How do I get my men across the sea in the Viking Campaign?

**Age** · 03-12-2005, 00:47

How do I do this as I all set up to play and I am having problems with this?
There is one thing I am having a hard time moving my warriors over to Britian every time I pick up an army and place it on Britian it move back to Hordaland.What am I doing wrong and I placed them in the ships that are on the map and there was no glow to show they were aboard?How do you move your army across the water to start raiding?Thanks.

**Gildas** · 03-12-2005, 00:50

Well i'm just repeating myself now but, you need to have a chain of ships from the province your army is in to the province you want to attack. then just move the army to that province (you don't need to put the army onto any of the ships. its not RTW.)

**CherryDanish** · 03-14-2005, 15:31

Originally Posted by Age

I am not getting my question answered.I would like to know how to move my warriors across the sea to start the camp off.I haven't turned the year yet as I want to do get set up for a raid but I am having a hard time getting my warriors across the sea.When I pick them up and place them on Britain they plop themselves back onHordaland?What am I doing wrong and I can't get them into the ships on the map?Thanks

You need to have ships in every sea region between your troops and their destination, they have to be in those regions one round and there can be no enemy ships in those sea regions. So, to move troops from denmark to scottland (for example) you'd need a minimum of 2 ships (one in the mouth of the Baltic near Denmark, one in the region north of the english channel). Once the link is made, you drag and drop your troops to the new land.

**Deus Ex** · 03-14-2005, 18:11

they also must start the turn in a coastal privince with a dock.

**CherryDanish** · 03-14-2005, 18:16

Originally Posted by Deus Ex

they also must start the turn in a coastal privince with a dock.

Yes, sorry. I should have added that.

**Oaty** · 03-14-2005, 21:25

Originally Posted by Deus Ex

they also must start the turn in a coastal privince with a dock.

Vikings don't need ports/docks to move that is one of there advantages.

**Deus Ex** · 03-15-2005, 00:58

aye, that's true. I had forgotten about that (I haven't played a viking campaign yet). BUT you still need to be in a coastal province

**bluebird** · 03-15-2005, 14:15

when you pick the unit up all possible destinations will go white. If chosen destination is not white you can't go there, if yellow you can go there in two turns. Also your unit must be ready to go - i.e. hasn't already moved or is returning from defeat or ransom. It's unlikely that any Anglo-Saxons have blockaded you so just spread out those longboats leaving one in each province.

**mfberg** · 03-15-2005, 17:51

The Viking homelands are not invadeable (I just made a new word, whee!!) from the english/irish islands with the ships from the english/irish build tree. Only the Vikings have a deep sea ship that allows movement through the middle sea. To invade the viking homelands you have to either bribe the vikings themselves in one of the lands, or cause a rebellion and then bribe the rebels, and then invade the other land with a stack from the one you have taken.
My second to last battle in my last game was full stack of welsh bandits and archers/armoured spears/horsemen versus a full stack of huscarles, I finally turned the viking homelands green.

mfberg