Garrison Support

A support mission ferries your troops to a friendly settlement, where they disembark and stand garrison duty. They fight beside the local defender if the island comes under attack, and they stay until you recall them or the host sends them home.

Transport

The convoys that carry cargo and troops, and how fleets move between islands.

Distress Calls

An ally under attack can raise the alarm; support is how you answer it.

Attack & Battle

How a defended landing resolves, and what a garrison adds to the wall.

Alliances

The politics around stationed troops, and why to recall before you leave.

Sending a garrison

Merchant convoys ferry troops to a friendly settlement, where they disembark and take up garrison duty. Infantry and siege units require merchant ships with sufficient troop capacity for passage; the harbour master will refuse to load soldiers without the room to carry them.

Once garrisoned, these forces fight alongside the local defender if the settlement comes under attack, shielded by the settlement's wall fortifications. However, stationed troops depend on local forges, fletchers, and armories for arms and resupply; their combat strength reflects the host settlement's research, not their homeland's. A master archer is only as deadly as the arrows the local fletcher can provide. They remain stationed abroad until recalled by their Governor — or sent home by the settlement's own keeper.

Marshal Voss: Field order

Don't send your finest swords to an island whose blacksmith can barely sharpen a butter knife. Your soldiers are only as sharp as the steel they're handed. If you want your garrison to fight at full strength, invest in the host settlement's research first.

Successive support missions to the same settlement add to the existing garrison. Multiple Governors can station forces at the same island, each contingent tracked separately. A support run is fully attributed: the host always knows whose banners stand on their walls.

Garrison recall

A Governor may recall garrisoned forces at any time. Recalled troops do not vanish home — they board their ships and sail back over the same distance they came, arriving after the voyage like any other returning fleet. Only the units belonging to the issuing Governor are withdrawn; allied garrisons at the same settlement remain in place.

The keeper of the host settlement may also send a garrison home. From Forces → Army → Garrison, the island's owner sees each Governor stationed there and may release any of them; those troops sail home the same way, and their Governor is told their forces were sent back.

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