Maintainance Costs

[lordtog]

Reading up on Seas of Cerilla, it says that Move Ships is a cost free action, as the ships maintainance cost includes provisions. If this is true, how come you have to pay for troop movements, and what really does the maintainance cost cover?

[Raesene Andu]

The maintenance cost of a ship would cover provisions, wages for the crew, small repairs, etc. But you you suddenly add units of troops, hundreds of men, horses, equipment, etc, you will need a lot more provisions and supplies very quickly, thus the 1 GB/5 units moved cost for moving troops by ship.

It should probably be pointed out that this cost has been rounded to the nearest GB (as these things tend to be). It represents approximately 400gp to move a single unit of troops by sea.