How to escort caravans?

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I'm not sure I understand how to set up a safe trade route with a neighboring city.  I send a caravan there, and a road pops up, and now the caravan runs along the road automatically -- right?  But I can't assign an escort to the route, it seems.  So sooner or later, a bandit or spider comes along and whacks my caravan.  Now, I could micromanage this by having a unit follow the caravan every turn, but that is awfully tedious.  Is there a way to group the caravan with a military unit while it automatically moves?

elemental
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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

really? you have to look after them? I can understand trade would get blocked and if you remove the bandits then trade should just resume

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Yes. You have to. Good thing would be a possibility to add some escort to 'ferrying' caravan.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Yes this needs to be added please I lost so many caravans I gave up training them. And I know that hurt my economy.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

OP go post this in Ideas sub-forum.