Naval Blockade Questions

[marquo]

How does one judge the overall efficacy of the Naval Blockade? Which areas are better directly blockading? How can I judge the overall effect of my blockading efforts.

Also, I have placed fleets in the Gulf of Mexico box and have never seen a percentage number appear; and what does this number really mean, anyway?

Thanks

[Ace]

You need to enact blockade diplomatic decision in F6 ledger for percentages to appear.
Percentage number is the percentage penalty to CSA ports $ and WS production.
Mayor ports are the best choice for blockading, even better for invading. For example, if you take New Orleans, blockade percentage will rise.

[Jim-NC]

There are several ports that can contribute to the blockade percentage. I am not sure about II, but in AACW, the list included places like Charleston, New Oreans, as well as some small out of the way places (I have the list around here somewhere, but can't locate right now). So as you take certain ports (or brown water blockade), the % in the box will rise.

You need to have fleets in both blockade boxes for it to work (can't put all your ships in the Atlantic blockade box for example).

[Lecivius]

Currently I am thinking this part of the game is broken. Badly. We are having a discussion of this on the Matrix boards

matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3446255 (no URL as I am under 5 posts)

In short even though you have the ships to blockade the port region, you cannot get a port blockaded. You need to get ships upriver and past forts to blockade several major ports. I see this as a bug. I understand the reasoning, but blockading all the way to the river mouth was never, ever done going back through the Napoleonic wars. No blockade was ever air tight, but this is so a-historical as to be a game changer.