Quote Originally Posted by CBR View Post
Yes well Total War has always put a premium on building up trade ports/routes and that was your main income, so I guess trade and colonies will have same effect in ETW. Of course it was not that important in real life. But increasing your level of taxes, excises and agricultural output is not as sexy for a mainstream game compared to expanding your colonies


CBR

Trade with the Americas and Asia was not all that important in real life??? I believe you are mistaken there. Trade was what allowed the Italian city states to flourish during the MTW period and Amsterdam and London flourish during the 16 - 1700s. If this were not the case, the British East India Company would not have been able to support it's own army and navy seperate from the crown nor would the various kingdoms bothered with creating massive navies to protect their trade.


SG