Quote Originally Posted by todorp
In my current Protugal V/h/Vh campaign the two provinces Sicily has 4 half stack fleets. I have 21 provinces and cant afford 3 ships. The AI is cheating on a gross scale :)
Or maybe certain factions are just tilted more towards naval production in the campaign AI. Fairly early in my current campaign, I noticed Venice was wandering around the Med with big (half stack) fleets, although the ships were crappy quality. Venice should be aggressive that way, and probably Sicily too... definitely Spain, Portugal, Denmark, England.

I noticed England was also pumping out a lot of ships, even though they're not actually doing that well as a faction, and I don't see that those ships are helping them any. They're broke and haven't expanded past their starting provinces. So this may be a case where, if the AI is programmed to pump out ships because England was a strong naval power historically, it's counter-productive to their current position in the game. Well, at least it's good pirate fodder.... helps keep the pirates off my back.