Colonising

[Tommy4ever]

I'm guessing that this has been asked many times before but can someone explain how to do this?

I'm playing Rome and have just finished the Pyhrric War and I'm now looking to expand into Northern Italy. I've sent my armies into the provinces I want to colonise, but I'm not sure where to go from here.

 

[Emperor Leo]

To build a colony, the barbarian province must be bordered by one of your provinces that has both a) a total population of 10 or more and b) a civ value of 50% or more.

You have to wait for the barbarians in the provinces you wish to colonise to form a horde. You can do this by placing any unit onto the barbarian province. Unfortunately, this can take days, weeks, months or even years to occur. To be honest, I think this is something Paradox need to look into (as they themselves have already commented).

Here's a tip: Recruit 1 unit of mercenary militia and send them to the barbarian province. Have your main army standing by in the neighbouring province. This way, you won't have to worry about attrition or loss of manpower.

The barbarian horde is most likely to march towards the highest civ city (which will likely be yours). There, you can destroy the barbarians on your home turf, with terrain modifiers in your favour.

Once the barbarians have been eliminated, you should be able to click the "Colonise" button on your chosen province. This may not be possible if a) the barbarian army is still present at or marching through the province, b) a neighbouring country has a higher civ province adjecent to your intended colony or c) the barbarian strength is stil too high.

Once you click "Colonise", the colony will begin to build. It will take a few months. I reccommend placing an army on or near the colony. This is because thew colony will still have a barbarian presence in the province and can still rise up. If they capture a new colony, they will reduce it's civ value and burn your colony to the ground, reverting it back into a barbarian province.

Remember to assign the new colony to a trade route. I would reccommend supplying the colony with Grain to help increase the population faster.

Hope this helps!

 

[Tommy4ever]

OK, I figured out how to get the colonies in game.

But I see I need pop and civ to rise before making new ones. How to I get this higher faster?

 

[Emperor Leo]

But I see I need pop and civ to rise before making new ones. How to I get this higher faster?

Population will rise if you have are trading grain to the province (or the province produces grain), you have invoked the population growth omen or have a high finesse Torturer (monarchy only, I believe).

Civ value will increase if you are trade any goods with a high civ province. The best options would be Rome, Alexandria, Argolis, Antioch and some others. If you play as Rome, just set up an internal trade route between Rome and the province you wish to improve. The higher the civ value, the faster the increase. Also, neighbouring provinces influence the civ value of other provinces. So Rome would increase any province with a lower civ that borders it. This creates a very slow chain reaction that will spread throughout your provinces.

 

[Mikebloke]

Watch your capital's population too, as the colonists come from this. Playing Rome its not too bad, as they start with a beefed up population, but playing Tribal nations you have to be a lot more watchful. I think the Capital population needs to be a total of 10 as well in order to colonise (but then you don't really want it going less than that anyway).

 

[unmerged(173060)]

Population will rise if you have are trading grain to the province (or the province produces grain), you have invoked the population growth omen or have a high finesse Torturer (monarchy only, I believe).

Civ value will increase if you are trade any goods with a high civ province. The best options would be Rome, Alexandria, Argolis, Antioch and some others.

Civ value also increases if you are adjacent to higher civ provinces, and population growth in Republics comes from the Charisma (I think) of both of your Censors.I seem to remember growth is automatically faster for any province with population below 10 anyway. Civ value can drop if Barbarians are allowed to loot a province, so that is a good reason to keep your borders guarded.