As Poland neither Áustria or Lithuania or Bohemia are drilling
This looks broken. What IS going on?
This looks broken. What IS going on?
AI not drilling?
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AI is more cautious on the new patch, they probably have neighbors with CBs on them which aren't truce locked, so in theory could attack. The AI tries to avoid being caught out with a drilling army on 0.25 morale. WAD as of the 1.33 patch, though maybe it too could use some more balancing.
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Also AI learned how to manage their budget lately. Maybe drilling armies has low prio for them, so they spend money in other ways.
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They do still drill. Even on borders. I saw the Bahmanis do it in my recent Dehli to Hindustan campaign - but I think @bokorthedust might be on to something, because at the time, they had a truce with both Vijayanagar and me, who were their only two neighbours at the time.
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Though I cannot recall where it was posted specifically, the developers confirmed that the AI will lower unit maintenance to help balance budgets and consequently it drills its armies less. You may notice that the Ottomans, for instance, have less army professionalism than usual.
This sentence marks the end of what I KNOW and gets into speculation.
If I had to guess, I would assume that the AI only drills now with large surpluses when it can afford to do so and wants to buff its army, since it mentions in the dev diaries and changelog that the AI considers drill in combat and army quality now, which it in turn uses to interpret its probability of success in wars. I assume the AI raises unit maintenance but does not drill if it feels it has a decent chance of being attacked, like the HRE minors that are constantly surrounded by rivals and allies of rivals. However, the AI still will not drill in this instance since it lower morale and raises unit maintenance, which makes its armies both expensive and vulnerable. Thus I would only anticipate large countries drilling in peace time with stable economies (for the most part).
This sentence marks the end of what I KNOW and gets into speculation.
If I had to guess, I would assume that the AI only drills now with large surpluses when it can afford to do so and wants to buff its army, since it mentions in the dev diaries and changelog that the AI considers drill in combat and army quality now, which it in turn uses to interpret its probability of success in wars. I assume the AI raises unit maintenance but does not drill if it feels it has a decent chance of being attacked, like the HRE minors that are constantly surrounded by rivals and allies of rivals. However, the AI still will not drill in this instance since it lower morale and raises unit maintenance, which makes its armies both expensive and vulnerable. Thus I would only anticipate large countries drilling in peace time with stable economies (for the most part).
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The AI is still drilling troops. You can easily see it, whenever you integrate a vassal and inherit their troops. These troops will almost always have some level of drill, although it's not as much as it used to be in previous patches.