How do I build warships

[jackbush]

I'm England and the best ship I can build so far is the holk. I've seen other factions with warships and I need a bunch of those to clean up the Danish ships.

Along those lines: how do I get to the building chart that shows me what I need to build for specific units?
Thanks in advance.

[Leaf-Fan-Forever]

I'm England and the best ship I can build so far is the holk. I've seen other factions with warships and I need a bunch of those to clean up the Danish ships.

Along those lines: how do I get to the building chart that shows me what I need to build for specific units?
Thanks in advance.

England is stuck with Holks until the Gunpowder Event, which then enables you to build Gun Holks. The Northern waters don't have great opposing Navies in them anyways.

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Also, every faction only has 2 types of ship available to them before gunpowder. For most of the European factions that is Cogs and Holks. Denmark happens to have slightly different ships due to their viking heritage, but they are not significantly stronger to the point you should worry.

[Host of Valhalla]

The only fleets you need to worry about are those belonging to Mediterranean factions (excluding Muslims). Even later on, while the top available gunpowder ship to you is the Carrack.. Spain and Portugal will have a step above with the Grande Carrack. Since you can only auto-resolve battles, and strength is strictly limited to a limited variety of ships, I would recommend reserving a certain portion of your economic revenue to spam the best available ships into stacks that you can easily annihilate them with. Always remember, if a navy (or even army for that matter) is insufficient in size compared to the enemy, it will have a minimal effect and also be obliterated, so always keep units together at all costs.

[florin87]

I would recommend reserving a certain portion of your economic revenue to spam the best available ships into stacks that you can easily annihilate them with. Always remember, if a navy (or even army for that matter) is insufficient in size compared to the enemy, it will have a minimal effect and also be obliterated, so always keep units together at all costs.

there's no need to spam. a stack of about 5 holks and 5 cogs (replace with 5 gun holks and 5 holks once you discover gunpowder) will murder almost any AI fleet, unless you play on very hard of course.

the only ones you could have trouble with are the italians (including that overly bellicose pope) and the byzantines, as they are the only ones that tend to build large stacks of ships. but ideally by the time your fleet needs to come into play you already have all/most of their mainland settlements and they can't afford large navies anyhow.

as for armies numbers only count when you auto-resolve. a skilled player can defeat armies several degrees of magnitude larger.


EDIT: sorry for the double post

[Shrigs]

I'm England and the best ship I can build so far is the holk. I've seen other factions with warships and I need a bunch of those to clean up the Danish ships.

Along those lines: how do I get to the building chart that shows me what I need to build for specific units?
Thanks in advance.

Go to the scroll where you would build a building in a city/castle. Now, on that scroll there should be 3 round buttons below the list of buildings you can construct.

I think it goes (from left-to-right): Building Browser -- Advice (Not sure about that one) -- Settlement Details.

Click on the Building Browser, and then click on Ports, then right click on say, Shipwright so see your ships. The settlement Details info is pretty interesting too, you can see all of the issues with your city (if you were unaware)

[florin87]

advice tells you what buildings the game thinks you should build next. it is pure rubbish. it always suggests the cheapest one. if all buildings are at the same level it always suggests building churches, barracks or siege engine buildings.