AI doesnt use boats to move troops

**shifty157** · 11-27-2006, 04:05

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** · 11-27-2006, 04:26

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

**nameless** · 11-27-2006, 06:10

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** · 11-27-2006, 07:03

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** · 11-27-2006, 08:52

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** · 11-27-2006, 10:32

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** · 11-27-2006, 12:52

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.

**Jediknight73** · 11-27-2006, 22:40

Originally Posted by 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.

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