Navy

This page deals with the recruitment and maintenance of navies. For naval combat mechanics see naval warfare. For details about ship types see naval units.

A navy is a country's naval (sea) forces.

Organization

The basic unit of naval forces is predictably the ship. Each ship is classed as heavy, light, galley or transport.

Ships are grouped into fleets. Each fleet can be led by an admiral or explorer. A fleet travels at the speed of its slowest ship class.

Building ships

Building ships requires an owned, cored and controlled province with a port, ducats to pay for the costs of the ship, time to build the ship and sailors. Each province can build one ship at a time, though multiple ships can be queued up in a single province.

The base cost and building time of a ship depends on its type, and is then adjusted by any modifiers, in particular those coming from buildings the province might have. Ships start with 50% of maximum morale when they have been built. Going over the naval forcelimit will result in higher maintenance cost.

Unlike land units, ships do not automatically upgrade to new models as technology advances. Fleets are modernised by building new ships, or by manually upgrading existing ships with the Art of War DLC enabled.

Ship cost

The ducat cost for ships is computed as follows:

$\text{ship cost} = \text{base cost} \cdot \left( 100% + \sum\text{ship cost modifiers} \right)$

The sailor cost of building ships is depends on the ship model and does not get changed by any existing modifiers.

Base cost

The base cost for building ships is:

Ship class	Ducats	Sailors
Heavy ship	50	200–900
Light ship	20	050–150
Galley	10	060–180
Transport	12	020–100

Ship cost modifiers

Ship cost can be affected by general and ship type-specific modifiers which are added additively.

General modifiers

General modifiers reduce the ducat cost of all types of naval units. All modifiers that reduce the cost of new ships also reduce the maintenance of existing ships by a corresponding amount.

Ideas and policies:

	Traditions	Ideas	Bonuses	Policies
−10%	Acehnese/Pasai traditions Bruneian traditions Ligori traditions Malayan Sultanate traditions Manx traditions Ouchi traditions Palembang traditions	Maritime idea 5: Ship's Penny Ajuuraan idea 1: Maritime Enterprise Australian idea 5: Royal Australian Navy Bremen idea 7: Foundation of Bremerhaven Breton idea 5: Protect the Coastline Canadian idea 7: The Forests of Canada Chosokabe idea 5: Expand the Navy Gutnish idea 3: Expand Visby Dockyard Hamburger idea 7: Shipyards of the Elbe Javan idea 6: Modernized Ship-Building techniques Karelian idea 2: Between Two Seas Maratha idea 7: Expand Maratha Navy Neapolitan idea 5: Expand the Arsenale Norwegian idea 4: Military Shipbuilding Ottoman idea 7: Found the Imperial School of Naval Engineering Scottish idea 2: Modernize the Royal Scots Navy	—	Maritime-Defensive: The Fleet is our Wooden Wall Mercenary-Maritime: Maritime Expertise Act
−5%	—	Hanseatic idea 2: The Handelsmarine Ragusan idea 5: Port Gruz	—	—

Additional modifiers:

	Conditions
−33%	as optional difficulty bonus (for the player (very easy) or the AI (very hard))
−10%	with parliament and “Expand Navy” as active issue for Tengri nations with Ibadi secondary religion
−5%	for trading in wool

There are also many modifiers that affect ship cost and local ship cost of specific provinces from decisions, events and missions.

Class-specific modifiers

Class-specific modifiers reduce only the cost of one ship class.

Heavy ship

	Conditions
+1%	for each percentage point of inflation

Ideas and policies:

	Traditions	Ideas	Bonuses	Policies
−5%	—	Date idea 5: Red Seal Ships	—	—

Light ship

	Conditions
−20%	with ‘Private Trade Fleets’ privilege granted to Burghers, Vaishyas or Jains estate
−10%	with parliament and ‘Issue Letters of Marque’ as active issue
+1%	for each percentage point of inflation

Ideas and policies:

