Armys on ships

[Ozzman1O1]

Lets Say I put A group of infantry to board a ship to sail to india,some ottomans attack me while im sailing,will that group of infantry fight in the naval battle?

[pevergreen]

No. That has been said by CA, it would add too much extra coding etc.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Lets Say I put A group of infantry to board a ship to sail to india,some ottomans attack me while im sailing,will that group of infantry fight in the naval battle?

Only if they are elephants.

Pevergreen will probably mod to include camels though...

[Martok]

Pevergreen will probably mod to include camels though...

And he would be right to do so.

[Abokasee]

What im wondering is will they suffer from dieseases like scurvy and the like?

[Rhyfelwyr]

Yeah a kind of plague feature on the ships would be nice. You could try to sneak a spy on board while they are in port.

Speaking of sabotaging ships, I remember hearing about a tiny submarine thing that was operated by one man, and drilled holes into the bottom of ships while they were anchored. Would be an entertaining video to see if spies or assassins could do this. I know agents aren't in the game, but there must be some form of espionage somehow...

EDIT: And trust Martok to reply to my camel post within the hour! When most of us get bored, we refresh the page to see if anything's happening, but Martok must be typing 'camel' into the google search feature.

[pevergreen]

Tosa kindly installed a third party product that sends myself and Martok a link whenever a post is made with the word "camel".

[Csargo]

camel

[Martok]

camel

You rang?



Anyway, back on topic....

So I'm not entirely clear on something: Will troops in Empire travel directly on the ships you build? Or will it be like in MTW/RTW, where they're essentially being transported by boats and your ships are merely escorting the (unseen) transports?

[rajpoot]

I think by the sound of it this time they'll be the seen transport ships, which'll vanish only on the event of batle and reappear immidiatly after........

[Furious Mental]

That is a bit lame. Really if we are aiming to stop an invasion force it should be our discretion to try to evade the escorts and just go right in and wreck the transports.

[rajpoot]

Well, that's what the CA folks here are saying aren't they?

They wont appear on decks in naval battles. They will be carried in transports.

The They here refers to elephants , but one can be sure that it'll be similars for other units too, so, the armies are in the transports, which ofcourse, won't participate in the battle.........
Unless, there is a distinction between elephants and infantry where the latter can be transported using warships and the like.....

[Furious Mental]

Yeah I know, I just wish we had the option.

[Csargo]

How will the game calculate how many of your soldiers are lost? If the transports were shown then it's likely some of them would be sunk or damaged with some of the soldiers killed. I don't see how this could be realistically calculated.

[Vladimir]

What about snakes? And I don't mean Milan.