Basic game questions

[spankenmonkey]

I am playing the grand campaign. with England

in the first mission that the commentator lady gives you. save Georgia from the Indians. when you zoom to location it doesn't really show you were to attack. Georgia should be by Florida. Spain has all that territory. New York is owned by the Indians. is that were I attack?

when I try to land troops on the Leeward islands my ship caption says. were a fleet sir not an army. damn smart ♥♥♥ anyway

oh. how do you retrain troops

sry for the stupid ?. my 1st go at a game like this

[morteduzionism]

I am playing the grand campaign. with England

in the first mission that the commentator lady gives you. save Georgia from the Indians. when you zoom to location it doesn't really show you were to attack. Georgia should be by Florida. Spain has all that territory. New York is owned by the Indians. is that were I attack?

Never played as the Brits so bare with me...

I don't think you "attack" anywhere. At least not to "save" Georgia, there should be a city there that you'll probably have to keep. Basically don't lose the settlement to Native Americans.

oh. how do you retrain troops

Placing the troops in any building (i.e. iron workshop, farm, port, textile mill, etc) whether it's your building or not...

Once in the building click on the unit in question...

To the right of the Review Panel you'll see a little "+"...click that...

It does cost money so keep an eye out for how much you spend

sry for the stupid ?. my 1st go at a game like this

The only "stupid" question is the one not asked.

[spankenmonkey]

Never played as the Brits so bare with me...

I don't think you "attack" anywhere. At least not to "save" Georgia, there should be a city there that you'll probably have to keep. Basically don't lose the settlement to Native Americans.


Placing the troops in any building (i.e. iron workshop, farm, port, textile mill, etc) whether it's your building or not...

Once in the building click on the unit in question...

To the right of the Review Panel you'll see a little "+"...click that...

It does cost money so keep an eye out for how much you spend


The only "stupid" question is the one not asked.

ok thanks ill try that..

how do i attack an island like the Leeward islands. i am sure "well pretty sure anyway" i got a bunch of troops on my ships at the jamica port. but i cant get them off my ships to attack the island.

thanks again for you help

[eXistenZ]

Well most island are easy attacked by loading your troops in a ship and disembark them at the port. If you just unload them on the beach, they won't be able to move anymore that turn.

So just invade the port with your ship. Unless there is a ship in the port, then it will not be possible

[spankenmonkey]

Well most island are easy attacked by loading your troops in a ship and disembark them at the port. If you just unload them on the beach, they won't be able to move anymore that turn.

So just invade the port with your ship. Unless there is a ship in the port, then it will not be possible

hi.. when i attack the port in leeward island my ship just blocks the port. does that mean the
pirates have a ship in the port. when i try to land troops my ship captain says were a fleet not an armey. or he says thats land sir.

[eXistenZ]

hi.. when i attack the port in leeward island my ship just blocks the port. does that mean the
pirates have a ship in the port. when i try to land troops my ship captain says were a fleet not an armey. or he says thats land sir.

Been a bit long since i played it but i'll try:

Does your ship goes into the port (so that you can only see the banner, and not the ships anymore), or does he stays outside, and lays a ring around the port? if he does the second, you should also hear a "klang" sound, that's when he is blockading.

Someone else will be pobably more specific than me

[morteduzionism]

ok thanks ill try that..

how do i attack an island like the Leeward islands. i am sure "well pretty sure anyway" i got a bunch of troops on my ships at the jamica port. but i cant get them off my ships to attack the island.

thanks again for you help

Like everyone else said the best way is to land them is at the port.

Changing troops from land to sea and vice versa can be weird...

The best way to know if they're on the ships is to click on the fleet in question, if there's an "army" tab...you got them...if not...guess you have to go back to the port...lol

When approaching islands/ports unless you have a full stack of Galleons or better you should try to approach sneakily...creep up and see if there's a fleet in the port and if so how many ships and what type they are...

Like eXistenZ said,

Pirates can grow strong very quickly at sea

[spankenmonkey]

Like everyone else said the best way is to land them is at the port.

Changing troops from land to sea and vice versa can be weird...

