Is the AI capable of naval warfare & invasions/Island hopping?

[Munin]

The proof of the pudding is in the eating, but since Daniel s file crashed we couldn't see the clash between Japan and USA that would have showed us.

Is AI capable of naval invasions & island hopping?

Can the AI do a naval war?

 

[Munin]

I think these are valid questions, I mean this is half of the game for 3 of he major nations (Japan, UK & USA)

without decent naval AI half of the game is not that fun, & for any USA or Japan player it would ruin immersion

 

[Adonnus]

The AI clearly made huge leaps and bounds in this regard between HOI2 and HOI3 so I gather they will have put some work into this. That and the simplified amphibious assault system I think I remember from one of the WWW's makes it easier for the AI to do these things.

 

[Denkt]

Convoys now are used as transports may help the ai.

 

[LordOfWar16]

The main reason why they got rid of transports and use regular convoys is to help out the ai immensely and make them able to do propper naval invasions. Sure, transports were a nightmare for players aswell, but the ai had even more problems with them, more often than not resulting in tiny naval invasions in HoI III.

To answer your question: Yes, the ai can and will do naval invasions.