AI walking armies through countries without access

[Tyber109]

Hello forums,

So far I am loving the demo, but in my two games as the Ottomans I've noticed the AI walking armies through my and other country's territory, the top offenders are Portugal/Castille/Aragon/England (might be more but I've only caught them).
Now I have a theory, it seems to happen after these countries finish a war in Northern Africa (mostly Morocco) so I'm thinking that instead of shipping their armies back they're just walking through Africa, Anatolia, and Europe. Oddly it's only 1,000 men either infantry of cavalry that walk through my territory. Even more odd is that England just walked their men to Constantinople and sat their until their navy came and got them. I just wanted to know if anyone else has seen this and I have a question.

If someone is marching through my territory without access shouldn't I get a casus belli or something? if not whats stopping me from marching into Syria and declaring war on the Mamluks once my armies are in position?

Thank you for your time.

 

[shakeled1]

It's likely the same fix they put into VIC2's heart of darkness where you can go through other's territory at the end of a war to get home so that you can't become marooned in other countries. I have no evidence of this though, just guessing.

 

[Cossack8559]

Experienced the same thing as Ottomans, had a small Spanish army randomly walking through my land from the south to north. They had no access or anything so no idea how they can just walk right through. We were not in any coalition wars together or anything, they had just made peace with some African countries though.

 

[Sn3ipen]

After a war finish and if there is no path home, you can do this. Its better then EU3 where the AI sometimes disband its army instead of sending boats to pick it up. It probably need some tweaking, tough.

 

[Diablosrouge]

They should initally find the closest coast and wait for a boat to pick them up, otherwise they'd just sit there and/or take some attrition penalty when they have no military access due to lack of rations?

 

[Tyber109]

I can understand being able to walk through the country you just had peace with but why would the ottomans or any country for that matter let armies through their territory after a war?

 

[Viperswhip]

I can understand being able to walk through the country you just had peace with but why would the ottomans or any country for that matter let armies through their territory after a war?

Ya, this is how it works in Divine Wind as well. It's not so bad, but then you have to ask yourself how they got there in the first place, maybe their cogs were sunk. There should be reparations or attrition or something for sure.