The Indiaman is an armed merchant ship, strongly built for the trade routes between Europe and the East. It is not a warship, but can defend itself in need.The Indiaman is a three-masted, square-rigged sailing ship of some 1000 tons displacement. Although work for the relatively small crew is hard, there are compensations: they can trade goods in their own right, and make excellent profits by doing so.Unusually for a merchant ship, an Indiaman carries cargo, passengers, and a good number of guns.
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Just wondering if Indiamen make more money than Merchantmen do? Haven't bought NTW yet, but in my experience with ETW (LOTS) it.
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Intended to sail from Europe to the other side of the world and back carrying valuable – sometimes priceless – cargoes, these ships have to be able to defend themselves. The passengers expect some creature comforts, being both officers of the owning trade companies and assorted “gentlemen” seeking their fortunes in foreign parts.Historically, East Indiamen resembled ships of the line, both in their general configuration and paintwork.
At the Battle of Pulo Aura (1804), the ambiguous appearance and aggressive handling of a squadron of British Indiamen completely humbugged the French admiral, Charles-Alexandre Linois. He withdrew in the face of “superior” forces. Commodore Nathaniel Dance, of the British Company fleet, received a knighthood and a handsome reward for his cunning.National navies purchased Indiamen and converted them into troopships or warships.Technological abilitiesAvailable for:External links.
Here's some things I always do.Adequate protection, I tend to have in theatres were I control all nodes a fleet sufficient enough to see off a hostile fleet that consists of 5th rates and below. Obviously in theatres where your presence is less it may not be cost effective to do so.Scout around, See what other nations are doing and expose opportunities. Like in my last game I saw a ally-less Malta who had two trade nodes in the east Indies, easy risk-less pickings.If I have control more than one node in a trade theatre than I tend to evenly distribute ships between nodes, since it seems more Indiamen you have on a given node reduces your income per Indiamen. With this in mind its important to have a good compromise between number of Indiamen and income per ship. Also keep a eye out for commodity prices and if possible focus on the more lucrative trade nodes.There are some guides provided by TWC users which you might find helpful.
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OK ty guys for the answers. I´m used to play in M2TW and RTW engine, so ETW it´s new to me.i´ll take a look in this link and read the tutorial.i´m around turn 40 -50 and earn 4000 per turn, i can´t evolve my cities, and the growth is very slow.the only Indiaman i´ve built was destroyed by Spain navy. I think i lack in trade routes by sea. And i´m trying to learn and solve this problem.Also, i´ll need to know how to protect them with the warships: in the same group or separated one.