EB 1.1 AI and Nval invasions

**Macilrille** · 10-02-2009, 23:40

It did it!!! A lot!!

Not conquering Messana as Rome I had peace with Carthage until 189 BC (I am faithful to allies though I know they will backstab me at some point). Carthage had conquered it and after I broke the back of the Grey Death (that owed everything after killing the Ptolomoi)) they advanced to the Nile as well. Iberia was mine as was Greece and the Balcans to Byzantium.

45 Regions in hand I was merely waiting to reform the army and occasionally fighting off AS and Gallic incursions (you got to love Cretan Archers against unarmoured barbarians crossing bridges), when the evil, nasty and scheeming Punes launched an attack on Rhegion across the straits of Messana, and...
A naval invasion of Crete!!!

Further, I sank four (!!!) Carthaginian fleets with large armies aboard the two following turns (my navy had grown large for RP reasons and experienced fighting AS and pirates even to the Botnian Bay).

That, however, would be five invasions/reinforcements by sea in EB 1.1!

Never seen or heard of that before. Carthage sails a bit and might invade once or twice, but five invasion fleets + armies! I loved it

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Just wanted to say that, now for bed and sleep. Sleep well all and have a nice weekend.

**DaciaJC** · 10-02-2009, 23:42

The crucial question: what .exe do you use?

Five naval invasions... nice. Enjoy your weekend as well.

**Opressor** · 10-03-2009, 04:57

What's the most ridiculous naval invasion you've seen? Like I dunno, Lusotann invading Anatolia?

**Macilrille** · 10-03-2009, 17:46

Good Gods!! The KH launched a fleet loaded with troops from Rhodes towards their old home as well (the weakest faction declaring war on the strongest...). It literally teems with naval invasions compared to what we are used to. And both AS, Carthage and KH has built fleets that I had to subdue, so my own fleets are actually seeing action agsinst real enemies, not just pirates and RP.

I have not changed the exe, it is the usual RTW-EB 1.1 exe.

**Finn MacCumhail** · 10-09-2009, 06:48

Lucky you are. I don't know, but in my Romani campaign the only faction that has fleet is mine. I haven't seen even pirates. In fact Carthage had fleet, but after I conquered them no fleet at all!
In other campaigns (exe 1.2) KH, Karthage and Ptolies do use fleet to conquer islands, but thats it.

The most weird naval invasion I saw in Med 2 when Scotland lived in former Mauritanian castle in modern Spain. And as their motherland was conquered by English army, they have found new homeland there.

**IrishHitman** · 10-09-2009, 08:44

Carthage sent a naval force when I conquered Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica in my current Romani campaign, but I haven't heard anything from them since...

**Skuda** · 10-09-2009, 13:55

I think fleet in EB is much too costly. I lowered costs both for construction and upkeep twice and the richest factons - Carthage and Ptolemies started building navy though they have still no more than two-three ships.

**Subotan** · 10-09-2009, 14:09

[QUOTE=Skuda;2350238]I think fleet in EB is much too costly.QUOTE]

Fleets were costly in real life. Each card represents a fleet of ships.

**seienchin** · 10-09-2009, 18:07

Originally Posted by Skuda

I think fleet in EB is much too costly. I lowered costs both for construction and upkeep twice and the richest factons - Carthage and Ptolemies started building navy though they have still no more than two-three ships.

Thats the point. And the abscence of military ports in most of the regions.
Its a real gamebreaker. I hope EBII will improve in that point.
PS: The exe. has nothing to do with the naval invasions.

**Skullheadhq** · 10-10-2009, 10:27

The exe has to do with it

**seienchin** · 10-10-2009, 23:03

Originally Posted by Skullheadhq

The exe has to do with it

Dont make me laugh

When was the last time you played vanilla rome.exe???
There are naval invasion all the time.

The strat map Ai in Vanilla is lightyears ahead of EB. Only the strat map AI of course

**DaciaJC** · 10-11-2009, 00:12

That may be so (I wouldn't know, I haven't played vanilla in quite some time), but that isn't what we're discussing. There are numerous claims that EB used with BI or ALX.exe produces more naval invasions than just EB used with default RTW.exe.