Compass arrives when?

[Don Corleone]

I'm playing a game as Italians, High, Hard. Wondering when I can count on my wargalleys rolling out of the shipyard. Anyone know?

[Blodrast]

Compass is discovered in 1170, AFAIK.

[Don Corleone]

Not sure what AFAIK means. Okay, well, do you know why I can't build a shipbuilder's guild in a province that I have a citadel in the province in 1265?

[Blodrast]

AFAIK = As Far As I Know.

For ships better than level 2 (i.e., for catholics, other than barque and caravel, for muslim, other than dhow and dromon) you need several things: compass and High age are some of them.
Also to build Shipbuilder's Guild you'll need Citadel, Dockyard and Cannon Foundry.
My guess is that you don't have the last one

[Don Corleone]

Aaah... thanks. Never made it this late before. Usually I've conqured everything (starting on Early) or I got bored & quit. Okay, that makes sense. The Italians actually get a level 2.5 from Venice, because they start with a Shipbuilder's guild but no cannon foundry, so you can make war galleys (not gun galleys though).

Thanks for the help!

[katank]

the most advanced ships don't really do much.

just use the most basic fast ship and sacrifice a peasant or two in battle that turn to give a land defeat which makes the game engine feel sorry for you and gives you huge combat bonus on seas and gives very unbalanced results such as single dhow sinking 3 gungalleys yay!