The Channel Islands?

[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

[Aztec Warrior]

I agree, blockading, invading and conquering islands will be a blast!

[Ishmael]

I've always liked conquering islands and turning them into trading bases in rome...hopefully, as Poor Bloody Infantry said, there will be masses of islands in Polynesia which will emphasise naval power.

[Colonel Flambard]

With some luck we will see lots of small islands around the seas but yeah, channel islands and stuff would be silly unless Empire can have many hundreds of provinces.

[Aztec Warrior]

There should definately only be islands that were large or important in Empire . Making small insignificant ones provinces would just clutter up the campaign map.

[Polemists]

Slightly true but we don't know that.

This map is going to be almost geographically speaking quite a bit larger then mideval so they will have to less clutter areas somehow.

For Nations who plan to not build up legions but use economics and blockades to crush people, colonization of islands should be a viable means.