The Military Supply Port is a type of port in The Peninsular Campaign.
Description[]
This port decreases recruitment costs, increases the number of units that can be garrisoned, and increases military supplies received from trade posts.
Well organised supplies are of the utmost importance in war. Troops have all the weapons and support they need, when needed. A military supply port not only improves the capacity of a port to move material to and from armies and trade posts, it also reduces recruitment costs, increases the available space for a garrison and enables the construction of better ships.
Historically, the Royal Navy knew the importance of securing their own supplies and limiting those of the enemy. Often raiding parties were sent ashore to destroy naval timber stock, and in particular masts, stored in enemy yards. Destroying timber stocks not only set back shipbuilding by many years, but also ensured that battle damage was hard to repair. Burning war materials rather than stealing them must have gone against the natural, and slightly piratical, inclinations of many officers and seamen: their prize money was going up in smoke!
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.
The Military Supply Port doubles the amount of military supply bonus that the Supply Port generated, increasing the profitability of Merchantmen. It also somewhat reduces recruitment costs for land units, a trait absent in its predecessor. Finally, it increases recruitment capacity even further.