hey... don't go... come, play in MY sandbox!... (13 colonies vs. British) [AI woes]

[Slaists]

I am returning back to EB 1.2 after having played ETW for 2 days as British.

I had the 13 colonies declare war on me while they were my protectorate with VERY FRIENDLY RELATIONSHIPS. Declaring war would have been fine, mind you, if they stood ANY chance at the time... In full view of the 13 colonies, my 2 full armies just having defeated Hurons, Iroquois and Inuit Polar(!!) Lancer(!!) hordes(!!) were marching towards the coast to sail to India.


The armies changed course, of course, and 'cooked' the 13 colonies instead. In 3(!) turns: no more 13colonies... The stupid AI had literally no armies at the time it decided to declare war on the British, which was the biggest power on the map...

ETW campaign AI needs SERIOUS modding...

Well, that's on the strategic map AI design side. On the 'buggy side': All the while (all 3 turns) I was busy occupying one 13-colony capital after another, the 'missions' interface was still displaying the suggestion to 'conquer x provinces and maybe the 13 colonies will join you then... make sure you maintain friendly relationships with them until then..." yeah, sure... once my backstabbing protectorate is all occupied by my noble troops i sure made sure we maintained 'friendly relationships'. Guess what, I occupy all the US provinces, the faction is destroyed message pops up, and... I STILL have the mission "conquer x provinces and maybe the 13 colonies will join you then"... Seems like a bug to me. Oh, yes, all the time I was clubbing them up, the tooltip hovering over their provinces suggested they were my 'protectorate'. Hmm... THEY declared war on me.