Gurjaras AI not taking berries near garrisoned mill

Bayesian · August 15, 2026, 7:43am

GAME INFORMATION

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GAME BUILD #: 177723
GAME PLATFORM: Steam
OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 11

ISSUE EXPERIENCED

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Gurjaras AI is not taking berry from a mill with sheep garrisoned inside. It is clearly trying to take berries, as its vils walk to a far teammate mill to take berries far-distance. All of its own berries untouched.
Other related suboptimal play: Gurjaras AI teammates send so much sheep to it in dark age, that Gurjaras built two mills to garrison those 12 sheep.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)

Take the above choice with caveat. I recently only played one game with Gurjaras AI, and it happened.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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Arabia, 8-player map, 2 humans vs 5 extreme AI (no handicap). AI in clockwise order: Chinese, Britons, Gurjaras, Franks, Magyars. Romans human is next to Chinese, Mongols human is next to Magyars. Sheep & chicken map. No external mod, just regular stuff like small trees and some Anne_HK’s mods.
Play regularly until roughly minute 15
Two human players play fast feudal two range archer rush, each attacking its flank opponent (maybe related, maybe not)

EXPECTED RESULT

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Gurjaras AI regularly taking its own berries, instead of walking long-distance to teammate berries.
Gurjaras teammate would send less sheep to Gurjaras, so they won’t have to build 2 dark age mills next to each other to garrison the sheep.

IMAGE

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The box only allows me to attach one picture? (had error if I upload 2) From the minimap, you can also see yellow vils walking to red base to take berries (which I did see). Note that the recording is from Gurjaras’ perspective, so resources are there.

GAME FILES (SAVE / RECORDING)

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Not available as I was playing on Nvidia GeForceNow; so I could watch replay, but not transfer the file. Aoe2Insights didn’t show this game.