Getting Started

Seas of Glory starts with a coastal port, a resource economy, and fleets that can build, move, scout, trade, raid, defend, and conquer. Early play introduces the same systems that continue later: buildings affect port capacity and unlocks, ships create map options, resources limit construction, and other players shape risk.

Port systems

HQ supports broad progression and unlocks important systems later. Docks affect ship access and shipbuilding pace. Warehouse sets resource capacity and later hides protected resources from raids and spy reports. Farmland affects available population for construction and ships. Forest, Workshop, and Mines produce wood, cloth, and metal.

These systems interact. A port can have resources but lack population, have production but lack Warehouse space, or have ship unlocks but lack the resources to order ships. The visible bottleneck depends on the port’s current buildings, stored resources, population, ships, and map situation.

Checklist and milestones

The checklist introduces milestones such as HQ upgrades, Docks progress, early ships, Trade Post progress, Armada membership, trade routes, market offers, raids, reports, skill points, and voyages. Completed checklist rewards can provide resources or ships.

Checklist tasks sit alongside the live state of the port. Full storage stops additional resources from being stored. Low population can block construction or ship orders. Incoming attacks, active trade, and fleet travel can change what is available at the port while a checklist task is still unfinished.

Ships and roles

Ships have different roles. Sloops provide basic combat strength. Spy Ships can reveal information about ports. Trade Ships move resources. Carracks help defend ports. Fire Ships can damage Port Defenses after a successful attack. Flagbearers create conquest pressure when they survive a successful attack.

Ships in transit are unavailable at the port until they return. Trade Ships committed to routes, market movement, or other logistics are not available for another trade task at the same time. Specialist ships can change travel time, cost, and the result of a fleet action.

Spying and information

Spying uses Spy Ships to gather information about another port. A spy report can show buildings, ships, resources, and other details depending on the result. Successful spy-only attacks can also discover temporary weaknesses that help later attacks against the same target. That information can affect how a player reads a raid, siege, conquest attempt, or defense situation.

Not every attack has the same outcome. A raid can focus on loot. A Fire Ship attack can affect Port Defenses after a win. A Flagbearer attack can create influence. A failed attack can cost ships and time.

Consequences to know

• Resources above Warehouse capacity cannot be stored.
• Higher Warehouse levels protect some resources from loot and spy/scout resource reports.
• Population limits can block construction and ship orders.
• Ships away from port cannot defend that port until they return.
• Spy Ships mixed into normal attacks fight as weak combat ships instead of acting as a clean spying mission.
• Spy-discovered weaknesses expire after 24 hours and are only useful to the attacker who found them.
• Fire Ships and Flagbearers depend on the fleet winning and the specialist ships surviving.
• Armada membership can affect trade, diplomacy, support, forums, and conquest pressure.

Wider systems

Friends help players keep track of each other. Armadas provide membership, shared forums, diplomacy, coordinated trade, and combined conquest pressure. Voyages send ships away for timed rewards. Skill points let ports lean into production, trade, voyages, combat support, or ship construction.

Where to go next

Port Growth explains buildings and bottlenecks. Fleet Building explains ship roles. Combat explains attacks, defense, reports, Fire Ships, and Flagbearers. Armadas explains group systems.