Originally posted by Chaoslink:

I’d probably just rush a longship s fast as I could and set up a cart-filled ship with all my stuff on it. You can fit quite a few carts on a longship rather comfortably and anything you set up is entirely temporary.

It sounds like both you and Fzanco are using a 'wandering caravan based'* mobile main base strategy. Doesn't that make for increased travel time to the 'front' and/or more danger when setting up? I guess I'm used to thinking a single base as being safely placed in a meadows somewhere.

I see the longship as a major part of the transport infrastructure but on some maps access to some points of interest via water routes can be very limited. Perhaps I'm just getting more than my share of bad maps?

When you have your longship loaded up with carts on the deck, what happens in major storms? Do you manage to avoid 'cart overboard'?

* [seems I'm not politically correct enough and unaware that the name that used to be used for wandering caravans is now a forbidden word]