I hate Naval Battles

[Vice]

I am sooooo sick of the annoying and worthless naval battles in RTW. Everytime I destroy roman ships or really anyone in the world who has some power...They just train up more and more ships. Its bad enough you have to auto battle them all to begin with. Also I hate my port getting blockaded just because my ships are there being retrained...

The only good things about ships are that they obviously can transport your men! Other then that I hate HATE naval battles and everything about it in RTW! At least in ETW you can fight them and in the new Shogun game as well!

/end rant

[empr guy]

erm, were you expecting your enemies not to attack you with boats or make more after the war starts? not controling them is a bit of a drawback but unlike empire you will destroy that one brimrime without loosing 17 quinquerims. (yes i know i spelled that wrong)

[ninjabanana]

The most annoying thing about naval battles in RTW is the fact that when your fleet wins the battle, they only bother to destroy like 30% of the enemy ships. This means the rest of the fleet will come back to piss you off. This makes it feel like the AI is just spamming ships from every harbor, while in fact they always seem to have a lot ships even though you defeat them all the time just because your own fleets are too stupid to actually destroy them.

[HanatielHawk]

The most annoying thing about naval battles in RTW is the fact that when your fleet wins the battle, they only bother to destroy like 30% of the enemy ships. This means the rest of the fleet will come back to piss you off. This makes it feel like the AI is just spamming ships from every harbor, while in fact they always seem to have a lot ships even though you defeat them all the time just because your own fleets are too stupid to actually destroy them.

Never had any serious problems with naval battles. In the beginning I hate the pirates attacking me all the time, but that will vanish if I create one big fleet. The fleet will attract other fleets and especially pirates to attack me while I know I'll win. And if I do so, most of the time when the coast is clear, I'll split the fleet into more, smaller fleets (when I've retrained them). And then blockade the enemy's ports so no ship is able to attack me again.

Only when the AI is becoming a threat to my expansion on sea I'll try to become a naval power, and I never failed in becoming that By the way when you place a bit of ships distanced from each other like one in Kydonia, other in Croton, Sparta etc. You can sink the enemy ship easily with a "pinball-effect". (Attack, win, they retreat, attack again when in range with another ship, win, retreat again, attack when in range with another ship, win, sunk.)

[ninjabanana]

Yeah, I have multiple fleets just because of that "pinball-effect". It's just that the enemy fleet always seems to manage to retreat just out of reach :p