Quote Originally Posted by Tiberius maximus
can any civ travel to the new world? cause i played the french and conquered the known world with 21 turns to go. so when does can you go to the new world?

When you can build Carracks, you need to manually move your ship into the Fog of War. It will slowly recede. It takes a LONG time to cross the ocean with a ship though. Make sure to load 2 or 3 with Archers and Cavalry, because you can only build limited units in the New World, most will need to come from Europe, and having to make more than 1 round trip will get VERY irritating.


And, as for the Crusade question, I haven't tried it myself, but people have suggested getting the pope to call a Crusade on the Aztec cities so your ships get a movment bonus for crossing the ocean. I couldn't call one, because there was one in progress to Antioch and the Spanish had a Crusade army sitting in a ship off their coast... not moving it... so the Crusade wouldn't end.