Arguin Territory

[Zenicetus]

It's a good secondary target after taking Timbuktu first. Was your general old? Is there a chance he just died of old age? Armies do tend to defect down there if they aren't led by a general.

I sent a general-led half stack on the path west from Timbuktu, curving up at the edge of the impassable desert zone. It's a valuable province. IIRC, there is one gold resource and two ivory down there, and you can build a mine. The sea trade is valuable too, once you build up a port there.

I'm not sure about access by sea. I tried to send a fleet down from Marrakesh to pull the general out, after taking the town (didn't want to do the long march across the desert). I got stuck just south of Marrakesh where a bunch of English, Russian (?) and Sicilian fleets got hung up in a traffic jam, and I couldn't get past. That area is a bottleneck on the map for sea routes, like northern Italy is for land routes. But it should be passable if there's no traffic jam. It doesn't make sense that you couldn't hug the coastline, unless there's a block built into the game, forcing the player to take Arguin the hard way, by land. Can someone confirm this?

(Edit) Ah, okay, Quillin has the scoop. So that's why the other factions' fleets were jammed up there.