I was all keen to get modding only to learn that (once again) us intel Mac users are way behind the times and don't get to play with the newest toys.
So, here are my two cultures I hope to develop - please tear them down and tell me what is not possible / foolish.
Dominion of Newfoundland – Industrial Era Merchant Affinity Culture
[Dutch visual imagery with Norse clothing]
Trait – Rural and Remote: -20% Outpost Creation +10 Money per number of Outposts on Capitol.
Emblematic District – Outport: based on Harbour, unlocks immediately. +1 Influence per Trader on Capitol +1 Money per Farmer on Capitol Also exploits adjacent land tiles -15 Stability. Acts as Market/Farmers (for adjacency or infrastructure).
Emblematic Unit – Barrett’s Privateers: Based on Privateers/Flyut, unlocks immediately
- Naval Transport, or more powerful ~40 Flyut.
- Privateer/Ransacker instead of Conveyor.
Hudson’s Bay Company – Industrial Era Expansionist Affinity Culture
[British visual imagery with Norse Clothing]
Trait – Rupert’s Land: +1 Trader slot on Garrisons +Garrisons act as Trader’s Quarters for Infrastructure/Adjacency +2 Land Movement on Rivers.
Emblematic District – Camp: Based on Nature Reserve, unlocks immediately. Exploits all from tile below. No pollution negation +2 Money +2 Influence +1 Farmer Slot Must be placed on Natural Modifier. Unlimited per territory, limited to Natural Modifiers
Emblematic Unit – Trapper: Based on Musketeers, unlocks immediately, requires, 1 iron 1 saltpeter. Loses Gunner and Move or Attack and is instead a Nomad Unit +Discoverer. Power ~48-49. Less powerful that other industrial era uniques but available immediately, cost less population, and can self-populate, but not a Horde per se like Mongols (no influence buys).
Canada could do with an invader, I think, and what better than some poor misled souls attempting to reenact a major part of Canadian history? The AtE HBC would be a Colonial/MR government invasion but of a local culture--I wanna say Ontarian--and would set up shop in Jamesie/Eeyou Istchee. That part of Canada is often boring anyway.
I was reading the thread about the British East India Company, and the answer about how using companies rather than governments was common in early colonialism. And that reminded me how Canada was much the same with the Hudson's Bay Company. But HBC/The Bay still exists as a department store chain, very different from the network of fur traders and posts that governed much of Canada for 200 or so years, but still a clear lineage between the companies. And it got me wondering, did any other colonial companies survive the end of that era of colonialism? Do they survive to this day?
