Proof of AI amphibious/landing force!!!!

[Linkster2o]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2EuPhalwdc
The Above link is to my video of a Turkish Fleet, complete with an amphibious task force!
Its from my Prussian Camp., i'm at peace with the turks, so I don't know where the heck the fleet is going, maybe malta....

[Pickle_mole]

i think the thing is that they load to few and rarely land properly but i havent played since this new patch

[Linkster2o]

Well the main thing that really surpised me was the fact that they had a full stack on the fleet

[eatme]

Well congrats on such a rarity -)

[Emperor Randolph]

I still don't believe it.

[AngraMainyu]

I've seen this two or three times. Problem is, that AI never (in my experience) disembarks the land army. It keeps it on the ships for ever. Once they even occupied my port in Caribbean with such amphibious force, but it has been done just by moving the fleet into empty port and the land army staid on board.

[Celebriton]

I got France disembark on New England and attacking my unguarded Boston, while I'm attacked by Cherokee at the south. I just see once, I'm playing Maratha now, and I'm still waiting for European army landed on my land. But it never happen until now.

CA should make some importance objective to the game AI, to capture several importance provinces in India and North America. So the AI faction will send more troops and more often to those provinces and takes war to native factions and another European factions who also landed and want to capture the same area.

[AngraMainyu]

There are several threads by now about whether someone seen valid attempt of naval invasion or not. I think in current state it is unimportant if they do or do not happen. They will be functional part of the game at the point where they happen with such rate that players will actually have to worry and garrison remote islands (impact on economy). Being such a rarity that many never seen it attempted and few fortunate are posting screen shots or videos like they find Blue Mauritius, the naval invasions may as well don't exists at all.

[Brusilov]

In my Russian campaign I am fairly sure that the British landed and took Norway. It wasn't gifted to them as Norway was an independant state at the time. I have yet to see a naval invasion.

[Linkster2o]

I've also seen the results of invasions by sea before, in my campaign the French took over Sri Lanka after I knocked out the dutch.

[Shabby_Ronin]

Thanks for the video

Maybe I'm in the minority, but I rarely if ever pay attention to what is going on too far beyond my borders. I could overlook a lot.

[Cougman21]

I had the Spanish land and take the Bahamas from me while playing the British. They only invaded with 3 units though. Bowmen, militia, and a cannon unit i believe.

[BHunterSEAL]

You know what I don't get? AI never had a problem with naval landings in Civilization, and that came out well over a decade ago. So it's not like the coding "put units on ships. move ships. get units off ships. have units kill stuff" would be a groundbreaking achievement. (I realize that this is a gross oversimplification and likely has little bearing on real game programming, but you get the idea).

I'm new to the series though, did naval invasions happen in the prior TW games? If so, with good frequency and some hint of underlying strategy?

[antaeus]

I'm new to the series though, did naval invasions happen in the prior TW games? If so, with good frequency and some hint of underlying strategy?

yep.. in both rome and medieval 2 they were integral and happened regularly. ai factions had no problem crossing water, and many factions built empires on multiple land masses from scratch, or in the case of medieval, even managed to choose to go on crusade using fleets rather than marching across land.. you always had to be aware of naval invasions... in particular if you built your empire across the trade routes of sardinia/corsica/sicily etc.. because they were invasion magnets... turn after turn.

[mightyfenrir]

yep.. in both rome and medieval 2 they were integral and happened regularly. ai factions had no problem crossing water, and many factions built empires on multiple land masses from scratch, or in the case of medieval, even managed to choose to go on crusade using fleets rather than marching across land.. you always had to be aware of naval invasions... in particular if you built your empire across the trade routes of sardinia/corsica/sicily etc.. because they were invasion magnets... turn after turn.

Word, and, if you had the original medieval and got the expansion pack (Viking Invasion) the vikings were almost entirely sea based, they had that section of Norway, but everything they did involved long ships and invasion by sea. It's just odd how it got so lost from this game and I think that's why so many people are aggravated so much about it.

[Aeneas Veneratio]

BhunterSeal. The Brutii, the Scipii and the Cathagenians used alot of naval landings in Rome. The Brutii had to launch several of naval invasions in order to take over the Greeks, while the two others did regular fighting for Sicily and other islands in the Western Med. The Britons were also famous for sending large armies across the channel, especially in one of my campaigns as the Julii (I had taken all their mainland possessions), where they attacked Northern Gaul every 5 turn.
In M2 I have seen some battles for Corsica and Sardinia between France, Spain, Milan, Sicily (Normans) and the Moors, but the AI never used ships during crusades. There was also the odd Spanish/Portuguese invasion of Ireland for some people.

On topic: Never seen a naval invasion in ETW as of yet and I have been monitoring the whole world closely to find evidens of such an event.

[uzi716]

I wont believe it until I see it...

Does this mod download itself or do I have do I have to do it? If it downloads itself how can I turn it off?
-Thanks

[Sir Winston Churchill]

Don't get all excited over a single naval invasion, I have yet to see one in my 100+ turns of warfare.

[BHunterSEAL]

I guess I just don't understand how they managed (evidently) to get it right in the previous games but not in this one. Obviously, real-time naval combat was touted as one of this game's most important and unique improvements, but the lack of naval invasions makes control of the seas absolutely worthless except in the case of piracy.

[Steeltrap]

In my Ottoman campaign, Spain has captured one of the Barbary provinces (directly below Sicily). As they are at war, I assume this was done via naval invasion.

Spain now has the province to the West of Egypt. Barbary has the next 2 to the west, and Morocco has captured one to its East. As far as I can see, the only way that distribution could have happened was by naval invasion by Spain.