Let trade flow from Valencia to Bordeax?

[brantodb01]

During my first France game I've found it odd that after doing my conquests of Algeria and Egypt I'm unable to Divert their trade to my benefit unless I go all in on Genoa, it would be nice to be able to flow trade this way but my only concern is in the long run it does buff the English Channel again

 

[Sidolowka]

my only concern is in the long run it does buff the English Channel again.

I mean, the only additional nodes EC would be able to pull from would be Safi, Tunis, Sevilla and Valencia itself. The sole significant buff would be the connection from Sevilla, but by the time whoever controls EC also controls enough trade in Valencia to pull from Sevilla it wouldn't really matter anymore. It wouldn't be absolutely gamebreaking, like if Alexandria also flowed to Sevilla or Beijing flowed to Hangzhou.

During my first France game I've found it odd that after doing my conquests of Algeria and Egypt I'm unable to Divert their trade to my benefit unless I go all in on Genoa

But France needs to take Genoa to get Egyptian trade anyways, Alexandria only flows to Genoa, Venice and Constantinople. And Tunis/Safi are such garbage nodes that even if Valencia did flow to Bordeaux you'd barely make any money after Spain leechs off most of it in Valencia.

 

[brantodb01]

But France needs to take Genoa to get Egyptian trade anyways, Alexandria only flows to Genoa, Venice and Constantinople. And Tunis/Safi are such garbage nodes that even if Valencia did flow to Bordeaux you'd barely make any money after Spain leechs off most of it in Valencia.

Oh, you're right. When scrolled out the line going to Genoa goes through the Tunis box

 

[Froonk]

They should add more trade routes and make them do more back and forth, for this what they did in East Africa / West India and Southeast Asia is great.