AI attacks fleet with army

**motaboy** · April 07, 2016, 08:17 AM

Hi there,
many times the AI tries to attack my fleets with a regular army. And yes, they all get smashed to the ground of the sea

Sometimes I block a harbor of an enemy city, the AI sends their army to attack my fleet with the help of some garnison ships, that's ok. But I retreat my fleet (also I could have won) and the enemy transport ships follow me into the deep sea. And yes, they all get smashed to the ground of the sea

Also everytime the AI is trying to invade some area by sea they prefer to attack any fleet around instead of making it as quick as possible to the next terreain area. I'd like to have some real land battles, but I just sunk the complete enemy army to the ground without having a choise.

I know that's a problem in vanila game too, but maybe the great modders here can change EA's nonsense

Like a script "no transport ships without navy support"? That'd be great.

**Scuta** · April 07, 2016, 10:05 AM

Dont think its possible.

The best you can do is retreat from those battles to give the AI a chance. Sucks, but pretty sure its hard coded.

**svisvisvisvi** · April 07, 2016, 10:10 AM

Syracuse is the worst about it. Every time they form a stack it tries to assault Cathago right across the water instead of walking over to the other side of Sicily and trying to secure the island.

**Dresden** · April 07, 2016, 12:48 PM

Some of this is not something we can fix. Also, our transport changes have made it worse because armies are pretty much crap in sea battles. This is something we always wanted to have, because transports should be very easy to defeat by professional navies.

Sadly, the byproduct is what you described.

**motaboy** · April 07, 2016, 03:10 PM

Thanks for your replies, was worth a try

Now that you mentioned it Dresden, I remember getting my navies asses kicked by transport ships in vanila game (long time ago...). And yes, it was disturbing and unrealistic as hell because it made building ships unnecassery.
I can live with the sadly byproduct. It's quite fun crushing a whole army with some battle ships and see them drown^^

**Scuta** · April 07, 2016, 03:22 PM

I like how we have it now, too.

Navies shouldnt be outclassed by transports.

If i feel the AI has made a stupid mistake attacking me at sea with its land army, which will cripple it, i usually just retreat.

Its a shame to miss out on a fun field battle later because you sunk the army at sea.

**JCB206** · April 07, 2016, 04:59 PM

Originally Posted by Scuta

I like how we have it now, too.

Navies shouldnt be outclassed by transports.

If i feel the AI has made a stupid mistake attacking me at sea with its land army, which will cripple it, i usually just retreat.

Its a shame to miss out on a fun field battle later because you sunk the army at sea.

I agree. Love the new transports and their weaknesses. Wish the AI would compute the transports as 0 in autocalc, that way they wouldn't attack. The AI is pretty good at attacking only when it has superiority.

**Sir_Pee_Alot** · April 07, 2016, 04:43 PM

What about transport ships can only go to sea via ports and takes 1/2 turns and can even let it cost some resources or money to sail out "maybe then the AI won't send army's to sea for a shortcut" and that would be a easy fix for swarming the sea everywhere...

**mattireye** · April 08, 2016, 02:30 AM

The best you can do is retreat from those battles to give

**motaboy** · April 08, 2016, 05:27 AM

yeah, I know I can retreat. But I can retreat only once, and it sometimes your fleet has low move-points and gets followed or you can't retreat for reasons (maybe an army of yours is nearby).