[b]Aye Aye mates[/b] a new era is upon us and by crossing the sea, I can promise that you will come back your hand full of wealth and your head filled with adventurous epics!
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(Trailer made by a fan)
Indeed the discovery era is now live and a lot of you are thrilling to know what it's about, so without any more waiting sails up for this new adventure!
[b]An era of exploration and innovation. [/b]
Remember the scientific knowledge that we introduced in the last update? It's your way to unlock the technology needed to improve the navigation of your people, the very first step in global domination.[img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35390550/39eb406a33f22a07720bdd70afd17ed9506c622d.png[/img]
Thanks to that, and of course if you have some coast, you will be able to unlock the navigation tools!
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Leading the most famous type of ship of the time, the caravel! An essential tool for opening a new trade route for India!
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[i]The caravel node[/i]
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[i]Across the sea, the node to prepare the first naval expeditions[/i]
Once the expedition is over, you quickly understand that this is not India nor even Asia but a new land! And a new node will appear
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This node will allow you to place your future colony on the new world (Americas and Australia)
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The Colony will be semi-autonomous, they will grow by events, for this early stage, the only interaction that you have is by how much are you taxing them, be warned of the tea in the ocean! You have power for fighting the pirates and influence about the conversions of the natives.
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As your global empire grow big, you will be able to count on trade companies that will bring a lot of wealth to your nation, by sometime questionable means...
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[b]An era of desolation and invaders for the New World. [/b]
The wealth of the empires was taken from us, they came across the seas and burnt or houses and melted our sacred icons.
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[i]This indicate that you are in the new world and that terrible event will occur in the future[/i]
It begins with the event invaders, it will feed a node called invader forces that will make your life quite hard. This will destroy your stability and increase the neighbourhood bellicism.
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The only way to survive in that situation is to create embassies that will decrease slowly this situation. But be ready for a lot of fighting anyway.
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[i]another mild trouble in the horizon[/i]
[b]An era of fire and steel [/b]
War, war never changes... except the way it's conducted! This era saw the beginning of a new form of war with prepared campaign, clear casus belli and geopolitical manoeuvring.
Everything will start with the invention of the arquebus, it will wipe all over forms of conflict and throw you in the new form of war!
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This war is marked by a state of war and a state of peace. This status can be ended by a declaration of war activated by the player or by an event.
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The war is presented by the force naval and a land force of your opponents, regularly fight will occur, modifying the balance of the war.
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The war status is the most important node of this war, higher than 50, your winning the war and will gain in case of peace, down 50 you will loose.
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[i]when you click on it a screen that recap gain or loss will be displayed.[/i]
[b]An era of faith and philosopher[/b]
This era is the beginning of the fighting between religious authorities and philosopher and scientist, once in the era of discovery all the religious aspect, pantheon, sacrifice and so on, disappear and is replaced by National religion and Religiosity. It represents the influence of religion on your population based on your previous value.
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[b]A balancing of the feudal-age[/b]
The middle-age is now much easier to attain, with the multiplication of paths to have access to your favorites nodes!
So this is it for the greater part of the expansion, there is much more to explore if you want to make feedback don't hesitate to speak your mind on the discord.
hasta luego conquistador !