	Traditions	Ideas	Bonuses	Policies
−20%	Arakanese traditions Balinese tradition Butuan traditions Malagasy traditions Mogadishan traditions Pomeranian traditions Siddi traditions Swahili traditions	Cham idea 2: A Seafaring People Flemish idea 5: North Sea Shipyards Gujarat Sultanate idea 4: Gujarati Merchant Diaspora Hanseatic idea 3: Improved Shipbuilding Novgorod idea 7: Baltic Shipyard Somali idea 1: Maritime Heritage Sulawesi idea 3: The Prau Veronese idea 7: For Never Was There a Tale of More Woe	—	—
−15%	Catalan traditions Galician traditions Sulu traditions	Danziger idea 5: Danziger Shipyards Omani idea 5: End of the Shipbuilding Guilds	—	Maritime-Plutocratic: The Protected Shipping Lanes Act
−10%	—	Pisan idea 6: Maritime's legacy Sonoran idea 5: Taking What’s Ours	—	Mercenary-Trade: Merchants for Hire Act

There are also many modifiers from decisions, events and missions that affect light ship cost.

Galley

	Conditions
+1%	for each percentage point of inflation

Ideas and policies:

	Traditions	Ideas	Bonuses	Policies
−33%	—	Genoese idea 4: Build the Genoese Arsenal	—	—
−20%	Cypriot traditions Greek traditions Ionian traditions	Barbary Corsair idea 2: Galley Slaves Kono idea 2: Integration of Cadet Branches	—	—
−15%	—	Italian idea 3: Mare Nostrum	—	Maritime-Quantity: Streamlined Galley Production

There are also some modifiers from decisions, events and missions that affect galley cost.

Transport

	Conditions
+1%	for each percentage point of inflation

Ideas and policies:

	Traditions	Ideas	Bonuses	Policies
−20%	Ando traditions	—	—	—

There are also modifiers from decisions, events and missions that affect transport cost.

Shipbuilding time

The shipbuilding time of a ship is computed as follows:

${\text{shipbuilding time}}={\text{base time}}\cdot {\text{max}}\left(100\%+\sum {\text{shipbuilding time modifiers}},20\%\right)$

Base time

The base time for building a ship is:

Ship class	Days
Heavy ship	730
Light ship	365
Galley	365
Transport	365

Shipbuilding time modifiers

Shipbuilding time can be affected by countrywide and provincial modifiers which are added additively.

Countrywide modifiers

These ideas and policies affect the shipbuilding time of naval units:

	Traditions	Ideas	Bonuses	Policies
−25%	—	—	—	Infrastructure-Naval: Naval Armament Act
−20%	Australian traditions	Icelandic idea 2: Legacy of Hrafna-Floki	—	—
−10%	—	Couronian idea 4: Booming Manufacture Genoese idea 7: Standardization of Designs Omani idea 2: Securing Timber Supplies Pisan idea 1: Restore the Pisan Navy	—	Naval-Administrative: Harbor Administration
−5%	—	Ragusan idea 5: Port Gruz	—	—

Additional modifiers:

	Conditions
+2%	for each point of war exhaustion
−15%	with ‘War Against the World Doctrine’ government reform (tier 5 republic)

Provincial modifiers

	Conditions
+20%	for being blockaded
+10%	for each point local unrest
−1%	per base production level
−10%	for having a impressment offices in a province which does not produce Salt, Fish, Naval supplies, Tropical wood
−20%	for having a impressment offices in a province which does produce Salt, Fish, Naval supplies, Tropical wood
−25%	for having a shipyard
−50%	for having a grand shipyard

Drafting Transport Ships

The government reforms Eastern Plutocracy, Kongsi Federation, Livonian Admiralty and Livonian Plutocracy, allow the cheap drafting of transport ships.
This adds a new template to the macrobuilder, which will dynamically include enough transports so that after building it, 80% of the force limit will be made up of transports.
Building these tranports will only take 50% of the normal time and cost 20% less sailors.
The monetary cost will be 1 years worth of income, multiplied by the percentage of forcelimit thats being build (80% = 0.8).
At the least, they will be 20% cheaper than regular transports (this is relevant for nations with very high yearly income).
The lowest price the template can reach is 1 ducat per ship (this is relevant for poor nations), unaffected by further reductions to ship cost.
Exept for this, reductions to ship cost interact normally with drafting.

