6.8.1 Starting a Colonial Position

To start a position in the colonies when you don’t have any colonial holdings is difficult, but not impossible. Since your colonial national warehouse will be empty, you must first get hold of a barracks and transfer those goods required into the warehouse. You can do this by conquest:

Example:

Set Sail from Europe with a brigade and a commander, some food and Ecpt’s. Capture a neutral co-ordinate with a population density of at least 1. As soon as this co-ordinate is captured you will automatically be given the colonial warehouse. Next transfer money from Europe into the colonial warehouse and demolish the co-ordinate density - you can demolish captured neutral co-ordinates straight away(see 2.6.5., p19). You will then have citizens and money in the warehouse and you then simply build your barracks and transfer in the food and Ecpt’s etc. from your ships.

Alternatively it can be accomplished by having a co-ordinate ceded to you by a friendly power. Either way, make sure you have the goods required to start a colony, i.e. food, ecpt’s, etc., on board your ships and ready to transfer into the new warehouse once you have your barracks!

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