Shout Out to Heracles AI Mods

[yuzhonglu]

Using his Ultra Aggressive and Smart AI mod and it CHANGES THE GAME. The AI is vastly improved, plays like a human player, and makes reasonably intelligent strategic decisions like when to war dec, not throwing away their armies, and abandoning hopeless settlement defenses.

Makes campaign fun.

[Tunguska]

Originally posted by yuzhonglu:

Heracles

Yes, they're nice mods. And yet people still can't spell the modder's name correctly. It's Hecleas, not Heracles. There's no R in there, I don't even use mods in most of my campaigns and still know that.

This is worse than all the morons that can't use apostrophes correctly, or routinely mix up 'then' and 'than,' not gonna point any fingers.

Rianne.

Originally posted by Aleera:

Shocking stuff: Forgot the name of the level, but the one where you awaken the forge makes it so easy. Even that final horde that comes from the side as you run for extraction is more then enough to get this achievement.

Originally posted by Aleera:

Nakai barely buffs Kroxigors more then generic Lizardmen and has the worst faction mechanic in being a horde army.

Lokhir is utter dogpoo. Corsairs are the worst unit in the roster for Dark Elves and will struggle vs just about anything other then low tier trash.

And the best bit, Giant wolves. These wolves are hound unit's on steroids, they're amazing if you're able to micro unit's more then a common houseplant.

Originally posted by Aleera:

Large unit's are not a problem at all for the Empire.
Large unit's have a taller model then your frontline

Originally posted by Aleera:

Besides, look at it's cost.

Originally posted by Aleera:

The "strategy" in every game is a joke once you notice the patterns. The only challenge in a strategy has always been it's multiplayer.

[yuzhonglu]

Really enjoying Heracles' mods. Great modder. It's the Starnet of Warhammer 3. Too bad the actual Starnet modder is no longer updating his mods.

I mean, CA just needs to add in some scripts and fix a few bugs and the AI should be working fine. If a modder can do that, why can't the company do it?

[I Throw Spears.]

Originally posted by yuzhonglu:

Really enjoying Heracles' mods. Great modder. It's the Starnet of Warhammer 3. Too bad the actual Starnet modder is no longer updating his mods.

I mean, CA just needs to add in some scripts and fix a few bugs and the AI should be working fine. If a modder can do that, why can't the company do it?

Eh. I've used Hecleas' stuff and switched to Deepwar, as I found that Hecleas is really just an aggro booster. Deepwar even calls out some issues with Hecleas' mod in their mod page. (In the screenshots)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2978779730

That being said, im really hoping CA knocks it out of the park with these new upcoming AI improvements.

[yuzhonglu]

I was using Deepwar, then switched to Heracles' stuff, LOL. Went the other way. Deepwar's changes don't feel noticeable.

I don't expect CA to make significant AI improvements.

[Fluffy Newfoundland]

Too bad Heracles' mod isn't in SFO anymore.

[Yellowdragon]

I am using Deep war right now. I will try Heracle's mods later.

[Griffox]

I recommend Heracles because all AIs really try to conquer the map through competence and strategy and not through brute force (this is between AI vs AI, and AI vs player) unlike Deep War which is much more similar to Warhammer 2 where the AI ​​literally runs over other AIs to form a few empires in less than 50 turns, and then it becomes a duel between the player and the last remaining AI, however Heracles' AI works much better with the help of other mods, which solve other problems that the AI ​​has.

I'll leave them here for anyone who wants to test them.

Unfortunately I also think that CA won't make an AI better than the mods, what CA should do is test these AIs and get the best out of them and implement them into the game and also let the player customize the difficulty, today the AI ​​is aimed at people who enjoy playing story mode (RPG) yes and terrible for those who play sandbox.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2909055000
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3166314617
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2837648802
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2797826270
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2837648907
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2833697505
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2854819509