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Even the AI thinks Maritime and Naval ideas are trash

sigeena · 2023-01-14T15:09:19+00:00

I'm playing a pirate-like Knights campaign and taking exclusively islands. So to maximise my survival, I had taken both Maritime and Naval ideas, along with ideas which allow naval-like policies. Naval morale as at mid 1750s is 10.2ish and miles ahead of any Great Powers. I also checked that no other AI nation takes either 1 of Naval or Maritime. Even Portugal, Venice, Denmark and Great Britain! They seem to avoid either of these ideas altogether. Nonetheless my campaign is super fun especially when I complement it with use of Marines. They get drilled all the time so that they move faster. They are used like special forces, drop them to grab impt straits, to distract the enemy land units, to egress when enemy is approaching and then capture a port the opposite side of the continent so that the rest of the army can get in and blitz forts while the enemy takes half a year to trundle across. I get extra siege pips with blockades. So any coastal fort goes down within 1-2 siege rounds. Full Naval gives free bombardment breaches. No allies because no need for them when my navy is qualitatively superior to all the GPs combined. I've been going to wars with an oversized France and just take ducats and war reps, trying to force them to bankruptcy. They are incredibly resilient. Not so Ottomans and Great Britain. They bankrupt quite quickly.

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Start date Jan 14, 2023

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brifbates said:
It's not the ideas that are trash, it's the usefulness of navies in general. There are some niche cases where naval power per ship actually matters but the vast majority of the time having a powerful navy is well down the priority list (in single player ofc).

This is sadly the case.

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