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AI brocken (or much to easy) on extreme

We are playing a conquest on extreme. Since the last update, in every mission the AI don´t have more then 2 units + warchief. Last game was a 2vs6 and the AIs were ...
Suggested by: Akiyama (26 Oct, '21) Upvoted: 08 Apr Comments: 17
Dev Noted AI

AI is not competitive (broken) in PvE (conquest, coop vs AI, etc) - Serious rework/overhaul needed.

**I would like to recommend that the developers go into the Discussion/Forum section on Steam, and just look through the various posts for titles containing "AI" - ...
Suggested by: Bret (06 Feb, '24) Upvoted: 09 May Comments: 3
Dev Noted AI

AI will never win a domination victory

Dear Dev-Team, like pointed out in other threads the AI is massively too easy. So I wanted to test it. I started a individual game: 1vs7, all 7 AIs on EXTREME and I ...
Suggested by: Akiyama (03 Aug, '23) Upvoted: 08 Apr Comments: 4
Approved AI

AI is disproportionally quick and aggressive in Defend the Oppressed

We played several games on hard mode, conquest, Ox and Lynx. The AI is overwhelmingly strong and aggressive, as in combined armies of 20 units that swarm the ...
Suggested by: Patrick (16 Nov, '23) Upvoted: 13 Mar Comments: 3

Incompetent AI Clans (hard mode)

So playing through conquest on hard to try the new owl clan and I noticed AI clans are just dying/losing without any interaction with me. And these aren't always ...
Suggested by: Todd (09 Dec, '23) Upvoted: 24 Sep, '25 Comments: 4
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AI completely passive on created maps

After spending almost 500 hours on the game I decided to jump into the map editor and create a map of my own to make it more interesting. I usually play with my ...
Suggested by: Michaela (29 Jul, '23) Upvoted: 20 Mar, '25 Comments: 2
Dev Noted AI Mod

AI getting stuck

As game progresses, the computer AI fighters get stuck in other zones and offer no resistance at all. They will not move to attack you even as you occupy and destroy ...
Suggested by: ALP (29 Dec, '23) Upvoted: 24 Sep, '25 Comments: 6
Approved AI

Titanomachy Funny Bug

Hi, I played two different Titanomachy games on Conquest, one for Lynx and one for Owl, both at Extreme difficulty, and in both cases the games didn't last longer ...
Suggested by: Alex Kocev (25 Apr, '25) Upvoted: 28 Nov, '25 Comments: 4

AI Artifact crafting memory leak

I found a loop ;D I don't know what happened but enemy Hound create and cancel artifact creation like 1000 times a second, and it freezes the game (I don't ...
Suggested by: Thrajnor (17 Apr, '25) Upvoted: 19 Dec, '25 Comments: 0
Approved AI

Conquest on Normal - Impossible Swamp Level - Cheating Resources

If I'm playing on Normal, the AI should not bypass the balance of the game. The AIs have more soldiers than I have workers by the time I get my hero. Make the game ...
Suggested by: Deez Nuts (24 Jan, '25) Upvoted: 06 Dec, '25 Comments: 0
Approved AI

Defend the Oppressed (Conquest Mode Challenge - Clan of the Bear)

I would like to report an issue that prevents to finish the Bear Clan conquest: the challenge Defend the Oppressed. The problem is that the mission becomes ...
Suggested by: Matt (21 Jan, '25) Upvoted: 26 Sep, '25 Comments: 0

AI lets it's citizens die in Winter

Like the title says. The AI (hardest) seems to spend all it's food and then people die - in the end, the AI barely has territories and is very weak. Tested in 2 ...
Suggested by: Gabriel (12 Jan, '24) Upvoted: 25 Jan, '24 Comments: 0
Approved AI

