AI unable to use ships for transports;

**PseRamesses** · 02-04-2007, 11:25

Now I´ve seen this behaviour enough to state that the AI doesn´t understand how to use ships for transporting units: Milan walks a crusade from Genoa through France, Spain and N africa to reach the crusade target Tunis. Same thing with Venice and Sicily.
Has this behaviour been corrected with the 1.1 patch?

**sapi** · 02-04-2007, 11:28

Yes.

With 1.1 applied the ai will regularly launch naval invasions.

If anything, they do it a bit too much.

**pevergreen** · 02-04-2007, 11:30

They do...

Portugal has no reason to invade allied England, and then walk the full stack army down to Portugal again...

**Mithradates** · 02-04-2007, 14:25

They just plain attacked me i was allied to them, they seem to have a fixation on Canarvan Castle.

**HoreTore** · 02-04-2007, 15:52

Only naval invasion I have EVER seen, is Spain launching a crusade on me by ship....

**JCoyote** · 02-04-2007, 16:22

I see AI factions doing it to each other all the time. And I've killed plenty of enemy ships that had agents or armies aboard.

**Calavera** · 02-05-2007, 17:07

Originally Posted by sapi

Yes.

With 1.1 applied the ai will regularly launch naval invasions.

If anything, they do it a bit too much.

True. In my last game as Portugal I was under constant threat from invasions by Sicily, and both England and Scotland landed big stacks in the north, although it was 10-15 turns before they did anything other than stand there.

Oddly, I don't think the ai uses them for Crusades & Jihads. Or at least thats my explanation for seeing the Moors launching a Jihad on Constantanople, and then trying to get there by marching on a path through France, Italy & the Balkans. Must have needed the exercise...

**HoreTore** · 02-05-2007, 18:35

What files are changed for the Naval Invasion stuff? I'm thinking I might be running the game with a modified prepatch file, thus not having the naval AI of the patch...

**EKKM** · 02-05-2007, 18:35

Hi all,
Playing as Spain on M/M (first time playing any TW game) and I took Corsica and Sardinia around turn 35 or so. On turn 50ish Sicily invaded both islands while I was engaged in a war with the Milanese and Moors. Neither the Moors or Milan has done a naval invasion to date but Sicily seems to re-launch one every time I retake the islands.

I decided to let them camp out their armies on those islands and navally invade Palermo instead, I figure I'm ahead on the deal so far. I haven't been able to focus my full attention on them due to the large armies I have to maintain in Northern Italy, but Milan is almost done so soon I'll be able to focus my full attention on those upstarts.