Total War: ATTILA

Total War: ATTILA

BRAN MK 1212 CAMPAIGN AI
My opinion so far
I like this mod a lot and early and mid game had never been more fun but there are some issues late game from my point of view.

Late game the catholic factions simply do not go to war with each other, instead they focus all of their efforts on Islamic and orthodox factions who actually fight each other, this leads to the Catholics literally conquering everything you have not conquered by turn 150, I am not kidding, Aragon owns all of Egypt, Castille the rest of North Africa and the Teutonic order has conquered Siberia and the Caucasus, basically all major Muslim factions have been eradicated.

What is worse, if you are not Catholic you will be waging war with the entire catholic world, I am in turn 150 with the byzantine empire on hard difficulty, i have all of Anatolia,the Levant and Balkans and i am at war with every single catholic faction apart from the HRE and The Papal States, and since this mod increases aggression, the ai is even more consistent in sending troops from the other end of the world to fight you; you thought the sasanid vassals in vanilla where ridiculous? Oh boy get ready for some even more bonkers roaming armies!

I have defeated my 3rd danish invasion stack in less than 5 turns, if I look to the Adriatic there is a complete traffic jam of Catholic stacks, I am curently counting 3 full Aragonese stacks, 1 Genoese stack, 4 Castilian Stacks and that's just en route to Greece, this is without counting my neighbours, Hungary and Croatia and the Teutonic order in the Caucasus who are all just throwing stacks at me like it's some medieval Operation Barbarossa. I feel like I am dealing with realm divide in Shogun 2 but at an even more ridiculous level. I have checked every Catholic faction, none of them is at war with it's neighbour, they are either at war with Muslims or with me and the Muslims are non existent. Now I am not loosing or anything, it is just annoying and immersion breaking because all diplomacy has been thrown of the window and it's a tedious grind of tower defence.

Now yes I know people will say "just git gud, I have 5000 hrs+ and play only on legendary difficulty" and I have to admit I wasn't necessarily tryharding but it is definitely the first campaign where I experienced such a situation.

In conclusion great mod but heed my warning and try to finish the campaign quickly until this hopefully gets adressed.
Last edited by CharlesWinchester; 27 Jan, 2020 @ 11:46am
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BRAN MAC BORN  [developer] 27 Jan, 2020 @ 11:24pm 
Play on Normal Difficulty! If you Play on Hard or above the game is hard coded to be super aggressive-so again play on Normal difficulty. Will have to boost the Muslim factions and get Christians to fight among themselves more.
Last edited by BRAN MAC BORN; 28 Jan, 2020 @ 3:14am
BRAN MAC BORN  [developer] 28 Jan, 2020 @ 2:59am 
Overhauled Religious Relations and Cultural Relations for more interesting effects. Muslims got a boost.
Last edited by BRAN MAC BORN; 28 Jan, 2020 @ 12:21pm
CharlesWinchester 28 Jan, 2020 @ 11:36am 
Thanks for responding
BRAN MAC BORN  [developer] 28 Jan, 2020 @ 4:48pm 
I am playing as France and Catholic-Attacked by 3 Catholic Factions . If the Church does not like you it will send forces to smash your head. Typical behavior of the church make in the day.
Last edited by BRAN MAC BORN; 28 Jan, 2020 @ 4:49pm
CharlesWinchester 29 Jan, 2020 @ 2:39am 
Yeah I noticed that France does tend to have lots of enemies, in my campaign they got eradicated before turn 100, the thing is that after certain factions got destroyed, wars amongst Catholics just stopped
Kremo 29 Jan, 2020 @ 4:17am 
plz bran add ottoman empire plz
BRAN MAC BORN  [developer] 30 Jan, 2020 @ 10:44am 
Ottomans are already a playable faction.
Kremo 13 Feb, 2020 @ 9:54am 
BRAN in campaign plz add janissery
Flatline_/\____ 29 Feb, 2020 @ 1:51am 
Played 3 campaigns and AI has too many stack to be real. For example Verona has 10 stacks rly ??? With one province they can support 10 stacks come on... Not cool at all !!!Also diplomacy is non existant, since turn 1 with France for example now turn 153 constant war with all catholics... its not fun man. You can roleplay at all... Just fight them endless stacks which if I may add i delete 5 stacks with one of mine. Only thing good is AI reqruitment.
BRAN MAC BORN  [developer] 1 Mar, 2020 @ 1:42pm 
Stacks are depend on faction economy-better economy they recruit more units. Before Ai did not make armies and ♥♥♥♥ ones at that. This is a WAR GAME! If want to roleplay play Crusader Kings 2. Total War not you .
Mikhelas 21 Mar, 2021 @ 5:13pm 
I noticed as Navarre that all AI factions had a treasury of 50k so even a 1 province kingdom could filed up to 10 armies, if not more. Also, that made sieging virtually impossible because by the time you get to match their stack number they kep recruiting endlessly. Surely a little kingdom can;t have the same treasury of an empire.
Love the mod otherwise and thank you for taking the time to make it! It makes everything more enjoyable, diplomatic offers are actually valid and meningful coming from the AI. This is the only issue that I see with it. Not having a problem with the aggression itslef but with the disproportion of forces at times, where 1 city state has the military might of an empire lol
Last edited by Mikhelas; 21 Mar, 2021 @ 5:13pm
Vaeringjar 18 May, 2021 @ 1:23am 
does the mod actually make the AI better or is it mostly unreasonable % buffs?
BRAN MAC BORN  [developer] 5 Jun, 2021 @ 3:16am 
Well you have to play it correct?
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