AI idiot (France vs. England)

[Keevan]

(google translate, sorry)
England declares war on me, I'm Ireland and my French ally comes to my rescue.
We manage to destroy most of the English fleet, an exceptional event!
But at this point the French began to tranship 10k troops at a time across the Channel against the British 33k waiting on the shores ...
Absurd !!
Meanwhile, with my fleet are forced to face the British fleet remained to prevent the Brits cross the strait that connects Ireland with Scotland (conquered by the British); the French fleet arrived near the battle, then turns and walks away !!
My fleet is destroyed ...
Shortly after France agreed to enter into another war and its fleet is immediately wiped out by Hansa.
The British march on Ireland...
Amazing, totally destroyed after a war almost won !!

 

[MeatPirate]

That's funny, usually it's the British hopelessly shipping 10K stacks onto a 30-stack. Role reversal is fun.

Seriously though, it would be nice for allies/vassals in war to take objectives more seriously. In AoW you can assign them but they mostly ignore that. There's really no reason for France to be invading England in this war, the stack should have been going to Ireland to defend it in the defensive war.

 

[yerm]

France should have annexed Ireland so England could not, ww2 style!

 

[nicechinos]

(google translate, sorry)
England declares war on me, I'm Ireland and my French ally comes to my rescue.
We manage to destroy most of the English fleet, an exceptional event!
But at this point the French began to tranship 10k troops at a time across the Channel against the British 33k waiting on the shores ...
Absurd !!
Meanwhile, with my fleet are forced to face the British fleet remained to prevent the Brits cross the strait that connects Ireland with Scotland (conquered by the British); the French fleet arrived near the battle, then turns and walks away !!
My fleet is destroyed ...
Shortly after France agreed to enter into another war and its fleet is immediately wiped out by Hansa.
The British march on Ireland...
Amazing, totally destroyed after a war almost won !!

Yeah, that's quite strange. They buffed naval AI in general somehow missing "landing into a greater army with -2 crossing" part. If I recall correctly it did evaluate relative chances and got back to the boat if these were not good enough.

 

[Nikolaz72]

Odd thing is, I see AI landing 10K stacks on 30K other AI stacks. But if I have as much as an equal stack on the coast they disengage.

Is there some sort of code that makes it work against players but allows them stupid against AI to protect Island nations?

 

[Keevan]

There's really no reason for France to be invading England in this war, the stack should have been going to Ireland to defend it in the defensive war.

yep!
and the british fleet must help irish fleet in a battle that can be won easily (8 irish ships + 32 french ships VS 8 british ships)
otherwise it becomes very difficult to play small states, if you can not count on the help of your powerful allies