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Private and public Convoys If you have a suitable ship, you can choose to form a ‘private’ or a ‘public’ convoy. If it’s a private convoy, it doesn’t concern anyone but yourself. Treat it like any of your single ships: Just load it with the goods you need and specify a destination port… If it’s a public convoy, a notice is put up at the guild. Once you specify a destination port, the other players have five days’ time to decide whether they would like to participate. A security message will appear, asking you whether you would like to sail in five days – confirm and wait for other ships to join you. Note: After the destination port has been confirmed, it can no longer be changed. As soon as your public convoy reaches the destination, the other members will leave the convoy and do their own business as usual. As a reward for the safe voyage, you will receive a payment. The sum depends on the value of the goods that were transported and the distance traveled. Disbanding a Convoy A convoy will disband automatically when it reaches its destination (see above) or when the orlogship sinks, but you can split it up manually by clicking on the appropriate icon in the icon bar. If other people’s ships are part of the convoy, you should be careful: Such incidents will get around quickly, and the other traders as well as the Hanseatic League will lose respect for you. Joining a Convoy You can join a public convoy that is currently in the same port as your own ship at any time. Just select your ship and then click on the convoy button in the ship menu. You can then choose the convoy you would like to join. Removing a Ship from a Convoy If you have changed your mind or need your ship elsewhere, you can remove your ship from a convoy whenever you like, even during the voyage. Select your ship and then choose ‘Disband Convoy’ (‘Destroy Convoy’?!!?) from the icon bar. Another way is to simply send your ship to a different location by right clicking. This has no impact on your reputation, unless you are the owner of the orlogship. 35
Blocked Convoys The conditions for blocked ships stated earlier also apply to convoys, but there are some special cases to consider: Your orlogship is blocked If your orlogship is one of the blocked ships, you will receive a message informing you that the entire convoy is blocked. One of your ships within your convoy is blocked You receive the usual message, but you are additionally asked whether you would like to remove the ship from the convoy, so that the remaining ships can sail. Click ‘Sail’ to do so. One of your ships within someone else’s convoy is blocked You are out of luck in this case. The others will not wait for you to sort out your problems. They will sail away while you remain in the port. Several different ships and convoys are blocked Not every convoy will be listed separately. Always mind the following: Your own convoys will wait while other traders’ convoys will sail without hesitating. Expeditions Expeditions can only be undertaken with convoys because they are dangerous trips into unknown and potentially dangerous waters. Daring sailors will at first explore the Mediterranean. After all, tomatoes from Provence are better than Dutch ones! And who knows what else there is to discover? Whenever you send a convoy to the very southwest of the sea chart, you will be asked if you want to engage in an expedition. If you are interested, the expedition window will open. There, your goods, your crew and your weapons will be listed. Now specify how much money you want your crew to use on their expedition and what commodities you are interested in (spices are always lucrative). Then select two places that are to be visited or mapped, and before you know it, your crew is ready to explore the mysteries of the south. One last hint: Select one uncharted place (for reputation) and one established trading centre (for money)! Rest assured that your heroes will bring home some valuable material. Don’t be surprised if you don’t hear from your team for quite some time. You will not receive any news until they return to the waters of the Hanseatic League. 36
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Page 3 and 4: Trade: your daily Business 37 Trade
Page 5 and 6: Technical Support Should you experi
Page 7 and 8: The Structure of the Screen The Dif
Page 9 and 10: Symbols Using the symbols on the mi
Page 11 and 12: Trading via your trading office If
Page 13 and 14: The Formalities: The Main Menu and
Page 15 and 16: The Objective Conditions You decide
Page 17 and 18: Credits The usual suspects… Exit
Page 19 and 20: The Mini Map The mini map gives you
Page 21 and 22: Get rid of superfluous and outdated
Page 23 and 24: The Statistics Menu Open the statis
Page 25 and 26: Note: Ships that are part of convoy
Page 27 and 28: The Mini Map The mini map shows a s
Page 29 and 30: Cog capacity: 45-55 weapon slots sm
Page 31 and 32: Hiring and Firing Sailors B e f o r
Page 33 and 34: Automatic Trade As soon as you have
Page 35: aren’t in perfect shape, do not e
Page 39 and 40: Luxury Goods Wine, spices, cloth, t
Page 41 and 42: On the other hand, if you buy goods
Page 43 and 44: Festivals People want to celebrate
Page 45 and 46: Putting up a Building If all condit
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Page 49 and 50: Upgrade Ship You will soon find out
Page 51 and 52: If you select this option, you will
Page 53 and 54: Informants I n f o rmants are among
Page 55 and 56: The Money Lender Banks as we know t
Page 57 and 58: The Town Hall All towns in the game
Page 59 and 60: Auctions This option allows you to
Page 61 and 62: Bribing pays - but only for a short
Page 63: City walls Every city has city wall
Page 66 and 67: Brewery production/day: consumption
Page 68 and 69: Iron Smelting production/day: 1/2 b
Page 70 and 71: However, good deeds are short-lived
Page 72 and 73: Your reputation has little to do wi
Page 74 and 75: The mayor must spend the taxes the
Page 76 and 77: The next day you will be informed o
Page 78 and 79: If a majority is in favor of the bo
Page 80 and 81: False Accusations Life isn’t fair
Page 82 and 83: Swords that are stored in your ship
Page 84 and 85: The speed is also influenced by the
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However, if you are the leader, you
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Initial Actions The Besiegers take
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The consequences of defeat are diff
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To configure a multiplayer game, se
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The game is set up in the same way,
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Testers Adrian von Pokrziwnitzki Ma
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Appendix Mouse Controls ships left
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Goods beer pottery iron goods (brow
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