Ships

Ships are built at the shipyard upgrade of the barracks. The shipyard development is required for its construction. Apart from that, no further development lockout exists for ships. Individual ship however types are region locked, which each town having access to only two ship types.

Civilian ships
There are two types of civilian ships: Colony ships and Transport ships.

Colony ships are used to establish new coastal towns. They have an unlimited range and are useful to create towns in regions a land based settler has difficulty to get to.

Transport ships are created (free of charge) and used automatically by traders and units that need to cross water to reach another town with a shipyard.