How can I make Navy Battles sink or swim style?

[Commander Shepard]

In other words, I'd like to have it such that the Navy battles are of an "all or nothing" style; If you lose a battle, then you loose your entire fleet. I hear Roma Surrectum does this but I cannot figure out how...It is just kind of annoying to have to constantly chase navies around and I am looking for a way around that. Anyone have any ideas?


Edit: Sorry mods, I think this belong somewhere in Miscellaneous. You may move it wherever you see fit.

[Aradan]

Try increasing the naval units morale a good deal (30+).

Moved.

[Commander Shepard]

Thanks I will definately Try this...I will post back with results.

[Squid]

I'm pretty sure you get those results in RS due to the increased movement rate. If the fleet can't move out of the movement area of the winning fleet it gets killed. I don't think all naval battles end with the complete destruction of the losing fleet.

[Commander Shepard]

Increased movement points, or do you mean to say decreased moovement points?

[Squid]

Increased movement points, RS greatly increases the default movement points over vanilla.

[Kylan271]

I considered this at one stage as too many pirate spawns to chase down. However,using cheats ahem 'reset character' I found it boring to completely win against my enemy every time. And even though you want a solution in one battle,for good or bad,it is enjoyable more to survive a battle and regroup&retrain rather than complete wipeout or victory. If my army during transport survives after an attack more happier for me...,your way aghhhh...bye bye. I use ancilliaries to boost my Admirals and hopefully traits and upgrades then pay back on these pirates etc...^_*

Remember,when one of your ships goes down,then you know you're in the school yard! Welcome to RTW!!!

[Subrosa Florens]

What I did was dramatically increase the attack values and morale of all ships while decreasing the defense and number of soldiers per vessel. I still sometimes get ships surviving a defeat, but not often.

For example, my biremes:

type             naval biremes
dictionary       naval_bireme      ; Bireme
category         ship
class            light
voice_type       Medium_1
soldier          roman_light_infantry, 6, 0, 1
ship             light warship
attributes       sea_faring
formation        1.2, 1.8, 2.4, 2.4, 3, square
stat_health      1, 0
stat_pri         20, 0, no, 0, 0, melee, blade, slashing, none, 25 ,1
stat_pri_attr    no
stat_sec         0, 0, no, 0, 0, no, no, no, none, 25 ,1
stat_sec_attr    no
stat_pri_armour  0, 1, 0, flesh
stat_sec_armour  0, 0, flesh
stat_heat        0
stat_ground      0, 0, 0, 0
stat_mental      18, normal, untrained
stat_charge_dist 30
stat_fire_delay  0
stat_food        60, 300
stat_cost        1, 660, 100, 70, 100, 660
ownership        roman, greek, carthaginian, eastern, egyptian, pontus, romans_scipii, romans_julii