Naval/ Fleet composition question(s)

**Dutchhoplite** · 11-13-2008, 10:42

Hi al

What is the scale of naval combat in EB?? Does one "unit" depict a couple of ships?? a squadron, a fleet??

Take the battle of Ecnomus (256 BC): the Romans had about 330 ships. How big would that fleet be in EB and what would be it's composition??

Does anyone else take time and trouble to create historical accurate fleets??
Or is it just pointless do to so??

Thanks

**Valion** · 11-13-2008, 11:46

I believe one unit card depicts only 1 ship since you can see from the number of soldiers in their description. Also although i want to have a historaically accurate fleet supporting a big one will be extremely expensive, where instead investing in land units seems to be more economical.

**Foot** · 11-13-2008, 12:05

In RTW one unit card = one ship. In EB one unit card = a fleet, the number of ships equalling the number of soldiers.

Foot

**Valion** · 11-13-2008, 12:56

Ah i didnt know that... thanks for the info foot^_^

**Celtic_Punk** · 11-14-2008, 04:35

I always thought that the number of 'soldiers' was just the amount of damage it could still take, so when you "retrain" you are repairing. So are the fleets balanced differently than RTW to compensate that each "soldier" is a ship?

**TheStranger** · 11-14-2008, 23:31

Ah thanks for that thread, I wanted to open a similar one. I supposed that it couldn't be the actual numbers of the soldiers, because if you read the unit descriptions, it says that the crew of a Trireme consisted of 200 soldiers, so it has to be a complete fleet. Also the unit upkeep would be too expensive for a single ship.