Armies cant' embark navies. Game breaking bug.

[Applewood]

Game breaking bug:

Armies can't embark on ships. Not just for me, for the AI as well.

Playing as Arborea, late 1400's. War breaks out between Castille, Aragon and me versus Morocco and Tunis. Neither side can transport troops.

I've tried restarting the game, loading earlier save files from before the war breaks out. Nothing works. I can manually embark a small army, but that's hardly reasonable. The AI can't do anything either way.

How can this be a thing so long after release?

[teron]

If you are talking 1.3 and no mods, then armies can be transported by navies. You also mention being able to transport small armies.

Issue is likely that early game navies are small and are unable to transport larger amounts of troops. Age 1 transport ships (Cogs) are only able to move 250 troops per ship.
If you have 10,000 troops to move it means you would need 40 Cogs.
If you only have 4, it means that you would have to move troops in 1K chunks. Though it likely would be less due to their unit sizes.

Lack of naval transport capacity is an overall strategic failure of the AI. Since it takes awhile for the AI to be willing to invest in building a large navy with enough transport ships to carry decent size armies.

My current England game it is 1562. Spain who controls all of Iberia only has 19 hulks (age 2 transports) which means their dedicated transport capacity is 9,500 troops. It is 14,150 if you add in the little bits from their age 3 light ships (37) and heavy (28) ships.

Basically without a large navy to transport, water becomes a nice defensive moat.

[tonypa]

In 1.4 beta navies can transport armies just fine. I have done it myself and AI is also able to transfer across the sea.

[eaerion]

I've seen it. I was clicking a button to make my army enter the ship and the army didn't do it. Seems like a bug but I don't know how to reproduce it.

[mikemonger]

Do you have enough transports? If you pull up the screen for the navy it'll say how many troops it can carry in there.

[eaerion]

Originally posted by mikemonger:

Do you have enough transports? If you pull up the screen for the navy it'll say how many troops it can carry in there.

I tried to embark 4 units (1400) to 5k ships. It didn't work. I needed to sail away and back, move army away and back several times and it finally worked.

[Applewood]

I have enough transport capacity, so does the AI. The big problem is that the AI can't transport either, so the entire map is soft locked. Total war in the Mediterranean but no battles.

[Xom]

You should report it (Ctrl-F7) ingame.
In 1.3 and beta 1.4 I can transport armies, and AI can do also. But in some conditions the armies can get stuck and freeze for the years without any reasons; clearly awaiting nave transport. If you face it, report it.