In Rome2 you can move your troops off the land and they will get into transport ships, the faction I chose started with a boat and I also made a few more with the harbor. Now the enemy moved his troops into the water so I tought it would be an excelent time to take his transport ships down. But right before the battle started my winning chance was really low. But I went ahead with it anyway and got utterly destroyed, their boats were stronger then mine and even more filled with troops then mine.
Their army of Javelin throwers were greatly outnumbering my Javelin thrower boats. Not to mention their melee troops just ram your boats and start taking them over.
So what is the point of building boats from your harbor and not just placing your troops on the water?
Best Answer
The difference is in the ships and number of troops.
Naval troops are fewer than their land equivalent, making them weaker as a result. However, naval ships are far more powerful than transport ships and also come in several variations.
Some of the ships can destroy an enemy transport by ramming it only once even frontally, others can be particularly fast, allowing you to flee from or intercept any transport ship. Also, siege ships built in the harbour actually have siege weapons. A siege transport on the other hand only transports the troops that man the siege weapons, making land siege units pretty useless in naval battles; similarly, a cavalry transport only contains the riders, not the mounts; such ships cannot be built however and only exist as transports.
TL;DR
Transports:
Military ships: