Merchant Fleet (Civ5)

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"Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world."

–Christopher Columbus

Merchant Fleet is a special technology in the Conquest of the New World Deluxe scenario.

Game InfoEdit

Allows you to build the Nau, the fastest ship, and increases the movement speed of embarked units.

Civilopedia entryEdit

In the face of depradations from buccaneers and privateers, in the mid-1500s the Spanish and Portuguese adopted an early form of convoys for their merchant ships plying the Atlantic trade routes. Whereas the treasure fleets were usually accompanied by warships, the private merchant fleets were not; hence many of the galleons - laden with tobacco, spices, lumber, sugar, grain, pearls and other luxuries for the European markets - were armed with cannons and carronades to ward off the smaller pirate ships.