The Channel Islands?

[ZombieFriedNuts]

I would love to fight over the Channel Islands and all the other tiny islands that are out there like the sandwich islands , I don’t suppose I will get my wish but you could have a small settlement on there, and while writing this I have just realised there is no Isle of Wight in medieval and Rome.

[pevergreen]

Mm maybe just a port? Could prove interesting. Then it could grow into a town!

[Aztec Warrior]

I've never heard of these islands. Where are they? the English Channel?

[Mikeus Caesar]

I've never heard of these islands. Where are they? the English Channel?

Indeed, just a few miles off the French coast. They are dependents of the British Crown.

[PBI]

In previous games I always did like snapping up all the little islands. I would always absolutely have to take all the islands in the mediterranean; it always disappointed me that there were so few of them and that they got rid of the Balearics for M2TW. It also disappointed me that in BC, the only island in the Indian Ocean was Socotra, off the coast of Yemen (which of course I always take without fail, regardless of which faction I am).

So yes, I would very much like to see not just the Channel Islands, but the Isle of Wight, the Isle of Man, Anglesey, the Orkneys and the Shetlands as separate provinces. In fact, if it were up to me, Rockall would be a separate province which can be built up to a Huge City. Unfortunately however, since I believe all of these islands were relatively unimportant historically, I suspect they are unlikely to be there.

Hopefully however the Caribbean and Indonesia will be in, so there should be plenty of scope for island-hopping if that's your thing. In fact invading archipelagos should work quite well for this game since it requires plenty of naval action as well as land battles.

Then, maybe I could make an Island Mod, where for example France is represented by a single province, but every single one of the South-East Asian islands is represented individually.

[Jolt]

Man... People remember such non-important places. Those islands were never important and it'd be a crime to put (for example) a "1 province Netherland/Portugal", both masters of isgnificant colonial empires, and then waste making a province on some minuscule islands noone knows about.

[PBI]

Yes, it would be silly if in the game places like the Channel Islands were in, but certainly there should be lots of islands to hop in the Caribbean and Indonesia. It might also be nice if island chains like the Canaries or the Falklands were in, for the same reason they were valued in real life, as a friendly base in a remote part of the world. I think it's fair to suggest that there should be more islands than in previous games, to make sure naval strength will be important.

South Georgia, Rockall and 1-province Russia can wait till my mod