100 years well spent.
I realize Songhai is a pretty easy start, but this was a damn good century.
Europeans are starting to arrive in West Africa, just as I am finishing consolidating the region. I'm the sixth greatest power, all institutions embraced, 10/10/12 tech. 7/7 Quantity, 4/7 Innovative, 1/7 Quality - I had insanely mil-focused rulers.
I've done a pretty unspectacular run of conquering and vassal feeding. I didn't remember this being possible, but you can apparently fullannex+release Mossi in one war, which is pretty cool.
Here's something funny: Those two yellow provinces are not both Castille. One is Scotland.
I can't see very many nations at all, but economically I'm pretty confident.
Now this is without a single point of development in the gold mines....I didn't even prioritize capturing them, which is also why I have inflation under control. Instead I developed Renaissance in Timbuktu and Colonialism in Katsina. Both are Cloth+CoT, so about as good as you'll get in West Africa. Honestly focusing on other income and getting gold as a 'bonus' in this sort of region is so much better.
Really happy with that. I've been able to afford three manufactories and eleven forts with no issues.
I'll probably post again later in the campaign but I wanted to show off this great start.
I realize Songhai is a pretty easy start, but this was a damn good century.
Europeans are starting to arrive in West Africa, just as I am finishing consolidating the region. I'm the sixth greatest power, all institutions embraced, 10/10/12 tech. 7/7 Quantity, 4/7 Innovative, 1/7 Quality - I had insanely mil-focused rulers.
I've done a pretty unspectacular run of conquering and vassal feeding. I didn't remember this being possible, but you can apparently fullannex+release Mossi in one war, which is pretty cool.
Here's something funny: Those two yellow provinces are not both Castille. One is Scotland.
I can't see very many nations at all, but economically I'm pretty confident.
Now this is without a single point of development in the gold mines....I didn't even prioritize capturing them, which is also why I have inflation under control. Instead I developed Renaissance in Timbuktu and Colonialism in Katsina. Both are Cloth+CoT, so about as good as you'll get in West Africa. Honestly focusing on other income and getting gold as a 'bonus' in this sort of region is so much better.
Really happy with that. I've been able to afford three manufactories and eleven forts with no issues.
I'll probably post again later in the campaign but I wanted to show off this great start.