Navies

[the evil one]

Is there a way to directly target a enemy naval force?
Just four squadrons of 3 ships each set to find enemy ships in the newport area waiting for the invasion fleet and the invasion just sailed right into them and they all ignored each other
the invasion went right next to at least 3 squadrons
The invasion landed and the escorts just disappeared without a trace

[the evil one]

Two 4 ships squads, 3 three ships squads, in New york bay and none of them engaged the invasion fleets
They engage normal fleets mostly, and have had them engage invasion fleets many times elsewhere
Are these scripted fleets that can't be engaged ?

[SkyRiderJM]

When this game first started we could engage invasion fleets. I use to blast and sink them however so many changes to this game over a time period and now it's very hard to engage.

I even had 10 French War ships that did not engage an invasion fleet to Hartford yet they wiped out any other British fleet in the Newport area. The French fleet is now gone and I still have 7 Spanish War ships patrolling Newport but I am sure they will be gone too at some point. Interestingly, I know they won't engage invasion fleets but at least there's no British War ships in Newport thanks to the French and Spanish.

[the evil one]

Originally posted by SkyRiderJM:

When this game first started we could engage invasion fleets. I use to blast and sink them however so many changes to this game over a time period and now it's very hard to engage.

I even had 10 French War ships that did not engage an invasion fleet to Hartford yet they wiped out any other British fleet in the Newport area. The French fleet is now gone and I still have 7 Spanish War ships patrolling Newport but I am sure they will be gone too at some point. Interestingly, I know they won't engage invasion fleets but at least there's no British War ships in Newport thanks to the French and Spanish.

I engaged quite a few invasion fleets, hit and run attacks but the two I mentioned above just couldn't be engaged, idk if you've had the bug but some transports can't even be damaged which is annoying

Did manage to attack the escorts of the 2nd wave of new york invasion after they landed the troops though
Wasn't a great start position for my 28-40 gun ships vs Sol's lol

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3283358973

[SkyRiderJM]

Well, since they changed a lot in the Naval I now always take the extra infantry and I don't do Naval much until much later in the game when I can afford to do many things all at once. I would not like what happened to you in that pic.