View Poll Results: Where will your colonization begin?

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  • Africa, lots to grab, and the lucrative trades.

    7 11.29%
  • Caribbean, islands are easy to defend, and have pirates.

    10 16.13%
  • Indian Subcontinent, I want to compete with the major trade companies.

    6 9.68%
  • North America, New France, 13 Colonies, get out of my way.

    5 8.06%
  • Split my forces. Small footholds all over, I don't like to focus.

    11 17.74%
  • Forget Colonization I'm attacking my nextdoor nieghboors first thing.

    14 22.58%
  • Gah!

    9 14.52%
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    Default Re: Forming a Empire, where to start

    well. It is starting to sound like almost everything is a "trade theatre"

    Obviously America, Carribean and India can be conquered as I have seen screens...tho don't remeber where.

    Other then that I guess africa is up in the air, but I would assume they would include the north african strip they included in RTW, and MTW2, of course I could be wrong.

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    I'll be sending small forces all over the map right from the start. There are so many areas in the world never covered in the TW series before.. I am desperate to try them out!
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    Actually, I think trades theaters will be normal expanses of the map that will be unconquerable but will have things like ports which require a naval battle to take, so therefore it will only take a bit of modding to throw a few settlements in there.

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    i will go for north America and the Caribbean and maybe south africa with tid bit of India and most of france as Spain
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    I'd go for the Caribbean, it would give the Ottomans an easily defensible foothold in America, from which we can launch attacks on New Spain and North America

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    Default Re: Forming a Empire, where to start

    Originally Posted by Pantsalot
    But the thing is that if Africa is going to be another trade theatre
    than that is really dull the fact that all you can do with it is have trade rights..
    It's included in the map of Europe without them slicing off the bottom so I hope you're
    wrong [snip]
    What?!?! How can you have a game set in the 18th and early 19th centuries and not include Africa!! That was like thee place to conquer and colonize in that time period! I really wanted to raise that American flag in Tripoli if you know what I mean. Oh well, I guess I just have to plant the flag in the heart of the British Empire and squash the Brits, who doesn't like that?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pontius Pilate View Post
    What?!?! How can you have a game set in the 18th and early 19th centuries and not include Africa!! That was like thee place to conquer and colonize in that time period! I really wanted to raise that American flag in Tripoli if you know what I mean. Oh well, I guess I just have to plant the flag in the heart of the British Empire and squash the Brits, who doesn't like that?
    It does appear that most of the continent won't be in the game. However, the northern coast of Africa is in (just like in the past three Total War titles) -- you'll still be able to take Tripoli, never fear.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Martok View Post
    It does appear that most of the continent won't be in the game. However, the northern coast of Africa is in (just like in the past three Total War titles) -- you'll still be able to take Tripoli, never fear.
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    Caribbean.






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    It depends on what faction I'm playing. I'm planning to start as Sweden and will kick some Russian and Dano-Norwegian ass. I'll probably go for North America after that just cuz. I might go for a huge navy and try to gain control of the Mediterranean.

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