EPTedit: Ok nevermind, apparently I needed to sue for peace with France instead. I took Lothian and now have all of Scotland. How do I make more money and gain more admin power?
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zulu_nation8
China26351 Posts
edit: Ok nevermind, apparently I needed to sue for peace with France instead. I took Lothian and now have all of Scotland. How do I make more money and gain more admin power? | ||
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Simberto
Germany11905 Posts
Edit to your edit: Admin points you gain through your king, which you can't influence, and through the advisor. You probably can only afford a 1 star advisor. Money you can make through a variety of ways. More provinces, buildings in provinces, trade are the main ones. Consider building light ships and steering trade towards london to grab all that juicy money. Taking some from others is also viable. But you don't actually need a lot of money, usually manpower is a far more pressing concern. The main use of gold is hiring mercenaries. If you have finished the scots of, you might want to take a look at what you have to do to become Great Britain, there should be a decision for that. And you need to think about what you want to do next. Maybe colonisation, maybe trying to gain influence in continental europe or scandinavia? | ||
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Russian Federation3631 Posts
On May 14 2014 17:55 SwatRaven wrote: Remember if the Scottish don't take additional territory they get a combat bonus. I forget what stats get buffed for them but I remember losing it in my last game. its a +1 leader shock bonus I believe, helped me roll an insane 2/6 early | ||
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Simberto
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Simberto
Germany11905 Posts
Alternatively, you could focus on colonizing and dominating the new world. Basically, you have reached the point where there is not really an obvious path, so you should set some goal, and then work towards accomplishing that. A lot of that is based on ideas, so if you want to trade a lot, you need the merchant ideas. If you want to colonize, you need exploration and expansion. For war, you probably want some military ideas. | ||
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Russian Federation3631 Posts
castile and portugal are your short-term colonial competition, though they generally are allied with each other so you will want allies to fight them the low countries might seem tempting - rich provinces and part of the best trade node in the game - but if you attack them the holy roman emperor will defend them | ||
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jtype
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Dangermousecatdog
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Russian Federation3631 Posts
as a rule of thumb you don't want to have advisors at all unless you're making 3d/month, you don't want to have +2s unless you're making 30d/month, and +3s you can think about at 100d/month Typically Britain gets into the exploration game as the 2nd-3rd idea group so you can start colonizing North America. If its about 1500 the Protestant Reformation might be coming, though if you are papal controller its unlikely your lands will convert to Protestant unless you convert right off the bat | ||
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zulu_nation8
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jtype
England2167 Posts
edit- As long as you're not over naval forcelimit, the maintenance shouldn't be too high at minimum to worry about. If it still is and you aren't expecting to use them for a decade or so, then feel free to disband them. You may have better naval tech by the time you need ships again. But, if you are planning on making headway into scandinavia soon, then keep hold of them I'd say. | ||
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Russian Federation3631 Posts
As 3rd idea group I think you have enough range to jump from Ireland to Greenland at the very least. A lot of the choice territories in the Carribean will have been taken by Spain/Portugal at that point though. | ||
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zulu_nation8
China26351 Posts
Nvm can't colonize Greenland, Canada is still too far to be colonized. What other technology do I need? | ||
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zulu_nation8
China26351 Posts
edit: wait nvm diplo 7 means unlocking the 2nd idea group right? I've done that and none of the idea groups make colonization easier... | ||
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