how to i colonize, troll world trade, and play hansa in 1.8?

[solidprice]

Topic.
Saw Hansa in a topic yesterday and wanted to try them out.
wanted to try a merchant republic and hansa seems the funnest.
I dunno which ideas for a world trade empire hansa.
How soon can you go exploration with them?
When is the soonest from east frisia and anywhere else easy to take?
I can vasslize and beat up the north German minors and Denmark and control home node but I got stuck.

so any suggestions or anything related with hansa to do?

post away.

 

[Xiahou Mao]

If you're already beating up Denmark, you can try to grab Iceland from them to use as your stepping stone to the New World. You'll probably still need Diplo tech 7 to be able to reach Greenland/Newfoundland from there, though, unless you're lucky and get a colonial range advisor.