Putting an Admiral on a different ship

[TomPaine]

I haven't been able to order my admirals to move off of one ship, and onto another -- is that not possible in the game, or am I missing something really obvious? I'd like very much to transfer early game, fifth and six-rate admirals to bigger ships, though right now, they're assuring me they're as much a part of their first ship as the planks ...

Thanks!

[A Very Super Market]

Sadly, it isn't possible to do so. You actually have to destroy the admirals current ship to move them.

[Mailman653]

Too bad you can't just drag and drop him into another ship in the UI.

[TomPaine]

Yeah, drag and drop was what I was trying ... silly me. At least, apparently, we can destroy the ship -- and the admiral really remains? Is he put automatically onto the most advanced ship remaining in the fleet? Adventures in intuition! I guess it's not terrible if I can just sink a sixth-rate to put the admiral on a third-rate: I still can't believe that that really works, lol. That must mean someone at CA *actively designed* it that way, actually sat down and programmed this as the best possible solution, which is really funny. I'd love to see the decision making flow-chart behind this.

[Zarky]

The admiral does move from ship to ship if his ship is just scuppered, when I destroyed Ottoman starting fleet you can only imagine how confused I was when I sank the ship, 1 ship disappeared but the admirals face stayed...

[Durallan]

I actually thought I could do this in version 1.0 when i first got and tried playing the game, I seem to remember being able to do something like that, but in 1.2 and 1.3 I couldn't, now I'm not entirely sure if I was ever actually able to, things are a bit blurry for me

[Slaists]

Wrong post

[FactionHeir]

Make sure he's the only admiral in that fleet or you really do scupper him with the ship. It happened to me.