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I was just playing a battle fighting against 3 barbarian tribes totalling about 3500 men. I had a force of about 1200,made up of a 4 units praetorian, velites, cavalry and ballista. I've never came across an AI like that. I was attacked in the rear by reinforcements killing the general and some cavalry. Those praetorian guard units, whooped the living bejesus out of celtic force when I kept together and charged. Classic. Anyone came across this before with the AI?

Yes, especially annoying when you set up your phalanxes in the choke point in the city nearest to where the AI (the ones attacking) are, but as soon as you press Start Battle they change their way of entry into the settlement to one that doesn't have your troops in it.

That and using horses and infantry to flank me and take out my artillery/ranged units before the infantry engagement even begins

Oh yes my auxilla hoplites were made into mince meat by a manouver like that as well. Again, lucky that I had a reserve of praetorian .My artillery tends to get whacked unless I keep some light flanking cavalry about.

I noticed it almost overnight, the enemy isn't melting in my phalanxes anymore and they're moving around quite a bit. It's sort of nice to see the AI actually moving around and not going on death marches, but it's quite annoying suddenly realizing that they're right behind you!

This was no simple march the bugger moved an entire force from a landing behind me, and proceeded to spank away. Awesome Ai that