Calais-Kent strait.

[ThePatriotOfDreumel]

I think that this would be an excellent addition to the game for 2 reasons:

Making england more involved in mainland europe:
The Calais-Kent strait would allow England to easily land in Europe and actually fight in wars. This would work for both sides.

Making naval dominance actually worth something for England:
As it stands now, as England you delete your Heavy ships and make a huge navy of light ships with some transports.
The Calais-Kent strait would mean that if you don't have naval dominance, your island gets invaded.

 

[Fugu]

I disagree, it would make the invasion of the British isles too likely to happen. After the viking era it was a thing that really didn't happen. England is currently in fact quite active in the mainland, since they don't necessarily lose their French posessions. Furthermore, the Burgundian subjects can often end up independent early on and fall to the English hands.

If there would be a strait, then it would mean that if most of your fleet is fighting wars elsewhere it would be easy to just move your doom stack to the Isles and steamroll. You don't neccesarily need a huge fleet of your own, if you just take opportunity... The current system is IMO better: even if most of the fleet isn't currently present, then you still need alot of transports to ferry a capable army to the Isles. Something which you'd require in reality aswell.

 

[Mattius]

It's just not... Realistic. There's no way to get from Europe to Britain without boats in the time frame.

 

[ThePatriotOfDreumel]

It's just not... Realistic. There's no way to get from Europe to Britain without boats in the time frame.

There is a Scotland-Ireland strait.

 

[Danfish77]

It's just not... Realistic. There's no way to get from Europe to Britain without boats in the time frame.

Then why have any straits in the game? Unless there's a bridge or you're swimming, you need a boat to cross water in every case in real life. That's sort of why boats were invented.

 

[Kapitalisti]

There is a Scotland-Ireland strait.

That strait is smallish enough to cross it by commandeering fishing boats etc. Crossing the English Channel requires actual ships.

 

[Vaximillian]

Straits are narrow waterways which it's relatively easy to cross without using real ships for transportation. Fishing boats, pontoons, rafts, fords, such things.
Strait of Dover (or Pas de Calais for those on the other side) is too wide and too deep to cross with improvised means.

 

[Mattymooz]

That strait is smallish enough to cross it by commandeering fishing boats etc. Crossing the English Channel requires actual ships.

Um, as far as I know the english used fishing boats to cross the channel pretty effectively in ww2

I don't agree with either strait tbh (england - ireland and england - calais)

 

[Vaximillian]

ww2

So badly out of the timeframe I can't even.

 

[Mattymooz]

So badly out of the timeframe I can't even.

Sorry, there wasn't really a need to use fishing boats before that point to cross either stretch of water

 

[t6.28]

Considering there is also the strait of hormuz and the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, both being wider than the strait of Dover, I think it would not be a bad idea to have a strait to england.
It would also make keeping Calais more important, since you could build a fort there to block movement across the strait.

 

[ShadowCammy]

I agree. It makes naval supremacy more important, which was a very big reason as to why England remained what it was.
Without it, then Britain may have ended up as Spain. England would be French. England would be a whole lot of things it isn't today had it not been for its naval supremacy.