Quote Originally Posted by Alexandr III. Biges
You are certainly right, however, would it be as it was in real history conditions, the factor of random occurance of storms would be too strong and decisive. Games are designed to be won by wits, not a randomize function :)) (To some degree)
True to some extent, but as you will note, historically the better sailors avoided getting caught in the storms. So admiral/crew quality could impact whether or not losses are incurred. Weak crews would be more likely to lose their boats, and weak admirals would be more likely to be caught in a storm.

Randomization is good when historically representative, esp. when you still have some chance of influencing it through proper tactics/strategy.

Right now there are insane numbers of boats in the water doing very little. Being put to sea should carry quite a bit of risk.

It would be interesting to see the boats staying in port except to conduct missions. Blockades would bet more challenging! Fleets presently have little purpose. I conduct all my senate missions and invasions with a grand total of four boats (in two fleets)...and I really don't need two of the boats, they are just overkill. I finished my Julii without failing at a single senate mission, and in most cases succeeded on the 2nd turn after it was assigned. Repeating sequence: blockade some Carthaginian fleet, blockade one of Gaul's ports, sieze the port's settlement.

I've still never seen a storm on the strategic map.