Inland naval yard
Build the fleet. Feed it. Move it.
A developed imperial base supplied through the St. Lawrence system.
How to read the scale. Readiness is a comparative 0–100 teaching index, not a measured historical statistic. It combines all eight resource indices with the selected yard and season. Launching requires enough overall readiness during a workable season. Sustaining a vessel also requires the weakest resource to clear an operational threshold, with local threat reducing rather than improving capacity.
Allocation board
Every ship is a supply chain.
Read the system
The fleet begins far from the water.
Forests, mines, foundries, ropewalks, farms, wagon roads, canals, ports, and human skill become naval power only when they meet at the yard in the correct sequence. The slowest critical input can govern the whole system.
The model uses a bottleneck-sensitive geometric mean rather than simply adding resources. That reflects the historical point: surplus timber cannot substitute for missing cannon, and a launched hull without provisions or crew is not an operational ship.
Follow the evidence
Shipyards, fleets, and inland supply
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