Movement
There are several modes of movement in Eressea: Walking, riding on horses, or sailing over oceans on ships. Sometimes you may even fly or swim. For alle modes the orders MOVE or ROUTE are used.
Travel: By land or by sea
On land, it is possible to travel a distance of one region, so a unit can more from one region to the next. If the unit has enough horses and the Riding skill, it can travel one region further. If the regions are connected by road, it is possible to move up to two regions on foot or even up to three regions on horseback.
Movement is only possible in six directions: northeast, northwest, east, west, southeast and southwest. It is not possible to move straight north or south.
The order CARRY passenger-unit allows units to transport other units while travelling. The unit that is to be carried must have the order RIDE transporting-unit. Units that do not have the Riding skill can still transported along on horses or carts with this combination of orders. Of course, the carrying units must have enough capacity for the passengers and their equipment.
Travelling units may be stopped from passing through a region by guarding units (siehe GUARD).
If the cargo (including any passengers) is too heavy for a unit or ship, it cannot move. The total weight of the transported units and their goods and equipment, including silver, is checked against the carrying capacity (check this table to find out the weight of items).
TODO: Katapulte
| Weight | Capacity | |
|---|---|---|
| trolls | 20 | 10,8 |
| goblins | 6 | 4,4 |
| all other player races | 10 | 5,4 |
| horse | 50 | 20 |
| cart | 40 | 100 |
| boat | -/- | 50 |
| longboat | -/- | 500 |
| dragonship | -/- | 1000 |
| caravel | -/- | 3000 |
| trireme | -/- | 2000 |
| galleon | -/- | 20000 |
Roads
The speed of travel can be enhanced by building roads. If all regions that are passed through have the appropiate road network, you can travel one region further. If, for example, a unit wants to walk two regions to the east, it needs to start in a region with a (completed) road towards the east. In addition, the middle region needs to have roads to the east and west, and the destination needs to have a road from the west - all of which must be completed, too.
More information on building roads can be found here.
Pferd und Wagen
There are several modes of movement in Eressea: Walking, riding on horses, or sailing over oceans on ships. Sometimes you may even fly or swim. For alle modes the orders MOVE or ROUTE are used.
Travel: By land or by sea
On land, it is possible to travel a distance of one region, so a unit can more from one region to the next. If the unit has enough horses and the Riding skill, it can travel one region further. If the regions are connected by road, it is possible to move up to two regions on foot or even up to three regions on horseback.
Movement is only possible in six directions: northeast, northwest, east, west, southeast and southwest. It is not possible to move straight north or south.
The order CARRY passenger-unit allows units to transport other units while moving. The unit that is to be carried must have the order RIDE transporting-unit. Units that do not have the riding skill can still be transported along on horses or carts with this combination of orders. Of course, the carrying units must have enough capacity for the passengers and their equipment. Using FOLLOW UNIT followee oder FOLLOW SHIP followed-ship is mostly equivalent to the unit using the MOVE command itself, if the the followed unit also has a movement command. The followers must carry their own weight.
Travelling units may be stopped from passing through a region by guarding units (siehe GUARD).
If the cargo (including any passengers) is too heavy for a unit or ship, it cannot move. The total weight of the transported units and their goods and equipment, including silver, is checked against the carrying capacity (check this table to find out the weight of items).
TODO: Katapulte
| Weight | Capacity | |
|---|---|---|
| trolls | 20 | 10,8 |
| goblins | 6 | 4,4 |
| all other player races | 10 | 5,4 |
| horse | 50 | 20 |
| cart | 40 | 100 |
| boat | -/- | 50 |
| longboat | -/- | 500 |
| dragonship | -/- | 1000 |
| caravel | -/- | 3000 |
| trireme | -/- | 2000 |
| galleon | -/- | 20000 |
Roads
The speed of travel can be enhanced by building roads. If all regions that are passed through have the appropriate road network, you can travel one region further. If, for example, a unit wants to walk two regions to the east, it needs to start in a region with a (completed) road towards the east. In addition, the middle region needs to have roads to the east and west, and the destination needs to have a road to the west - all of which must be completed, too.
Horse and Carriage
The movement speed on foot without road is one region per turn; with a road, it's two. On horseback, you can move two regions without a road, and three regions with roads. A skill level 2 per 2 horses is required to ride. The unit rides automatically if it has enough riding levels for all the horses it owns and if the unit is not overloaded. If the unit is too heavily laden to ride, but not too heavily laden to move on foot, the unit moves through a single region (without roads). The unit is considered to be leading the horses by the bridle.