Upgrading ships

When docked in an owned and controlled port, ships can be upgraded individually or at the fleet level. When an upgrade is triggered, the relevant ship(s) are replaced instantly, but reduced to an initial 1% condition to simulate the replacement ship being built virtually from scratch. For each ship, an upgrade costs the same amount of ducats as building a new ship.

Advantages of upgrading include:

• The 'construction' process (i.e. repairing the ship from its initial 1% condition) takes only 10 months, which is generally faster than simply building a new ship, especially for heavies.
• Upgrades bypass the build queue and so are not limited in speed by the availability of coastal provinces for building.
• The original name of each upgraded ship is maintained.
• Upgrading is more convenient than manually destroying older ships and building new ones.
• Upgrading, rather than disbanding and rebuilding, maintains the presence of a fleet where that is desirable, e.g. for deterring attack. (Alternatively one could temporarily go over force limit before disposing of the excess ships.)

Disadvantages:

• Repairing from 1% does not benefit from ship construction speed bonuses. (But it does benefit from ship repair bonuses, and repairing is generally faster anyway.)
• Upgrading destroys the value embodied in the old ship, which could have been partially recouped by selling it to another country. Selling and rebuilding can therefore be more cost effective, where there are countries willing to buy.

Forcelimit and maintenance

Force limit

Main article: Force limit

Each country has a naval force limit, largely dependent on the total amount of development in coastal provinces and eventual coastal centers of trade.

Ideas which grant forcelimit bonuses:

	Traditions	Ideas	Bonuses	Policies
+50%	Dutch traditions Northeastern traditions	Maritime idea 4: Grand Navy Danish idea 3: The King's Sea Knights Hospitaller idea 6: Scourge of the Corsairs	—	—
+33%	Malaccan traditions	Gutnish idea 6: Gutnish Merchant Navy Karelian idea 5: Baltic Shipyards Navarran idea 2: Shipbuilding Experts	Cypriot ambition	Maritime-Expansion: Naval Infrastructure
+25%	Castilian traditions Kilwan traditions Moroccan traditions Sulawesi traditions	Exploration idea 7: Global Empire Alaskan idea 6: Alaskan Navy Berber idea 1: Barbary Pirates Candarid idea 6: Sinop Shipyard Couronian idea 5: Couronian Colonization Dalmatian idea 6: The Independent Arsenal Estonian idea 2: Baltic Ties Genoese idea 6: Setup the Office of Grand Admiral Hadramhi idea 5: Sailors of the Indian Ocean Hormuz idea 7: Hormuzi Naval Expansion Ionian idea 5: Naval Expansion Kono idea 1: Shugo of Iyo Leonese idea 5: Expand the Leonese Navy Orissan idea 7: Heritage of the Sadhabas Pomeranian idea 7: German Navy So idea 6: Port Maintenance Somalian idea 6: Indian Merchants Spanish idea 4: A Spanish Armada Sumatran idea 7: Rule of The Sea Venetian idea 1: Venetian Arsenal West Indies idea 7: Colonial Legacy	Breton ambition Cham ambition Hamburger ambition Malagasy ambition Tunisian ambition	—
+20%	Corsican traditions Sardinian traditions	Mogadishan idea 6: Horn of Africa Naxian idea 1: Maritime State Ragusan idea 4: Ragusan Arsenal Sligonian idea 6: Sligo's Naval Ambition	Al-Haasa ambition	—
+15%	Croatian traditions	—	—	Maritime-Defensive: The Fleet is our Wooden Wall
+10%	—	Aragonese idea 2: Protection of the Coastlines Provençal idea 6: Toulon Dockyard Samoan idea 2: Fa'a Samoa	—	Horde-Maritime: Riverine Navy

	Conditions
+10%	if the Statists are in power
+30%	if you are a March nation
+20%	Trading in bonus: Naval supplies
+40%	Being the revolution target
+50%	Being the Pirate Republic

But there are other bonuses which are not from Ideas, Policies or government

	Conditions
+0.1	per development (only coastal provinces)
+2	per Shipyard (only coastal provinces)
+4	per Grand shipyard (only coastal provinces, replace previous Shipyard)
+0.5	per provinces in a trade company (only coastal provinces)
+5	per Admiralty in a trade company (only for each per trade company)
+10	per large (10 or more provinces) colonial nation

Maintenance

Each ship costs ducats to upkeep every month. By class, the base ship maintenance depends on the type of ship and is proportional to the cost to build the ship along with a defined ship maintenance factor, based on ship type. This cost in turn is then multiplied by global cost modifiers to obtain the total cost per month for that specific ship.

