Has anyone ever seen...

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....The AI use artillery type units (catapults etc.,) offensively? I don't
recall ever seeing them except defending cities.

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"Daran" <daranSPAMg@lineone.net> wrote in message
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> ...The AI use artillery type units (catapults etc.,) offensively? I don't
> recall ever seeing them except defending cities.

With C3C, i've seen the AI moving escorted catapults, artillery, etc. toward
the battle lines but the battles move on before it can get there.

 

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On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 20:48:00 +0100, Daran <daranSPAMg@lineone.net>
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>...The AI use artillery type units (catapults etc.,) offensively? I don't
>recall ever seeing them except defending cities.

Yes, but not often. One reason is simple: they don't move fast
enough. The stack of cavalry, horsemen, tanks, etc., move faster than
the artillery can keep up.

My guess for the second is that they use them first as defense,
second to engage units around the cities. Unless it has enough of
those, it won't pull them out in order to carry out an attack.

But I've seen late game stacks with artillery in them. C3C also
seems a bit better at using the things offensively.

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On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 19:57:37 GMT, "The Stare"
<wat1@not.likely.frontiernet.net> wrote:

>With C3C, i've seen the AI moving escorted catapults, artillery, etc. toward
>the battle lines but the battles move on before it can get there.

In the Napoleon Conquest I have seen them carting across my land with
those late era blast cannons. I have seen them move em into the
mountains and continually blast a city while trying to capture it. I
think mostly they are just trying to show of with them though.

 

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On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 19:57:37 GMT, "The Stare"
<wat1@not.likely.frontiernet.net> wrote:

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>"Daran" <daranSPAMg@lineone.net> wrote in message
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>> ...The AI use artillery type units (catapults etc.,) offensively? I don't
>> recall ever seeing them except defending cities.
>
>With C3C, i've seen the AI moving escorted catapults, artillery, etc. toward
>the battle lines but the battles move on before it can get there.

In Vanilla and PTW I've captured numerous artillery units from
AI landings on my area. They've never made it to the battle line.

 

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"Daran" <daranSPAMg@lineone.net> wrote in message
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> ...The AI use artillery type units (catapults etc.,) offensively? I don't
> recall ever seeing them except defending cities.
>
> --
I've seen the AI use them, but only after they captured some of mine. Even
then it was just long enough to get enough units to escort them back to the
nearest city to help defend it.

 

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On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 18:23:10 -0500 Jeffery S. Jones <jeffsj@execpc.com>
wrote in message <rlo7i0dp62rdgamtug6vqrqh25pu09d8qr@4ax.com>...

> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 20:48:00 +0100, Daran <daranSPAMg@lineone.net> wrote:
>
> >...The AI use artillery type units (catapults etc.,) offensively? I
> >don't recall ever seeing them except defending cities.
>
> Yes, but not often. One reason is simple: they don't move fast enough.
> The stack of cavalry, horsemen, tanks, etc., move faster than the
> artillery can keep up.

Since I made the original post, I've had a ship bombarded from a coastal
city, and seen a stack of my own artillery, left carelessly unguarded,
captured and used against me.

> My guess for the second is that they use them first as defense, second
> to engage units around the cities...

Of course, they can do both simultaneously. However, I haven't seen them
engage units around the cities, perhaps because I have never given them the
chance. I invariably use mobile units to attack, and try to capture cities
in a single turn without ever leaving my units in the open on the way in.
(They may be left out after they've attacked, but if the city falls anyway,
it can't then bombard them.)

> Unless it has enough of those, it won't pull them out in order to carry
> out an attack.
>
> But I've seen late game stacks with artillery in them. C3C also seems a
> bit better at using the things offensively.

Perhaps I've not been playing C2C long enough. This is the first game in
which I've reached the modern era.

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Daran

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but my chief duty is to
accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.  The world is
moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the
aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker." -- Helen Keller