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Finally... my mods and patch issues seem to be sorted out.

Playing as GB early in my campaign, France declares war on 13 colonies, so I join my Ally/Protectorate. Mostly naval battles, blockades, and one border skirmish in the Americas. After taking Montreal and Quebec, and kicking their butts with my Navy all over the world, my forces money is somehow dwindling and my Armies are stretched too thin.(go figure, I captured 4regions, and finally have 1 standing army, and 2 fleets with 8 units each, my money has gone from 10k per turn, to less than 4000). Seeing the possibility of the Iroquois backdooring me and taking back all my gains, I sued for peace with France and they accepted.

Looking across the channel throughout the war(I moved my rake to France from GB), I could have taken Paris at will, any time I wanted. It was completely unguarded for about 10 turns. I chose not to, to keep France in game. It's so bloody disappointing to see such crapasstic Campaign AI. You have to throttle yourself back, to keep the game interesting.

Thinking back to Rome, or Medieval 2, you'd peer into your enemies backyard, and more often than not see multiple large enemy armies guarding their homeland, and wouldnt even consider going for their capital. If you did manage a naval landing and took a capital, you'd have the wrath descend upon you, multiple full stacks from all directions. Not so much the case in Empire.

The game is at least playable now, but there are still game breaking deficiencies with Campaign and Battle AI. Not to mention the extremely weak reinforcement system in Empire, and sieges of forts, or fortified cities are so simplistic it's astonishing, and one of the most disappointing features of the game.