Naval maintenance can be computed as follows:

$\text{naval maintenance}_\text{ship} = \left(\text{base naval maintenance}_\text{ship type} \right) \cdot \left( 100% + \text{naval maintenance modifier}_\text{tech} \right) \cdot \left( 100% + \sum\text{naval maintenance modifiers}_\text{non-tech} \right) \cdot \left( 100% + \sum\text{build cost modifiers} \right)$

Where:

$\text{base naval maintenance}_\text{ship type} = \left( \text{ship cost} \right) \cdot \left[ \text{trunc} \left( \frac{\text{maintenance factor}} {12} , 3 \right) \right]$

In this case, the game truncates all digits to the right of the third digit after the decimal point. For example:

$\operatorname{trunc}(0.0036,3) = 0.003$

The base build costs and ship maintenance factors are given here:

Ship Class	Base Cost	Maintenance Factor	monthly maintenance without any modifiers
Heavy ships	50	0.10	0.4
Light ships	20	0.03	0.04
Galleys	10	0.04	0.03
Transport	12	0.04	0.036

• Being over naval force limit will multiply the maintenance cost of ships by the force limit proportion. For example, if a country has 10 ships on a force limit of 5, maintenance is doubled.
• Practically speaking, for a homogeneous fleet, the marginal maintenance of the first ship built or captured above the naval force limit is about 2* normal. For example, being at 100% of the force limit will result in the next ship adding about 200% of its normal maintenance, with this multiplier increasing by 2x per multiple of the force limit reached.
• Light Ships suffer the penalty to their build cost as well, which squares the effect on maintenance cost. For example, being at 150% of the force limit with all Light Ships will result in navy maintenance being 225% of normal. In this case, the marginal maintenance is about 3* the force limit proportion squared. For example, being at 150% of the force limit with all Light Ships will result in the next light ship adding about 675% of its normal maintenance.
• Unlike land units, the tech modifier to Naval maintenance stacks multiplicatively with other modifiers. Thus, reductions to Naval Maintenance keep their strength better throughout the game than their land counterpart.
• For a homogeneous fleet, the marginal maintenance of each ship is about twice the force limit proportion. For example, being at 150% of the force limit will result in the next ship adding about 300% of its normal maintenance.

	Traditions	Ideas	Bonuses	Policies
−20%	Omani traditions	Eastern Algonquian idea 4: Fishing Habits Luzon idea 1: Barangay State Malayan Sultanate idea 5: Trading Fleets Mindanao idea 4: Moro Sailors Tongan idea 6: Ancient Tongan Craftsmanship	Genoese ambition Javan ambition Mahri ambition	—
−15%	—	Rûmi idea 5: Sultan al-Bahrayn	—	—
−10%	Gelre traditions Piratical traditions	Siddi idea 7: Expansion of the Navy	—	—
−5%	—	Provençal idea 6: Toulon Dockyard	—	—

Additionally, raising war taxes gives a -15% modifier.

Mothballing

"Mothballing" a fleet, thus lowering the maintenance cost of a fleet to the minimum (50%) for the specific fleet. Ship condition and sailors will decrease at 5% per month down to a minimum of 25% while the fleet is mothballed, and will be repaired back to full strength at the normal rate (10% per month by default) when returned to active service, which can be done at any time. Mothballed fleets cannot be moved and can only be combined with other mothballed fleets, though they can be split into smaller fleets as usual.

Quality

While quantity is an important factor in naval warfare, quality could be considered even more crucial. Because of the limited amount of ships that can fire at the same time in a naval battle, ships that hit harder will quickly take the upper hand in a fight

Several idea groups can be taken to progressively improve a navy's performance on the battlefield. Additionally, some nations get specific bonuses resembling the strength their navy had in actual history.

