Major AI pathfinding problem. ERE can't defend Sicily

[Lider_Picaro]

867 start date, ERE starts at war with the paulicians and the sultan of Africa, but it's incapable of landing it's troops on Sicily to defend from Africa. Instead, the roman armies land on Africa and make a brief attempt as if they were trying to reach Sicily going around the Mediterranean, from Africa to Sicily. After going a few provinces into the west (and suffering attrition), the ships will arrive and take the armies back into Anatolia to defend against the paulicians. And after they beat them in battle the army will land again in Africa and repeat this process until the ticking warscore wins the war for the africans. Byzantine armies are absolutely incapable of landing in Sicily or southern Italy

 

[Ispil]

Not a pathfinding problem, and has nothing to do with Sicily in particular. The AI cannot handle two wars at once in different war theatres, and over-prioritizes sieging of capitals over war goals. It's not trying to go from Africa to Sicily, but to siege their capital- it then realizes, once arriving, that there are other priorities, and leaves.

If the Paulician war ends early, the ERE finds Sicily no problem. Then you get to see the ruler of Sicily camp on Constantinople while Sicily burns because the AI over-prioritizes sieging capitals.

 

[Lider_Picaro]

Why does it overprioritize capitals over war goals??? Is this a problem from vanilla or from HIP? Could it be easily changed or requires ancient arcane coding sorcery?

 

[Ispil]

Why does it overprioritize capitals over war goals??? Is this a problem from vanilla or from HIP? Could it be easily changed or requires ancient arcane coding sorcery?

Vanilla. We can't touch the military AI whatsoever.

 

[Austregisel]

The game has several years, I do not know how they have not reviewed it yet.