Trade Strategy Scotland

[WinterIsComing.]

Hi All,

im looking for a good trade strategy for scotland. i have the northern sea as my home trade node with two big trade nodes downstream and two weak nodes upstream. Due to a lack of better ideas i have merchants collecting with <1% trade power at the downstream nodes.

What can i do better, any ideas?

 

[anomalacaris]

Those nodes are dirt poor till colonization.
Migrate to England/Netherlands node fast...

 

[ChildeR]

Send a merchant and trade ships to collect in either English Channel or Lübeck. You can easily get more money from there with the 5-10% TP you can afford than a majority share of NS would give you. Which to choose depends on... stuff. Like who embargoes who and whether you want to rival Denmark or not.

 

[WinterIsComing.]

What is migrating and how do i do it? i couldnt find it on the wiki.

While looking for infos about migration, i found out that North Sea is the second shortes maximal path: http://www.eu4wiki.com/Node
What does that mean?

i appreciate your advice.

 

[anomalacaris]

I mean conquer England, at least some provinces so as to move your main trading port/capital to that node to remove the 1/2 penalty.

 

[ChildeR]

What is migrating and how do i do it? i couldnt find it on the wiki.

He probably meant moving your capital when/if you conquer England or other land in the area.

While looking for infos about migration, i found out that North Sea is the second shortes maximal path: http://www.eu4wiki.com/Node
What does that mean?

IMHO that whole page is pretty useless. Having short incoming paths does mean that you lose less trade when steering it to your home node, but says little about how feasible that is or how valuable areas you can steer from.

 

[Franconian]

For the early game you should go with a merchant in the North Seah and English Channel each and send your light ships to the English Channel. Definetely makes the best money. No idea how for lather though.

 

[WinterIsComing.]

@Anomalacaris: Ah okay, that fits into my plans. i just conquered the 4 single province states in ireland to get a better force limit and income for my campaign against england. Although i feel a little bit guilty for extensive saving/loading during the ireland campaign.