Hard/very hard AI benefits

[decaro]

I've tried to make the game a little more challenging by trying the hard/very hard AI settings with enhanced AI. One word: don't.

Not only do AI units fight better, move faster, etc., they don't seem to get any any stacking penalties. i.e., I had my clock cleaned by Cornwallis who commanded about 100 units, yet he only has a two-star rating!

The only success I ever had with these settings was vs. the Colonial AI at hard w/one degree of FoW.

Anyone else have better luck?

[Pocus]

No the rule don't lift the stacking penalty rule, but perhaps even with -50% command penalty, between the huge number and the improved combat efficiency (+20% to 'to hit') you still faced a juggernaut.

There is something of importance which is not said to the tooltip: in hard and in very hard, new regiments of redcoats from around the world (notably Indian) are dispatched to reinforce the British, so this explains that you see so many units arriving. King George went crazy saving his colonies [:D]. Remember, he was a very pro-war king, saying things like "never to acknowledge the independence of the Americans, and to punish their contumacy by the indefinite prolongation of a war which promised to be eternal."

[decaro]

That's good to know, and explains why the English went bust fighting the Colonials as they were already financially in the red after paying the price for the French and Indian Wars.

" ... indefinite prolongation of a war which promised to be eternal"; King George sounds a little like my George (W)!

In any case, under the new patch I returned to playing the Colonials vs. BoA's AI set to enhanced w/normal. Maybe I was lucky the last time I tried this, but I'm really getting beaten (again).

Does the latest patch -- 1.11 -- have some AI improvements? Is there a readme for it?

I don't like to just run from the Brit AI and give-up objectives w/o some kind of a fight, but lately this has tactic has proved tres cher.

[:-] Pocus, en Anglais, it's "the rule (it) doesn't"; i.e., I don't, you don't, we don't, but it (il) doesn't. You've done this before and will keep doing it until someone politely points this faux pas out.

Besides, after years of enduring French tenses and infinitive conjugations, I'm looking for some grammatical payback[:D]

[Pocus]

I'm always looking for some improvement (much needed) in my english, so thanks. Don't hesisate to point me on that, particularly the misplaced 's' too.

1.11 had some refinements in the AI yes, because a part of the tweaks made for AACW were adjusted for BOA, so overall the AI is slightly better. Nothing major, but the algorithms are a bit more precise on some special situations. I should have more time for AI upgrade once AACW is out and I get one year or so for the VGN code, one quarter being for the AI.

[Roads]

ORIGINAL: Joe D.
I don't like to just run from the Brit AI and give-up objectives w/o some kind of a fight, but lately this has tactic has proved tres cher.

I suspect this is part of the reason you have trouble with the hard AI. [:)]

Washington very nearly lost the war in 1776 when he took adopted a similar strategy. [;)]