United Provinces (the Dutch)

[kitbogha]

Send them into a school/college/university

Aha..............!
Cheers Wausser, Gingivitis and Major Robert Dump. My tech theft can now begin. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!! (laughs maniacally).
Started the campaign. It looks promising. The Provinces do seem to print money for fun and those gunboat/trading ships (fluyts?) are great. Took advice and spammed them out for several turns and now have total dominance in the East Indies and Brazillian trading areas. You need to have some roaming hardcore pirate fighting fleets though as the AI starts using pirates to raid the trading lanes in areas where you have no presence. The AI does seem cleverer in Empire than in previous TW games. Which is nice. No-one wants to win too easily.