THE POPULOUS BIBLE
C.15 Boat
Boats are one of the two forms of transportation in Populous: The Beginning. Boats are constructed in the Boat Hut by your braves and are used to navigate the otherwise impassable oceans of the world. A boat is capable of holding five followers at a time.
To start producing Boats, send some Braves into the Boat Hut. The Braves will then gather wood and begin construction. When a Boat is constructed, a brave will then sail it to the shore next to the Boat Hut. You will need 4 wood piles to build a boat.
Your shaman can not cast landbridge when she is in a boat. A boat can be stolen from other tribe by just getting inside of it. A boat without units inside for a long time might explode.
To put a follower in a boat, select the follower and left-click on the Boat. If you have more than one boat, you can hold down the Ctrl key and left-click on each boat in sequence to put multiple Followers in them. To move a boat, select the boat or a follower inside and left-click anywhere on the water. If you left-click on dry land, the Boat will beach but your Followers will not disembark, unless the followers are already embarked on the beach. Another way to make your Followers disembark, is to right-click on the Boat and left-click on the Disembark icon. Only Firewarriors can attack from boats which makes them useful at intercepting preachers and Shamans before they land. If you are conducting a large-scale naval assault, stay clear of the enemy Shaman as a well-placed Swarm can forcibly eject followers from boats. Also, followers in boats under Magic Shield are completely invulnerable since being in a boat makes followers un-attackable with melee. Boats indicate ownership with colored sails but if a boat has at least one Spy, he can use the "false-flag" trick (for example, one Spy and four Firewarriors under allied colors hitting the Shaman can theoretically make it look like you are being backstabbed since sitting followers do not show their colors).
Shaman in a boat can provide a devastating sea atack. You can sail faster by casting blast directly on your own boat and then clicking to sail in a direction - this will blast your boat in speed and will not harm it. Boats sent to land will explode after some seconds, but some can be saved by either eroding the land to water again or using a aimed blast so that boat gets blasted to water. Shaman's in boats will die if shot from firewarriors twice in a short ammount of time.
