Blockades

[DanishPosh]

Hi everyone

I am new to the forum but have been playing STW for a long time and just recently started on MTW VI.
I do not have RTW simply because my old timer PC cannot handle it. Alas, one day

I will prop. have a few questions for stuff I cant find on the forums (no search function yet).

So here's the first one:
I am playing the Danes and have all of Britain/Ireland in my possesion. I keep these territories with a minimum of forces whilst I keep a strong fleet in the Channel. I'm thinking that it's impossible for an enemy to move a force through the Channel waters while I have my fleet in it.
I thought so because that is how it works for me when someone puts a boat there I cant move back and forth.

But to my suprise the Spanish were able to invade Wessex by putting a single boat in the Channel while my fleet was still in it.
Why does the blockade only work one way?
Does it have anything to do with how fast the ships are?
My fleet consists of Caravels and Longboats.

Please

[Silver Rusher]

Welcome to the org.

I'm not sure, but if you were not already enemies with the Spanish they would probably have been able to do it anyway. Can't really remember, haven't played MTW in ages.

[mfberg]

They were either able to get around your fleet by having their ships in the other seas that border your lands (both the Irish Sea and English Channel border Wessex), or they walked in, but you would have seen that.

mfberg

[DanishPosh]

They were either able to get around your fleet by having their ships in the other seas that border your lands (both the Irish Sea and English Channel border Wessex), or they walked in, but you would have seen that.

mfberg

Hi mfberg

They did not have any ships in the Irish sea.

What do you mean walked in? Is it possible to move from Flanders to Wessex without a fleet?

[drone]

What do you mean walked in? Is it possible to move from Flanders to Wessex without a fleet?

Yes, you can cross the channel there without needing boats. Sort of like the "bridge" between Denmark and Sweden.

Welcome to the .Org

Edit-> Can't check now, but I think there is a dotted line on the strategic map between provinces with these paths.

[DanishPosh]

Yes, you can cross the channel there without needing boats. Sort of like the "bridge" between Denmark and Sweden.

Welcome to the .Org

Thanx mate

Funny thing is that both connections exists in our time (the tunnel and the bridge) but in 1100?

Are there any others of these crossing? The Strait of Gibraltar?

[yesdachi]

Did they invade via the sea or the fictional bridge that connects Wessex to mainland Europe? If it was the bridge then they don’t need a ship in the water.

[DanishPosh]

Did they invade via the sea or the fictional bridge that connects Wessex to mainland Europe? If it was the bridge then they don’t need a ship in the water.

Hi yesdachi

Is this possible or are you pulling my leg?

And if possible, from which territories can you "walk" in?

Cheers

[yesdachi]

Hi yesdachi

Is this possible or are you pulling my leg?

And if possible, from which territories can you "walk" in?

Cheers

I would never pull your leg. Sarcastic and argumentative but never leg pulling.

I believe this has been a topic of some discussion in the past prompting some to create mods that don’t allow these “bridges”. I think they make the game a little simpler but one could argue that it is not realistic to think a bunch of knights and their horses could swim or rowboat the English Channel or the straits of Gibraltar.

[DanishPosh]

I would never pull your leg. Sarcastic and argumentative but never leg pulling.

I believe this has been a topic of some discussion in the past prompting some to create mods that don’t allow these “bridges”. I think they make the game a little simpler but one could argue that it is not realistic to think a bunch of knights and their horses could swim or rowboat the English Channel or the straits of Gibraltar.

I thought so

Is this incorporated into the XL mod?
Been hearing good things about it so far.

[dgfred]

Did they invade via the sea or the fictional bridge that connects Wessex to mainland Europe? If it was the bridge then they don’t need a ship in the water.

What fictional bridge??? Or are you kidding? Maybe that is
how England keeps trying to attack Flanders in my HRE game although I
have 4+ ships in the English Channel .