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your invasion army will suffer a penalty dur-
ing the ensuing combat. The penalty applied
is the same penalty you receive for crossing a
river into combat.
If a ship suffers attrition damage during
transport, this will not harm the regiment
that it is transporting, provided that the ship
does not sink. If a vessel sinks and this results
in there being too few remaining transports to
accommodate the army, one regiment will be
eliminated at random and be deemed as having
gone down with the ship.
Naval transports are not very healthy environ-
ments for large numbers of men. Regiments
suffer very high attrition rates during trans-
port, so you should try to limit the distances
travelled or the time they are left idle to the
greatest degree possible. As you would expect,
a regiment will not receive its regular monthly
reinforcements while it remains at sea.
There is one more major aspect of land and na-
val activity: exploration. This is the subject of
the next chapter.