Originally Posted by
aaronp
A follow-up to my previous feedback. I'm a bit further in my campaign now and I've had several wars Carthage and the Areuakoi. I don't play without fog of war and I can't comment in-depth on the movements of the AI, but my enemies have fielded large armies and the level of aggression on hard CAI feels good. The AI seeks peace at appropriate times, too, though I did have carthage go to war immediately after asking for peace due to naval shenanigans. That's hardcoded isn't it? Maybe a problem for that memory hacking project I've been hearing about to solve.
Speaking of naval shenanigans, I'm definitely noticing a lot of tiny navies running around as I think Dooz mentioned in his thread, but so far I don't see this as a problem. Naval battles are basically pointless in this game, and I like the idea of it being more a game of maneuvering around rather than having large stacks duke it out. I haven't had to deal with them too much though since so far I've only used temporary transport fleets that get immediately disbanded.
The battle are dynamic, fun and altogether excellent. I have never been a huge fan of M2TW battles at all, but especially with the latest cav changes EBII has really found something that works.