More fun with the Byzantine Dromons

[Ringo Kid]

Almost every turn the Portugese have been sending me a galleon loaded with four cavs, and three or four frigates. Sometimes they send a whole pile of 8 or 12 at once. (They are commie, and industrialized, and very angry with me. )

I discovered the most efficient way to sink them is to trap them against the coast and bombard them with frigates and cannon - then have the Dromons go in for the kill. The frigates reduce the enemy fleet to the last hit point making them an easy kill for the Dromons lethal bombardment.

Since all the attacks are bombardments, and the frigates wont leave the galleon unescorted - you don't lose any ships to an unlucky roll of the dice. If you dont have enough dromons to sink the whole fleet in one turn, you just send the rest to the bottom on the next turn. If you dont trap them, they run away. ( And frigates are faster than dromons) Cowards! Love those dromons.

 

[capnvonbaron]

technically, if you trap them by the coast, they could be vulnerable to hwachas too. Tell me it wouldn't be funny as hell to start a GA my sinking a warship with a bunch of flaming arrows

 

[Taras Bulba]

( And frigates are faster than dromons)

if you grab Magellans Voyage I think you can equalize that. Dromon=3 movement+seafaring (1)+Magellans (1)=5 don't Frigates have a movement of 5?
Either way it still wouldn't work too well, as you're last move would be spent on barely catching up to it (unless you semi-blocked it)

either way, its even funnier when the lethal sea bombardment kills battleships. I've done it before, surprisingly (with that exact strategy 'cept I had battleships instead of frigates)

 

[Ringo Kid]

Yes, I just sank a Battleship with Dromons. I bombarded with a battleship and four cruisers- then hit it with the Dromons to sink it.

I think the galleons are five movement and the frigates six when playing a seafaring civ.; so you are right Magellan enhanced dromon/frigate fleets could catch and sink the four movement galleon/frigate fleets.

When the AI gets destroyer/transport fleets that era is over, sadly.

 

[Bowsling]

Yes, I just sank a Battleship with Dromons. I bombarded with a battleship and four cruisers- then hit it with the Dromons to sink it.

Now that sounds like some fun