[.806][Gameplay or Bug] Transport Ships and Harbours

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I'm not sure if this is the way it is supposed to work but units can only enter transport ships if the unit is inside a city and the transport ship is adjacent to the harbour tile. I was expecting units could be dropped off and picked up from beaches but picking up from a beach doesn't work. This means you must develop the second island with another harbour before you can pick up any unit you drop off there.

I've also had a problem in one city where the harbour was facing inland (not sure how to rotate the tiles or should these rotate automatically?) and I couldn't load units onto the transport ship.

Finally, transport ships travel way too slowly in the game and are annoying waiting for them to move their couple of squares.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

I agree, the ships move too slowly. They moved something like 4 I think in beta 3, but we seem to have a reversal.

I can load anyone from a beach with a city with a harbor. This means they don't have to leave the city direcyly to board, just be on the beach with a transport just off shore. In beta 3, once you landed them on another beach, then they would not load back on the transport. This has the apprearance of a bug, or bad documentation. After all, they didn't really load the troops back on the landing craft at D-Day, but I agree it is probably a bug. I have not tested going back to the transport after landing in 3A.