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HOW TO: Build a colony?

Misiulo
2016-04-21
2016-04-23
  • Misiulo

    Misiulo - 2016-04-21

    I've always wondered how could those gray-shirted swashbucklers just step out of their Ship and quickly build a colony seemingly out of nothing? Now I know:

    A House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P73REgj-3UE

    A jungle Hut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgnAgKcFoTA

     

    Last edit: Misiulo 2016-04-21
    • Mike Pope

      Mike Pope - 2016-04-23

      I've always wondered how could those gray-shirted swashbucklers just step out of their Ship and quickly build a colony seemingly out of nothing? Now I know:
      A House

      Yeah, same thought struck me when I saw that one. Impressive work though it is, you have to consider that he goes home at the end of the day, and north Queensland is a kindlier climate than for example the Mayflower colonists encountered. I have no wish to be a Free Colonist, despite the icon:-).

      Thanks for those. And also for your (much) earlier posting about the American Revolution lecture series from Yale, which I finally got around to listening to around the new year.

       
  • Carl Ramirez

    Carl Ramirez - 2016-04-22

    Do note that each unit (native or European) likely represents a number between 100 and 1000 individuals, and they're obviously not all male (though gender ratio's are still skewed, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Daughters for Louis XIV's policy of paying for breeding age women to settle in New France to ease the excess of male settlers).
    The first buildings are most likely rudimentary like those in these videos. And even then, it takes a whole turn. However, it does seem unrealistic that only free colonists, colonists with specialties (including soldiers) and indentured servants can start colonies - it doesn't seem like they all would have been taught how to build the rudimentary houses in the videos. Still, it would be a great hindrance to the game if only master carpenters can start colonies.

     

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