User Guide

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New World national idea, you can go to the
Domestic Leader interface and hire one of
these special leaders. They will each cost 100
ducats from your treasury and will require one
colonist from your national pool. This colonist
represents several hundred hardy people who
are willing to risk life and limb for a better life
in a new land. Until you satisfy all of these re-
quirements, the explorer and conquistador but-
tons will remain greyed out.
Once you have hired your new leader, he
will need to be assigned a fleet or army to com-
mand. An explorer takes the place of an admi-
ral to command a fleet, and a conquistador re-
places a general to command an army. Once
they are in command, the normal prohibition
against entering a province that is terra incog-
nita is removed.
Exploring Provinces
A fleet that is commanded by an explorer is is-
sued orders in exactly the same way you con-
trol any other fleet. The only distinction is that
you are now allowed to right-click in an area
that is labelled as terra incognita and the fleet
will then begin to chart the unknown waters.
This process will take quite a bit longer than
the time normally required to move from one
sea province to the next, but when the move-
ment is completed, the province will be added
to your country’s main map.
An explorer may only attempt to chart a
new water province. You cannot ask him to try
to enter an unknown land province since that
is a job for a conquistador; however, there is a
small chance that an explorer may discover and
map a coastal province or island as he sails by
it. To be assured of discovery, you will need to
send a conquistador.
An army that is lead by a conquistador may
be ordered to enter any unknown province.
This, too, will take much longer than would
normally be the case for an army to enter the
province, but upon completion of the move,
you will have a complete map of the province.
If you click on the province to display the Prov-
ince Management interface, you will see that
there are some differences.
Until a province has been colonised, it will
not contribute to a center of trade or anyone’s
economy. You can see the potential basic tax
value and primary trade resource, but these
will remain unused until a colony has been es-
tablished. The left half of the interface is the
Colonisation interface; it also shows whether
the province contains any natives. We’ll talk
about natives in a moment, and describe how
to use the interface in the next section.
There is a special situation that may occur
when exploring: if the province the conquista-
dor is attempting to enter is currently owned
or controlled by another nation, and you do
not have an access agreement with that coun-
try, the attempt to move there will fail and your
army will remain in its original position, but
the details of the province will still be added
to your main map. This is not all that uncom-
mon when exploring certain parts of the world