Oh look, smack talk. Cool!
They always did.
A human being wouldn't be able to coordinate 4 different armies arriving at a target city in the same turn.
If the human being can't do that, he should stop playing strategy games. Hahahahahaha. I assume you are joking and just showing off features, because if you're going to tone down something that is clearly GREAT combat behaviour, I will be unhappy. Very. Unhappy.
My thoughts exactly.
Here's the thing I'm bitching about:
I've been able to write up all kinds of sick stuff for the AI to do that the human can't realistically do because there's no UI.
I've written up rally points, army groups (you guys deal with armies one unit at a time, I look at the map in terms of GROUPS of armies).
Even tactically you humans are pathetic. You never look at the big picture. You worry about saving a precious unit here or maximizing a unit's HP there or what have you without looking at all your units all over and what's best globally.
And don't even get me started on your money handling or mana handling or experience.
The AI will always have a better level of experience than you guys because you guys will insist on running around with several champions at once. You're too lazy to just send a single champion to take out a single spider or have a single champion move out of an army to take out a lair.
The "l33t" will still beat the AI on normal and even challenging but I'll love to hear how they do it. Odds are, it'll be through a loophole. I'm still having a hard time getting the AI to counterspell spells.
(please substitute "you" with "AI" here)
Now you are being downright condensing and insulting. I guess you are trying to push buttons. I can beat the snot out of your fantasy AI and army groups any day. I don't need loopholes. I can, and will, coordinate mass attacks from five different fronts, cast a landbridge in your face and walk an army over it and smack your entire empire with spells when I assault, whilst simultaniously razing your assests with 20 single unit horse-archer stacks... and all my armies are backed up by spellcasters who are decked out with +Army buffs, shock troops, archers and tanky guys. And then I'll scorch the earth of anything I am not interested in, take over the two biggest cities and start rebuilding your empire before you've even had the chance to blink and surrender. Preferably with three enemy empires at the same time.
In other words: Please, give me that AI. Just make a difficulty setting named "WantToDie?" with that army grouping, all those lovely routines and all that ass-whooping power, and make me giggle.
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Therefore Melkor said to her: 'Do as I bid; and if thou hunger still when all is done, then I will give thee whatsoever thy lust may demand. Yeah, with both hands.
Time passes, the Trees falter and the Silmarils are taken.
'Blackheart!' she said. 'I have done thy bidding. But I hunger still.'
What wouldst thou have more?' said Morgoth. 'Dost thou desire all the world for thy belly? I did not vow to give thee that. I am its Lord.'
'Not so much,' said Ungoliant. 'But thou hast promised me whatever I hunger for, and my Master, Baranor, Hungers for the World, and his hunger is mine.'
