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Originally Posted by DWetzel
Meh? I think if you have enough other CNs (and there's like ten available?) it's not that big a deal. I think overall the Americas have better stuff. Yes, it can give you a foothold on the spice islands, but so will a nice 20 stack of troops and a war declaration against bumblers with bad military tech, and that's faster and cheaper.
Yeah this makes sense
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Originally Posted by grizy
Assuming you're still playing Portugal, you want basically full occupation of Caribbeans, very strong presence on the Ivory Coast, an outpost at the Cape and then use your missions to get Indian and spice island outposts. After that it's mostly a waiting game. Once Americas gen colonized (not necessarily by you), you'll be rolling in trade income.
Once you have outposts everywhere, just colonize based on the trade situation.
This is not the first time I've seen the bolded and I really wish I'd paid attention. I feel like I wasted a bunch of time getting CNs established in Brazil and La Plata that would have been put to better use gobbling up the Caribbean. I mean, I did get
some of it: Gitmo on Cuba, 3 of 5 Hispaniola provinces (including the one where the trade node is located), and a couple of Windward islands, enough to form the CN. BUT while I was shipping settlers to South America and not paying enough attention, GB got colonies of their own up and running in the Caribbean and now they control most of the area (Holland has a handful of islands as well). Had I been focusing, I could be in control of the whole thing right now.
Meanwhile, other than a single province in Brazil which Norway just settled, I have zero competition right now in South America other than the natives. Lesson learned there.