22 Mar – I get an event that causes me to lose 12k manpower
29 June – We enter into a Royal Marriage with Mamluks
1 Nov – The ivory Coast will run with valuable Dyes.
22 Dec – I accept an alliance offer from Mamluks
1 May, 1548 – Our DIP advisor passes and I hire a new one that’s a Navigator that increases my colonial range.
18 June – I recall my colonists from Ivory Coast and dispatch them to Cape.
My goal is to establish a trading and exploratory post in South Africa that I can use to boomerang past Africa and then hit valuable places like Mauritius or Ile de Bourbon.
1 Oct – Cape Coast is found to be good with the Slave trade as well.
21 Feb, 1549 – I just got three events. I figured that I’d show them to you:
Here you are! You can see us in North Africa behind you, and we have the three events, as well as some cash and other stuff.
My colonial maintenance:
1st colony – 2 gold
2nd colony – 2 gold
3rd colony – 4 gold
4th colony – 10 gold
So, my Cape colony jumped my colonial maintenance from 8 to 18. If I had another colonist, then I’d be 2 per for 1-3, and then 4 for the next,by the by, in case you cared.
I choose to:
Tax the Sugar and we get +5% sugar over 5 years
I celebrate Eid al-fatr for 2 days as the cost between it and the 3 day one is crazy.
I make nice with the Seri natives. They are much less likely to rise and higher chance of native assimilation events in that province