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  • Africa, lots to grab, and the lucrative trades.

    7 11.29%
  • Caribbean, islands are easy to defend, and have pirates.

    10 16.13%
  • Indian Subcontinent, I want to compete with the major trade companies.

    6 9.68%
  • North America, New France, 13 Colonies, get out of my way.

    5 8.06%
  • Split my forces. Small footholds all over, I don't like to focus.

    11 17.74%
  • Forget Colonization I'm attacking my nextdoor nieghboors first thing.

    14 22.58%
  • Gah!

    9 14.52%
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    Well, that's too bad. Nonetheless, those Scots will be beaten like beetles beneat the NA boots... er... moccasins, I suppose?

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    Russia in North America, ruling over the Americans...hows that for counter-factual history!

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    hmm, I guess I don't understand.

    What exactly is a "Trade theatre"? I mean obviously you can't set up colonies but if I can't see it on the map, how is it a trade theatre?

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    To be honest, I'm not really clear on this myself. Other than that we'll need to devote naval resources to securing its riches, CA hasn't released many details on this aspect of the game yet.
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    devote naval resources to securing its riches
    Ugh, I hope this isn't like other games where I have to send my ships off the map for a odd number of turns to return with money. Aka: Tropico 2: Pirate Cove. Ship leaves, when it gets back you get certain amount of money.

    "Oh hey, this admiral just got awesome wonderful, oh now you and your fleet have to vanish for the next 30 turns"

    That would upset me, hopefully it's just tradeships or something.
    Last edited by Polemists; 11-06-2008 at 08:51.

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    Since I am playing as Sweden I will simply defend myself against the aggressive neighboring countries. Maybe expand a little. I will do so by building the largest naval fleet the Baltic Sea has ever seen and smash all resistance consequently not allowing anyone else in the Baltics having more than en arme av typ barkbåtar

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    I am going to take control of key navel chokepoints such as the Leeward Islands (let the enmey come to me) and slowly and surley dominate world trade(as my sig would suggest).

    nb: i hope that you can't just sail your ship over the atlantic like a motor boat with out taking into account the trade winds, otherwise this won't work
    ...whoever commands the ocean, commands the trade of the world, and whoever commands the trades of the world, commands the riches of the world, and whoever is master of that, commands the world itself..


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    Quote Originally Posted by Methuselah View Post
    Well, that's too bad. Nonetheless, those Scots will be beaten like beetles beneat the NA boots... er... moccasins, I suppose?
    Is this an insult!? (look at my location)

    Well I have chosen Africa as my spot, I h8 Indian & Indies locations as I h8 jungle warfare &
    I just personally h8 America. To answer a question b4, they said they'd be including the Ivory
    coast, which was known to have supplies of slaves & of course, Ivory among other goods. I
    would have preferred it though if they had included South Africa. I noticed on the campaign
    trailer that when they were looking at the Indies, the map was still looking at Europe. This
    is quite puzzling, there is a possibility that they hadn't made the map yet for the Indies yet
    for some strange reason.

    It would be nice to know if you could take control of the Suez & Panama canal in Egypt &
    prevent other countries getting through without military access, going to war or they have
    to pay a toll to pass through, I believe the latter was what the British control when they
    were in puppet rule over Egypt, though my mind is always quite flimsy..

    EDIT:
    I found this picture on another forum, the map has North America but I also read an interesting
    thing that some1 there has been told by CA that it is going to be a completely seperate
    campaign from the rest that you have to unlock. That would be pretty but I find it
    unlikely.
    Last edited by Martok; 11-07-2008 at 02:06. Reason: swearing

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pantsalot View Post
    Well I have chosen Africa as my spot, I h8 Indian & Indies locations as I h8 jungle warfare & I just personally h8 America. To answer a question b4, they said they'd be including the Ivory coast, which was known to have supplies of slaves & of course, Ivory among other goods.
    I believe the Ivory Coast is simply another "trade theater" (like the East Indies) and cannot be conquered or colonized. I'll see if I can find the actual quote from CA, but I'm reasonably certain that's the case.


    Quote Originally Posted by Pantsalot View Post
    It would be nice to know if you could take control of the Suez & Panama canal in Egypt &
    prevent other countries getting through without military access, going to war or they have
    to pay a toll to pass through, I believe the latter was what the British control when they
    were in puppet rule over Egypt, though my mind is always quite flimsy..
    Actually, neither canal existed at any point during the time period covered by Empire. The Suez didn't open until the late 1850's, and the Panama wasn't finished until 1914 or 1915 (I forget which). So unfortunately that will not be a factor in ETW.


    Quote Originally Posted by Pantsalot View Post
    I found this picture on another forum, the map has North America but I also read an interesting
    thing that some1 there has been told by CA that it is going to be a completely seperate
    campaign from the rest that you have to unlock. That would be pretty but I find it
    unlikely.
    There's going to be a separate "Road to Independence" campaign (starting with the English founding colonies in North America and eventually leading to America's rebellion against Britain), but you don't have to unlock it. It will be playable from the beginning.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Martok View Post
    Actually, neither canal existed at any point during the time period covered by Empire. The Suez didn't open until the late 1850's, and the Panama wasn't finished until 1914 or 1915 (I forget which). So unfortunately that will not be a factor in ETW.
    They'll probably make it an event you have to unlock by researching specific technologies
    As I don't think to get to India we would have to go around Africa every single time.

    It's still a mystery on how the travel to the next area will be, like the current thought
    brought up is that you put your ship to the edge of the sea in the direction of which
    continent you're going for, so if they don't ever have the suez canal then that would
    be far more likely. But the thing is that if Africa is going to be another trade theatre
    than that is really dull the fact that all you can do with it is have trade rights..
    It's included in the map of Europe without them slicing off the bottom so I hope you're
    wrong as it's just next to Ottomans who would probably be allowed to attack the
    tribes down South, & how we Brit's fought the Benin people who also had a good bit
    of gold for trade, though I can't really tell if Benin is on the map, probably not really.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pantsalot View Post
    They'll probably make it an event you have to unlock by researching specific technologies
    As I don't think to get to India we would have to go around Africa every single time.
    I don't know. While it would certainly be convenient if it were possible to "unlock" the Suez, I'll be fairly surprised if that's an option in the game. Of course, one can always hope that that's one of the things CA hasn't told us about yet....


    Quote Originally Posted by Pantsalot View Post
    It's still a mystery on how the travel to the next area will be, like the current thought
    brought up is that you put your ship to the edge of the sea in the direction of which
    continent you're going for, so if they don't ever have the suez canal then that would
    be far more likely.
    Yeah, so far there's not been much information on how ship travel between "theatres" works. I know CA did say something to the effect that apparently you can view the entire game map at once, and that the three separate maps (Europe, Americas, & India) are merely there for convenience's sake. If that is in fact the case (and I'm remembering the details correctly), then I'd suppose that the player can simply use the large overview map to facilitate ship/fleet movement between the 3 sub-maps.


    Quote Originally Posted by Pantsalot View Post
    But the thing is that if Africa is going to be another trade theatre
    than that is really dull the fact that all you can do with it is have trade rights..
    It's included in the map of Europe without them slicing off the bottom so I hope you're
    wrong
    [snip]
    That makes two of us.

    Personally, I would really like to see the entire continent open to European exploitation. From what CA has said, though, it sounds as if only the lands along Africa's Mediterranean coast can be colonized/conquered.
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