I'm now trying a 8-8-all food for my flush. When I hadn't well implemented force hunting system, with 8-7-x it always happened that gettting too massed villies in berries, disturbing themselves, only to go finally for wood for farms. I sometimes arrived to 29-pop feudal, but it was more usual 31-pop, or even 33-pop with a little idle TC time.
Finally, researching in Kosmos and forum, I've copied Kosmos force hunting but trying start at 18th villager, because there are forumers that recommend don't start before than 17th, and it's enough to faster feudal if deers are found early. In my first test deers were too far, don't founded, and it didn't work, but re-starting and with manual exploration I was able to force hunting, but too late because deers distance and get feudal 31-pop but without idle TC. Second test were better, with very early deers, founded even without cheating exploration. Now only 30-pop, but only because too early loom (food gathering too slow at start) because force hunting worked well.
I've also read with a little more deeply building file from CPS_Alexander (not much more
, first was force hunting) and I see that it uses a goal farm, which value depends from strategy and affects building farm priority. I'm thinking about perhaps help my AI with with another goal farming, and depending from the age, food percentage gatherers required by the strategy selected, or even the villagers number, set it at determined value, or perhaps fix another maximum number of farms.
In scenario editor I’ve tested that without blacksmith upgrades spears seems defeat militias (no man at arms, of course) resource-costing (8 spears vs 6 militias). But if you count extra 6 wood resources for any unit (30 for a house divided by 5 pop population supported) it results in 10 militias defeating 13 spearmen.
I was thinking about start with trash units to delay gold mining, as in human flushes. But now I’m considering build a gold mining camp when first barracks finished, and then start gold mining. Archery range won’t be delayed too much, because 100 wood from mining camp can be half-compensated by don’t “waste” wood in first spears.
Another advantage of this change would be that I think that so I could start militia training in transition to feudal for a faster attack, of course saving food for economical researches.
Another changes would be the priority in blacksmith researches (ranged units arrive a little later, so improve first infantry) and delay market until get 400 wood and don’t disturb farming and ranged units spamming.
P.D: Marathon, I can’t find it now, but in one thread I read searching about force hunting information you mentioned another problem about barracks huskies. You had problems to fix how many huskies number you need from barracks and castle to counter because both are “different” units for AI’s engine. If you have interest, I’m considering about a “simple” although only approximated solution:
Supose that with actual ranged units threat, your AI calculates x huskarls as necessary. You know how many castles and barracks you have, and you “know” approximately, that depends of strategy and circumtances, how much percentage of time can dedicate your castles and barracks to huskies (you can need trebs, spearmen or different techs). Now you have how many huskies you can create at castles and barracks in the same time.
For example, you need 30 huskies. You have two castles, but half of time you need one of them for trebs, ellite huskarls tech, etc. So you "have" 1’5 castles. You also have four barracks, but you need one only for spears and upgrades, so you “have” 3. Then you need 10 castle huskies and 20 from barracks. As this can’t be exact, you can fix in this strategy and situation 12 from castle and 25 from barracks.
P.D: I’ve uploaded my last Crusade version with chat command to unsure that I’ve understood, or not, force hunting.
Why? Because now I can build in dark age the hunting mills, which in general work well, although in my last test one of them was builded near forage bushes, even there was built there the first.
) is my countering system. It creates counters until they are sufficient to neutralize threat, and general units later.
