Is there any way to remove AI being able to see my armies 3 tiles away with no knowledge beforehand ?

[fterim2006]

I know this discussion has been going on for years but it feels like the game is just a cat and mouse dooderoo especially if ur fighting with/against the HRE emperor. AI sees my armies from Paris and acts accordingly thus i have to chase them all the way to Crimea while pausing the game numerous times thus making the game experience very repetitive and painful and annoying. I was wondering if there was any way for ai to not see through fog of war and make the game experience a lot better. Plus, i am not arguing over this im just asking if there is any way to modify that or is it hardcoded in files.

 

[grotaclas]

This is not really a question for the tech support forum. If you want something like this in the game, you would have to post in the suggestions forum. If you want to know if you can mod this, the user mods forum would be the right place.

AFAIK this is hardcoded and can't be changed via modding(but I might be wrong about this).

But you don't have to chase their armies. Just let them run away to wherever they want to go and siege down their provinces. Wars in eu4 are almost never won on the battlefield and it is much more efficient to siege down their provinces. In many wars it only makes sense to attempt to kill the enemy troops if you can stackwipe them and follow that up with a carpet sieging of every single one of their provinces so that they can't rebuild their army. A country with which you can do that is usually so small that you can catch them in the opening days of the war if you position your armies strategically. And in that case it would not help if you give them the normal FOW, because your armies have to be on the border anyway.

Disclaimer: I'm not working for Paradox. I'm just trying to help people.

 

[AndrewT]

Not a tech support issue so moved to main forum.

 

[grommile]

I know this discussion has been going on for years but it feels like the game is just a cat and mouse dooderoo especially if ur fighting with/against the HRE emperor. AI sees my armies from Paris and acts accordingly thus i have to chase them all the way to Crimea while pausing the game numerous times thus making the game experience very repetitive and painful and annoying. I was wondering if there was any way for ai to not see through fog of war and make the game experience a lot better. Plus, i am not arguing over this im just asking if there is any way to modify that or is it hardcoded in files.

There are a few parameters you can tweak (things like "how much of an advantage the AI thinks it needs to consider entering battle"), but the majority of EU4 AI behaviour (particularly the thing where it runs away to God-knows-where if it feels outclassed by your armies) is hardcoded.

(Also, making the AI respect FOW may not be as good for the game experience as you think – because it means the game engine would have to spend time calculating FOW for the AI in the first place. Also, there are some fairly easily executed "trap" manoeuvres that an intellectually normal human would probably never fall for twice, but which the AI would consistently fall for if it had the same FOW rules as you.)

 

[Reni Malaj]

You can Black-flag your armies and ambush the enemy at your border provinces. The AI doesnt calculate for BF troops.