The Military Port Complex is a type of port in The Peninsular Campaign.
Description[]
A military port complex improves trade, especially in military goods, aids the construction of ships and supports military operations in a region.
The port is a place of bustle, business and excitement. Goods and military supplies are likely to be stacked in apparently random profusion, while clerks and shipping agents argue about manifests, shipping prices and delivery details. The apparent disorder is, however, deceptive, for everyone knows exactly where everything is and where everything should be going. Shipping goods and supplies by sea is well understood, but carrying them on roads is a slow and painful affair, thanks to the poor quality of many roads.
By the Napoleonic times, navies were well practiced in running shore establishments. The division between commercial and military ports was there, but not considered important when getting supplies shipped across the sea. What mattered more to the port authorities was the “shrinkage” of goods disappearing as dock workers helped themselves, and the need to keep rough booze and cheap floozies away from ship’s crews for as long as possible. A port admiral would spend a good deal of effort on what might be termed public order every time a fleet arrived and needed unloading!
General Information[]
While they look identical to the trading port line of buildings in Napoleon: Total War, the supply port line of buildings differ in several characteristics. From an economic standpoint, they do not generate any wealth directly; indeed, if the player doesn't have a significant trade fleet stationed at trade nodes, there is little benefit to building them for money. The other substantial difference is that the supply port line of buildings increase the number of land units that may be recruited from a region, and that the higher levels also significantly reduce land unit costs. This makes regions with supply ports excellent recruitment centers in The Peninsular Campaign.