I wish we had an easier way to move governors around

**Grifman** · 10-12-2004, 01:44

Moving governors around by land/sea is tedious and busywork. It may be realistic, but it's not fun. I wish we had a universal governor screen with govs and their cities, where we could drag and drop them around. Sometimes I don't even bother moving them from my capital to some small burg on the edge of my empire - it's just too much of a pain keeping track of them and moving them each turn. A universal screen would be much better I think. Won't be in this game, but maybe they could implement something like this for the next version.

Grifman

**MiniKiller** · 10-12-2004, 01:53

agreed and when u adopt a son (a captin whos done a bang up job) why in the blue hell do u send em back to ur capitol. Many times I need em where they came from (A big battle, earning adoption status but leaving to appear in my capitol...all my units are left leaderless out there again)

**discovery1** · 10-12-2004, 02:05

I have a better idea: select the family member you what as gov and they will go there automatically, or atleast to a port. When he gets there a message will come up that says that the gov needs sea transport(you wouldn't want your ships moving on there own would you). After reaching far shore, he moves on his own again.

**Murmandamus** · 10-12-2004, 02:17

You don't need to move units every turn, Grifman. You can select a govenor on one side of the map, right click on a town on the other side of the map (accessable by land) and the rest is automatic. His movement will be done for you at the end of each turn. The only bits you need to manage are the land-sea transitions. One click to send him to the coast, one click to get a ship to the same point. When they both get there, one click to get him on the ship and one click for the destination coast etc.

**discovery1** · 10-12-2004, 02:22

Not if the distance is too great. As the selucids i can only order my new egyptians govs as far as jerusalems port.

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 10-12-2004, 02:50

Seriously. Governors is one of the things that bothers me in RTW.

In fact, I have the 'manage all settlements' activated to counter this.

But it is still better to have governors in the city than without them.

**Grifman** · 10-12-2004, 02:53

Originally Posted by Murmandamus

You don't need to move units every turn, Grifman. You can select a govenor on one side of the map, right click on a town on the other side of the map (accessable by land) and the rest is automatic. His movement will be done for you at the end of each turn. The only bits you need to manage are the land-sea transitions. One click to send him to the coast, one click to get a ship to the same point. When they both get there, one click to get him on the ship and one click for the destination coast etc.

I am aware of that, but as someone said, it only works over a certain difference. I certainly can't get someone from Carthage to Antioch doing that :) Still even a simple screen would be better than having to load/unload on ship and move them, even if what you said worked.

Grifman

**USMCNJ** · 10-12-2004, 04:10

the system we have now is not that bad. It makes it more realistic.
2 things that i don't like about it.
1) my capton faught it egypt and after getting promoted he travels to rome in 6 month. And then it takes him 3 years to get back.
2) my governor spend 40 years leaving in his city, he had a family, and all of his offspring live in Rome? It would be nice to have children apear in the same city as their father.

however, this system does allow for you to gain an advantage. Build up acadamies in your capital. and you will have better governors

**GFX707** · 10-12-2004, 12:15

Originally Posted by Murmandamus

You don't need to move units every turn, Grifman. You can select a govenor on one side of the map, right click on a town on the other side of the map (accessable by land) and the rest is automatic. His movement will be done for you at the end of each turn. The only bits you need to manage are the land-sea transitions. One click to send him to the coast, one click to get a ship to the same point. When they both get there, one click to get him on the ship and one click for the destination coast etc.

Obviously you haven't played much of the campaign....it doesn't work for anything larger than say-west coast of france to east border/italy....anything further won't let you.

**Count Fudgula** · 10-12-2004, 16:52

I think the thing with the kids could be explained by the fact that they have already been alive for 16 years before they are available to control. Plenty of time for them to be sent off to the capital for a bit of education, training etc. The captains that are adopted are a little trickier to explain. I like the idea of the ceremony, or being kitted out with the funky armour and the horsemen, and that they have to go to the capital for this to happen.

I do get a bit confused as to where the captain is coming from however, I don't know what his original unit was. Are they just disbanded or do they live on with a new captain?