It's now painfully obvious that the AI has no business embarking in water

[Idleray]

I was playing on ERIDANI mind you, this is the map where "what little water there is is difficult to access", because I had got completely fed up with the AI suiciding their land units by embarking them where I can shoot them.

And still, STILL in an effort to surround my city the AI embarks units into an adjacent pond, turning it into a watery tomb.

I know that Firaxis doesn't really care about fixing AI, so I'd like to see some fix for unit defense values in water.

 

[Callonia]

The only time I was happy about this AI tendency for suicidal thoughts is when SIAM from civ5 came at me with his strong elephants while I was still using spearmen+Archers. The elephants tried their hardest to get at my lakecity but they couldn't do it.

From what I see, it seems the AI will use the shortest path possible instead of taking a long detour.