I'm trying my first muslim campaign at the moment and have found something peculiar about the Baggalas.

All ships I've tried with catholics and up to the Dhow stage with the Almos will only move one sea zone per turn. I now discover that the Baggies can move two, if not three sea areas per turn.

For example, Straits of Gibraltar to North Atlantic, too see if Ireland was still up for grabs (it wasn't) is two zones but ISTR the North Sea also lit up as available. On the following turn I could have reached the Baltic - 3 zones.
From Central Med, most of the rest of the med could be accessed and maybe just the one zone short of Constantinople.

Interestingly, access to the deep water zones did become unlocked for the baggalas after the compass discovery was announced. I'm still using vanilla 1.0 and have prior experience of the level 2 catholic/ortho ships not being able to do this - a known bug.

If someone can confirm this was fixed by the VI install or some subsequent patch I should be applying then, as well as being most grateful, I think I'd be happy to ditch yet another pair of unfinished 1.0 campaigns and finally get around to putting VI in place.


Sidebar:
It's a pity that the Speed 2, 3, or 4, listed on the ship desctiption parchment doesn't mean number of sea zones you can move through per year. You can sail around the entire world in less time than that! This would be handy when exploring, reccie-ing and either evading enemy fleets or formating en masse for a big attack then redistributing into trade-chain positions the following year.

I could go on about silly troop-movement restrictions but it would side-track the whole point of the thread...