The best way to know if they're on the ships is to click on the fleet in question, if there's an "army" tab...you got them...if not...guess you have to go back to the port...lol

When approaching islands/ports unless you have a full stack of Galleons or better you should try to approach sneakily...creep up and see if there's a fleet in the port and if so how many ships and what type they are...

Like eXistenZ said,

HA HA.. yea i didn't have troops on my ships. i havem landed now


so a few more questions .. k

when your getting Recruits from the Recruitment center is there a quick way to get them all, instead of clicking one at a time moving them to land. then going back to the Recruitment center to get a different group. its the same way with ships. just pull one group at a time?


by what turn should you have your trade ships making you money. and how do i get them to the yellow circles there suppose to sit on. i can see the gold circles on the mini map but i cant find the trade theater. i have made it to turn 10 and i am going broke

i did some serious butt kicking with my navy last night. but i cant seem to catch a enemy ship to capture it. they just high tail it out of there. i click on the capture icon and tell a ship to attack it. but it just not working as easy as it did in the tutorial

thanks again to everybody for helping such a Noob

[eXistenZ]

HA HA.. yea i didn't have troops on my ships. i havem landed now


so a few more questions .. k

when your getting Recruits from the Recruitment center is there a quick way to get them all, instead of clicking one at a time moving them to land. then going back to the Recruitment center to get a different group. its the same way with ships. just pull one group at a time?


by what turn should you have your trade ships making you money. and how do i get them to the yellow circles there suppose to sit on. i can see the gold circles on the mini map but i cant find the trade theater. i have made it to turn 10 and i am going broke

i did some serious butt kicking with my navy last night. but i cant seem to catch a enemy ship to capture it. they just high tail it out of there. i click on the capture icon and tell a ship to attack it. but it just not working as easy as it did in the tutorial

thanks again to everybody for helping such a Noob

1) I'm not sure what you mean. If you mean selecting units, you cn use the CTRL or the Shift button. Clicking on the first unit, and then on the last, while holding shift down, will select all those in between

2) Only trade ships can make money. They are the one with the coin icon in the top. To sail to a trade theather, you need to sail to the end of your home theathre (most likely europe, so the the most southern point of marrocco), and there you will see the transition areas. right click and you will get a mini-map, and you can sail to any theatre you want.

3) I'm not that good in ship battling, so someone else will answer you

Happy to help and check out the guides in the scriptorium about battling, economy and government
types:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=157

It's difficult for everyone in the beginning, and this total war is very different from Rome or Medievall. And have you done the tutorial? it is named "Road to independence", unlike plain "tutorial" in the previous games... If you haven't done it, do it. Not only for educationel purposes, but you will unlock the USA as playable faction

[morteduzionism]

when your getting Recruits from the Recruitment center is there a quick way to get them all, instead of clicking one at a time moving them to land. then going back to the Recruitment center to get a different group. its the same way with ships. just pull one group at a time?

If you mean you want to move all the units at the same time then you can click "Ctrl + A" that will select all units...

If you want to de-select one or two units while still holding Ctrl simply click on the unit you want de-selected.

by what turn should you have your trade ships making you money. and how do i get them to the yellow circles there suppose to sit on. i can see the gold circles on the mini map but i cant find the trade theater. i have made it to turn 10 and i am going broke

I mean technically you can get a trade ship there as fast it takes to recruit the ship and sail it to the zone...however...

It'll probably be sunk once it gets there.

A point you should know: the more trade ships you use the more money you make from a trade point (it's not infinite so 20 ships might not make as much as 2 or 3)

I'd suggest building up different types of fleets. One of which should be a Trade Fleet. I don't know which faction you play but they should have access to some type of larger trade vessel (something besides an Indiaman)...put together a fleet that you think would survive an attack or two in the trade zone (pirates and rival factions will try to sink your fleet) and send them to the zone.

