Gaining Naval Access to the Mediterranean

[CDRJohn]

Hi,

I am playing Great Britain and have Pirates (sounds familiar doesn't it) raiding my trade routes inside the Mediterranean Sea. I have sent a fleet there to deal with them but cannot get inside the Med. I demanded access to both Spain on one side and Morocco on the other paid a handsome fee to both, was granted access by both since Spain is on one side and Morocco on the other, but still can't seem to sail past the Gibraltar gate. Does not open nor can I figure out, how to get inside the Med to get the Pirates?

Anyone any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

John

[Silius Saurus]

I had the same issue when playing GB myself (my favorite faction )

I took the bold step of building a large, well equipped (howitzers, fire by rank, square format'n, dragoons) and well led (5 star gen'l)army and I stormed into The Barbary State city there and stamped them out like the plague. Follow up with a bible thumper and get the Muslims under control, then storm eastward, not stopping til you bump up against the Ottomans in Egypt. Then you'll have plenty of ports both military and commercial; then the Med is your oyster!

If the game hadn't crashed on my campaign I would have wrapped up my campaign in India and then gone after Spain thru Gibraltar and solved the problem permanently.

Sailing ships thru the straits of Gib, I sort of dragged and dropped the green arrow thru the strait and that's how you get past the zones of control.

[klesh]

Hi John,

You don't need military access from Spain or Morocco to get into the Med. However there is an issue (bug maybe) where other countries' ships can block the straits. There is only a small lane to make it through and if the AI has ships in that lane you can't get past. You then have 2 options:

1. Wait at the straits and hope that the AI moves out and you can get through. This could take a long time.

2. Declare war on whichever nations are in your way and destroy their fleets.


Also, its a good idea (before the strait is blocked) is to send your own fleet down there to secure the lane for yourself.

[Yodarkore]

2. Declare war on whichever nations are in your way and destroy their fleets.

I had a similar problem with my french mediteranean fleet not being able to leave the med sea, due to morocco ships bloacking Gibraltar straight. They didnt threated me nor being a target for me, i war dec-ed them, sunk their ships and fix the "problem" once and for all: they never put ships there even if we are still at war 20 years later without any more naval or land conflict ^^

Also, its a good idea (before the strait is blocked) is to send your own fleet down there to secure the lane for yourself.

This tactic is an old TW tactic: was very useful in RTW, a bit less in MTW

[Niccolo Maciavelli]

If the mediterranean means alot to you, dont compermise destroy anyone and everyone blockign the way, its often morroco, and their navy usually sucks anyway so it shouldnt be that hard.