Currently, there’s only three generic naval transport units in the game, unlocked at the classical, early modern and contemporary eras.  On every run, i always miss an upgrade from the caravel before the landing craft to use in my industrial era colonizations. It’s just weird to use caravels to move along steam frigates.


I think it would be great to add some kind of steamboat or transantlantic ship to fill that current gap, and it would be a logical step before arriving to the landing craft. This one would obviously not have the disembarking bonus, but it should be faster than a caravel.


In medieval and ancient era i don’t miss this unit, and i’m fine with the only transports from those eras being culture-specific, since it was what did happen in real life, before the technological advances  that the caravel brought.