General improvements

The main improvement of a fleet is performed by replacing or upgrading naval units as diplomatic technology improves. New ship types are unlocked at several diplomatic technology levels. Ships will have to be rebuilt or upgraded in order for them to receive the bonuses from a newer ship type. In addition to ship types, diplomatic technology also improves naval morale at certain levels.

Combat ability improvements

Combat ability is a value that is multiplied with the units' damage dealt (both for casualties and morale), but only for the specified type of unit.

Heavy ship combat ability

	Traditions	Ideas	Bonuses	Policies
+20%	—	Naval idea 6: Oak Forests for Ships	—	—
+15%	British traditions	—	—	—
+10%	—	Butuan idea 6: Protect the Coastlines Date idea 5: Red Seal Ships English idea 1: A Royal Navy Hanseatic idea 4: Adler von Lubeck Majapahit idea 6: The Majapahit Armada Spanish idea 4: A Spanish Armada	Alaskan ambition Genevan ambition	Innovative-Maritime: New Naval Tactics

Light ship combat ability

	Traditions	Ideas	Bonuses	Policies
+25%	—	—	Veronese ambition	—
+20%	Hawaiian traditions	—	—	—
+15%	Alaskan traditions Cham traditions Eora traditions Ferraran traditions	Icelandic idea 4: Armed Merchants Moluccan idea 6: Alliance with the Papuans	Arakanese ambition Holstein ambition	—
+10%	Fijian traditions Hamburger traditions Pattani traditions	Somali idea 6: Corsairs of the Red Sea Sumatran idea 3: Spice Pirates	—	—

Galley combat ability

	Traditions	Ideas	Bonuses	Policies
+25%	—	Naval idea 2: Improved Rams Malayan idea 2: Advanced Galley Warfare	Venetian ambition	—
+20%	Aragonese traditions Barbary Corsair traditions Cebu traditions Hosokawa traditions Ionian traditions Tunisian traditions	Berber idea 7: The Brothers Barbarossa Bruneian idea 1: Galley Fleet Cypriot idea 6: Repel the Corsairs Italian idea 3: Mare Nostrum Kitabatake idea 4: Kuki Suigin Knights Hospitaller idea 4: Reconquista of the Sea Moroccan idea 4: Defend the Coastline	—	—
+15%	—	Kono idea 5: Rule Over the Inland Sea	Somalian ambitions	Maritime-Quantity: Streamlined Galley Production
+10%	—	Latin idea 4: Trading Guilds of Pera Naxian idea 1: Maritime State So idea 2: Wakou Tradition	—	—

Morale improvements

Naval morale indicates how long a fleet can keep fighting. It is increased by the following ideas: Naval morale

	Traditions	Ideas	Bonuses	Policies
+20%	Alaskan traditions British traditions	Genoese idea 2: The Lessons of Chioggia Kono idea 3: Oyamazumi Shrine Livonian idea 6: Naval Professionalism Norwegian idea 3: Natural Seamanship Scandinavian idea 4: Norwegian Marines So idea 3: Fight for Tsushima	Luzon ambition	—
+15%	Omani traditions	Acehnese/Pasai idea 4: Military Adventures Bregenzer idea 7: The Lake Constance Navy Bruneian idea 6: Naval Prowess Chiba idea 7: Naval Reform Corsican idea 2: The Battle of Meloria Danish idea 5: Naval Heroes Eora idea 1: Eora Lifestyle Madyas idea 2: Legacy of Panai Malayan idea 4: Chart the Isles Manx idea 4: Mann and the Isles Navarran idea 1: Fearless Seamen Norse idea 2: Norse Seamen Ouchi idea 3: Protect Against Piracy Sicilian idea 6: The Grand Navy	Dalmatian ambition Mogadishan ambition Ragusan ambition Siddi ambition	—
+10%	Candarid traditions	Naval idea 7: Superior Seamanship Quality idea 5: Naval Drill Eastern Algonquian idea 5: Whale Hunters Piratical idea 5: Elected Quartermasters Portuguese idea 1: Legacy of the Navigator	English ambition	Exploration-Defensive: The Naval Secrecy Act Quality-Maritime: The Organized Marines Act Religious-Maritime: Chaplains of the Fleet
+5%	—	Korean idea 6: Geobukseon	—	—

