French being irresolute

[kurtbrian]

I was Playing my first GC in EU II with Austria, determined to conquer the entire HRE.

now in 1730's I fight a lot with France, and to my suprise it is quite easy despite France having a much bigger army than me.

The problem is that instead of making up its mind, the Ai keeps moving its 50-somethingk army between Artois and Paris, just staying long enough for the entire army to turn around.

Am I the only one having this problem??

 

[Yozhik]

Is it taking a lot of forage losses as it's doing it? If just the regular 1% then it's probably trying to either watch 2 high-rebellion-risk regions or something.

It used to be much worse: I once witnessed a 150,000-strong army march from Artois to Guyenne and back, diminishing down to 60,000 men... France was at peace with its neighbors too

 

[JohnMK]

I wonder if they should reexamine the code. I conquered 5 of 6 Aztec provinces, and the rather large Aztec army, rather than try to recapture any of them, kept marching back and forth between Tenotchtitlan and the province directly north of that. My military force had been whittled down to maybe 9k, vs, their 22k, and they had TONS more cavalry than me, so I was awaiting reinforcements from England. That was their chance to recapture a province or two . . . but instead it played tag with one of my captured provinces, and one of theirs. The annoying part was the message that kept popping up informing me that they were sieging Tenochtitlan -- every 20 seconds! Then of course they'd abandon the "siege".

John