Campaign AI is flawed

Having played Coalition for each faction I can honestly say that most of the time they stroll around doing not much, mainly Uk, Russia, Prussia and Ottomans. Uk is the worst, it does not protect its trading ports, sends a number of units to say London if occupied by French ships, then imediately takes them out again. Their trading portals in the north west, 4 of them in all, and they only occupy one of them. The English fleet is not very active, they keep army units in ships and do not disembark them.Every time GB is way bottom of the list. Austria always get whipped by France, hence France is too strong. This unbalances the game and not worth playing. The battles seem to be quite enjoyable but I dont go into these too often. BTW I play on normal.

Is there going to be a fix for this, or is there a mod to correct these anomolies? I have tried NOW but no changes in this respect.

try jossts U AI mod Universal AI pretty good... and campaign AI is ok usually just happens that sometimes you can end up with some stupid ai moves that leave it crippled... plus CA never really made sea invasions or handling of fleets a big priority for AI it seems... it's managable but not perfect

Originally Posted by TonyUK

Having played Coalition for each faction I can honestly say that most of the time they stroll around doing not much, mainly Uk, Russia, Prussia and Ottomans. Uk is the worst, it does not protect its trading ports, sends a number of units to say London if occupied by French ships, then imediately takes them out again. Their trading portals in the north west, 4 of them in all, and they only occupy one of them. The English fleet is not very active, they keep army units in ships and do not disembark them.Every time GB is way bottom of the list. Austria always get whipped by France, hence France is too strong. This unbalances the game and not worth playing. The battles seem to be quite enjoyable but I dont go into these too often. BTW I play on normal.

Is there going to be a fix for this, or is there a mod to correct these anomolies? I have tried NOW but no changes in this respect.

I'm pretty annoyed at the lack of AI strategy on trading nodes. CA have created the ultimate NTW cheat. You can occupy the bulk of the trade nodes with little hindrance and rake in the income Which is a pity because the British went on to sow up the world trade routes while the rest were fighting over parcels of dirt. The British domination of world trade was one major reasons for Napoleons eventual defeat.

If CA has let gamers down at any point on NTW, then this is it.

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try jossts U AI mod Universal AI pretty good... and campaign AI is ok usually just happens that sometimes you can end up with some stupid ai moves that leave it crippled... plus CA never really made sea invasions or handling of fleets a big priority for AI it seems... it's managable but not perfecttry jossts U AI mod Universal AI pretty good... and campaign AI is ok usually just happens that sometimes you can end up with some stupid ai moves that leave it crippled... plus CA never really made sea invasions or handling of fleets a big priority for AI it seems... it's managable but not perfect

I'm trying the UAI mod, overall it is an improvement in the Campaign AI especially since it brings in the peninsular war. But unfornately hasn't made much difference on trade node strategy.