Post-patch AI seaborne invasions

[IsItStillThere]

I'm not sure if this was enhanced by the patch or not, but after patching I've noticed the AI is actually conducting seaborne invasions!!

Venice invaded Rhodes (an island) by sea when I was Byzantium

Sicily attacked a couple of African provinces when I was playing the Moors by sea.

In general, it seemed like the AI in strategy computer games have been pretty poor in the past at moving armies by sea.

This is the kind of progress I love to see

[Shahed]

Yeap ! This is EXCELLENT !

I got a Sicillian Crusade landing by sea, and a Polish one. Great work !

[maestro]

I was really happy when last night, with no warning whatsoever, the Moors turned up on a boat on the shores of Brittany and seiged Rennes. I was elated. Well, until they sat there for 4 turns, allowing me to bring in leet armies to reinforce my totally week force at Rennes. Seriously, they'd have taken the city no problem if they'd have attacked but they didn't

[Handel]

Actually after you play a little you will see this is NOT the progress you should like to see.

Example:
Playing France in new after patch campaign.
1. English and Sctish armies are disembarking at Bruges and Antwerpen. Then the fleets blockade the ports and the armies siege the cities.
2. Next turn. Diplomats come and ask for ceasefire. I add trade rights and demand 2000 florins. They happily agree. I could ask more, but they don't have the money so they will refuse. The armies lift siege and embark the fleets which lift the blockade and sail away.
3. Next turn. Fleets with english and scots armies arrive at Bruges and Antwerpen. The armies disembark and... read again from #1...

[PureFodder]

Milan are playing a wonderful game of disembark next to my castle, see the castle is too well defended, re-embark, rinse, repeat. As for sea invasions, I've had to all but wipe Sicily out just to keep their hands off Northern Africa. Unfortunately they don't seem to expect you to return the favour, the city they came from will often be left almost unguarded with their army several turns away...

[Vlad Tzepes]

1. Sicily occupied Ajaccio and Cagliari long before I (playing as French) thought to go there. Wow I was surprised to find them happily growing there!

2. Sicily just disembarked on Valencia shores and get ready to attack.

3. Byzantium keeps landing larger and larger stacks on Rhodes and is sieging my fortress there.

4. Portugal landed troops near Cernavron (sp?) and besieged the Scots (which, by the way, obliterated the English).

I'm not feeling safe anymore! Now anybody could attack you anywhere!

This is great.

[Niccolo Machiavelli]

Yup - it's fixed - I don't remember reading anything about it in the patch readme, so I was quite disappointed when I read that. When I played my first HRE campaign post patch, I couldn't believe my eyes to see a scottish army besieging Bruges - I first thought that some scottish diplomat probably bribed some continental rebels, but the I was overjoied to see more and more naval invasions.

Really great, as this was one of my major gripes.

[Shahed]

BTW Corsica has been invaded by the Pope himself. lol.

[John Johnston]

I'm playing a campaign on VH/VH as the Moors, and I've been attacked from the sea an astonishing number of times, more than a dozen in sixty or seventy turns played. Almost all the attacks have been full stack led by general, some of them have disembarked several stacks over a period of turns. I'm most impressed.

On the other hand, when my own seaborne forces turned up at Cagliari and Ajaccio they were only held by rebels; within a couple of turns of my conquering them, both the French and the Papacy turned up with angry full stacks wanting to conquer them. This seemed a bit off for two reasons - firstly, if they had the troops and boats available to attempt to conquer those provinces from my fairly heavy garrison, they surely could've pwned the rebels and bagged themselves a couple of lucrative bases, and secondly, how did they *know* I'd suddenly come into possession? Although the latter could just be my underestimating the computer's perfectly legitimate intelligence gathering, rather than a sneaky trick.

All in all I'm very happy with it, niggles aside.

[angelviper]

I'm not sure if this was enhanced by the patch or not, but after patching I've noticed the AI is actually conducting seaborne invasions!!

Venice invaded Rhodes (an island) by sea when I was Byzantium

Sicily attacked a couple of African provinces when I was playing the Moors by sea.

In general, it seemed like the AI in strategy computer games have been pretty poor in the past at moving armies by sea.

This is the kind of progress I love to see

what a impressive progress~! huh? i will take it totally cynical joke if u play more and experience the SEA-invasion up to reach the last impression that it's just another suck. good luck

should seal it off, waiting for THE REAL PATCH to fix bugs.