This short hop by boats has an upped chance of river pirates attack. These encounters sometimes have a buffed number of pirates (five-six enemies) which is irritating in early game. Sometimes there are just three or four bandits but they are equipped with longswords and have average weapons skill. Such bandits will hurt early parties clad in leather/padded armor.

SInce I make Wurzburg my base of operations and go by boat to Nurnberg to buy armor/weapons there, I have lost count of how many times I was attacked on the Bamberg-Nurnberg water route. It is as if the devs knew players would go to Nurnberg by boats to buy armor/weapons, and laid a trap. Sometimes you even get attacked both on inbound and outbound journeys.

Switching to overland travel I was attacked around Nurnberg by gargoryles.

Nurnberg is a newb trap!

[spoiler] Gargoyles typically only attack during the winter and are a primary reason for new parties to hunt criminals inside the city until springtime. Bamberg, Nurnberg, and Wurzburg are my favorite three cities for the first couple of years. I can get multiple sponsors for the same robber knight; they are close by and easy boat or walking travel. Outside Nurnberg there is a castle that if has an evil lord in it, is a great place to harass and get chest loot as long as you avoid killing the lord until your bored of it. Just leave and come back. Each manner of entry has the guards and lord in a different spot. When you destroy the castle instead of becoming a town if seemingly joins the city. I pretend it just made it a bigger city, but in reality, you probably just can't access the town because it triggers the city entrance instead. [/spoiler]

I guess that tag doesn't work, sorry.

Didn't know that gargoryles attack in winter. They often maul my early parties. It is winter quarters then!