Conquest AI's army is stuck in a zone

First mission of owl's conquest (hard difficulty, solo), AI playing rat sends all of it's military to capture one of my zones while it is being colonized. After I ...
Suggested by: Quarzon (08 Dec, '23) Upvoted: 21 Dec, '23 Comments: 0
Approved AI

AI and Jotun Defender

If the AI gets a jotunn, it always stands on the tile with the town hall, something should be done about it.
Suggested by: Kometes* (28 Jul, '25) Upvoted: 30 Jul, '25 Comments: 0
Fixed AI

[Conquest] Save and Load causes enemy AI to cancel attack

This seems to be a general AI issue and not related to any specific clans or maps. When an AI attacks with their army, if you then save and then load the save you ...
Suggested by: Narha (03 May, '25) Upvoted: 25 Nov, '25 Comments: 0
Dev Noted AI save

A.I. relationship with neutrals bug.

Hi guys, love the game still. The AI is able to become friends with neutrals at an astonishing pace. This happens in multiple modes. I noticed this while playing ...
Suggested by: Scott (22 Nov, '23) Upvoted: 29 Mar, '25 Comments: 0

Conquest Bots go to 6 Militäry units before building a House in defend the opressed

We noticed that the bots in the mission where we need to defend our small ally were very low on fame. after we scouted them fully we saw a bunch of placed buildings ...
Suggested by: Tiegerfaust (02 Sep, '23) Upvoted: 21 Jan, '25 Comments: 0

Hippogriff AI

The Hippogriff clan AI builds a catapult but doesn't use it. It just moves it across tiles and does nothing else.
Suggested by: Noctis (09 Feb) Upvoted: 09 Feb Comments: 0

AI BUGS

When you play as owl, and place any of their passive techs on enemy territory, the AI thinks its an enemy and tries to attack it repeatedly till the end of the ...
Suggested by: Definitive (23 Dec, '25) Upvoted: 23 Dec, '25 Comments: 0
Approved AI

[Tirtle][Ai] Turtle clan AI cause significant stuttering

In standart battles, turtle clan AI cause significant stuttering in mid-late game (805+ AD) which make the game nearly unplayable until being eliminated. Every game ...
Suggested by: Darel (12 Dec, '25) Upvoted: 12 Dec, '25 Comments: 0
Approved AI Turtle

Rat AI and Garm

When I played Conquest, I noticed that the Rat clan sometimes summoned Garm but didn't use it. It just stood on a tile and didn't participate in battles.
Suggested by: Noctis (05 Dec, '25) Upvoted: 05 Dec, '25 Comments: 0
Approved AI Rat

AI and Spectral Warriors

AI-controlled clans often don't respond to attacks by Spectral Warriors. They lose tiles or can even be destroyed if the attack hits a tile with the Town Hall. I've ...
Suggested by: Noctis (25 Nov, '25) Upvoted: 25 Nov, '25 Comments: 0
Approved AI

Turtle AI tries sending Caravan in Brawler Arena in Berserkers Wrath

1. In the Odyssey Mission Berserkers Wrath 2. Windows 11 3. Direct X 4. In the Berserkers Wrath Mission with Turtle AI, they might try to put them in the Brawler ...
Suggested by: Kriss (10 Aug, '25) Upvoted: 10 Aug, '25 Comments: 0

Kraken AI Clan Poorly Implemented

As the title says; the Kraken clan ai is the worst one of them all. Not only does Kraken cheat right off the bat during year one, but the Kraken clan really doesn't ...
Suggested by: Meow (20 Jun, '25) Upvoted: 20 Jun, '25 Comments: 0
Approved AI

The AI does not know how to play Gardariki Hippogriff clan

Conquest, maybe also Custom Match? I'm not 100% sure if this is a variation of ...
Suggested by: Varinathras (16 Jun, '25) Upvoted: 16 Jun, '25 Comments: 0

custom game

when playing custom game, using hard or extreme oponent, the computer dosnt seem to work, dosnt build , and other problems are that your minions , workers , scouts or ...
Suggested by: Robert (12 Jan, '25) Upvoted: 12 Jan, '25 Comments: 0
Approved AI

Ai problems on Medium difficulty

Sváfnir: Signy moves in and out of zones very randomly, this once caused it to lose the game from neutrals. Generally the military units seems to be moving very ...
Suggested by: Matu (07 Dec, '24) Upvoted: 07 Dec, '24 Comments: 0
Dev Noted AI Snake

[Conquest/AI] Allied and enemy bots are constantly destroying mines.

