AI Army Spam

[Tooten]

Any way to stop this ****? The game is fun, but even my allies (who are A LOT smaller than I) have 11+ armies just chilling. Yuan Shao has been throwing 5 stacks of armies, at a time, at me and I'm kinda over it.

[Multihog]

Play on normal.

[Tooten]

Originally posted by Multihog:

Play on normal.

That's the problem, I'm on normal.

[ぐー]

Originally posted by TootenTV:

Originally posted by Multihog:

Play on normal.

That's the problem, I'm on normal.

lmfao

[Sqrt(-1)]

Originally posted by TootenTV:

Originally posted by Multihog:

Play on normal.

That's the problem, I'm on normal.

Easy then?

Are you managing your economy well? Because on normal the AI receives no bonuses and their city building is terrible, so you should be able to field more armies then an AI of the same size. Yuan Shao and Liu Bei are exceptions because they can spam low-tier units per their faction background, but militia and captains have very poor morale.

[sjeggy6]

even on normal difficulty there is no shame in going to easy :)

which character did you play? maybe i can give you some tips!

[Multihog]

Originally posted by TootenTV:

Originally posted by Multihog:

Play on normal.

That's the problem, I'm on normal.

The AI doesn't cheat on normal. They play with the same rules as you do. Like the guy above me said, play on easy if you want to nerf the AI. It's not a fault of the game.

[abcdefg]

thats because u expand ur kingdoms so quickly , and not arranged ur economy strong.thats why u lose!

[Tooten]

Originally posted by Sqrt(-1):

Originally posted by TootenTV:

That's the problem, I'm on normal.

Easy then?

Are you managing your economy well? Because on normal the AI receives no bonuses and their city building is terrible, so you should be able to field more armies then an AI of the same size. Yuan Shao and Liu Bei are exceptions because they can spam low-tier units per their faction background, but militia and captains have very poor morale.

I've been doing my best to manage my economy. I was making 8k a turn, supporting 3 armies and all of my provinces were happy. Also, that's what I thought, I've played Total War for years and always played on normal, because I don't care for the added stress of hard or legendary, with the AI having cheats and such, but 3K and Troy have been the only TWs I've played, where even on normal it feels like the AI has army, after army, after army, after army.

[Tooten]

Originally posted by KMKL MAL(fk-military-coup):

thats because u expand ur kingdoms so quickly , and not arranged ur economy strong.thats why u lose!

Dude, maybe ask how well my economy was doing lol. I was making 8k per turn, didn't expand out further until my provinces were happy and secure, etc. etc. Yuan Shao hit what he needed to, to vassalize factions, did it to half of China, and had what felt like 30 armies lmao.

[Tooten]

Originally posted by Multihog:

Originally posted by TootenTV:

That's the problem, I'm on normal.

The AI doesn't cheat on normal. They play with the same rules as you do. Like the guy above me said, play on easy if you want to nerf the AI. It's not a fault of the game.

I really don't understand how it's not the fault of the game.... It wasn't like this on Shogun 2, Rome 2, Medieval 2, Rome 1 or even the Warhammer games. It's literally 3k and Troy, where even on normal, the AI has massive armies even with small amounts of land.

[Tooten]

Originally posted by sjeggy6:

even on normal difficulty there is no shame in going to easy :)

which character did you play? maybe i can give you some tips!

I might have to go to easy, I played on normal on all the Total Wars before Warhammer 2, 3k and Troy, but it seems this is becoming a reoccurring thing, that being army spam.

Also, I'm playing Cao Cao, I liked his special abilities. I manage my economy pretty well, it just seems if I don't take out dudes like Yuan Shao and Liu Bei ASAP, they get massive.

[Multihog]

And so what if they get massive? By the time you have to go to war with them, you'll be massive too. Hell, it's good that they're massive so that there's some potential challenge in the mid/late game. Rome 2 is a joke because the AI reliably fails to make a strong empire, even on legendary.

[Tooten]

Originally posted by Multihog:

And so what if they get massive? By the time you have to go to war with them, you'll be massive too. Hell, it's good that they're massive so that there's some potential challenge in the mid/late game. Rome 2 is a joke because the AI reliably fails to make a strong empire, even on legendary.

Dude, you don't understand. They have 4 armies for every 1 I have and I had 4 by the end of it. I took out 9 of their armies over 3 turns, mine were decimated by the end, recovering, getting reading to launch an assault. 1 turn later, they marched in 6 more. Like wtf??? That's overboard. CA have yet to find the perfect middle for ♥♥♥♥ like that. Also, DEI for Rome 2 makes that much better when it comes to that.

[Hobbse]

I've never experienced anything like your describing. Are you saying the AI is fielding 9 armies per faction, or is it a 9 army alliance kind of thing? If the latter, that makes sense, and you just gotta play carefully around it. In the late game I find myself able to field around 8 armies or more, even on legendary, so you definitely should be able to match the AI's army count. Are you managing your corruption well?

[Tooten]

Originally posted by Hobbse:

I've never experienced anything like your describing. Are you saying the AI is fielding 9 armies per faction, or is it a 9 army alliance kind of thing? If the latter, that makes sense, and you just gotta play carefully around it. In the late game I find myself able to field around 8 armies or more, even on legendary, so you definitely should be able to match the AI's army count. Are you managing your corruption well?

Yeah, surprisingly my corruption has been very low. But no, it was 1 faction fielding 9+ armies by themselves. Like I said, Liu Bei who was my ally, thank God, had 2 full provinces and a few other settlements here and there, split up, but had 13 armies. Keep in mind, I was TWICE the size of him and he had THIRTEEN ARMIES. Like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lmao. He refused to join the war against Yuan Shao though, he made peace, got a trade agreement and then gave them military access, so they were walking through his land to tear my hole apart.