If the AI can't handle it too well then it's probably for the best. Sure would've been convenient as a player though. A lot of the time almost all my transports are moving troops around to conquer/put down rebellions in Asia and Africa, being able to just move troops from the British isles to the continent would be nice in the case of sudden rebellions. Probably too convenient though.
Mare Nostrum without the Kent Strait
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Kind of a shame, I was looking forward to seeing that strait in action. Ah well.
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Hopefully it will comeback in a future patch, i am really looking forward to it. Making British gameplay a lot better i think. Or Irish!
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For the French to invade England they would still need naval superiority; even if they controlled Calais.
Meanwhile England shouldn't derp around as much with it's transports anymore; and if the Turks are any indication; AI Britian should be decent at blocking that strait.
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No. Unless a fleet is parked there, you just have to send a suicide fleet to fight and hold the English fleet while your army cross. Doing it against say the Ottos was unpractical unless you controlled provinces around to park fleets before the war but here the French have a prime position for this.
Which historically was exactly the case. The English kept a home fleet even when they went after the French fleet elsewhere during the Napoleonic wars (e.g. during the battle of Trafalgar).
It's just that the AI needs to know to do that too.
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I'm glad, though a bit surprised, that Paradox decided to remove this strait. It really didn't make a lot of sense and it seemed like it wouldn't be good for gameplay.
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I hope to see it again then. It would make for interesting games. I just get tired of seeing England and France be in a 400-year cold war.
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I'm glad it's gone, Sure it may have made England a more useful ally for a short time, but ultimately all i could see happening in the long run from this was either Burgundy or France taking over southern England pretty easily. Thus making England even more of a useless ally.
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Except it would likely be crossed in a handful days, which in game time can be done in a few seconds depending on game speed; it doesn't compare to the month for amphibious assault.
There are many differences with this strait compared to the calais/kent one: Most importantly: The Iberians will have to actually occupy stuff in Africa to annex stuff in Africa because Marocco etc. do not have any forts in mainland europe. England on the other hand has those forts which means that France just need to occupy them and wait some years in order to annex Calais AND Kent without using a single ship, even if England manages to blockade the strait all the time -.-
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OTOH it's not hard to tweak the AI to refuse to give land if no fort connected by real land (not strait) is occupied (but still have Otto refuse to, say, give up Chios without occupation in Anatolia).
ai can't handle estates too pls remove them ? 
for example otto tech is 32.5% (not 25%) expensive because retard ai can't using dhimmi estate and whenever i watch them they got %7.5 expensive tech cost via dhimmi estate.
also ai don't know how to develop, it seems developing is made for western countries because retard countries who doesn't have western tech, using monarch powers to develop their provinces while they are behind 2 mil. tech than europeans.
for example otto tech is 32.5% (not 25%) expensive because retard ai can't using dhimmi estate and whenever i watch them they got %7.5 expensive tech cost via dhimmi estate.also ai don't know how to develop, it seems developing is made for western countries because retard countries who doesn't have western tech, using monarch powers to develop their provinces while they are behind 2 mil. tech than europeans.
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I think Calais strait would bring a lot of fresh option to the game both for AI and player, but Giblartar strait is just bay bay berber lands
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I actually disagree with most straights in the game. what do you mean armies can walk from Naxos to Athens? this is like 100km distance. Kent - Calais yah right, Gibraltar never happened. Perhaps in northern Europe when ice was replacing waters for some time of the year.
Now if we imply that the use of boats made it possible ok but what if enemy boats are around regardless of blockading, I mean wouldn't they interfear? Also I imagine the use of boats would give a crossing penalty on battle - which is already applied - and a travel time penalty which I think is not.
Now if we imply that the use of boats made it possible ok but what if enemy boats are around regardless of blockading, I mean wouldn't they interfear? Also I imagine the use of boats would give a crossing penalty on battle - which is already applied - and a travel time penalty which I think is not.
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