UPDATE XXXVI
1480 AD
Dawn of a New Era.
The first ships have sailed !, french, greeks and mamluke explorers and adventurers have gone to attempt to prove that the world is perhaps round and not flat. Soon the lucky ones shall return w/ routes and maps of suitable locations for colonisation.
Rush for the East.
Byzantium and the Ottomans have sent their scouts to find good places to settle.
Some of the lucky land explorers have already found good locations (pointed out by the flags), in these locations settlement can be started by paying a colonist charter.
the rest of the explorers might find other locations but it depends mostly in their luck.
Austria gains ROP throug spanish gibraltar.
The greek and mamluke explorers have also passed thanks to the fact that the spanish have not placed its navy to restrict anyones path. Perhaps signing a ROP will guarantee passage in the future... (breaking a ROP before its expiration will make your nations stability suffer)
***---IMPORTANT---***
Some have already sent explorers and had success.
If your explorers had success, a flag will appear in the map w/ your nations color, this means that piece of land is claimed territory and you can start to settle it by paying the colonist charter.
after you pay the colonist charter, migrants and colonisers will start to arrive, the borders of the new territory will be set, but you will not gain control or income of it until a village appears in it.
(also you can only give raw directions to the land explorers, sea explorers have absolutely no idea where they are heading )
**RANDOM EVENTS** (.....story writers get random events

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4 naval squadrons to greece
1 set of explorers to mamlukes
5PPs to spain
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HERE ARE THE CURRENT DIPLO TIES:
ALLIENCES: 3 turn remaining
Holy Roman Empire : Papal States, Spain, France, Bavaria
Orthodox CommonWealth: Greece, Byzantium, Russia
NAP : 9 turns remaining
England-Holy Roman Empire members
NAP: 5 turns remaining
Ottomans- mamlukes
Ottomans- Greece
NAP : 4 turn remaining
Greece-papal States
Spain-Mamlukes
ROP : 6 Turns
Austrians Through Spanish Gibraltar.
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