Daenerys and the Golden Company

[saint242]

I'm playing a Daenerys game in the Clash of Kings bookmark, and of course I went back to Pentos, because eff Slaver's Bay. I'm going to conquer Westeros.

So Magister Illyrio's armies had no problems following me across the Narrow Sea, but the Golden Company's 10000 men are just sitting on their butts in Pentos, with no ships. Working as intended? Any way I can get them over to the Crownlands where they'll actually do some good? I'm not above cheating.

 

[sharold]

Raise some gold and hire the merc boats, that's the only way I know unless you conquer some coastal Essos land and can make your own.

 

[thisistherevolt]

If you feel like editing the merc file you can just add ships to the armies raised.

 

[saint242]

I just ended up cheating by adding some cash and hiring 10,000 new mercs actually under my control instead of in "ally" mode. I brought those over in my event ships.

 

[thisistherevolt]

That is definitely quicker, but for less of a headache, you should add the ships to the mercenary file. I did, it is canon anyway. Also giving them exactly 100 ships fits the GC nicely in my opinion

 

[Slavicist]

Did there not use to be an option to conscript merchant ships?

 

[D Toccs]

That is definitely quicker, but for less of a headache, you should add the ships to the mercenary file. I did, it is canon anyway.

Not really, considering all the wheeling and dealing they had to do to get the ships off Volantis in aDwD and how most of their history has been spent trying to gather enough support to help them get back to Westeros.

I understand the problem though. I think a better solution would be to have the ships spawn with the Golden Company army as a unique part of this event chain rather then as something they inherently always have.

 

[saint242]

Did there not use to be an option to conscript merchant ships?

There is in the vanilla game, but during the Clash bookmark playing as Daenerys and going through the Pentos event chain, the Golden Company is spawned as your ally, rather than as mercenary troops or event troops directly under your command. So even if you could conscript merchant ships, they won't get on your ships.

 

[thisistherevolt]

Not really, considering all the wheeling and dealing they had to do to get the ships off Volantis in aDwD and how most of their history has been spent trying to gather enough support to help them get back to Westeros.

I understand the problem though. I think a better solution would be to have the ships spawn with the Golden Company army as a unique part of this event chain rather then as something they inherently always have.

They got the ships didn't they? And they certainly didn't walk during the Blackfyre Rebellions.

 

[Deaghaidh]

IIRC they aren't their own ships, they were lent by the Volantenes in order to get the giant army of elite mercenaries off their lawn. Presumably in the past they also hired ships as needed, because where are they going to build and base a fleet?