I hope AI uses the raze city mechanic. It would give more incentive to fight a siege battle instead fighting them with attrition until they make a field battle you can be defensive with.
Not only that but you could make a swath of land that is effectively no man's land between you and a rival faction.
@turbojugend16 Completely abandoning the franchise because of a bad release is a foolish thing. Don't preorder, sure. Be cautious, sure... But to completely abandon is a ridiculous standard to force upon developers that more often than not are pressured to release games earlier than they'd like.
@Devils-DIVISION You've never had a defending army completely abandon it's last city and let you essentially just walk in and take it while they melt away to attrition?
There was so many bugs and problems that weren't purely consumer hardware/software oriented. It was a buggy mess. Overlooking it doesn't make it not true.
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