Military access - what does it do?

[QuintusSertorius]

What does it do, besides allowing your armies to move at the same rate they would do through your own territory? Does it also mean you don't get supply problems?

In my game I've still got an alliance and military access with the Ptolemies, I'm thinking I might use that to march an army through Pamphylia and Kilikia to attack the Seleukids in their heartland. That or ship some troops to Kilikia and go from there.

[Tyrfingr]

Your allies won't be pissed off with having your armies marching through their lands. Supposedly, allied AI-factions tend to either attack your armies when passing through allied territory (without military access) or otherwise they will leave your alliance.

[QuintusSertorius]

Certainly is that. Not sure about the supply situation, my general has Understanding of Logistics so doesn't tend to suffer much anyway.

[Jolt]

Certainly is that. Not sure about the supply situation, my general has Understanding of Logistics so doesn't tend to suffer much anyway.

In my Macedonian campaign, I was allied to the Ptolomaics against the Seleucids. Since I wanted to do a surprise of Ptolomaic surrounded, Seleucid Syria, I decided to land my Elite Army in the Ptolomaic Syrian coast without a military access treaty. The very next turn, the Ptolomaics began besieging my Asia Minor cities. >_>

[Irishmafia2020]

I think you notice the effect of marching through someone's territory without military access more in the MTW2 engine. Your relationship with other factions is charted (good poor bad etc) and you notice it going down in that case until a war starts. I do not know if that was implemented in the RTW engine or not, but I remember the Senate in Vanilla would get Pissed off if you violated the territory of a faction without military access... so it is possible that it is a game play feature that was only designed for the "four factions of Rome" in vanilla RTW. It is a real feature in the MTW2 engine however, so it should matter in EB2...