So about that AI transport ships...

[Kijciwoko]

That's from 1.8 changelog:

# Economic
- More priority on building transport ships

That's brilliant, but have anyone actually been bothered with teaching AI how to use it? I guess we've all seen in 1.7.3 the Iberian armies marching home from North Africa via Constantinople. Well, the problem still exist in 1.8 (with Art of War enabled):

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My allies, Morocco and Tunis decided to take that route after war with Castille. And if that wasn't bad enough, some of their armies decided to stay in Albania:

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Reloading game didn't help.
I know there probably were about million threads about that issue, but shouldn't it be fixed long time ago?

 

[riknap]

well, there are certainly threads that talk about the exact opposite, namely how the naval ai now actually uses boats (and in sufficient numbers so that the stack they send is strong enough to be strategically relevant). so far though, I've only personally seen the Ottomans and Britain do so regularly (and that's because they have utter dominance of the sea, which means the AI probably isn't "afraid" to use them. that said, I've seen minors from the Low Countries, or hell even the Papal states, also use transport ships, but, they tend to be rare (because I often see those ships get intercepted and sunk, if not hiding in port because of a blockade).

as such, it's possible that the Morocco and Tunis AI simply decided that the long overland treck is "safer" (after all, Castille often has a gigantic navy because of the Global Empire idea, which means the morocco/tunis fleets don't stand a chance

 

[Illianor123]

Walking home while exiled seems to be the only problem with them now. It doesn't matter much unless they need the army during that time. I have seen England doing much better, dropping 20-30 soldiers in various parts of the world, and then shipping them home when the war is over. So it may just be that units with a land route home are a transporting priority.

 

[Strangedane]

My last Milan game, AI England won the 100 years war.

France got decced by burgundy - austria and by castille - portugal and england used the commotion to land enough troops to win the war.

They threw it away of course, but they enforced the PU.

 

[Kijciwoko]

as such, it's possible that the Morocco and Tunis AI simply decided that the long overland treck is "safer" (after all, Castille often has a gigantic navy because of the Global Empire idea, which means the morocco/tunis fleets don't stand a chance

Castillian navy was irrelevant, firstly, because we were at peace (that's why the units are exiled) and secondly because they had no ships (lost all of them against Portugal and Aragon) .