I have to ask why whether transport ships can also be massive merchant sail only vessels in rome2?

[Destraex]

Here at 1:45 you see what passes for transport ships in rome2. I have to ask why whether transport ships can also be massive merchant sail only vessels?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1LiN0M7pOs

[theDaedricPrince]

Huh?

[Ringir]

delete

[Keyser]

It's not a transport ship, lionheart10x is wrong, it's a "raiding hemiolia", if he had looked at his cursors he would have known, from what i recall of the CA "lets play" about Carthage, it seems light ships as those are part of a "naval garrison" for port town. They are probably the lightest ships available. Historically they were used for scouting and as dispatch vessels.

We don't know yet how the transport ships will look and if they will include sailing ships for the mediterranean factions as merchants won't appear and the only sailing ships mentinoned so far are the venetii ships.
So maybe the transport ship will be sailing ship, we don't know yet.

[Destraex]

I see. Thank you for setting me straight Keyser.

[Keyser]

Well reading the wikipedia articles about hellenistic navies, they make a reference to hemiola being used as transport vessels by romans... But i guess if the hemiola in the video was a transport ship, it wouldn't have been called "raiding hemiola", so the question of how the transport ships will look remains open.

[Destraex]

These are more the kind of ships I expect.

[Destraex]

The hemoila is far to small to be a transport ship unless just for messengers and diplomats.

This actually has some pretty good information
http://www.romanseas.com/images/rs_catalog.pdf

Not really a large enough vessel to carry many men.

[torongill]

There won't be any merchant ships in Rome 2.

[Destraex]

There won't be any merchant ships in Rome 2.

Damn not even for the purpose of being transports?