AI doesnt use boats to move troops

[Leonidas]

Is it just my experience or does the AI not bother to transport it army via ships anymore?

[Valdincan]

I just sank a fleet carrying 578 soldiers. I'd say that you just haven't seen it happen yet.

[shifty157]

I barely managed to thwart a full scale naval invasion of my home lands. I was really wondering when the Portugese started amassing their fleets so i sent a spy (with an army in tow) to check it out. I arrived just as two full stacks of enemies did as well. Luckily for me they ran out of movement points a few steps away from the ships so i attacked and scattered them there.

Had i not caught them in time things would have gone very very poorly for me.

[Quickening]

I sank a Danish fleet which was carrying their Princess across the sea

[nameless]

I've seen Venicians, Portugese, and French fleets carry full stacks towards the Holy Land. I was the Sicilians and controlled most of the islands. To my surprise, some of the ships stopped by several of my islands to pick up a couple of mercenaries before moving on. Even though it was a crusade the fact that they decided to go by sea is impressive.

[Jagger]

The pope requested a crusade on Toulouse. My crusade army was joined by a large Polish crusader army. When Toulouse fell, a Polish navy showed up a few turns later and took them home....

I was impressed...

[Zoltan]

Same thing here,

Just yesterday I was on a tight race to jerusalem with a venitian army, on the land road. My crusade beat theirs there by an inch, so after a few turns considering their next step, they went back up to Antioch where a large fleet picked them up. Neat.

[Jimmytwohand]

Excellent! something else that will impress me about this game. I never saw the AI use boats in any other TW game so i always refrained from sea raids and rapid transport. Although i havent seen it happen yet, im glad its in.

[Spartiate]

The Egyptians have a habit of shipping troops up from their heartland and dropping them off near Antioch.The first time i noticed this i ruled from Gaza up as far as Adana and thought it was a rather neat tactical manouvre to get behind my lines.The next time i noticed it i was playing another campaign and had a merchant in the same region which the Egyptians ruled this time and they were still doing the same thing, leading me to believe that Egyptians in the middle ages were rather lazy.

[darsalon]

That's odd, I've never seen it use boats to move troops about. It's especially the case in the Med when I've NEVER seen the ai take Rhodes, Corsica or Sardinia.

It's one of the reasons I like to play Scotland or England as it allows me to be pretty secure on the British isles whilst also carrying out amphibious assaults across to northern Europe.

Oh well, better learn to be a bit more careful defending my lands in the future.

[Von Nanega]

The AI sure does!!! Playing as Spain the beancounting Venetians dropped a full stack in my lands, and momentarily decared war on me. Too bad for them that I had just built a full stack to go eradicate France! But I have seen France, Venice and Milan do it.

[ViolentRebellion]

As the British around turn 95, I had eliminated the Scots and the French and was on my way to taking out the Spanish when out of nowhere, the Sicilians launched a landing rivaling dday with their King leading a full stack on Toulouse. The next turn they moved on Marsaille with a different army from the East.

Needless to say, I was both surprised and pissed off.

[Jacque Schtrapp]

I actually get quite paranoid about the number of "neutral" navies swarming around my shores. For the most part they are there to pick up diplomats and ferry them off to some other place in order to attempt more useless briberies. However, I have seen quite a few seaborn invasions. I will echo what someone said earlier though, I have never seem the AI take Rhodes, Corsica, or Sardinia and this is after playing 100+ turns in 5 campaigns.

[Zeth]

I've noticed the same thing. I only do it with a large fleet. During my first 10 turns of play I got a ship sank with around 600 men on it.

[Jagger]

I am playing Venice, h/vh, and the naval challenge is a whole new ballgame. I can afford enough of a navy to control my waters but the AI is constantly challenging my navy. I am very careful about shipping anyone by sea without a solid naval fleet. The Egyptians have been particularly aggressive.

The more I play this game, the more I like what the dev team has done with it.

[Vlad Tzepes]

I've just sunk an Egyptian fleet transporting a Jihad. This drove all the other Muslim factions mad.

And the AI fleets? Thay keep coming after me. In RTW, after a large and painful mop-up operation, the seas were open for the rest of the game. Not anymore...

[Jediknight73]

Excellent! something else that will impress me about this game. I never saw the AI use boats in any other TW game so i always refrained from sea raids and rapid transport. Although i havent seen it happen yet, im glad its in.

in RTW patched to 1.5 (with BI installed) naval invasion happened ALLOT!