The AI, Ships and Cavalry

I was looking through the AI Defs and I noticed I noticed than when designing units the AI doesn't taken horses into account. So I'm curious to know if anyone's seem the AI actually use cavalry or ship transports?

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I have seen them use calvery but it is rare ...too rare. and I have never seen them use ships.  They really need to give the ships and clavery more lovin.

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Mount resources are rare, and the AI also happens to be terrible at keeping their units alive. So even if they do make them, they tend to die off real quickly and then they are right back to making infantry due to not having enough mounts.

 

Never seen them make ships... then again, that's probably for the best. I have a feeling that adding a naval factor to the game would just make things worse for them.

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I've never seen the AI use mounts, I have seen them use monsters, typically late game.

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I read a few posts a while back that said that the AI is actually incapable of using boats at all, which is why there are no maps which include any islands. I would love to see this obstacle get overcome and for them to implement alot more seafaring adventures. I mean who doesn't want to eventually play Elemental: War of Magic Pirates.

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And finally airships...but lets not get teh cart in front of the horse... there's still a lot of bug fixin' that needs to be done and game balance including the AI to be better.

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I've never seen the AI use mounts
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I almost never FIND mounts on the world map in the first place.  In fact, the only time I ever saw one was a group of wargs, but I was kingdom so I couldn't even use them... ugh...

I've never seen the AI use ships.

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Quoting Gene1966, reply 5
And finally airships...but lets not get teh cart in front of the horse... there's still a lot of bug fixin' that needs to be done and game balance including the AI to be better.
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Flying monsters would be better, or even recruitable flying monsters ... but this would probably break the AI.

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I have seen AI ships but not Calvary.. the ship didnt really do anything just moved around.. occasionally.