I noticed the strange behavior of the AI ​​in the conquest: constantly, they start building a mine, finish building, assign a miner, and then over time suddenly ...
Suggested by: Varcklen (23 Oct, '24) Upvoted: 23 Oct, '24 Comments: 0
Dev Noted AI

AI titanomancy

Have video of enemy AI Titan just trapped between 3 wolves as it attempts to move between zones until it died. Conquest on normal with Owl Clan. Windows 11 ...
Suggested by: Gregg Armstrong (20 Oct, '24) Upvoted: 20 Oct, '24 Comments: 0
Approved AI

Titanomancy unwinnable if their titan dies.

If the GIANTS kill the Ais Titan because he roamed into the giant's sector and fought them, he doesn't seem to lose.
Suggested by: Shockwave (21 Sep, '24) Upvoted: 21 Sep, '24 Comments: 0

Goat stopped producing villagers

Solo, hard difficulty, medium map, Windows, DirectX. Game seed 300923717. I am playing Stoat, enemy clans are goat, ox, and kraken. At some point in the game, the ...
Suggested by: Nathan (27 Aug, '24) Upvoted: 27 Aug, '24 Comments: 0
Approved AI

LION CLAN AI ISSUES

Hello everyone, I'm playing a single-player game against 8 AIs on hard difficulty. I recently bought the expansion The Cross of Vidar, which includes the Lion Clan. ...
Suggested by: Daniel Felipe Ortega (24 Aug, '24) Upvoted: 24 Aug, '24 Comments: 0
Approved AI

Hound doesn't build military units

Solo, custom game, 2v2v2. I played Stoat, AI teammate was Hound and never built a single military unit. Have only experienced the issue one time so far.
Suggested by: Nathan (03 Aug, '24) Upvoted: 03 Aug, '24 Comments: 0
Approved AI Hound

race to yggdrasil as goat clan

During the conquest mission race to yggdrasil playing as the goat clan a raven clan ai aswell as an ox clan ai keeps making the mission bonus free relic eldhrumnir ...
Suggested by: Bitzeit (24 Jun, '24) Upvoted: 24 Jun, '24 Comments: 0

Ai on forbidden tiles

Ai attacks tiles that it should not be able to reach. These are inland tiles that are actually protected by other tiles.
Suggested by: Kneipe (16 Jan, '24) Upvoted: 16 Jan, '24 Comments: 0
Approved AI

AI Owl Norns running marathon

Last month or so when playing: large map, free teams, team 1-> (human+AI Owl+AI random) vs team 2-> (5 x AI random). My owl teammates Norn runs up to my town hall, ...
Suggested by: Zat (15 Jan, '24) Upvoted: 15 Jan, '24 Comments: 0
Approved AI

Conquest AI armies move to a tile, and then just stay there indefinitely

We've seen several times in conquest battles with an ally on hard and on extreme mode, that enemy armies move to a single tile, and then just stay there while other ...
Suggested by: Patrick (07 Jan, '24) Upvoted: 07 Jan, '24 Comments: 0
Approved AI

AI using Scorched Earth on enemy zone before 803 AD

This happens a lot, at least in Solo and Conquest modes, no matter what the settings are. I'm using the native Linux version. Note: The Snake AI also focuses on ...
Suggested by: Polyson (19 Nov, '23) Upvoted: 19 Nov, '23 Comments: 0
Approved AI Snake