The AI's Favourite Civilizations [AoE2]

What's the AoE2 AI's favourite civilization? It took over 1700 games to find out, but we have the answer!

The data was sent to me anonymously, and includes 1785 games: 1v1 extreme AI, rotating map pool, fast speed, standard resources.

2:40 The worst civilization for the AI
3:10 Civilizations with under 40% win rate
4:05 Civilizations with 40-50% win rate
4:55 Civilizations with 50-55% win rate
6:05 Civilizations with 55-61% win rate
7:40 The Top 5 civilizations for the AI

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Game: Age of Empires II Definitive Edition

[SpiritOfTheLaw]

Thoughts from Anonymous on the topic of the AI and battle elephants:

"Burmese is all about their Arambai and their champs, so you are not going to see elephants unless they are desperate and need to make units for every military building to survive.

Vietnamese most of the time are fine skipping their elephants, but they may make some as a meat shield for skirms and knights until they are done upgrading their imperial skirms or halbs, in the end even without upgrades elephants are kinda good when the other civ didn't have any reason to make Pikeman/Halbs yet.

Malay is more interesting, they like to open with their elite Karambit, and then move to another thing, sometimes they choose battle elephant (even elite) and eventually move again (to arbalest or even scorpions) since the opponent is usually a bit behind for the fast advance time this buy time and Malay can defend until there is no more gold in the map, and Malay love Forced Levy, if they reach that state of the game they win with their trash militia always.

And finally Khmer, they do an awesome work with their elephants, they usually make 20-25 in their way to imp, pick some upgrades (armor some attack, bloodline, sometimes the unique tech, but not the elite upgrade) and pick an early imp battle, at this point the elephants are very strong and the other civ need to make a Halb switch as soon as possible, but at the same time Khmer is doing a switch to Heavy Scorps, and those, of course, kill halbs with no problem. Usually they finish the game with Heavy Scorps (is their main strat) and add some back up with trash units, but sometimes they can even go for the Elite elephants upgrade and no one was able to stop a Heavy Scorp + Elite Battle elephant armor composition.

So yes, elephants, even if they are not the bulk of the army, are important for Malay and Khmer and sometimes useful for Vietnamese. By the way, Persians didn't make a single Unique Elephant in all their 102 games and on the same note, Khmer also didn't make a single Ballista Elephant at all."

[Ecrilon]

The top civ being the most heavily anti archer archer civ makes perfect sense.

[the_miracle_aligner]

The madlad did all this hard work and chose to remain Anonymous, what a legend.

[carlpult]

Considering the Test was conducted AI vs AI, the Vietnamese already have a huge leg up considering how good they are against Archers, where a player would just not go archers vs Vietnamese, the AI does not care it's running into a knife.

[cfv]

Everybody gangsta till the A.I. starts speaking vietnamese

[ireallyhatemakingupnamesfo]

I haven’t played this game once in my life. I’ve played AOE3 and AoM for 100+ hours each but not knowing anything about AoE2 never stops me from loving these videos

[fruitenantcolonel]

The reason why Vietnamese are so good against AI is because the were coded by microsoft in America.

[firockfinion]

So the AI prefer archers, battle elephants, and trash units. Meanwhile humans prefer heavy cavalry.

This will be important information to know in the inevitable AI rebellion.

[Just_a-guy]

Vietnamese also got "anti archer archer unit" that can help them as well

[TeaTimeMr]

[Tournament Idea]

Can we get a Tournament where every participant codes/programs/writes an AI (for a chosen Civ) and the AIs will battle it out in a Tournament format?

Would love the idea, this also could generate so much insight about AI and generell effective strategies.

[MajdFreiji]

Anonymous should seriously get paid for what he's done.

[infantryhawk]

One thing you probably missed about the Byzantine AI is that if you let it make it to post Imperial it will send an unstoppable fully upgraded Cataphract curbstomp, which I doubt any AI would know how to handle.

[TheKobasen]

67% win rate with 100% win rate against player from US.

*Vietnam flashback intensifies*

[jayvishnuvenkatesh]

2:43
Spirit: The worst ai civ is the Cumans
YT captions: itS tHE hUmANs!!

[Futsureno]

I bet this anonymous samaritan is SOTL himself, but he's too ashamed to admit it.

[Sometimes_Happiness]

I wonder if another reason Vietnamese are so good is because they have both strong archers and they counter archers. So AI v. AI, they can both use their powerful archers offensively to take out enemies while also killing enemy archers easily that they will inevitably come across.

[rubz]

Spirit of Anonymous here. Today were gonna calculate how many beers a battle elephant can drink before getting drunk.

[MiniCraftWolskys]

Thank you Anon for all of these informations ! You're great !

[VladtheImpaler_]

Whoever ran this test is a true hero of the community. Respect my friend

[dougler]

WOW! Way to go Anonymous! That's an awesome project, just the kind of thing I'd do if I had more time. Awesome to hand it off to SOTL as well :)