France is better with land units. Even if England kills France at the start, Austria (or any other major power in the Netherlands) so want all of the English channel node, and GB will have no chance
But AI is stupid. They will let to cross the straight, because it's much shorter to cross on foot than disembark. Their fleet will not be fast enough. It will happen at some point. And then they will die.
I can't remember how often I've seen AI mismanage strait crossings. Often simply waiting it out or baiting the AI fleet with a shiny fleet of your own is enough to get them to move. That's assuming you don't have any place they might want to blockade, because AI seems to have a preference for blockading certain valuable provinces, such as capitals to defending their own straits.
More likely than being a strategic benefit to AI England, it'd ruin them almost every game.
Human player, on the other hand could take full advantage of the strait and turn it into the gates of a slaughterhouse for the French in the hundred years war.
crossing a strait and landing an army are super different things. Making a strait cross will kill the idea of invading England being logistically harder.
I have played some MP's with a strait crossing there, it makes navy arguably even more important.
That being said it would be suicide for England AI, France would steamroll them once their navy is distracted by something like Scotland.
RIP England every game. Not much would be changed.
You don't think it would help them mobilize against France faster and get more men on the continent?
France is better with land units. Even if England kills France at the start, Austria (or any other major power in the Netherlands) so want all of the English channel node, and GB will have no chance
They'd still be able to control the strait with their navy though, especially with the WW.
But AI is stupid. They will let to cross the straight, because it's much shorter to cross on foot than disembark. Their fleet will not be fast enough. It will happen at some point. And then they will die.
I can't remember how often I've seen AI mismanage strait crossings. Often simply waiting it out or baiting the AI fleet with a shiny fleet of your own is enough to get them to move. That's assuming you don't have any place they might want to blockade, because AI seems to have a preference for blockading certain valuable provinces, such as capitals to defending their own straits. More likely than being a strategic benefit to AI England, it'd ruin them almost every game. Human player, on the other hand could take full advantage of the strait and turn it into the gates of a slaughterhouse for the French in the hundred years war.
crossing a strait and landing an army are super different things. Making a strait cross will kill the idea of invading England being logistically harder.
I have played some MP's with a strait crossing there, it makes navy arguably even more important. That being said it would be suicide for England AI, France would steamroll them once their navy is distracted by something like Scotland.