Well, Castille/Spain, Portugal and England/GB seem to go for colonies every game, very often accompanied by France (though I have seen games where they focused on land more).
Other than this historical Big Four (which was, I'd say, responsible for like 90% of colonisation in eu4 period) I have seen colonial powers (with actual working colonies, not 'get few provinces and nothing more') of:
*Scotland
*Ireland
*Brittany
*Norway
*Whatever emerges in Benelux: Holland/Netherlands very often go for colonies but they don't regularly appear
*Morocco (very rare sight but have seen it in a New World few times!)
-------those are in Americas, but there is also grey part of Asia I've seen colonised by
*Muscovy->Russia (Siberia, though unreliably; very rarely I have seen them also reaching Spice Islands)
*Japan
*Ming
*Borneo
What atypical colonisers have you seen and do you think some nations should focus colonial aspect of a game more?
Personally I'd like to see some Denmark, Sweden and prosperous naval powers such as Hansa/Genoa (generally from central Europe - they were attempting to colonise in eu4 times, but most of the land was already taken by the Big Four; however in eu4 New World is occupied much later and Big Four not always exists in a shape allowing it on dominating colonisation). And more Moroccan attempts at colonisation if they can afford it (it is not so unreal because during Moroccan golden age its' ruler, Mansur, was powerful enough to ally with England against Spain and wished to cross the Atlantic). Also I'd have nothing against rare but possible colonial attempts of Ottomans, Poland, Prussia, Indian empires etc.
(and I still think there should be a way for north american indians to colonise at least few provinces)
Other than this historical Big Four (which was, I'd say, responsible for like 90% of colonisation in eu4 period) I have seen colonial powers (with actual working colonies, not 'get few provinces and nothing more') of:
*Scotland
*Ireland
*Brittany
*Norway
*Whatever emerges in Benelux: Holland/Netherlands very often go for colonies but they don't regularly appear
*Morocco (very rare sight but have seen it in a New World few times!)
-------those are in Americas, but there is also grey part of Asia I've seen colonised by
*Muscovy->Russia (Siberia, though unreliably; very rarely I have seen them also reaching Spice Islands)
*Japan
*Ming
*Borneo
What atypical colonisers have you seen and do you think some nations should focus colonial aspect of a game more?
Personally I'd like to see some Denmark, Sweden and prosperous naval powers such as Hansa/Genoa (generally from central Europe - they were attempting to colonise in eu4 times, but most of the land was already taken by the Big Four; however in eu4 New World is occupied much later and Big Four not always exists in a shape allowing it on dominating colonisation). And more Moroccan attempts at colonisation if they can afford it (it is not so unreal because during Moroccan golden age its' ruler, Mansur, was powerful enough to ally with England against Spain and wished to cross the Atlantic). Also I'd have nothing against rare but possible colonial attempts of Ottomans, Poland, Prussia, Indian empires etc.
(and I still think there should be a way for north american indians to colonise at least few provinces)
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