Horses' have a capacity of 20 WU/GE.
Carts have a capacity of 100 GE/WU. They must be pulled by 2 horses (per cart). But carts can also be transported as freight, for example on a boat or if the unit does not have enough horses with it; they have a weight of 40 UW/GE.
Four trolls can also pull a cart without horses, but only to one region. Only trolls can use cart without horses.
On foot, each person (even without riding skills) can lead a horse through a region. In addition, each person can lead four horses per riding skill level (a person with riding 1 can therefore lead a total of 5 horses). If the trolls transport both horses and carts, the horses have priority over the carts.
On horseback, each person may have two horses per riding level. It should be noted that the weight of the riders must be deducted from the capacity of the horses.
If it has too many horses, the unit can no longer move.
If a unit has several horses and carts, their transport capacity is simply added together. For example, 7 stones can be transported on 3 carts, whereas only one stone can be transported on a single cart.
Examples (we are assuming here that there are no roads)
- A 4-person unit with riding 1 can carry a maximum of 20 horses (4 horses anyway, plus 4 * 4 horses with riding 1) on foot. If it has no more than 8 horses with it and is not too heavy, it can move two hexes.
- If the same unit only carries 8 horses and 2 carts, it has a mounted capacity of 320GE (2 * 100GE for carts + 8 * 20GE for horses −4 * 10GE for riders). The exceptions to this rule are races with a different weight, where the rider's actual weight is of course deducted.
- A unit of 5 dwarves with no riding skills can lead 5 horses through a region carrying 127GE (5.4GE per dwarf and 20GE per horse).
- If the same unit also has 3 carts, it can transport 287GE of other goods (5.4GE per dwarf, 20GE per horse and 2 * 100GE for the carts being pulled minus 40GE for the cart to be transported, as 5 horses are only enough for 2 carts).
- A unit of 4 trolls with no riding skills and no horses can pull a cart over one region (two regions with roads) and transport 143.2GE (10.8GE per troll and 100GE on the cart).
- A unit of 4 trolls without riding skills can pull 4 horses and 3 carts (two behind the horses and one behind the 4 trolls) over a region, carrying 423.2GE (10.8GE per troll, 300GE on the cart and 20GE on each of the 4 horses).
- A unit of 4 trolls with riding 1 with 4 horses and two carts can move one region with 323.2GE (10.8GE per troll, 20GE per horse and 100GE per cart) or move two regions with 200GE (20GE per horse, 100GE per cart minus 80GE for the 4 trolls).
- A unit with riding 1, a cart and two horses can move 130 swords over two regions (the rider weighs 10 and must be deducted from the capacity when sitting on the cart). A unit with riding 1 and 4 people could move 20 horses and 10 carts over one region and 8 horses and four carts over two regions.
- If an empty cart with two horses is to be transported on a ship, the ship must have a free capacity of 140GE (40GE for the cart and 2 * 50GE for the horses).
Schiffsreisen
You can leave your island only with ships and, for example, open up new markets or establish direct contact with other factions. With a ship it is possible to move up to 7 regions, even more than 7 regions with the help of aquarians or with magic.
All ships larger than a boat (including longboats) can only dock in plains and forests. All other types of region (e.g. mountains, highlands, swamps, etc.) require a Harbour for ships to dock. If a ship tries to dock in an unsuitable region, it suffers damages. However, ships can set sail from anywhere, so you can build ships in any coastal region and launch them.
Ships cannot pass directly from one coast to a neighbouring coastal region without first sailing on an ocean region. Similarly, they can't leave in all directions, but only in the direction from which they came and in neighbouring directions. A ship coming from the east (report indicates then "coast east") can thus leave towards the east, the north-east and the south-east. However, if a region has a harbour, the ships of the owner of the harbour and of friendly factions (see HELFE) can go in any directions as long as they are oceanic regions.
On the high seas - i.e. ocean areas that are not bordered by a land region - ships can drift into a neighbouring area and suffer damage due to storms. This does not apply to ships ordering FOLLOW or Piracy.
To be able to sail a ship, you need a trained crew, i.e. units that have learnt the skill of sailing. In the following table, the sailing skill level of the captain (the first unit on the ship in the report) is indicated under "Captain". In addition, a certain overall level of sailing is required to pilot the ship. To achieve this, the sailing skill levels of all the persons on board are added together, including those of the captain's unit and units from "foreign" factions. The required value is shown in the table under "Crew". The range indicated in the table is valid per turn, i.e. a ship can sail a maximum of this distance per turn. Ships piloted by a unit of aquarians from an aquarian faction (migrant aquarians from a human faction do not count) can sail one extra hex.