Morale recovery improvements

Naval morale recovery

	Traditions	Ideas	Bonuses	Policies
+25%	—	Palembang idea 6: Through the Monsoon	—	—
+15%	—	—	—	Naval-Innovative: The Nautical Education Act
+10%	—	—	—	Humanist-Naval: The Naval Inspection Act Religious-Maritime: Chaplains of the Fleet

Naval leader

Fleets can be led by either an admiral or an explorer. The only combat difference between the two is that the admiral will get more pips, on average, when he's created. Having a naval leader in a battle greatly improves the combat ability of the fleet. The skills of the naval leader can be influenced by the following ideas:

Naval leader fire

	Traditions	Ideas	Bonuses	Policies
+2	—	Dutch idea 4: Instructie voor de Admiraliteiten	—	—
+1	—	Naval idea 3: Naval Cadets Ferraran idea 7: The Ferraran Arsenal Norman idea 7: Great Commanders Tunisian idea 5: Board of Captains	Corsican ambition Madyas ambition Navarran ambition	Court-Naval: Naval Competence Act Naval-Innovative: The Nautical Education Act

Naval leader shock

	Traditions	Ideas	Bonuses	Policies
+1	—	Naval idea 1: Boarding Parties Danish idea 5: Naval Heroes Madyas idea 4: Masters of Maritime Warfare Norse idea 3: A Wall of Shields for the King	—	Naval-Religious: Zealous Captains

Naval leader maneuver

	Traditions	Ideas	Bonuses	Policies
+1	Madyas traditions	British idea 7: Britannia Rules the Waves Hawaiian idea 7: Legendary Voyagers Mahri idea 4: Pilots of the Arabian Sea Mogadishan idea 2: Somali sailors Omani idea 6: Skilled Captains Somalian idea 4: Zeila and Berbera Swahili idea 2: Monsoon Season	—	Court-Naval: Naval Competence Act Innovative-Maritime: New Naval Tactics Maritime-Offensive: Hold the Weather Gauge

Navy tradition

Main article: Military tradition#Navy tradition

Navy tradition is a value that indicates the naval experience of a nation and greatly improves a nation's ability to rule the seas. Navy tradition is gained by ideas, naval combat, exploring and protecting trade. 100 navy tradition gives the following bonuses, linearly increasing from 0 to 100:

At 100:

	+10%.00	Recover navy morale speed
	+25%.00	Morale of navies
	+100%.00	Trade steering
	+25%.00	Privateer efficiency
	+100%.00	Blockade efficiency
	+0.10%	Trade faction influence
	+0.10%	The traders influence
	+20%.00	Sailor recovery speed
	+5%.00	Burghers loyalty equilibrium
	+5%.00	Vaishyas loyalty equilibrium

Supply, attrition and repair

Supply range

The supply range is a key factor in determining where light ships can be sent to protect trade, and it determines whether ships suffer attrition or not. Base supply range is 150. It can be extended by the trade range modifiers below:

	Traditions	Ideas	Bonuses	Policies
+33%	—	Ryukyuan idea 4: Maritime Commercialism	—	—
+25%	Swahili traditions	Maritime idea 1: Merchant Traditions Trade idea 3: Merchant Adventures Kilwan idea 1: Kilwan Latitude Staves Trading City idea 6: City of Great Reach	—	—
+20%	—	Gujarat Sultanate idea 2: Jain Connections Gujarati Princedom idea 7: Extend Trade Routes to Africa Horn of African idea 2: The Land of Punt Legend Kono idea 6: Trade With Continental Asia Malabari idea 1: Merchants of Southern India Mesoamerican idea 7: Obsidian and Jade Mogadishan idea 1: Indian Ocean Trade South Indian idea 1: Merchants of Southern India	—	—
+15%	Sumatran traditions Traditions of The Hansa	Evenk idea 2: Reindeer Herding	—	Indigenous-Trade: Commercial Tribes
+10%	—	Dutch idea 2: Dutch Trading Spirit East India idea 5: Intercontinental Trade Mamluk idea 1: Red Sea Trade West Indies idea 4: The American Trade Hub	—	—

• Supply range cannot be extended by flat trade range modifier. Technology, for instance, only increases the trade range by a fixed number and therefor does not influence the supply range.* A good way to arrange for a favorable supply range is by gaining fleet basing rights from a nation in the vicinity of where attrition is undesired and/or ship repairs are needed.

