Put 20 stacks of trade vessels on all trade routes. So forget your army, forget worthless colonial holdings, forget Indians. Step 5: Repeat until you have all the trade routes.īut seriously, if you are playing England, the strategy you should follow should be based on the historical reality, it works well for them. Step 4: If anyone is currently parking ships on that trade route, destroy their ships with your fleet then put your trade ships on that trade route. Step 3: Find one of the "trade routes", the coast of Africa is lousy with them. Step 2: Build a trade fleet while you are building your navy, you have plenty of ports. Step 1: Build a navy, it should be comprised of 4th and 5th rates primarily. Here's how you make bank in Empire as England. I don't know why you can't afford a large navy, I assume it might be because you built up a large army to deal with the Iroquois? It's really time consuming and pretty stupid. It can be done.but, I really don't see why any player would bother. I think your problem is you are trying to destroy galleons with brigs. Is there anything I can do? Can I remove Spain from the game? I'd settle for that. The management and land-battle parts of the game are really good fun, but the sea battles are killing my enjoyment of it. If you've got to the end of this post, please know that I didn't come here to shit on something you love, I'm 30 hours into this game and I've really enjoyed playing it, and I want your help to better love it.
I send forth each Sloop in turn, to meet identical fate.Īnd as it stands right now, I feel like even if I could get this tactic to work, is this fun? Do I want to devote the limited time I have to play this game to chipping my way past an obstacle that seems to be borne of a lapse in the developer's judgement more than anything else? Sure, I could play as Spain, or any more land-based power, but I refuse to believe there isn't a way around this. I send forward my Brig (with game speed turned way up) and the tactic works! Slowly they're getting dismasted - and then a lucky shot must have hit the powder store on my Brig, because one of the handful of shots it's taken simply explodes it. Opportunity presents itself when a fleet out of Cuba attacks my fleet in the Bahamas, comprised of two Sloops and a Brig. I do some research and learn that my Brigs and 5th Rates have superior range and speed so I should just stay out of range and chain-shot them into submission. And that becomes the theme of the game, and I'm bringing in about 4000 gold each turn, I can't support a large navy. That force boards their ships and begins heading South, past Spain, and is destroyed by a pair of Galleons. I make a note to find out if I can liberate conquered territories and continue preparing a force to claim India. Being a good friend, I declare war on Spain, though no action comes of it and Portugal falls quickly.
As I'm preparing a force, Spain goes to war with my ally, Portugal. I picked Great Britain for my first time and after a few turns building up my economy and protecting the Thirteen Colonies from the Iroquois, I decide it's time to begin claiming India. So I finish Road to Independence and move on to the Grand Campaign. I couldn't help but notice how badly that went for me when Galleons were involved, but it only happened once. I wasn't so into naval combat, but it didn't seem to come up much and I mostly ended up just auto-resolving them. This is my first Total War game, so I played through the Road to Independence campaign since it seemed designed for new players, and I enjoyed it a lot. I really appreciate how helpful this community as a whole has been, thank you. Portugal will simply have to be sacrificed. What can I do?ĮDIT: Thanks so much to everyone who has offered advice, it seems like my best bet is just to stamp Spain out ASAP or avoid war with them altogether, and just trick my way through naval battles when made to. I really enjoy the rest of the game, but this is a serious roadblock for me. TL DR: Spanish Galleons are making this game near-unplayable as Great Britain, and presumably any other highly maritime nation.
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