Armies and Navies

[nightrain]

Ok, I'm obviously missing something, but for the life of me, I can not work out how to form trade routes, or how to move armies across the ocean.

Do I need certain types of navies to do this? What am I missing?

Thanks in advance,

Ray

[miserable09]

It is confusing isn't it... Ok this is what you need.

1. Your province must have a tradable good.

2. You province must have a port

3. You must have an unbroken line of ships from your land to wherever you are trading.

4. You need a trading post, or merchant house or whatever it's called.

5. One (yes only one) enemy ship in your shipping lane will end your trade.

6. You wont see trade income by right clicking on your port, only by reading the scroll from your trading house.

7. Finally, armies can cross the sea and attack a province that does not have a port, but, cannot return home until you build a port in that new province.

Hope that helps!

[Kowalski]

hi,
to trade and move armies you have to have at least one ship in every sea area between your Port/Harbor and the target province. To have trade the target province must have a harbor too, if i'm not worng.
If you invade this way remember you can not retreat, so forces will be commited to that part of the land until you build your own harbor there.
Also bear in mind that hostile fleets in areas where you have ships have a blockading effect and will stop you from doing most of the above.

Hope this helped.

[Kowalski]

Almost simultaneous posts, happens a lot. http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif

[mitico]

how many ships you must have to trade?

[el_slapper]

One per square of sea. One could be enough, for example in Skargerrad, you own Sweden & a ship there, with a port & a trading post. If someone else owns Denmark & a seaport ther, you'll export to Denmark.

Advice : have one in EACH sea square. Zounds of florins each year.

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[nightrain]

Excellent, thank you very much guys.

[hawk]

Don't you guys get the feeling that trading is only a useful commiodity in the early stages of the game, and as you progress further into the game it becomes quite useless. This is because as you begin to conquer more lands the lands that have been conquered and were used a trading posts can no longer be used in that way because you can no longer trade amongst your own lands. what a complete bumber...

[pdoan8]

I believe that's why some genius invented the bank so you could save money.