Unofficialcrusaderpatch: Sultan and Philipp update!

[RafaelPin]

Hello !
I've improved Sultan as well as Philipp to fix some common problems and gave them a bit more strength.
Let me know what you think and how to improve further :D

If you want here are the aiv and aic files.
aivANDaic.zip

Sultan :

• respawns Firethrower
• now can use Arabarchers on AIV-spawnpoints
• reduced the amount of woodcuters ,but has 4 Quarrys now
  --> no need for artificial moneysources via aivs ( like weaponproduction )
• sieges can now be called sieges ( uses catapults , firebalista and shields )
• As strong as the Snake now ~

Some pictures :

AIV:

Philipp :

• Poleturner now produces pikes AND spears ( not possible via the aice right now, to change you have to change it in the aic file directly via editor )
• Now uses pikemen (in a lower ratio than spearmen, besides sieges , which is mostly 50/50)
• 2 Quarrys and 5 mines
• As strong as Emir now ~
• sieges can now be called sieges (uses shields, catapults and trebuchet)

Some pictures :

Siege:

AIV:

[Panbutt]

That Sultan AIV looks very cool, great stuff!

I had a question, how did you change industrial buildings IE giving Phillip quarries?

[Rakso69]

@Panbutt You can do that through editing the .aic files with notepad. Isn't an available option in the ByBurton's AICE yet.

[Truetobi91]

These are some really nice castles!

[DarkThief-Darek]

I really really like the Sultan castle!

But just one question: if you make Sultan and Phillip so much stronger, why stop there? Every AI should get the same treatment, even the rat.

[Halbarad1]

Nice work, especially the Sultan castle does look really nice. Sticks with the original ring but adds some extra.
Very nice that you let Phillip produce both kinds of spears. I really like it that he now also produces pikes, since he is/ was my least favorite AI. How about giving the sultan apple production? Never really understood why he always had to buy his food.
In the original game, Philip had a castle like this but its walls were going on on both sides of the towers. How about implementing something like that with walls going on in 45° angle, so they could protect some buildings outside the castle. So his walls would get a form like this: ___/

@DarkThief-Darek he didn't say anything in contrary, he even asked how to improve further :)

[Truetobi91]

@RafaelPin
Since you have tested them already I wanted to ask what the Shield behaviour is like on sieges? Is it worth adding them to other AI e.g. Snake?

[RafaelPin]

Thank you for your replies :D ill look in to the 45° degree wall , but it wont add much protection as it will only protect some huts

@Truetobi91
The shields are actually better than i thought, they will run to random sieging units and follow them, but they wont follow specific unittypes, like for example only range