Europa universalis 3 why can i build ships

Showing 1 - 3 of 3 comments. Honestly at first I was going to say " do you have a core? I couldn't figure out a clear reason during my multiple tests, but I've narrowed it down to the "modifier" value under "technology. Apparently too low of a value prevents you from making ships. I confirmed that by raising it for the Americans in one test, and lowering it for the Europeans in another. I tried leveling up Kongo's naval technology into the 30's in some other test, hoping it eventually allows any kind of ship, but that didn't work.

So that's it for the rather vague cause. Without more knowledge, I suppose the only in-game solution would be westernizing. Transport ships all have a base price of 10 ducats , a strategic speed of 6. Forum list Trending Latest New posts. Paradox Wikis. Europa Universalis 3 Wiki.

Active Wikis. Personal tools Log in Personal tools English Log in. Incursus said:. Well, you need to be innovative and have a latin tech neighbour.. Okey, what does latin tech mean?

Countries in EU3 are divided by techgroup. Most european countries belong in the Latin techgroup, which is the best as it has the fastest tech research speed and the best units. This is followed by Eastern think poland, russia etc , Muslim middle east mostly , Indian indian subcontinent , Asian pretty much everything east of India , African african natives and New World the worst tech group with horrid techspeed and bad units, american natives which you, as the aztecs, belong to.

Adding insult to injury, african and new world natives can't build ships, cavalry or cannons before they've westernized. Latin tech group is western european countries. The colonizers would be latin tech group, almost certainly. So you need to neighbor them first though that does encourage them to stomp on you. Aha okey, well I have some provinces in South america that are bordering english colonies, does that mean that all i have to do is reach a certain level in the different technologies like land, naval, governemt and so on?

I suggest you see the EU3 wiki article about westernisation about that Scroll down to where it says Napoleon's Ambition and Vanilla if you only have the core game. Might want to bookmark the wiki too, it's got a lot of useful info. Sadly, it hasn't been updated for Heir to the Throne yet. Thanks for the link, I'll save it! Okay, I've got two last questions!

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