Well, as England I usually put my focus on that province next to both Welsh provinces and put my COT in Lancashire, so, it's possibe not to create a COT in another province than your focus.
to get a lower revolt risk in Wales.(and, once I have enough magistrates, that unity-thing(I don't know the exact name anymore, i haven't played EU3 a lot since i have MotE))
this reminds me of the following: In one of my earliest games, I colonized almost all of Africa as Songhai without killing any natives (only the ones in that one province I needed to cross to reach Hausa-South and its pagan friends) by save scumming a lot (all the many times natives rose up, when I got a rebellion, to avoid stab hits, except on slider moves where the other options are rebellions (nasty in Africa!) and horrible things like "People are disappearing", to avoid getting slaves in any provinces as I hadn't realized the later game power of slaves yet, whenever colonists failed, when my heir died or I got a bad heir, when I got a RC...), it was about as close to cheating as it can be, certainly the peak of that phase of mine. One of the worst provinces was Azawadd, I had a core in there long before it became a city This also was the game with by far the most Agricultural Revolutions I ever had, for obvious reasons :ninja:
Its not that amazing, just pure luck. But I've succesfully colonized Trinidad. The island had 25 agressiveness and 1200 natives, I did not use an army too protect the colony:
That screenshot says that they have 17 aggressiveness.
Most Violent Natives (Aggressiveness + Ferocity): 28, Trinidad. aniuby
Madagascar seems to be pretty tough without using armies - 9000 natives for each of its 3 provinces with nasty aggressiveness. I think I am going to try and colonize it without using an army by building up 5 colonists and spamming them there, but even so I don't have high hopes. Colony will probably be killed off. If it isn't though, I get to have a province with 10,000 starting population!Its not that amazing, just pure luck. But I've succesfully colonized Trinidad. The island had 25 agressiveness and 1200 natives, I did not use an army too protect the colony:
Madagascar seems to be pretty tough without using armies - 9000 natives for each of its 3 provinces with nasty aggressiveness. I think I am going to try and colonize it without using an army by building up 5 colonists and spamming them there, but even so I don't have high hopes. Colony will probably be killed off. If it isn't though, I get to have a province with 10,000 starting population!
Personally I don't find colonising dangerous provinces to be particularly remarkable in itself, since you'd succeed eventually. Niels.p, if you'd like I could load up my Russia game and just spam that Trinidad with colonists. In the actual course of my game, what happened was that someone colonised it, got into a war with me and France (PU junior), and France happily marched a doomstack straight on top of all those natives. What a disappointing end.
yequr, what do you mean by "park a Galley or Light Ship in there to hope for the 'accommodation with natives event'"? Isn't the entire purpose of leaving the ship there to discourage pirates? I'd think that if you put a ship in one of those dangerous provinces, it'd just get auto-disbanded when the natives blow up your colony.