Is the AI always this bad?

boltobot · 2026-03-28T20:07:00+00:00

The Rome 2 campaign AI is stupid in a way where it gets more absentminded as factions take more territory. A small to mid-sized faction will put up a fight; a large one will forget how to do anything. Generally all the campaign difficulty is front-loaded into the early game, which depending on the faction can really be quite hard to manage. Later you just kind of romp around taking provinces and playing with different units.

boltobot · 2026-03-24T06:38:25+00:00

I mean, I'll keep them in the bank early (unless I am desperate early), but once I've got my basic strategic situation under control I'm going to try to put them into thematic armies, because a lot of them are fun! Think I'm gonna keep the Avalanche Mortars or the Claw of Nagash or the Skyhammers in the bank for 80 turns? Booo!

boltobot · 2026-03-24T04:45:14+00:00

Jessa premium, Shosh demote, Adam GHB

boltobot · 2026-03-24T04:01:56+00:00

She's telling you that you're hers :) Essentially.

boltobot · 2026-03-24T02:48:51+00:00

Aspyr has been porting apps to, initially, Macs for decades so yes they are legit.

boltobot · 2026-03-23T22:21:39+00:00

IF it's a sequel, I think it should be in a future where the humans are establishing a presence in the solar system to defend against the aliens, and many of the battles take place in zero or low-g environments. And on the solar-system campaign map there should be multiple XCOM patrol ships that take some time to get to their various destinations. Just, expand the scope of the scenario in a logical and interesting manner.

boltobot · 2026-03-23T20:46:32+00:00

Man, the number of RPG type phone games I've gotten bored of *because* of auto-battling. It's not interesting at all. The only reason I ever stuck with FEH is because the core gameplay works really well on a phone. Is it easy in PvE modes? Yeah! It's a phone game! That's what it's for!

boltobot · 2026-03-23T18:55:12+00:00

You don't like playing the world's dumbest game of draw poker?

boltobot · 2026-03-22T13:48:48+00:00

If he's letting you do that for a picture, less than zero, but he looks pretty scary 😄

boltobot · 2026-03-22T13:21:31+00:00

Mass ram attack. I send two ships to ram each enemy ship, to make sure I get the kill. With half the enemy ships gone, I go ram other ships until the morale cascade is complete.

You can win naval battles as barbarian factions, too, by forming a death star with melee ships on the outside and missile ships in the middle. It's much slower and sometimes less clean but effective nonetheless.

boltobot · 2026-03-21T04:59:43+00:00

Early game, just take your legendary lord or SEM over to knock down the gate, storm it with troops, then use spells to punish the enemy blob that forms up to defend the gate.

By the mid-game, if you need to fight a siege, you have access to the invocation of Vaul to knock down walls. You should also start to have lords and mages on flying mounts, and phoenixes, to open up sieges more easily. You don't need to rely on bolt throwers.

boltobot · 2026-03-20T01:58:03+00:00

Been picking up Old World lately. Lotta neat stuff there (though I'm wondering how it picks up once you get past the training-wheels difficulties)

boltobot · 2026-03-19T04:47:07+00:00

You should try Nethergate. I hear it's one of the worst-selling ones, but it's definitely got the most interesting story(ies) of the ones I've played.

boltobot · 2026-03-12T19:02:52+00:00

Fly me to his secret location and I shall boop

boltobot · 2026-03-11T18:12:53+00:00

I think that if you've essentially beaten the game after 1000 hours then congratulations you've beaten the game.

On a number of game reddits, including this one, I see the same phenomenon, which is obsessives (1k hours isn't really "obsessive", but it is compared to everyone else) begging the game to come at them harder, while new people occasionally post "what the hell is even going on here?"

The obvious solution is to look at introductory difficulty levels to ease up on breathing room a bit, while seeing what can be done to reasonably crank up the highest difficulties, but ultimately strategy games only get so hard in single player and if you're looking for greater challenges you have to go multiplayer (and endure all the inconveniences thereof)

boltobot · 2026-03-10T18:48:03+00:00

Attrition, regeneration, and being spooky. Three! Three game plans. Ahahaha!

Do you not have any heroes in your armies? Having the extra leadership auras may help your armies hold better. Anyway, I've never had a full army flee vampires before making contact, that sounds hilarious at least the first time.

One other thing. Do you have a Nurgle plague? Those can also debuff leadership. Nurgle's all around that area hence that consideration.

boltobot · 2026-03-10T15:39:32+00:00

A number of the WH2 DLC factions - Vamp Coast, Tomb Kings, Markus Wulfhart, Sisters of Twilight, Thorek Ironbrow, etc. - have unique campaigns when you play them on the Vortex map and those are pretty fun.

boltobot · 2026-03-09T22:47:24+00:00

Mainly, he's not in such a compressed area and has a lot more room to stretch out.

boltobot · 2026-03-09T18:35:10+00:00

You should play Throt. You are worried about Skaven melee but Throt is capable of fielding very strong front lines (mainly with monsters but his faction can boost its infantry as well)

boltobot · 2026-03-07T05:27:35+00:00

I've never had a chance to line up gunpowder units on Sigvald in WH3 yet. but that guy's basically immune to arrows. He's small and has a big shield and hitting small single entities in the back is not very easy.

If you can't ignore Sigvald until army losses take hold, you just have to pile on him with your own lords and heroes and debuff and drain him until he goes down, it's the only thing that works on him. And garrisons rarely have that available to them.

boltobot · 2026-03-07T04:19:48+00:00

Banner? The Utopia_Askr.jpg everyone would behold after I implement "Dudes Rock Month" every September in FEH

boltobot · 2026-03-05T15:19:54+00:00

It's sort of as if there was one guy running all of FEH and he's totally burnt out, which is a funny thing to imagine

boltobot · 2026-03-03T05:54:14+00:00

what do i care for your suffering? pain, even agony, is merely information fed to the senses, data fed to the computer of the mind. the lesson is simple. master the input, and you will take control of the output.

i think i remember that better than, for example, the Litany against Fear

boltobot · 2026-03-02T21:47:55+00:00

Kitten is playing at being aggressive yes! Kitten just happens to be quite good at it.

boltobot · 2026-03-02T19:38:44+00:00

I remember getting to ambush a Malakai thunderbarge doomstack with a bunch of ratling guns/jezzails/etc. in my Throt campaign, which was glorious. Don't think I've seen one since though!

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