User Guide

with any enemy soldiers on board stalking the
city, he looks for enemies close to shore to punish
with a barrage of arrows.
Warships.
Enemy warships are his third priority.
He will ram enemy warships and try to sink them
provided that there are no transport ships with
troops aboard or disembarked enemies for your
ship to attack.
Empty enemy transport ships.
Empty enemy
transports are your captain’s last priority. He’ll
attack them if there is nothing else for him to
assail.
Your captain reacts quickly to changing situations.
He’ll abandon a battle if a higher priority situation
develops. For example, if he is attacking a warship
when a transport ship carrying enemy soldiers sails into
the area he is protecting, he’ll disengage the enemy
warship and target the loaded transport.
Warship Orders
Give a warship orders by info-clicking on it or by
selecting it and using a keyboard command. Warships
can carry out the following orders:
Hold Position.
When told to Hold Position, the
warship will not budge from the spot you desig-
nate. It will defend itself by turning to face enemy
warships to minimize the damage enemies cause
by ramming (see page 180) and attack enemies in
range by shooting arrows. If several warships are
lined up and all have been given the Hold Position
order, the warships form a blockade with the goal
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after clicking the Military Structures button. Like all
structures built on the shore, wharves must be placed
on a straight edge of coast. Ships cannot navigate nar-
row channels of water, so make sure that the
Shipwright’s finished boat will have clear sailing to the
wharf. Wharves also need road access and a staff of
workers. This staff of workers is not the same as the
ship’s crew, which is drawn from another source and
does not reduce the city’s population or labor force.
Each wharf berths one ship, warships in Warship
Wharves and transport ships in Transport Wharves.
When ships are not engaged in battle or transporting
troops, it’s a good idea to keep them in their wharves.
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Warships patrol the waterways, ramming or shooting
at other ships that intend to inflict harm on the city.
Warships can also attack land soldiers with missile fire,
provided they are near the coast.
Attack Priorities
No matter which order you give a warship, its captain
always pursues the same priorities when attacking the
enemy. The captain’s priorities are:
Transport ships with enemy soldiers on board.
The
captain knows that his mission has largely failed if
enemy soldiers reach land. If there are any trans-
port ships carrying enemy soldiers in the city’s
waters, he will attack them first.
Disembarked enemies near the shore.
The cap-
tain’s second priority is recently disembarked
enemy soldiers. If there are no transport ships
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Transport Wharf
Warship Wharf