Allies - The Short Bus Soldiers

[Susan1972]

What is wrong with allied AI? It's never been spectacular but it seems as it it's getting to HOI4 levels of uselessness. They repeatedly abandon and reset sieges, avoid winnable battles, almost never stack up or they just move in circles in friendly territory. And they bail at the first sign of trouble.

That's if they're in the fight at all. I'll see that they have so many troops on the war screen but are nowhere to be found on the map.

Meanwhile, enemy AI throws limitless stacks on you - with limitless manpower, money and mana that your allies never seem to have natch - will always take a fight and only grudgingly gives up.

 

[lordgoof]

I had allied Spain have 85k troops on st helens and was unable to figure out how to get them on transports.

At the moment you need to reload the game multiple times each war to unstuck the AI.

 

[Vin55]

its in the game since the beta, that is a huge reason why I dont play the game atm, that and the unresolved fort forest of the HRE, different battles and Steroid Ottomans, cmon having over a thousand dev in less than 30 years is too much.

 

[Lightbanee]

its in the game since the beta, that is a huge reason why I dont play the game atm, that and the unresolved fort forest of the HRE, different battles and Steroid Ottomans, cmon having over a thousand dev in less than 30 years is too much.

Steroid Ottomans, Steroid Commonwealth, Steroid Castile

So far in the three games i've played since getting this game.

India campaign - Ottomans 1.2 million
Byzantine campaign - Commonwealth 762k
Tunis campaign - Ottomans 572k

That's the 1st in military, right now i'm allied to the Ottomans and they're completely useless because they're losing to Indonesia because they can't figure out how to transport enough troops over. So they have no reserve manpower and have also seemingly lost their fleet, meanwhile Portugal is #2 with 420k because they dominated nearly all of South America. And also refuse to take the independence war both me 250k and the 350k Commonwealth is guaranteeing them against Aragon's 140k. This game's AI certainly has a huge amount of problems. When I finally got the war organized, the Ottomans sent 300k troops so wildly excessive since I had 200k in Morocco holding the provinces I wanted from Aragon. While they just let their entire empire get occupied by Hungary who only had 100k. The AI has some serious logic glitches.

 

[Richard-monagha]

In my recent India game Russia started multiple wars vs OPM Gotland and kept calling in their ally Austria. Every war was won by Gotland alone thanks to ticking warscore due to the AI Russia and its ally either not bothering to or not able to land troops on the island, even when they outnumbered Gotland by 40/1 with ships.

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1827907906662062721/0226E5DD6EF1081A706FF40C1B1F62939EFBC33E/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

In the same game Austria was starting imperialism wars in East Asia that they would then lose and pay out ducuts and war reps, and as soon as the war was over they'd start and lose another.

Also when I call in many allies, sometimes they will help but they will stack 40-80k troops together on 1 fort and lose their manpower and become useless.

Also have seen the same thing as Lordgoof said. Many big nations (mostly Spain for some reason) like to send 60k+ stacks on vacation to small islands out in the middle of no where and then they get declared on and are unable to or can't seem to move their troops back to their homeland to defend themselves.

 

[ManBearPig84]

I just abandoned 1.33 as unplayable. The Allies’ AI is so bad that unless I play as a major nation, I can’t count on even a mediocre level of support, which is maddening. This has been my favorite strategy game for years, and the most recent update ruins the game.

 

[MachopPower69]

AI: We are the most powerful nation with the biggest armies but we don't know how to build boats to transport our armies and we are afraid of sieging a level 3 fort when we have 50k cannons. We also love having 1M infantry on a mountain tile during the winter.

 

[agonistes]

In my recent India game Russia started multiple wars vs OPM Gotland and kept calling in their ally Austria. Every war was won by Gotland alone thanks to ticking warscore due to the AI Russia and its ally either not bothering to or not able to land troops on the island, even when they outnumbered Gotland by 40/1 with ships.

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1827907906662062721/0226E5DD6EF1081A706FF40C1B1F62939EFBC33E/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

In the same game Austria was starting imperialism wars in East Asia that they would then lose and pay out ducuts and war reps, and as soon as the war was over they'd start and lose another.

Also when I call in many allies, sometimes they will help but they will stack 40-80k troops together on 1 fort and lose their manpower and become useless.

Also have seen the same thing as Lordgoof said. Many big nations (mostly Spain for some reason) like to send 60k+ stacks on vacation to small islands out in the middle of no where and then they get declared on and are unable to or can't seem to move their troops back to their homeland to defend themselves.

My ally England has been at war with Mann for about 40 years now. England has the transports, they just aren't using them.