Hi guys I was just wondering when you guys took exploration or expansion as the yellow blob. I'm at 1500 and have 3/4 of India. No sign of the Europeans yet. Incidentally, I was going to take exploration as I have an idea group coming up in 20 years. I took influence as my first idea group and have completed it. Thank you all
Vijayanagar Colonisation
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Take exploration next and colonise the Cape and Indian ocean islands and you wont see any Europeans in the Pacific for a very long time. Also now that in the new patch only provincial trade power gets propagated you could easily dominate all Indian and Chinese trade.
Aries666 is on it. Grab Cape, Mauritius and co, have your naval force-limit to the max and play relatively peacefully for the rest of the campaign going forth and multiplying.
I won't have to worry then about Europeans deciding India or the Spice Islands looks nice? Would I be able to westernize as well?
Whether you form Hindustan or Malaya or stay as VJ or Ayu or what-have-you, having a real presence in Cape with a strong navy deters anyone from that direction playing nasty, with the occasional single intrepid Carrack/Galleon checking things out now and then. (Malaya in particular can field a massive navy btw). Nowt to worry about. (>1.8).
Russia may be a problem, I've seen them cause trouble in India far more than the westerners. As for westernisation, I never colonised past "Cape Fortress" in Africa, northwards. There's your opportunity. Cheers.
Russia may be a problem, I've seen them cause trouble in India far more than the westerners. As for westernisation, I never colonised past "Cape Fortress" in Africa, northwards. There's your opportunity. Cheers.
You don't really need to westernise as Indian in my opinion, I just finished a Bengal game and whilst I westernised around 1750 it wasn't really necessary. Even if the Euro's invade at most they will land 30k at a time which you can easily destroy before they get more troops over. In my game they never invaded but by the 1600's I had a FL of 300k.