Economics are not straightforward in this game. It's not complicated but it's not as simple as Rome (I know you didn't play)...try not to maintain too large of an army/garrisons. Constantly check your finances to make sure you're staying out of the red. A good rule of thumb is to have taxes pay for armies and trade pay for navies. That means do not let the upkeep for either one exceed the amounts you bring in from taxes/trade.

i did some serious butt kicking with my navy last night. but i cant seem to catch a enemy ship to capture it. they just high tail it out of there. i click on the capture icon and tell a ship to attack it. but it just not working as easy as it did in the tutorial

Immobilize the ship first. Take out the sails to prevent the ship from moving and most importantly kill the enemy crew with grape shot before boarding the ship

You'd be irked if you finally managed to board a ship only for their crew to kill your boarders...lol

You'll have to practice maneuvering the ship to get good enough to come along the side of another ship and rake the crew with grape shot

[Tim1988]

Georgia is the territory just above Florida. The capital (which you need to capture to take the territory) is Savannah. If you click on the objectives button (looks like a cup in the bottom right, by end turn), you should be able to get up a map of your mission, with the territories needed highlighted. To get the 13 colonies you will have usually have to fight some Indians, French and Spanish.

Erm, not sure why your ships say that. Can you not unload the troops then?

To retrain troops, select the ones you want retrained, and then click on the top of the three buttons to the right of the unit cards (has a person with a plus sign next to it). It will take a couple of turns for them to get back to full strength.

Hope that helps. Any other questions just ask. i usually play as the British myself, so have plenty of experience with them.

[ODaly]

For disembarking an army onto the coast (as opposed to in a port), if you hover your cursor a little ways inland, it should change into an icon of a figure with an arrow pointing "away." If you're not in the Area of Control of an enemy fleet (most likely in a nearby port), the army should disembark itself.

If the cursor doesn't change to the "disembark" icon, the only thing I can think of is that maybe you don't actually have the army riding along with the fleet, or that there is no room to place the army (Malta, for example, is sometimes problematic this way). Then you might try disembarking on one of the "attached" islands and moving in from there.

[eXistenZ]

For disembarking an army onto the coast (as opposed to in a port), if you hover your cursor a little ways inland, it should change into an icon of a figure with an arrow pointing "away." If you're not in the Area of Control of an enemy fleet (most likely in a nearby port), the army should disembark itself.

If the cursor doesn't change to the "disembark" icon, the only thing I can think of is that maybe you don't actually have the army riding along with the fleet, or that there is no room to place the army (Malta, for example, is sometimes problematic this way). Then you might try disembarking on one of the "attached" islands and moving in from there.

Like he says: keep your fleet away from pirates, certainly when you are carrying troops. Unload them on an island that is attached to it(you notice this by the brownish beam). after unloading, try to keep your ships out of their area of movement

Pirates can grow strong very quickly at sea, so you'll have to wipe out their settlements before they can create a big fleet.

[dutch81]

Boarding after they route will result in capturing the ship ... if you use your big ships to pound them into submission ... & keep the small ships out of the battle so they don't get damaged ... then when they rout use your smaller ships to capture them (they are faster) ... just make sure they are routing when the battle is essentially finished otherwise the fleeing ship might suddenly decide to rejoin the battle.

Never end the battle when all enemy ships rout this is the time to capture as many as you can!

In a land battle if they all rout you could click end battle as somehow my units continue to make many kills after even units that were never engaged ... this is NOT the case in a naval battle.

[spankenmonkey]

howdy

the lady in the game keeps telling me i could make more money if i upgrade my ports. but my ports never have the upgradeable hammer above them. how do i upgrade the ports then

thanks

[eXistenZ]

Resarch "division of labour" , it allows to build a bigger trading port, which allows more trade routes

[spankenmonkey]

Resarch "division of labour" , it allows to build a bigger trading port, which allows more trade routes

thanks. this game mixes me up that way. it always tells me to do something i cant do yet

[♔Darmoth♔]

Just wait until you've researched every technology in the game, and all your farms are now Palatial Estates, and she still keeps telling you to upgrade your farms. CA left out another key feature... the ability to bend the adviser over your knee and spank her.


Why... is everyone looking at me that way?

[magman]

Because i have no idea what she looks like. Turning advice off was the second thing I did after setting the unit size to ultra.

[spankenmonkey]

What in the heck is the trick to stopping revolts? I think I am lowering taxes in the region.

To lower taxes you go to the polices tab, and select the region with arrows at the top of the window. Then apply tax exempt. Right?

Any other tips. I have been trying to take over Spain for two days. All I do is run all over the country chasing down the damn rebels

Thanks for helping