What should I do First

[SideshowBob]

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Thus, the explorers just pop up in the game? I played from 1490-1525 as the french without an explorer and played 1490-1505 as the austrians wihout.

Verazzano turns up for the French in 1522, do you know what you are looking for? They look like normal naval leaders except they have a little picture of a sextant next to their name. Also the default message setting is set to only inform you of new leaders in the scroll bar at the bottom. Change your message settings so you get a pop up box.

Regarding Austria they are a land power and exploring/colonising isn't one of their strong points, i don't think they get any explorers as historical leaders but you might get some as a random event if you control a port.

As for peace settlements, go to this thread

http://www.europa-universalis.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=25586

[Tom DeMille]

Originally posted by DarkCloud


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About my armies:
In the History book, I had the largest army, etc.
In the Shield click, it said my army was RED ONE STAR compared to the others

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Was the same for me. This is a bug. I'm pretty sure it comes from China starting with huge armies in provinces that don't support them. China's armies go from several hundred k to a few dozen k within the first few months. The computer must still be tallying their original numbers...

[DarkCloud]

Okay, thank you, the game works much better now that I have the patch and IGC

Now, that bug no longer exists.