Blockade unit cost

[James D Burns]

I’ve found a problem with the production cost of Blockade units that doesn’t make sense and hopefully is simply due to a typo. A full Blockade unit has 1 Steam Frigate element, 1 Frigate element and 6 Brig elements in it. Below are the costs (money/conscripts/war supply) for the individual ship units in question:

Steam Frigate unit 40.....1.....30

Frigate unit 50.....2.....40

Brig unit 30.....2.....20

Blockade unit 185.....8.....110

A steam frigate has one element so its full cost should be applied to a comparison. Both the Frigate and Brig units have 2 elements per unit, so only count half the cost of a Frigate unit when comparing. If everything is supposed to be equal, the money cost for a Blockade unit should be 155 not 185. Everything else calculates out fine when compared.

I can’t imagine given how short money is in game that the convenience of having all the ships merged into one unit is worth anywhere near 30 money. Even if you add a full 2 element Frigate unit it’s still cheaper by 5 money and you get an extra element to assist your blockade attempts when you build individual units instead of blockade units.

Jim

[Ace]

Blockade unit is composed of 1 Steam Frigate element, 1 Frigate element and 6 blockade ships , not brigs

[James D Burns]

My bad, getting lazy in my old age. They use the same graphic so I assumed it was the same ship type.

Jim

[Captain_Orso]

The difference between a brig and a blockade ship are not so great, so it does kind of beg the question of why the blockade ship costs $5 more, well there than that they use 0 supply

[caranorn]

The difference between a brig and a blockade ship are not so great, so it does kind of beg the question of why the blockade ship costs $5 more, well there than that they use 0 supply

Blockade ship should be steam which would explain the added cost...