Has England been nerfed? / Is England drunk?

[NEXUS12]

Since the new patch and DLC I have played 4 different ironman games, and in every one of those games I have seen England invaded by France/Castile/Burgundy, and twice seen them dissapear completely, divided by the French and the Scots.

What is more baffling is, while Castile is smashing down the gates of London, England is for some stupid reason taking out Naples.

The first time this happened I was happy, as before the latest patch I very rarely seen the AI do this, so it was nice to see something different. But England is being taken out every game nowadays. Have they been nerfed or has AI England just decided to forget how to play?

Also it's worth noting that I haven't played any nations which would affect this situation, as you can see I am the Ottos and the English/Castilian war has had no input from me.

What ever happened to the English navy defending their island?

 

[bbqftw]

The England AI is simply legendary in terms of really bad strategic plays

 

[inreadible]

I'm thinking that when the AI is against larger forces, they start to act like they're afraid and just siege the farthest provinces they can find.
For example I attacked Ottomans and called in almost all of Europe. They then proceeded to siege the one Portuguese province in Morocco and stayed there the whole war while me and my allies had hundreds of thousands of men sieging their country. Maybe Paradox has coded the AI in a way that they won't come near much larger forces to avoid getting stackwiped.

 

[Chaingun]

Invasion AI could use a revamp but I'm not sure when/if that will happen, given that significant effort isn't a guarantee for better results.

 

[jdavis86]

It seems like the AI tends to go as far away as they can when they don't think they'll win a battle.

Even with 1:1 ratio of troops I've seen AI prefer to siege insignificant provinces instead of defending their own land; when said land is war objective.

 

[Juggernaught]

Indeed. In my recent playthroughs I have regularly seen France successfully invade isles. It is not about low BT or anything. Just poor invasion choices.
Right now in my France game, I have managed to get a foothold in Kent while having England keep some mainland provinces. I attacked for London and England lands on mainland with her doomstack to do nothing at all. She tries to siege something and then relives the siege a few months later to do same thing -ad infinitum. Dance around baby.

 

[Vince75]

In all my beta 1.19 games, I've never seen England lose any territory on their island.