Can Cathay have more than one active caravan?

[Sambivalent]

Or is there only allowed 1, so the reserve caravans are pointless past like 1 or 2 to get back in time? I mean there is only one active caravan right now, but maybe there's a point of expansion or a technology or something that increases the number?

[bepis]

my brother has 4 of them. he had 2 of them and got 2 more after confederating. if he can send them all i dont know

[the commando]

well having an extra is usefull for when the caravan is coming back so there is no down time between trips.

[bearfieldlee]

I'm not sure about a tech to increase them. I do know that you should always invest in the caravan masters skilltree where it refers to cargo size. It makes a huge difference as small increments in cargo size mean BIG profits.

[zorgSVK]

I alredy spend 30h gameplay with Cathey and u can have only one active caravan and there is not technology that can increase it... it is op right now not efven with more. My caravan was profiting with 30k etc.

[Zane87]

Originally posted by zorgSVK:

I alredy spend 30h gameplay with Cathey and u can have only one active caravan and there is not technology that can increase it... it is op right now not efven with more. My caravan was profiting with 30k etc.

Yeah that's definitely not well thought out.
They are useful in the early game but later having only 1 is... Not much.
They should add ways to increase it for IE, otherwise it becomes useless fast.

[brynjar]

30k every ten turns, sounds okay balanced to me, i was getting 5-6000k per 10 turn but has only played til turn 25 with Cathay.

[Hand_Of_Glory]

Yeah same, wondering what good switching things up would do but then it struck me that the darn things get special skills and such so never use more than the first 2 that you acquire.
Or alternatively if any of the confederated caravans has any such stats start using it instead of your second one.
Still though, it would make the game feel less daft if one could have more than a single caravan sent of at a time if affordable say.

[Nylan]

Play as Cathay long enough and you'll start seeing the threat go up (unless you've really been beefing up relations). Yesterday i dispatched one of my caravans on a ten turn route that had 7 or 8 high threat points, and it was ambushed by ogres on i think the first 4 of those. Won the fights, but it was pretty tattered after the last one. If you could send two out at a time you'd be hitting that earlier in a campaign (i believe it was around turn 100 for that). Maybe with some luck you could keep punching through the high threat armies, but you'd have to pick up higher end units instead of the peasant spearmen or bowmen, and those made up almost half of my two caravans that i used.