Should curragh's carry a unit?

[CerberusIV]

Originally posted by steven8r
It would be useful to have them transport at least 1 unit. That way, you could pop the 'goody huts' that you find with your curraghs. As it is, you can find the huts, but they are essentially useless.

I think I will add this in my next mod.

You might consider flagging them to only carry foot units so they can't load settlers in that case.

[chequita guevara]

They should be able to be loaded with settlers. Crete wasn't settled by people on galleys and neither were the Pacific Islands.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by DrSpike
I think you need to use them better.

Let's see a two move, can't carry anything, can't even pop a goodie hut . . . you're right, they aren't as good as scouts. They're worse.

[pauli]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
They should be able to be loaded with settlers. Crete wasn't settled by people on galleys and neither were the Pacific Islands.

this is true. they came from goody huts, which is why, as we've already established, curraghs have to carry *something*

i find the idea of a curragh that can only transport foot units, and isn't capable of leaving coastal areas, intriguing. i may have to try it out.

[notyoueither]

I would welcome the little boats carrying a single unit, including settlers if...

It would make the AI use them. From what Aeson said, they will use them when they have more units than they know what to do with (Sid level). Maybe adding transport capacity of 1 would make the AI use them at levels around Emperor.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Let's see a two move, can't carry anything, can't even pop a goodie hut . . . you're right, they aren't as good as scouts. They're worse.

che, have you ever heard of suiciding? With communication trading as it is, being able to contact people earlier is VERY powerful.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by skywalker

che, have you ever heard of suiciding? With communication trading as it is, being able to contact people earlier is VERY powerful.

Hehe, you might find it hard to convince him.

[joncnunn]

Ignoring the sucide runs, there are map layouts where you can meet neighbors on your contientant faster with a Curragh than a scout.

Example: Your in SE Delaware and they are in SE Virginia. A curragh could cross the Cheakspeake Bay quickly while a scout wout have to backtrack up to Philadephia before heading south.

[asleepathewheel]

when a curragh moves 2 (or 3) and a warrior moves 1, then.....


if allowing passengers would make the ai more likely to use, then I think its a good change. otherwise, it just makes it easier on the human.

[WarpStorm]

A quick test shows that the AI uses curraghs with transport about like they use galleys.

[donZappo]

I just ran a couple debug games and it looked to me like the AI won't use the curraghs to transport settlers if you only let it only carry one unit. You'd have to let it carry two if you wanted to have the AI exploit it as an early settler ship. This might make it too powerful in the game.

[WarpStorm]

True, the AI needs an escort for settlers. Thinking about this some more, I think a 2 slot unit is too good for one that can be gotten right away.

My tests showed that curraghs with one slot would be used to explore the coast by the AI, though. The huiman player does have an advantage though.

[Dis]

I never do suicide runs unless I can see the shallow water and know for sure there is land nearby my continent. It seems wasteful to kill lots of galley/curraghs to find contact. Unless you reload, but I would never reload that.

[dexters]

Originally posted by vmxa1
Maybe so, but they do not allow it in the game, so as to effect game play. Nothing to do with reality.

I think the expansionist civ trait needs tweaking. Perhaps only expansionists can carry units on curraghs.

[MrWhereItsAt]

That could be an idea dexters.

However I see adding troop transport ability to Curraghs to be a slight compensating actor for the far better adjustment - removing the ability of Curraghs to end turn on Sea/Ocean completely.