Asking bots for help in defence

[Pomalu Snejksi]

So I´ve played a lot of AoE2 lately and I´ve came across some spicy situations when I ran out of units while my bot allies had their reserves at base. Is there some way to make them send units to you to help u defend your base? It´s not in commands.

[Leviathan]

type 222 in the chat. Make sure allied chat is checked.

[YuenHsiaoTieng]

Even 222 won't usually work. There's something fundamentally wrong with the ai. Enemy pocket ai will help teammates. Allied pocket ai won't reliably help.

[Pomalu Snejksi]

222? When I type that, the chat just shows me saying "222". Weird :/. I´m now really pissed bcs having bot allies is absolutely USELESS. They just stash army in their base and do nothing while I´m being thrashed by 2 enemies at once. F*c* this game! :(

[neilkaz]

Originally posted by YuenHsiaoTieng:

Even 222 won't usually work. There's something fundamentally wrong with the ai. Enemy pocket ai will help teammates. Allied pocket ai won't reliably help.

Yes, we often play 4v4's with 2 humans and 2 hardest bots vs 4 hardest bots. Almost always is the issue of getting a pocket AI to help a flank human when the flank human is double teamed. But if the human attacks an AI flank, the AI pocket often comes to the rescue.

There's also more to this than just flanks and pockets.

.. neilkaz ..