To mitigate the shock, I started with a custom Japan that already has most of the home islands, skipping the tedious first few decades of unification. Unexpected consequence: now I'm strong enough on-paper to rival Ming, but without enough combat experience to actually fight them
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Currently allied with Korea, Dai Viet, a couple others who I don't recall...recently annexed Ryukyu...I'll post maps at some point, either tonight (late night) or tomorrow (evening)
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Not in a hurry to colonize the Americas but I *do* want to get to South Africa and the Falklands ASAP, get an iron grip on the southern seas before Europeans can
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Replying to @Jupietern
much easier to control the cape than to get tied up in the Middle East
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Replying to @Jupietern
with merchants but yeah I will need plenty of ships as well
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Replying to @380kmh
there are two parts to the strategy: - concentrate enough trade in Malacca for the Global Trade institution to spawn there - prevent all that wealth from funneling directly to the Mamluks and Europeans, steering it instead to focal points that I control (of which SA is easiest)
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Im not a trade expert but read that you can make zanzibar a sort of end node and collect everything there. Googled it:https://www.reddit.com/r/eu4/comments/345dmp/virtual_end_trade_nodes/ …
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