First steps in naval strategy ...

[Heldenkaiser]

... unable to figure out a few things either from the manual or other sources.

1. Does cohesion affect the combat etc. effectiveness as ships the same as land units?

2. If so, how is cohesion recovered? Resting in place, as with land units, doesn't seem to make sense, so must the ships return to port?

3. I don't seem to be able to construct an effective blockade. For each sea zone, the tooltip info gives a number of naval units needed to blockade it. Once this number is met, the info says "you have enough naval units to blockade this zone" or some such wording. But the blockade icon the manual mentions does not appear, so I am not sure I am effectively blockading ... what am I doing wrong? Is there a "blockade" button or something that I'm missing?

4. If there are enemy forts in the sea zone I am trying to blockade ... must I be prepared for them to fire at me? Will my naval units fire back?

Completely confused.

Thanks for any advice.

[arsan]

Hi
Lets try...

1- yes
2- yes, returning to ports. Also, on the boxes posture does not mind, so its better to stay on defensive (no cohesion loss or gain)
3- Many ports have several exits (check the tooltip over the port on the city). You have to blockade all exit zones for the blockade to be effective (then you will get the icon).
4- yes, most of the times. Sometimes you can evade bombard and others the fort only fire if you go from his area to another one the fort also covers (i don't understand how it works very well, but this is my experience )
Your ships will fire back but bombard effectiveness is very skewed against ships, son even big fleets will get trashed by single fort batteries leure:

Regards

[Heldenkaiser]

Thank you, Mr. Ambassador.