(July 24, 2012 at 7:15 am)Napoleon Wrote: I just killed Hannibal, in what was probably one of the stupidest moves I've ever seen the computer make.
Basically, Hannibal had my two cities to the north of Rome, I happened to have Genoa just to the north of those two and it was guarded by like 2 units (I'd taken a much larger army there beforehand to seize it but they had since moved on to protect Rome). So Hannibal, in his arrogance (or stupidity like I said), took his single unit to take it back. Ok, so he did take it back (it was only being defended by some peltasts and a very small damaged infantry unit, compared to Hannibals bodyguard unit). But the thing is, he'd left himself there, on his own, completely open to attack.
So I take my army from near Rome, send all the cavalry units and take Hannibal out in one of the easiest battles I've had to play.
I don't think the computer is doing a good job at simulating his tactical genius....
In real life, Hannibal would have gotten wind of your approach and set a trap for you, instead of just sitting there waiting for you as he is constrained to do by the lengthy turns in this turn based nature of the game. This is why I think the turns should be much shorter.
