Default AI not attacking leaders if they're too strong.

[Nyanyanyan]

Hi, I've encountered a problem in that AI units do not attack leaders if those leaders have too high resistances or attacks.
I've tried reading into the AI wml, but I don't really see where I could change the evaluation criteria for leaders specifically.

The simple solution would be to set aggression to a high value, but I'd rather find a solution that keeps the AI's level of play at about the same level.

Does anyone know of a way to solve this?

[Nyanyanyan]

In order not to have the AI go berserk all the time while still attacking strong enemy leaders, I've made a small event which determines the aggression and caution variables of AI sides on every turn based on their vision of enemy leaders. It's very rudimentary but it does the job and I'm kind of liking how the AI plays "dynamically". If anyone has any better ideas I'd be happy too, since this really isn't what I set out to do in the beginning.

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[event]
id=AIaggcautchange
name=turn refresh
first_time_only=no
[if]
	[have_unit]
	canrecruit=yes
	[and]
		[filter_vision]
			visible=yes
			side=$side_number
		[/filter_vision]
	[/and]
	[and]
		[filter_side]
			[has_enemy]
				side=$side_number
			[/has_enemy]
		[/filter_side]
	[/and]
	[and]
	[not]
		[filter_wml]
			[status]
				general=yes
			[/status]
		[/filter_wml]
	[/not]
	[/and]
	[/have_unit]
[then]
	[modify_side]
  	  	[filter_side]
			controller=ai
		[/filter_side]
	    	[ai]
			side=$side_number
 	      		aggression=0.99
 	   	[/ai]
	[/modify_side]
	[modify_side]
  	 	 [filter_side]
			side=$side_number
			controller=ai
		[/filter_side]
	   	[ai]
 	   		caution=0.1
 	  	[/ai]
	[/modify_side]
[/then]
[else]
	[modify_side]
 		[filter_side]
			controller=ai
		[/filter_side]
	    	[ai]
	   		side=$side_number
 	    		aggression=-10.0
 	   	[/ai]
	[/modify_side]
	[modify_side]
  		[filter_side]
			side=$side_number
			controller=ai
		[/filter_side]
   		[ai]
        		caution=1000
 		[/ai]
	[/modify_side]
[/else]
[/if]
[/event]

[mattsc]

Nyanyanyan: Another option would be to use the Simple Attack Micro AI set to attack only enemy leaders. The behavior would be somewhat different from what you have right now. For example, it would only attack enemy leaders and it would always attack those (both of which is mostly but not 100% the case for your event-based solution). It would also always attack the enemy leaders first before continuing with "normal" attacks (or last, depending on the value of ca_score). So depending on your preferences, that might not be what you want.