Attrition

Navies suffer from attrition from being in the open seas or being far away from port too long. A navy does not suffer attrition if it is within naval supply range' and in a coastal zone (open sea always causes attrition). Sea zones that contain a dockable port also count as home waters and will never cause attrition, even if it is outside naval supply range.

Having your Navy in a Sea Tile adjacent to a Province that has either the Naval Battery Building or the Cartagena de Indias Fort System Monument while being at war with the province owner, will cause attrition, even if you normally wouldnt suffer attrition in that tile.

Attrition damage is governed by the following rules:

• Monthly attrition damage equal to the listed attrition percentage will be applied to all ships in a fleet at the beginning of each month.
• Movement into any sea province has a 50% chance to cause any ship to take attrition damage unless they immediately engage in combat. Be aware that two fleets will only engage in combat if at least one of them is stationary.
• Explorers leading a fleet give a chance to all ships under their command to avoid any source of attrition damage. This allows fleets led by explorers to travel much farther than normal. The chance of avoidance appears to improve with the health of each ship, and decreases with the amount of attrition damage that must be avoided. Fleets lead by explorers in coastal seas have a particularly high chance of avoiding attrition damage.
• In El Dorado, a fleet engaged in regional exploration (exploring water or coast) will not suffer any attrition, regardless of its location and time at sea. A fleet on global circumnavigation mission will have attrition as usual. However, the fleet on exploration mission will not receive any further commands until it returns to a home port.

The following factors influence naval attrition:

	Traditions	Ideas	Bonuses	Policies
−25%	Berber traditions Central Algonquian traditions Eastern Algonquian traditions Moroccan traditions Tunisian traditions	Quality idea 6: Copper Bottoms	—	—
−10%	Fijian traditions	Exploration idea 1: Quest for the New World	—	—

• Base attrition: +1%
• Time at sea: +1% per month, eliminated after diplomatic tech level 22 is discovered
• Open sea: +5%
• Adjacent Province of War enemy has Naval Battery : +5%
• Adjacent Province of War enemy has Cartagena de Indias Fort System Monument at Level 2 : +5%
• Adjacent Province of War enemy has Cartagena de Indias Fort System Monument at Level 3 : +10%
• Naval leader's maneuver rating: 1% less Attrition per point

AI navies do not take attrition damage as the AI is unable to adequately manage it. Internal game rules instead limit how far the AI can send their fleet for exploration or combat.

Ship repair

Ships which have sustained damage (i.e. their condition is lower than 100%) will automatically repair up to 100% condition when docked in any province. Any number of ships can be repaired by a single port at once with no penalty to repair speed.

Importantly, since damaged ships operate at a reduced sailor capacity, repaired ships will consume additional sailors from the sailor pool. This means that if you do not have any sailors left in your pool then no ships can be repaired until you do - in such a case only the number of sailors recruited during that month will be applied to repair ships that you have stationed in a port. Therefore repairs will creep up only at your monthly recruitment rate.

Note that repair speeds are faster in a port where a shipyard (+25% ship repair) and grand shipyard (+50% ship repair) are present.

Automatic docking for repairs

Once a fleet's average morale value has been reduced enough, a fleet will attempt automatic docking to a nearby port for repair and morale recovery. In the mission settings, a fleet's repair threshold can be set, determining how much damage a fleet can take before going to a port for repairs.

Rate of repair

Ships will automatically be repaired on the first day of each month if they are docked in port. The repair amount is 10% at full naval maintenance, and will decrease linearly to 0% at minimum naval maintenance. Repair speed is affected by certain modifiers.

Countrywide modifiers:

	Traditions	Ideas	Bonuses	Policies
+25%	—	—	—	Infrastructure-Maritime: Sailor Efficiency Act
+10%	—	Maritime idea 3: Sheltered Ports	—	—

Local modifiers:

	Conditions
+50%	for having a grand shipyard
+25%	for having a shipyard with a naval leader that has the ‘Naval Engineer’ trait

Repair at sea

The maritime idea group finisher gives ships the ability to be repaired in coastal sea zones within supply range. The repair rate is 6% of ship hull per month, unaffected by modifiers.