Example:
- A trireme can be piloted by a unit of 30 persons with sailing 4 or by a unit of one person with sailing 4 and a unit of 58 persons with sailing 2. In all cases, it sails over 7 regions per turn (8 for Aquarians) and can carry 2000 GE, from which the weight of the crew is of course deducted.
- A dragonship with a level 2 unit of 25 persons moves 5 regions. However, with 3 level 20 persons, it can move 7 regions.
| Type | Range | Capacity | Captain/Crew | Shipcraft lvl | Qty of Wood |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boat | 2 | 50 | 1/2 | 1 | 5 |
| Longboat | 3 | 500 | 1/10 | 1 | 50 |
| Dragonship | 5* | 1000 | 2/50 | 2 | 100 |
| Caravel | 5 | 3000 | 3/30 | 3 | 250 |
| Trireme | 7 | 2000 | 4/120 | 4 | 200 |
| Galleon | 5 | 20000 | 5/250** | 5 | 2000 |
| * Dragonship range depends on captain skill
** When calculating the Galleons crews total skill, only min. T2 crews are counting. | |||||
| Captain | 2 | 6 | 18 | 54 | 162 |
| Range | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
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If a ship does not have a sufficient crew, it cannot set sail. If this happens at sea (for example due to combat or units starving for lack of money), it drifts until it reaches a coastal region. It then suffers damages every turn, so that it quickly sinks.
The total weight of all units on a ship, including the weight of horses, carts, persons and of course all goods and silver of the units, must be able to be transported by the ship. If this is not the case, or is no longer the case, the ship cannot sail. At sea, it will not sink immediately, but will drift. Ships capacities are shown in the table above and are always displayed in the report. The weights of items can be found in the section on items and those of persons of different races, in the table Weights and Capacities.
It is possible to group together several ships in a convoy. Details are described in the chapter on ships.
Units aboard a ship cannot execute long orders (with the exception of aquarians). Only the captain can give MOVE or ROUTE orders to navigate the ship. Up to 100 aquarians per ocean region can earn 10 silver each per turn with the WORK order. Nevertheless, all persons on the ship need the weekly upkeep, so it should always have enough silver on board.
When the ship is ashore, all the units on board can do something; they go ashore to work, so to speak. They can do this even if the ship leaves during the same turn. However, if the region is guarded by a non-allied faction, they cannot earn silver with WORK, ENTERTAIN or SELL.
If units want to leave a ship, they must first do so with LEAVE. If the region is not guarded by a non-allied faction, the units can move immediately with MOVE, otherwise they can only MOVE on the turn following the LEAVE order. This also applies to RIDE and CARRY.
Swimming
Aquarians in a ship can swim from an ocean region onto a directly adjacent land region (with the MOVE order), but the reverse is not true. Aquarians can not swim from a land region onto any ocean region. This works only if the unit isn’t overloaded. Swimming aquarians can carry items, but not horses. Transporting units of other races is not possible in this way, but aquarians can transport each other. This movement takes place before the movement of ships, so a ship can drop off units and then move on. LEAVE is not necessary when swimming from a ship, but is not even a mistake.
Damage to Ships
Travelling by sea is dangerous, and ships can be damaged on the high seas by storms, natural events or even creatures from the depths (or also if no one drives them).
Damage is expressed as a percentage and reduces capacity in proportion to the damage indicated; round down. Range, including all acceleration bonuses (aquarian, artefacts, spells), is also reduced in proportion; but in this case, always round up.
Example: A boat with an aquarian captain is 17% damaged.
- This reduces the capacity to (50)*0.83=41.5 (round down) 41 WU.
- The range (1+2)*0.83=2.49 (round up) therefore remains at 3.
If the damage exceeds 100%, the ship will sink with all units on board.
The following events will damage a ship :
- The ship was involved in a fight : 0%-20% damage (see Battle on ship)
- The ship was harmed by a spell, up to 90% damage.
- A tidal wave damages the ship, 50% damage.
- if the ship hits reefs, it suffers 10% damage (hitting reefs: attempting to dock in an unsuitable region)
- A ship at sea without enough sailors, 30% damage per round.
- The ship does not have any owner, 5% damage per round
- The ship is hit by a storm and drifts off course, 2% damage
You can repair a ship with MAKE [level] SHIP [ship-ID], just as if the ship wasn't finished yet.
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See also
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