How do i capture port in naval invasion and how to upgrade port size in campaign?

[nameless'ghost]

Read the title it say all

[redhongkong]

have 100k t ship in the sea region, go to politic view, click invasion, select province u wanna invade.

heard changing the taskforce to invade mode will help increase ur chance of invasion (i havnt tested yet.)

move ur taskforce closer to the port, next turn, countdown will start

[nameless'ghost]

Originally posted by redhongkong:

have 100k t ship in the sea region, go to politic view, click invasion, select province u wanna invade.

heard changing the taskforce to invade mode will help increase ur chance of invasion (i havnt tested yet.)

move ur taskforce closer to the port, next turn, countdown will start

Port is 100.000 and i have 150.000 it always defeat

[nameless'ghost]

I move ship close not thing happen end 7 turn invasion fail

[nameless'ghost]

Anyway how to upgrade port ?

[cyan027]

150,000 tons surely not enough for a 100,000 ton port. Because even you assign all your ship to focus on invade, your ships might be distracted by something else (renegade enemy ships, routine maintenance, some emergency etc etc) it is better prepare 5 times of tonnage, so you need about 500,000+ tons, in case if some ships get distracted you still retain enough tonnage for invade.

As ports, they automatically expand according to your technology. You dont need to worry about them.

[Aries]

A Huge part of the Naval Invasions (and to the automatic land battles) is now the Nation Logistics. Yours and theirs. I haven't fully tested the exact methods of crushing victories yet.
Points that might help.
-Transports do effect Logistics, sinking them you will see the enemy nation rating go down. A few escaped the convoy missions on me and that number went way up also. I am thinking the alliance powers logistics can influence the outcome too?
-Reduce Enemy naval forces in the area (effects naval power rating).
-Tonnage needed is roughly the total tonnage of the province. If there are two or more ports in that province you'll need to add them to the total tonnage you'll need to remain in the Invasion range.

[ruecker-schleiden]

Fleet needs to be in invade mode.
Also, 100000 is needed to initiate the invasion. The naval forces needed to keep the landed ground troops supplied might be considerably higher. Basically, sent all you have available.
See to it that your army is 100% supplied BEFORE you choose to invade.

Invasion is only needed if you need a base in the area, for blockade purposes etc.
Otherwise, no need.

Ports. They enlarge automatically. I guess it is connected to your GDP growth, but i do not know the exact mechanics.

[Aries]

As Cyan07 mentioned, port size upgrades automatically with your Shipyard Size. You can upgrade port capacities in the Finance Tab by upgrading Max. Shipyard Size. This upgrades all ports and your total shipbuilding capacity (exceeding this will slow production). Smaller capacity ports don't expand to huge ones but the do increase somewhat.

[Aries]

Originally posted by Steel Rain:

I would skip the invasions, they do not have any value to you. Much better to just crush their fleets and collect the ports when they surrender.

I agree with forcing an enemy to surrender up ports is a very good and relatively easy way to collect minor ports. Nations will not offer up major ports in a peace offering, which are key to the campaign imo.
E.g. AH will not offer Croatia (three major ports) if they sue for peace. This province needs to be taken by Naval Invasion. I spent two years (4 attempts) doing Naval Invasions of Croatia before I was able to finally claim it. Then the AI launched land battles to take the rest of AH.

Naval Invasions are key to taking larger ports and home provinces. Even if there is a land battle going on, the naval invasion of the same province helps I believe. I have seen the announcement "XYZ fell to being attacked from all sides" with joint land AI and Naval Invasions.

[nameless'ghost]

So how naval invasion work ?
Politic > chosse faction at war > end turn > send ship to that point and end turn ?
Because i send 256.000 to 20.000 port and still fail

[godspeedthunder]

Originally posted by Steel Rain:

Originally posted by nameless'ghost:

So how naval invasion work ?
Politic > chosse faction at war > end turn > send ship to that point and end turn ?
Because i send 256.000 to 20.000 port and still fail

Yep, you got it :) You need to set the navel invasion flag in the politics tab and make sure you set the invasion mission type in each TF you put there. keep trying, you will get it eventually. Here is the deal though, every time you lose, you lose VPs, a lot of them. When you win, you get nothing. No VPs, No GDP bump, and you cant upgrade the port either. So be careful over time, don't let your VPs drop too low or your government will sue for peace and give away provinces and ships.

You do get something though, you get a new sea zone you have to protect convoys in 🤣

[nameless'ghost]

Originally posted by Steel Rain:

Originally posted by nameless'ghost:

So how naval invasion work ?
Politic > chosse faction at war > end turn > send ship to that point and end turn ?
Because i send 256.000 to 20.000 port and still fail

Yep, you got it :) You need to set the navel invasion flag in the politics tab and make sure you set the invasion mission type in each TF you put there. keep trying, you will get it eventually. Here is the deal though, every time you lose, you lose VPs, a lot of them. When you win, you get nothing. No VPs, No GDP bump, and you cant upgrade the port either. So be careful over time, don't let your VPs drop too low or your government will sue for peace and give away provinces and ships.

They really need to rework campaign

[nameless'ghost]

What us tfs and vps ?

[godspeedthunder]

Task force
Victory points

[nameless'ghost]

Originally posted by godspeedthunder:

Task force
Victory points

I dont see a victory pont in naval invasion
What is Task force? my ship ?