

Once the mission is done, you can sell your transport if you want, but I prefer to keep mine as shuttling armies to from Ceuta is easier that way. Once you are done exploring West Africa, get your explorer to help with protecting trade in Sevilla. This is save you time and diplo points later, as you don’t have to wait for an explorer to start colonizing when you get exploration ideas. The idea is to explore just west africa soon, as you never know when your explorer might die. Portugal starts with an explorer even though you don’t have the exploration idea yet. And set the other 2 heavy and 1 light ship to explore west africa.

And you don’t need to control all of Arabia or Zanzibar trade area. This means that all that spice trade from Indonesia and the riches of India can flow directly to Cape. Biggest change was connecting the Coromandel node to Cape.Reworked some trade flows around India and Africa this patch.

Quick review of trade and colonization in 1.26 patch / Dharma DLC If you want to see which policies were changed in the new patch, you can check that here. We will also explore the possibility of taking naval or maritime ideas as they aren’t used often and now they have some good policies attached to them. So for this guide, we are going to concentrate on those two aspects of game and not worry too much about Europe. Portugal has one of the strongest national ideas for trade and colonization.
