Subscribe to download
Naval Maintainance and Faster Docked Recruiting.

- Reduces the costs of docked fleets and raiding fleets more greatly than in vanilla. This lets you keep fleets of smaller ships at a greatly reduced cost, greatly amplifying the viability of navies as a security asset.

- Adds one recruitment slot to a sea region for each fleet you have docked, so recruiting at port is faster then recruiting in the dead middle of nowhere. Coordinating many admirals managing your ports can let you draft fleets more quickly.

This comes from the observation that, quite simply, boarding ships were very expensive, but give almost nothing.
They sometimes would ram a transport, get grappled mid ramming, and die to 3x their numbers, and then flee. This stops happening once you have large boarding ships with enough numbers to wreck a transport fleet, but this took time, and came later in the tech tree then heavy siege weapons.

Artillery ships admittedly are able to dominate transport fleets, but I wanted to try to come up with some modifiers that made proper historical fleets viable and interesting, since combat at this time was often boarding and ramming.