Trade System

Wagons & Caravans
As the primary means to maintain a campaigning army and move resources between settlements for manufacturies and trade, wagons are a vital resource for every warlord. Unlike the units they help to supply, wagons are not “owned” so much as leased.

All armies have a range that they can operate at using the personal supplies every army starts with at the beginning of a journey. If you want to travel further and operate far away across hostile territory you should think about hiring a wagon with extra supplies and including it in your roster before heading out. Obviously, the more supplies an army packs (and the smaller the army), the further it can operate at peak efficiency.

Wagon are available at Personal Camps and main cities but can be hired in the open world aswell. Neverless they will slow you done. The larger your wagon the slower your army will be. Given that an army always moves across the world map at a speed determined by its slowest unit, and that large wagons are among the slowest units of all, choosing the wrong one can transform a fast-moving raiding party into a ripe and tempting target for opportune bandit warlords.

As well as carrying supplies, wagons can be used to transport resources between camps and settlements, either to be sold or moved for crafting. Obviously, the rarer the resource, the more protection it might need. However, potential raiders are unable to see what the contents of a wagon might be, although experienced local warlords will gain some idea of what resources are produced where, and work out from your route what you may be ferrying around.

Because wagons can be packed with siege equipment that otherwise other warlords will see as part of a caravan, it’s often a good idea to “hide” artillery in wagons so as to obscure any intentions you might have to lay siege to a nearby castle. You can hire 3 different kind of wagons:
 * Cart (Capacity: 50.000, Price: 500 Bronce)
 * Open Wagon (Capacity: 100.000, Price: 1500 Bronce)
 * Covered Wagon (Capacity: 300.000, Price: 2500 Bronce)

Resource Market & Auctionary
If you want to buy open world resources you can do so at the resource market (F7). There you can sell and purchase resources for silver. At the auctionary (F5) you can buy hero ewuipment or hero resources.