jessiecat
Divine Monarch
Take out the light galley, and maybe the war galley, but the trireme has to stay out.
Here's a much simpler version of your plan. I've dropped the trireme and kept the war galley in the High Middle Ages. The caravel comes in to the Late Middle Ages and can cross oceans but not carry troops. The galleas, Venetian galleas and xebec also appear in the Late Middle Ages. And so on. Anyway here it is.
Early..............High Middle Ages..........Late Middle Ages...........Renaissance...........Age of Discovery
Galley(holds 2)
available
to all civs,
upgrades to Cogge(holds 2) ..upgrades to Carrack(holds 3) upgrades to .......................Galleon(holds 4)
..............................................................................( carrack or galleon don't apply
...............................................................................for Venice or any Muslim civs)
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...........or War Galley upgrades to Caravel upgrades to........................Frigate (all civs, no troops)
.........(all civs, holds no troops)....(all civs, can cross ocean, no troops).....................or
...................................................................................................Privateer (all civs, no troops)
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............................................or Galleas upgrades to ............................ War Galleas
............................................(holds 2 troops).......................(Holds 3 troops, can enter ocean)
............................................or Venetian Galleas
............................................(Venice only)
............................................(holds 3 troops, with promotion can enter ocean)
............................................or Xebec
............................................Muslim civs only) upgrades to .....................Large Xebec
.............................................(holds 2 troops)........................( Holds 3 troops, can enter ocean)
Here is some possible art for an early war galley. For the galleas and xebec upgrades to War galleas
and Large Xebec we can scale them up a bit in size and add stronger specs. What do people think of this scheme?