05-01-2009, 06:48 PM
Quote:I disagree. I think that it could be looked at as a "punitive raid."
Well, yeah, if you do it once or twice (Which appropriately I did to the Germans on a couple of occasions)
But doing that on a 'large scale' with the deliberate intent to bleed the enemy dry is kind of cheating, as you have said. The ultimate cheat is save + reload anyway, and I use that *constantly*. I really want to start a campaign and not do that. Although to be fair, I always play on very hard. (which I have been disilusioned recently as all it seems to do is give the enemy more money than he would othersise have and equally a massive morale bosster in the battlefield which would be unlikely). EB already balances the AI to a good extent, so maybe my next campaign will be on medium, no save+reload, as the romani. That should be fun.
Quote:I disagree. I think that it could be looked at as a "punitive raid."Completely agree. Too bad there's no way to mod the AI in any significant fashion. I suppose one could script events like invasions and such more often, but then they wouldn't be random.[/quote]
If only one could script them to try and do that rather frequently. Like every 10 turns or something the Carthaginians try to raid Italy. Or the same to the Seleucids towards Greece/Macedonia, or the Ptolemaioi towards Anatolia/Greece.
