Amphibious landings-YES (well, sorta)

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See attached pic- I'm Danes, Scotland and England both landed 6-7 unit strong armies against me.



Now here is the caveat:
I THINK this has something to do with the fact that I land-bridge'd (i.e with one of those green arrow things) England with France; this, i suspect, gave the AI the nudge that the continent was open for assault, as it could see a clear way of re-inforcing any troops it landed on the mainland.

It did indeed do this- I made peace with England and the army in my territory turned on the Scottish one; it was defeated but intact, and a few turns later i saw re-inforcements coming up the coast from Bruges.

Later playing as England, I confirmed this AI behaviour:
Scotland sent three armies down through England and across the channel, over the aforementioned landbridge, to attack Bruges and Antwerp. It also re-inforced these by sea, and picked up one army that was stuck cos the Danes had captured Antwerp before it got there in time.

Also, the Danes landed an army right beside London- i was allied, so I suspect the intention was to capture Caernavon. However, i had killed a Danish spy two turns before, in London;my garrison was low right then, so it is possible the danish AI was working off old info- ie that london was easy,and it could break the alliance and kill my capital in one go.

So; success!

The above might sound like giving the AI too much credit; but it is sometimes quite devious! And there arehidden depths to this game, constantly.

I love it

HDD

[Lusted]

Erm, you do know that naval invasions happen all the time with patch 1.1 right?

[Headlocked]

ah.

yah just saw that thread.....




HDD

:edit: the landbridge definately makes a difference to the AIs sytragey- it concentrates more troops on one region, where as the 1.1 amphib assaults are more like 'take a chance' attacks. Might sound obvious.... :)