Unofficialcrusaderpatch: More siege weapons for AI .

[Lolasik011]

I know that this topic has already been raised but a new AI editing tool will appear soon.

I think the AI must use siege towers and shields. This will complicate the game vs AI. I
think that this ability is in AI, it just does not use. I saw how the AI uses siege towers and shields in Siege Missions.In free construction, he also uses shields and siege towers.

@ByBurton @Sh0wdown Is it possible to realize this?

[ByBurton]

They can use shields (kind of, not very good) and siege towers.
You can select those as siege engine for attacks in the editor that I made, once we make it public.

[Lolasik011]

They can use shields (kind of, not very good) and siege towers.
You can select those as siege engine for attacks in the editor that I made, once we make it public.

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I can not wait .... thanks again

[PitchNeeded]

What about allowing portable shields on towers for the AI (which is a defensive tactic lots of human players do)? Will that be possible?

[ByBurton]

@PitchNeeded I ... don't think so? At least it is not planned. You can only put regular troops as defence. Try to open an issue for that after we released the tool, okay?

[J0J0Jo]

@ByBurton Can you give the AI more than 8 siege enignes? In your code I saw that it is called SiegeEngine1-8. Could I add SiegeEngine9, 10, ... ?
Or if not, is there maybe some tricks to make the AI able to use more?

One example where more than 8 siege enignes could be usefull are portable shields. Some (strong) AI's could use them but not if they take up 1 out of 8 slots.
Also it would be awesome for the late game if the strongest lords could keep on adding siege engines until even strong castles are threatened.

[ByBurton]

Nope, there are only 8 spots. But I am not sure if the AI just starts from the beginning of the list again if it has more engineers availabl.e

[J0J0Jo]

If the AI starts from the beginning that would be almost as good. Then you can just set the max engineers to a large number and the problem is basically solved. Thanks for the quick answer and your contribution :+1: