fredericksburg and I had a one major battle.