Naval Warfare

**Neelix** · September 03, 2007, 08:27 AM

Hi there.

I've been playing RTR Platinum and loving it, but one thing that has been bugging the hell out of me is naval battles. I swear they are done randomly. On so many occasions have I had a vastly superior fleet in, in terms of skill of the admiral and numbers, but have lost. And very often if I do win I will lose almost all of the fleet. What exactly has been changed about naval warfare in RTR? It seems like the outcome of the naval battles is determined randomly, but I doubt that is so (but if it is I am incredibly unlucky

).

Thanks.

**Delvecchio1975** · September 03, 2007, 10:07 AM

in my medium/medium campaign as the macedons, i lose ships no matter how experienced or big my fleet is. 1 seleucid bireme against 4 mac quinqueremes plus 4 triremes; result? 2 quinqueremes sunk, 1 bireme sunk. repeat for egyptians and greeks. It's frikkin' expensive, fighting at sea ...

**Artax** · September 03, 2007, 12:36 PM

Well when I was playing Carthaginian campaign my ships was sinking everything in their way. I usually used the fleets of five ships and later they all had 3 gold chevrons.

I don't think that naval battles are resolved randomly. And it depends on what difficulty you are playing.

**Neelix** · September 03, 2007, 01:04 PM

Originally Posted by Delvecchio1975

in my medium/medium campaign as the macedons, i lose ships no matter how experienced or big my fleet is. 1 seleucid bireme against 4 mac quinqueremes plus 4 triremes; result? 2 quinqueremes sunk, 1 bireme sunk. repeat for egyptians and greeks. It's frikkin' expensive, fighting at sea ...

Yes I've been playing as the Macedons for a couple of days now and got pretty far, but have constantly had problems with naval fighting. Is it just the Macadons that are unlucky at sea?

**Companion Cavalry** · September 03, 2007, 01:52 PM

Definately not just the macedonians, as the selevkids it's frikin'

hard to fight battles at sea, especially against experianced rebels.

Six quinqueremes and a second navy of ten triremes could not defeat a navy of

a single longship

**ciprianrusu** · September 11, 2007, 08:12 AM

I have the same problem. A fleat of 2 biremes, 2 triremes and a corvus quinquireme (i'm playing as the Roman republic), was defeated by a fleet af only 4 longboats.

**Delvecchio1975** · September 11, 2007, 08:39 AM

Originally Posted by ciprianrusu

I have the same problem. A fleat of 2 biremes, 2 triremes and a corvus quinquireme (i'm playing as the Roman republic), was defeated by a fleet af only 4 longboats.

That was the Illyrians I suppose? Might be explained by their silver chevrons though .... nasty sailors!