Suicidal AI in 1.8

[Dreadheart]

The AI at large is a little strange right now. The Ottomans have a silly hard time coming around to destroying Byzantium. Muscovy gets thrashed by Novgorod. England isn't building ships post their initial stack. And yes, vassals - when not set to Supportive - are very willing to kamikaze anything that moves.

Oh, and for the first time in my 800+ hours of EU4 I've experienced being so powerful that nations, Outraged with over 100 AE against me, are too afraid to join a coalition against me.

 

[hager]

My vassals behaved the same in one of my Knights -> Jerusalem games. Had vassalized Byzantium + Serbia and conquered my way through Anatolia. I only owned Rhodes so my own armies strength was around 9k limit. But with my vassals I vastly outnumbered the Mamluks. However, after my vassals blindly charged strong mountain positions over and over again with smaller stacks I completely lost the war. Was the same extreme behavior as in the screenshots.

 

[Ricox]

Most time marking province targets was ignored. Sometimes they stop all 2 second her move and set a new target.

I have yet to have the AI follow my objectives a single time. In hundreds of years of playing, they did not follow my objective at all. Like really, they just completely ignored it. It's like they purposely excluded that province from their "to-conquer-list" and picked every other province OTHER than the one I set the objective to. Lol.

 

[Liwei]

Now, now, your own units can be suicidal too. Send your 2K stack to a distant province, and it'll take the most direct route, even if it means charging through a 20K stack of enemy soldiers or rebels, unless you manually tell it to avoid killing itself.

 

[atwix]

my observations lead me to think the AI doesn't take general pips into account when deciding to attack. Just a hunch.

 

[Maerd]

I think they completely broke vassals' AI in the 1.8 update. I didn't notice particular stupid behaviour of my direct enemies but vassals' AI is just ridiculously suicidal. It's not even mountains or generals. In my Knights' game Byzantine attacked 30k Turks with 7k stacks. This can only be explained that vassals' AI doesn't evaluate outcomes AT ALL or there's a serious bug in evaluation that makes impossible odds acceptable.