AI stupidity

[Zhuangzi]

I don't believe there's anything in the AI behaviour to suggest that it will try to 'suicide' if it is losing the battle. I don't think unit behaviour changes at all.

[boty]

Well, they could make a step behind(in the trap!!) and shoot. Sometimes they did so.

[Sandsai]

I feel the AI cheats a bit when it comes to traps. Sometimes I lay a trap and the shortest distance is straight through that trap, the enemy has to walk only one tile to reach me, but the enemy goes around the trap tile to attack my unit. I have sometimes noticed similar behavior when the enemy starts walking from its starting position. I would replay the same battle and note that there are only two direction possibilities. I would place a trap on one of those to see which tile the unit would step on, making sure that everything else was identical, same stack on same arena, casting the same spells and giving otherwise identical battle orders, but the enemy would avoid the trap tile and opt to walk on the free tile no matter where I placed the trap. One battle I even remember which way the enemy would go and place the trap on that path and of course, everything else being equal, it decided to walk around the trap.

[Urbz]

It can be annoying but I'm not sure if it's really cheating, if you would play versus another player and he knew you had traps you would also at least try to avoid them
There's several ways to make sure the AI will end up on the traps though.

[Zhuangzi]

Originally Posted by Urbz

It can be annoying but I'm not sure if it's really cheating, if you would play versus another player and he knew you had traps you would also at least try to avoid them
There's several ways to make sure the AI will end up on the traps though.

Yep. As long as going through the trap is the ONLY way an enemy stack can reach and attack one of your units, it will go through it. Every time.

[Urbz]

Originally Posted by Zhuangzi

Yep. As long as going through the trap is the ONLY way an enemy stack can reach and attack one of your units, it will go through it. Every time.

Aye but also the dragon kick, archmage telekinesis and emerald dragon grab for example

[Kings Bounty Hunter]

I've seen a weak army sacrifice itself and spring my trap that I had intended for another unit just to piss me off!! lol That army had other options of where to move but headed straight for my trap.

The unit I actually wanted to hit the trap had the next turn and the AI knew this so sacrificed a shitty army to spoil my plan. By doing this the army died and the much larger unit did some big damage to my unit that was close to it, if that makes sense.

In any case, I thought it was quite clever of the AI