Stupid Sailors Retreating Way Out Of Their Way...

[Sir Winston Churchill]

Scenario: Prussian fleet consisting of two brigs is attacked by Swedish fleet just near Berlin Harbor.

Koenig says not to try it, they have 1 6th rate and a sloop and there is no chance to win with the crappy naval balancing (really, since when has a 6th rate been taken down by two brigs, not to mention with a sloop on their side? the 6th rate could easily take on 3 brigs without sinking).


Prussian fleet, instead of taking the short route and taking safe haven in the nearest harbor, nary 50Km away, sails all the way to the little cape right next to AMSTERDAM.


Please explain how do I fix this annoying, stupid little glitch/bug/idiocy-of-the-AI problem?

[rubenandthejets]

The easiest way is to stop playing ETW.

Pathfinding is a real shocker in ETW. I gave up on ETW and play it once every couple of weeks now and even with a slew of mods it's just too bland and too full of WTF? moments to keep me interested.

I think the pathfinding is hard coded and beyond the reach of the mod teams, but correct me if I'm wrong.

Just go back to one of the really cool mods for the earlier games. I've been having a blast with "For King or Country" (M2TW) and "Extended Greek Modified" for RTW.

[Blofeld2k]

I feel your pain, retreating has always been treated as running away without any thought or reasoning. In the world of CA, organized retreats doesn't exist.

What they could have done (if they cared) is to have only ambushed units behave the way they behave today and have you control the retreat of other retreats, but that would require a CA that cared what their customers think.

Maybe it will be implemented in another 5 titles or so, when the game has evolved enough to handle such a concept. Just as they did with the general's radius.