Patch 1.09f: AI "suicidal"?
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:19 pm
Evening! 
I've just begun a new 1775 Campaign with the British (Difficulty normal/AI Aggressiveness normal), and in Boston I was constantly facing what can only be described as kamikaze-assaults by those pesky Colonials.
Each month, from turn 1 until the arrival of Howe, they have been throwing themselves against Gage's Lines, not only with Ward's forces, but several times even with single regiments.
This way, they have already wasted elements worth at least 6 full regiments of militia (plus one entire regiment of artillery) and lost several supply wagons until Howe arrived (and I quit playing...
)
The British, well entrenched and better trained, haven't lost a single element in these on-slaughts.
American forces in Massachusetts are therefore in shambles by their own doing and will stand even less a chance than usual once the British activate and start their own offensive.
I'm a bit puzzled because I have never seen the AI taking up this "Banzai"-attitude before (at least not to such an extreme extent) and it is making playing the Brits in 1775 a wee bit "too" easy, IMHO.
Has anyone else had the AI behave in such a "suicidal" fashion with 1.09f?
And, BTW, If I remember correctly (although, I admit, memories of my last 1775 game are a bit vague
) Ward is supposed to be fixed for the first few months of the 1775 campaign, same as Gage is? How come he attacked in Turn 1? 
I've just begun a new 1775 Campaign with the British (Difficulty normal/AI Aggressiveness normal), and in Boston I was constantly facing what can only be described as kamikaze-assaults by those pesky Colonials.
Each month, from turn 1 until the arrival of Howe, they have been throwing themselves against Gage's Lines, not only with Ward's forces, but several times even with single regiments.
This way, they have already wasted elements worth at least 6 full regiments of militia (plus one entire regiment of artillery) and lost several supply wagons until Howe arrived (and I quit playing...
) The British, well entrenched and better trained, haven't lost a single element in these on-slaughts.
American forces in Massachusetts are therefore in shambles by their own doing and will stand even less a chance than usual once the British activate and start their own offensive.
I'm a bit puzzled because I have never seen the AI taking up this "Banzai"-attitude before (at least not to such an extreme extent) and it is making playing the Brits in 1775 a wee bit "too" easy, IMHO.
Has anyone else had the AI behave in such a "suicidal" fashion with 1.09f?
And, BTW, If I remember correctly (although, I admit, memories of my last 1775 game are a bit vague
) Ward is supposed to be fixed for the first few months of the 1775 campaign, same as Gage is? How come he attacked in Turn 1? 
