Scenario Rome Total War
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Description The Mediterranean in 270BC

Good Points

• Good unit art
• Some interesting unit types

Bad Points

• Anti-Roman alliance has a significant advantage
• No victory conditions

This would probably be better with the Romans receiving a bonus and a time-limit on conquest

@Zjelcop I made the objective cities German capitals, which focused the AI on taking and defending them.

@redrum There are plenty of good maps of Europe, (Age of Tribes comes to mind), but there are no pre-gunpowder scenarios which deal with the strategic reality. The best is probably Greyhawk Wars with it's stack tax. Most scenarios come off as reskinned WW2 without aircraft.

@redrum Try http://www.rogercooper.com/Medieval_Europe.zip
I just downloaded it myself.

@RogerCooper I would suggest to designers working with pre-gunpowder warfare, that they should make an effort to depict the following real characteristics of the time

• Castles and local levies. Castles could be handled as an expensive, multi-hit static unit, while levies could be cheap static units, replaced by events.
• The high cost of maintaining mobile forces. Just have them create negative PU's.
• The power of cavalry and its limitations. For example, cavalry could be handled as aircraft (with terrain effects to prevent sea movement)

Scenario Medieval Europe
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Description Conflict in Medieval Europe between 3 alliances

Good Points

• Nice map
• Good unit art

Bad Points

• No specific historical situation
• No attempt to depict the realities of Medieval warfare, the game is reskinned WW2 without aircraft

@Zjelcop It is almost done. However, although I was able to get aircraft-only attacks to work, the AI did not handle it properly, so I implemented more conventional aircraft rules. Similarly, I dropped the stacking limits because they confused the AI.Dual-role artillery works.

Scenario Middle Earth - Fords
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Description The War of the Ring

Good Points

• Nice map, complete with fords

Bad Points

• Unique and rare beings from Tolkien can be mass-produced
• Favors the Good side

@Schulz I usually don't give the AI a bid, unless the scenario is unbalanced. I take only 1 country, leaving me with AI allies as well as AI foes. We don't want to really lose to the AI.

@redrum said in Improving AI:

@RogerCooper Agree. Per map configuration, is definitely on the list of things to add. The AI also needs to be able to better handle various capital rules and victory cities.

The AI handles capitals pretty well, responding strongly the threats against them and making some strategic effort in the direction of the capital. Something as simple as a settable VictoryCity bonus for AI computations of territory value would improve play. A little more complex would be the ability designate a territory as a "StrategicObjective", which the AI would try to attack or defend as if it were a capital.