
Make sure lions are placed where they will most likely be encountered by the CP in the middle to later stages of the game. Without decent access to resources throughout the game, the CP will stop processing the. The AI doesn’t do well in a highly congested area. Look at the surrounding terrain where the CP is initially placed. Instead of a bustling aggressive CP, you get a ghost town, especially if you’re killing off any villagers that come snooping around you. Without sufficient resources early on, the. The map and resources can make or break the plan for a CP. To do so, follow the instructions below and save the file as a text file with an. It is certainly more difficult now and the new graphics make it a lot of fun to play.You may modify this file to create new computer player strategies.

They'll purposefully avoid attacking through walls and lots of towers if you mistakenly leave an unprotected rear or flank that they can use to march right up and destroy your town. The newer AI will also scout out your location and attack weak spots. The companion cavalry rode north of the archers cutting off their retreat to the town center and let the infantry cut them down. My winning strategy involved staging 10 companion cavalry to the east and have the infantry attack the town center and then retreat south, drawing the archers out to try to take out the infantry. When I'd turn back, the archers would head back to the town center and shred through them. Every time my infantry would retreat, the 20 archers would come out and chase them down. So I was trying to take a large group of spearman up to take over an enemy town center filled with archers but wasn't having a ton of luck. I'll play as the Ptolemies, because I know that they were the pinnacle of the Greek Phalanx lead by none other than Alexander the Great.

I find the AI to be challenging to beat on hard, but not impossible. It gets progressively better from an AI, music, and artwork standpoint.ĠAD is definitely not the same game now as it was years ago, it is massively improved.

I simply wait (to upgrade to a new 0ad) with the latest version in each new Fedora release. If you watch their svn history, they consistently are chipping away at it.
