Naval Invasions

[HIGGUM]

Anyone ever seen any happen? You have to be certain that they weren't traded. I've played over a 100 hours and have never seen any.

This was meant to be an age of colonisation, and invasions by sea seem to be non-existent which is pretty ridiculous considering they were able to do this in Medieval 2 (after a patch I believe).

[DMC-Ice]

I've seen the Marathan Confederacy take colonies in the Americas. Jamaica and Newfoundland. I wouldn't know if they traded for it tho, I kicked the Marathans but didn't get the nation destroyed message so I started looking around and saw they had these 2 islands.

I loaded back a couple of games but even b4 I declared war on the Marathan around 1730 they had those Island and they were at that time at war with both the Spanish and French. So I dunno might have been a fluke tho never saw it again.

[Mithradates]

I've seen the Marathan Confederacy take colonies in the Americas. Jamaica and Newfoundland. I wouldn't know if they traded for it tho

Most likely, I saw in 1706 the French at Ceylon and the UP at French Guyana, they trade with each other but I never saw any of them to actually invade by sea

[Theseus1234]

the AI isn't coded with naval invasions, it just sees the ocean and thinks "i can't go there", despite the fact that ships are there

[cherryfunk]

Definitely a huge problem that needs to be addressed by CA...

[Sphere]

I've had the Venetians load up an 3/4 stackl and sail up to my coast line right next to Venice (I captured it), but they can't seem to unload. I don't think there is any AI coding allowing them to do it, though some coding is in place to get them to try.

[Kinjo]

Anyone ever seen any happen?

Nope

[Sailor]

Nope.

Also, when I've received other nations' islands in trades, and we have military access, they never bring a ship by to pick up their units or disband them.

After taking all of Britain except London, I got all of their American regions from them in the peace negotiations. So they had about 10 half stack armies wandering around in America with nowhere to go for the rest of the game. And even though they joined my wars against the Iroquois and other natives, they never used those armies to fight them.

[x0teutonic0x]

The lack of naval invasions is a well known bug in ETW..not sure why there needed to be another thread.

[Arctander]

The lack of naval invasions is a well known bug in ETW..not sure why there needed to be another thread.

It was news to me teut, not all of us read every post. So maybe it's well known to you but some of us poor noobs might benefit from the post.

Either way, I've never seen it either and if it is a known bug, hopefully they fix it soon, because that is a HUGE imbalance/limitation to the way it all plays out.

[Sir Winston Churchill]

known bug, AI is too stupid to know how to make a naval invasion...even though they did in the past TW releases...

Stupid I know.

[priam11]

Anyone ever seen any happen?

You have a better chance of seeing the Loch Ness, the Yetti and the Sasquatch all on the same weekend than you have of seeing naval invasions in this game.

[Grimstoned]

Did CA ever say why ....or how they released the game with this HUGE issue?

[-=Justinian=-]

Did CA ever say why ....or how they released the game with this HUGE issue?

Becase we are the beta testers lol

[mp84]

Anyone ever seen any happen? You have to be certain that they weren't traded. I've played over a 100 hours and have never seen any.

This was meant to be an age of colonisation, and invasions by sea seem to be non-existent which is pretty ridiculous considering they were able to do this in Medieval 2 (after a patch I believe).

You may wanna look into Darth's Mod (Which is probably the most popular ETW Mod at the moment)
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=240571

In this thread:

I can confirm that they do use naval landings now, to a certain degree, it's most certainly improved though. I've seen two or three cases where the AI has transported troops between short distances in fleets. Nothing more than that yet, but I've only played a few turns with the mod so far. Really good job!

It's a start!

[Sailor]

But in his release notes for v0.2 Darth says he doesn't think there is much he can do and that it's hard coded. Only time will tell. But if it can't be modded, let's all hope CA patches it.

[mp84]

But in his release notes for v0.2 Darth says he doesn't think there is much he can do and that it's hard coded. Only time will tell. But if it can't be modded, let's all hope CA patches it.

He also said there may be hope too, and it's confirmed with a screenshot already, check it out:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...240571&page=29

MP

[tkubic46]

can't someone easily mod fix this?

[onetthome]

I've never seen the A.I invade by see in Empire or Medieval II. I am always England on the highest Campaign difficulty (in both) and I never have to put troops in my capital to protect it.

[tlatoani]

I've never seen the A.I invade by see in Empire or Medieval II. I am always England on the highest Campaign difficulty (in both) and I never have to put troops in my capital to protect it.

In medieval 2 it happened a lot in very hard difficulty at least ,I remember when playing with moors most of the italian factions never ceased to attack by sea,also with Spain I remember getting invaded by sea by the english with full stack armies.