Special naval units

This page is about Special naval lnits. For Special land units see : Army#Special land units.

Some countries have access to special naval units which can be unlocked with missions, government reforms and national ideas. They are all recruited at the ducat and sailor cost of their normal counterparts.

The calculation for how many of any of them are available is as follows:

${\text{naval force limit}}\cdot \left(\sum {\text{force limit modifiers for this special unit}}\right)\cdot \left(100\%+\sum {\text{generic special unit force limit modifiers}}\right)$

Galleass

Galleass are special Galleys, available to nations that have enacted the Merchant Arsenal government reform, available to nations of the Ligurian and Venetian culture

They can only be build in provinces which have a Dock or Shipyard

Their Modifiers are:

• +20% Galley combat ability

The amount possible to recruit is based on force limit fraction. The following can increase a nations Galleass force limit fraction :

• 50% at 100 Naval tradition

Man-of-war

Man-of-war are special Heavy ships, available to England and Great Britain after completing the mission "Expand the Royal navy"

They can only be build in provinces which have a Dock or Shipyard

Their Modifiers are:

• (unrecognized string “naval morale damage” for Template:Icon)+15% Naval morale damage

The amount possible to recruit is based on force limit fraction. The following can increase a nations Man-of-war force limit fraction :

• 20% from "The Man-of-War" modifier, gained for completing the mission "Expand the Royal navy"

The following can modify our Man-of-war regiments :

• "Man of War acts" parliament issue :
  • +15% Ship durability

VOC Indiamen

VOC Indiamen are special light ships, available to nations that have enacted the Stadhouder Monarchy, Dutch Republic or Dutch Archbishopric Government reform, available to nations of the Dutch, Flemish and Frisian culture

Their Modifiers are:

• +33% ship cannons
• (unrecognized string “ship trade power modifier” for Template:Icon)+20% ship trade power modifier

The amount possible to recruit is based on force limit fraction. The following can increase a nations VOC Indiamen force limit fraction :

• 25% at 100% Trade efficiency
• 20% from the Stadhouder Monarchy, Dutch Republic or Dutch Archbishopric Government reforms

Caravel

Caravels are special light ships, available to Aragon after completing the Mission "Mare Nostrum", to Castile after completing the Mission "Reales Atarazanas" and to Portugal after completing the mission "Reform the Navy"

They can only be build in Iberian culture provinces that are not Andalusian

Their Modifiers are:

• -25% naval attrition
• +33% Ship trade power
• +1 Fleet movement speed

The amount possible to recruit is based on force limit fraction. The following can increase a nations Caravel force limit fraction :

• 10% from "Taming the vast sea" modifier, gained for completing the Castilean mission "Reales Atarazanas"
• 10% from "A Rising Naval Power" modifier, gained for completing the Portugese mission "Reform the Navy"
• 20% from "Masters of the Mediterranean" modifier, gained for completing the Aragonese mission "Mare Nostrum"

Galleon

Galleons are special Heavy ships, available to Castile after completing the Mission "Reales Atarazanas" and to Portugal after completing the mission "Reform the Navy"

They can only be build in Iberian culture provinces that are not Andalusian

Their Modifiers are:

• +10% Heavy Ship combat ability
• +10% Hull size

The amount possible to recruit is based on force limit fraction. The following can increase a nations Galleon force limit fraction :

• 10% from "Taming the vast sea" modifier, gained for completing the Castilean mission "Reales Atarazanas"
• 10% from "A Rising Naval Power" modifier, gained for completing the Portugese mission "Reform the Navy"

Geobukseon

Geobukseons are special Galleys, available to Korea via their 6th National idea.

Their Modifiers are:

• +10% Galley combat ability
• +10% Ship durability

The amount possible to recruit is based on force limit fraction. The following can increase a nations Geobukseon force limit fraction :

• 50% at 100 Naval tradition

References

Mechanics

Defense

Fort • Zone of control

Customization

Nation designer • Random New World

Ages and Institutions

Ages • Institutions

Innovativeness and Technology

Innovativeness • Technology