The victor will immediately begin shelling the loser's docks, and that will be the end of the opponent's naval ambitions. More importantly, late naval engagements are likely to only occur once. The white fleet might be more relevant, but it's an age 4 card, so you're unlikely to see it put to good use. So while Ports get cheaper warships, the considerable damage and range advantages enjoyed by the British more than make up for it. Offshore Support - 10 more range to all warships. Team Monitor Combat - 15% hp/damage to monitors. Naval Gunners - 25% damage bonus to all ships. Team Coastal Defences - Buildings receieve +1x damage bonus versus ships. Portugese White Fleet - Spawn 4 fishing boats from every dock. Navigation School - 20% cost discount and 25% training time reduction for all warships. Here's the applicable naval cards from each side, discounting those that both sides have access to: In fact, any civ with both Admiralty and Offshore Support will eventually wear the Sioux down and force them off the water entirely. So a patient, persistent Aztec player can wrest control of water from a Sioux player by meatshielding his range tlalocs and keeping his fleet numbers maxed out. (War hut anti-ship fire sucks the great floppy) Aztecs, on the other hand, have durable ships and can maintain ultimately higher numbers (two different types of heavy war canoe) with longer range.
When that happens, I lose control of the water, and my cluster of warhuts guarding my docks present no real deterrent to ranged attacks on them or the docks. The major problem with Sioux is that over a long game, wood tends to dry up. The best counter you have will be a battery of culvs and mortars since their game-physics makes the siege bonus irrelevant. Your shore defences will disappear like beer at a frat party. I will melt away your frigates and monitors like hot butter into popcorn. As long as my wood production is prodigious and steady, all I have to do is continue spamming ordinary canoes into conflicts and I will eventually outpace you by siege dancing. So while tlaloc + water dance + Offshore Support is probably the best native navy all around, and a lot more durable than the flimsy Sioux canoes, the Sioux have a vicious assault tactic they can use to deadly effect if you're not expecting the Plainsmen to take to the water. This makes Sioux naval combat fragile, but deadly if you do not have superior numbers, i.e. So, the ordinarily paltry attack of canoes and War Canoes in the Sioux navy is magnified by the much larger Siege Dance bonus. Look at the tactics file for a Frigate if you don't see how this is. If you switch to siege dance while attacking boats or towers with your inferior Sioux canoes, you will find that attack boosted considerably more than Water Dance does - because the game-physics of ships in combat is similar to that of wooden houses. Quoted from Berminator: Saffah-AZTECS have super canoes (tlalocs), not the Sioux!Never said they didn't but you seem to have missed the point I was trying to make about the Sioux. Again, this is a result of the Navy occupying the zenith of military endeavor in the British Isles, whereas it was of secondary importance to most of contintental europe.
Other European countries would have the command be given to untrained aristocrats, whereas in the British Navy, the meritocracy of promotion produced commanders of middle and even working class origins.
Which is not to say that the British didn't have some skilled generals on land, but no British military figure rivals the fame and glory heaped upon Nelson, where in continental Europe, the most famous names are those of army commanders.Īnother advantage enjoyed by the British Navy was that since the time of Sir Francis Drake, command of Naval ships was left solely in the hands of trained, experienced officers. It meant that the brightest British military careers took place in the Navy, where in continental powers, the army was a more coveted billet. I know its a bit of topic but Britain barely ever had more naval power than other navaly strong countries (france and spain ) they just used them better (using superior tactics to win battles rather than sheer numbers) and had them out fighting rather than sitting in port.That's the advantage of being on an island, where the rival powers had to share land borders with their european rivals.
0 kommentar(er)
