Qorten, I was aching to post an update about the following war (easier to write about too), but procedure has to be followed
I am glad this one is out of the way.
comagoosie, you are right and I always neglect trading aspects of EU3 in my AARs. Mainly, because I don't engage in trade much. Like this time, for example, I've built a COT in Bordeaux and I made sure I have monopoly there, but I don't try to conquer foreign markets, just trying to keep what is mine, while making sure competition is high enough that the COT does not get closed for the lack of it.
coz1, yes, it seems money stops being a problem once you conquer a half of France
A limited wine monopoly helps too, not too mention a COT.
I'd give more information about it, but it has been almost a month and I decided to dedicate a large part of my memory to the following war instead. Nevertheless, here are some economy facts:
Aquitaine owns 6 wine (Blois, Gascogne, Saintonge, Languedoc, Toulouse, Roussillion), 3 iron (Perigord, Bourbon and Auvergne), 3 wool (Armagnac - shame, should be a brandy province, Bearn - totally justified, and Rourgue), 1 salt (Poitou) and 1 textile (Avignon) provinces. Our COT controls the trade all over Aquitaine and 13 neighboring provinces (two of them, Barcelona and Provence, are wine making ones). Workshops are all over the place and a few markets here and there. I avoid wasting money on temples and other improvements, couple of initial universitites in Toulouse and Bordeaux are my only manufacturies, at least in 1551.