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Trying out the game, playing as the Empire on mortal empires.

Just wondering. Why does it feel like the AI ignores everyone else but me? Orcs and other hideous creatures seems to making a beeline for me, ignoring fertile land they can pillage and capture. Is the AI programmed to harass the player or something?

 

Yes. Take care of 2 things:


Power rating. Even what you perceive as "natural allies" will jump on you if it's about 25% lower than them and they have no other conflict. Even more so if you Reliability is low. Try and remain thrustworthy as much as you can.

If you think you're about to be jumped on by someone (eg they ask for tributes) you can cheat the system a bit by raising a cheap army and trying to get a NAP. Not exactly efficient but it can save your ass if spread too thin.


Additional advice. Don't spread thin. AI has lots of production bonuses, don't try and outproduce them in the beginning, stay put, fight as much as you can, farm rebellions for xp and get your High Lord level high enough to get Lightning strike and some of his/her signature skills (spells if mage, bonus for your best units otherwise). Levelling up and building your home province is much more important than getting more land. Depending on race and starting location you could either unify your starting province and then stop or simply just sit on your cap, pillage other towns and build up for 20-30 turns. Sometimes even more, eg Norsca. Stay put and grind xp, defeat all other Norscan Lord and confederate with them as you go.

 

Or stop being a pussy and start conquering shit right from the start.

 

Fix'd. Sorry bro, on VH/Legendary I call bulshit on that. How do you defend your multiple province with a single stack and no money for walls? Do you build Public Order to leave your cap undefended? How do you fight the 2/3 stacks + province defense VH AI can field with a single minor settlement, if you lack LS? I guess you can abuse ranged with some races but that's so gay I wouldn't propose it ever...

 

It sure sounds like he is playing on legendary.

 

I recall the AI is programmed to go after weak positions or lords.

Are you building walls or defensive buildings in your cities?

You can sometimes use this to your advantage with ambush stance. Another tip is to recruit a lord, don’t recruit any troops on it, and park your main lord/army nearby in ambush stance.

 

That would be suicide in WH I. Some assassin would hit him, and you'd lose an army. If that army would be horde, things would be BAD.

 

Somehow the last defenders got the last plateu in my khemri playthrough. I have no idea how they could've gotten there except by using underway, which the lizards cant-
This is not a screenshot from the game, just to show u where the lost plateau is:


It should be turns and turns of walking to get to that location. Dwarves still own the entrance to it. Any idea how it happened? I need to take the plateu to get muh book of nagash, but now I can't unless I want to declare on the entire lizardman alliance of Africa.

 

Yes, they are programmed that way. There's a mod on the workshop that stops AI from behaving in such a player-centric way and treat you as if you're just another AI faction, but I don't know if it was kept updated.

 

I remember some bitching due to a bug allowing AI dorfs to field more army than they should. Dunno if related. Province could also be lost to a previous revolt.

How is your power rating? You could try and have the province revolt, a slow process unless you're strong enough to also raid their province under their nose without them declaring on you. Also, determine which kind of alliance they have, full or defensive? If the latter, have them declare on you and their allies shouldn't intervene.

 

One sneaky trick you can do is to ask to join the war of someone they are fighting against them. Its the kind of bullshit that the AI does to you.

 

Which? The northern or the western? Or both?

Lizardmen usually come through the pass north of Mount Arachnos.

 

Yeah, it makes all types of Alliances even more worthless than before.

 

Hour and a half long review. Wondered why he'd been quiet so long, haha.

 

Sseth is a dark elf ,figures

 

There's a mod that removes call to arms between hostile races, so at least you won't have to deal with High Elves phoning Skavenblight to fuck with you.

 

This is several days old already, but the Shadow&Blade trailer apparently had whispers, "the WAAGH is coming....beware the Warden" towards the end of the video. That suggests Eltharion and Grom or some other Greenskin lord for the next DLC. Perhaps we will hear something today.

 

it should be out already.

in the meantime if you play mostly order factions and want some challenge you should check out the lorefull recruitment mod, basically increases recruitment turns based of quality of unit and if its trained etc mostly for order factions. also non order will benefit from this because they will eventually outnumber order factions like in the lore.
it also has the added beneficial factor that makes your stack more unique/valuable instead of loosing your uber stack and recruiting another next turn in vanilla.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1862829247&searchtext=loreful+recruitment

though if you dont have all the unit faction dlc you may get fucked, playing an empire campaign with the mod the starting seccecionists will outstack you easily if you dont have access to the faction unit dlc which allows you to recruit archers/free company in 1 turn.

 

Now CA are just fucking with us:



Idol of Mork? Apparently some shadow of a chariot in the horizon.

 

grom vs eltharion trailer will come out tomorrow probably.

 

maybe dwarf flc as well

 

orc warlords ride chariots to battle?

 

Grom the Paunch rides one and he is the biggest GOBLIN in the world.

 

It's always been like this, but since R2TW and the ability for armies to go in the water, it became insane. In Attila playing with a western faction you could have hordes of Huns you never met jumping in the black sea and sailing half the map to arrive directly at your door. They don't care about territory, they don't care about plunder, they just want to make you game over.



What's the name of this mod you're talking about Ed ?