I feel like the game would be better off with more flexability in trade for asian nations/african, i get the games "europa" universalis but still being anything but european feels crippling in terms of trade and honestly missionaries/strength. If it cant then you're losing the majority of americas too aside from the nodes that actually go back to asia (mexico/california pull to nippon and girin) most of africa? don't recall if ivory coast can be pulled up into inner africa. Venice early on can be very strong but the scaling sucks, at least most trade from asia/india can be steered towards it, and i believe. before 1490s you have to deal with genoe + hre, and florence + hre to secure most of the trade centers minus the inland one in france.
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castile, aragon, naples, plus potentially a provencial/french alliance held together. Very true, you could easily monopolise english channel as both france and england early on, while monopolising genoe would mean spread out wars with aragon/naples early on or even in worst case. I think we all agree that Venice is crippled - less routes going in, and the ones that lead to the HRE as well are often saturated with merchants. When left to their own devices the Channel would be my bet for mid game money, though it's all dependant on the fortunes of the nations.Īs for getting control as a player earliest, it all depends on nation choice - more options in Genoa, but more to fight through. They could tip the balance either way but I assume the AI will simply collect in all three.
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France will pull to Champagne through Bordaeux, but will likely have a hold in both the Channel and Genoa. England and the Netherlands will pull to the Channel. Spain and Portugal pull to Sevilla (and therefore indirectly to Genoa, but harm Genoese direct colonial gains). Genoa and Aragon are the only powers pulling to Genoa (and neither last long or expand usually). Perhaps interesting is the interests of the initial nations: Of course if you are planning to reroute the entire world's money to it this is meaningless, as you will monopolise it anyway. The English Channel centers are all concentrated around the Straits of Dover (a minor exaggeration, but the point is that you will have a shorter border). I've always found that the trade power for the Genoa node is too spread out - you need to control Southern France, Western Italy, and Eastern Spain to monopolise it. But if you're not starting england would genoe be more effecient since it'll get you snowballing faster and bigger influence over top powers in europe in that area, aka. with luck you can probably secure genovian trade power dominance easier and faster (unless you start england then english channel is pretty much yours + easy wars with burgundy for holland and antwerp with a east frisian vassal). venice, english channel, white sea, north sea, novgrad, baltic, and lubeck, and a big portion of north america. and granted you get a merchant after a colony hits 10 provinces thats not too farfetched if you can make a large amount of them/steal from probably spain and portugal). Then if you setup shop in english channel nearly every trade node in the game can be forwarded to it aside from venice, genoe, tunis, safi, and sevilla (all the americas can be forwarded to ivory coast, and back up into carribean which forwards to chesapeak/bordeux. something, and only 4 or 5 fish resources and only 1 bronze resource with multiple iron resources (based at 4.5 for bronze and 3.0 for iron). english channel had mostly cloth which rises from 3.60 to like 4.
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Would that be genoe or English channel? early game before the religious reformations i calculated that genoe was worth about 117.3 with mostly starting base values, while english channel valued at 97.8.