Possible Bug on Boats?

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I believe thats something seriously wrong towards the sea warfare in this game. I havent notice so far, but its rlly hard to handle a mass number of boats, yet alone conduct then in battle. I started ciprus today and i play a tiamat pirates map. I had to mass product tirremes so that i could rule the seas and a sure the landing of my troops.. But it took me half an hour of gameplay and i couldnt defeat the pirate fleet. First i didnt noticed, but when u have lots of tirremes, they form a pretty litlle line with is pretty, make the ships look cool, but its a total fiasco. Makes the ships on the front sitting ducks for an atack. Eventualy i took my chances and landed on the enemie shore with no naval support.. well..i finish the map, but.. i kinda lost a few transports few with soldiers... amazing how the pop drops in a sec...

Now, this thing about the line that the boats make alone it aint a problem, cuz u can break their formation, the problem is the second bug.

Ships are big, and my tirrremes doesnt have much range, so, when dealing witha large fleet, what its happening is that the front tirremes are fighting while the tirremes in the back stay put waiting for their turn.

See, u give the order so that every ship engage in combat, the ship that its near the enemie starts to atack, the ships that are in the back try to move once, since they have no space to manuever, they simply stay put until the ships in front get wreck. This is hardly noticeable when dealing with 10 ships, but when u dealing with 30-40 ships its really annoying.

And this is what i dont get, AOK had an amazing sea batlle system, the ships wouldnt rest until they got the enemie on their aim. On AoEO, the ships just doesnt answer the commands...

Now, what i would like to answer, is this a bug or it supposed to be this way ? U tell the ships to atack, if they dont have a target on the spot they will just stay put. Is that right ?

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move your whole fleete nearer to the enemy fleet. all your ships should be able to attack them now.

or even better, use attack move

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What zerton55 said, but I also want to agree with OP that path finding on the naval units are atrociously bad.

I mean terribad.

Did I say the path finding on naval units were bad? Because they are so awful.