Quote Originally Posted by Eduin View Post
1. Americas. This is not a good place. The income is low, the expense high and the British will dominate with the French lapping up anything the Brits don't own. Spain dominate the southern half but this isn't very rich. Overall, you can more or less ignore the Americas.

I think you're making the mistake of only looking at province income and not trade income. The Spanish possessions in the Americas are easily conquered and have high trade income. The only problem is that some of them don't have ports yet early in the game. You'd have to cut taxes to get them to grow those ports as fast as possible. On the flipside, you can conquer everything with a stack of just 3-4 units.