it would help the ai to use the highest damage to nearest enemy eg sov st 300 con 200 att 20 int 100(fireball 10 damage, sword attack 200) should bias to the weapon unless out of range of the weapon then and ONLY then use mana and the spells that give the MOST damage per mana,

BUT

at present the AI appears to favour the use of mana OVER weapons no matter HOW effective the weapons are, and with the slow collection of mana the wasteing of mana in battles is crippling.

harpo

@harpo that is an issue with the 'autoresolve' button exclusively and has little to do with how overpowered-or not the Heroes are, which is the crux of this posters concern.

I have however mentioned previously that the rediculously slow tech advances are part of the issue. Heroes can clear the map by about turn 200. Now maybe this is a reasonable period of time that the game is supposed to last, but if so the player/ai should be able to research equivalent army techs to match by this point, and create more than easily destroyed fodder.

However, maybe turn 200 is too fast and turn 400 or 500 should be necessary to kill the prevalant monsters. However technology is =still= an issue, as it is impossible to properly outfit your army by that turn to compete. Not to mention without the heroes clearing the area for new cities technology will advance even slower.

The cool thing about this game is that since Stardock is actually a pretty big company, there are multiple people who work on this game and can do stuff with the different aspects of it. That means Derek can work on heroes (which aren't actually OP if you pay attention to resources invested) and Brad can work on AI.

And that is what separate this genre of games from the straight historical.  Powerful heroes are kinda the point of this game, imho.