yeah...true. Happened to all of us. But there already is a thread about this, you could try the search button.

Yes it's a flaw, the AI always charges with it's units, and usually beening the cavalry, the general reaches the enemies first, and die first!

Let's email CA about this problem!

Yeah, e-mail them, maybe they'll make a patch

I'm playing as the Julii. The Scipii attacked my very remote city of Nepte (bottom left-ish - present-day Libyan desert). It has the first level of stone walls. They used a ram which I demolished with fire-arrows and they used ladders which I couldn't deal with in time.

The ladders were manned by legionaries. I wiped out the first lot on the walls but a second lot climbed up and destroyed almost all my defenders before their last man went down and by this time I had exhausted all my arrows (and archers).

I had decided that I was going to lose the city (I never go back to saved games if I lose something). The Scipii still had a full urban cohort and a legionary cohort outside the walls and 4 ladders propped up ready for use. I was left with a few cavalry, a very few legionaries and some war dogs inside.

However this was obviously too complicated for the AI which left both Scipii cohorts standing in front of the gate tower for 10 minutes getting steadily whittled down by the tower arrows. The AI strategy was novel - the urban cohort shouted "We're being attacked" to each other. If only one of them would shout back "No shit Sherlock"...

Nice outfits the Scipii have, though.

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I'd like to see the AI play the barbarians better too, or one that at the very least excells at ambushes, seeing as the most notable defeats of Romans by Barbarians were effectivly ambushes.

A pretty big that I found happened once when I forgot to repair my walls. The AI had about 4 or 5 rams but there was still a whole left from a previous siege. The AI abandoned the rams and everyone charged into the hole. It was pretty funny but now I make sure to repair all my walls to have a fair fight.

The problem is that you don't really need an AI. Just give it a host of strategies... depending on the army mix (yours and opponents) choose one.

Let's be frank the game graphics are awesome! And the music! Look at the pain taken for historical research and even the accuracy of the units (I mean the uniforms, fighting styles et al). But the fighting leaves a very bad taste in the mouth, how much does it take to improve it?

I have programmed: given the amount of time that the game was in development... a couple of decent chaps working throughout that time could have shipped a decent AI.