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Hmm... I'm thinking perhaps it's some awkward scripting whereby the AI is only not aggressive towards the HUMAN player. Which sucks, seeing we we're the biggest threat obv.

They're very quick and rather effective to respond if you take any of THEIR territories. Took me the best part of 40 years to finally secure south west of North America. Ok, at most I only every used a single stack, but damn Cherokees bit back every time, and reinforcements were having to be shipped from Jamaica, so i was pleased with the tooth and nail fighting i saw there. Similarly in Sweden, Stockholm traded hands 2-3 times before i finally landed a large enough force to defeat the Swedish field armies, storm the city, and hold it against Norwegian reinforcements without running out of men.

But Naval invasions? Hmm... I think i've seen a couple of Fleets with small Yellow stacks on them flicking across trade routes during AI turns... and certainly i've seen some Islands change hands (though not many as I took most of the Caribbean for myself and WAS rather disappointed Spain didn't try to take it back)... but this COULD all be due to trade/diplomacy.

Personally, while i'm pleased the battle AI has at least stepped up in many ways... and certainly the casualties taken in battles consistently slows one's ability to sweep across the map in a mere few turns... I have, since the original Medieval, missed the days of Spain/France/whoever taking over half the map within the first 50 turns or so, and having to hold off 10-15 stacks with your 2-3 in order to survive. In RTW and M2, I took to sending armies off to conquer vast swathes of regions, just so i could gift them to another strong faction, thus creating a world superpower who would hopefully be a worthy opponent for the 2-3 provinces i actually built up.

Perhaps things don't need to be quite THAT extreme, but certainly a setting where Nations literally are JUST out to rule the world, screw everyone else, would be nice to see in VH.