Question about Balancing: ACOK

[Emp. Theodosius]

Hello everyone! I've been playing A Clash of Kings bookmark (no spoilers from the books please!) and I have one main issue. Balance. Every single time, without player interaction or even with, Joffery always defeats everyone else. This is over five different campaigns. Also, I think it is almost impossible for Stannis to win the war also, his troops always fall apart even against even numbers. Are there any fixes?

 

[grzegorz444]

I sow Stannis win but rare and can not remember when

Now(IMO after 2.5.2 patch), AI is incredibly stupid(more than before), move on map inexplicably or standing and doing nothing and IMO is hard to say about fix any scenario now, because It's not certain what is balence issue and what AI vanilla game bug

 

[blackninja9939]

Well Joffrey has the bigger armies in the game and lore especially with the Ironborn nearly always attacking the North in game. Stannis can win but the war ai is generally less good than the player.

 

[Wandering Sentinel]

Yeah, from what I can tell the AI tends to favor a numeric advantage over the traits of their own generals or the opposing generals in the vanilla game from what I can tell. It's always funny when a superior general with a smaller force that they excel in leading runs from a nearly incompetent general with a slightly larger force, but a large army has no issue attacking a Brilliant Strategist who is a Heavy Foot Leader and Rough Terrain Expert while they're leading a smaller army supported by swordsmen retinues in a forest or on a hill in different mods or even vanilla.

 

[Vortex_13]

CK2 has never been about balancing either in the main game or mods. It completely runs opposite of the spirit of the game. Some countries are just doomed or have to get extremely lucky in order to win.

 

[mewzle]

I've seen Stannis win a few times, but all but one of those times Robb won over Joffrey first, which makes sense if you really think about it. Robb has the numbers; Stannis doesn't.