best trade routes

[akiemer]

not sure if a thread like this has been started already but I think knowing about the most efficient trade routes would be a good idea. The fandom page of this isnt all that helpful so i thought about starting one here.

my favourite trade route is mid to late game and is practically only feasable once you've beaten a few Mad Dogs in Qubba region so you have enough horses with carts (I have about 7 tons of storage space all realized through horses and middle carts). I also have about 13 guys so most groups are deterred by my group size.

I go to Qubba, and fill up on forage and water so i barely make it from Zonderhoop to Northway and fill the rest up with cement. then I go to Zonderhoop, fill up on forage and water again and make my way to Northway. there i top up forage and water again, and also top up my food with goat cheese. its a bit expensive but it raises morale through a +10 taste. I sell the first batch of cement here and go to Botxo. Since its a big slave trading city it always has huge money reserves and i usually try to sell all my cement (between 2000 and 3000 units) there for about 1500 coin more than what i bought it for resulting in a net gain of about 4.5 million. the whole worth of the batch is about 11 million and 80% of the time Boxto has the budget to take it all off me. if not i do the quick fuel trade route between Twin Rivers (buy fuel) and Mimb and Tifk (sell fuel) while selling the rest of the cement there. Then i stock up fully with forage and water to make my way empty back to Qubba to do it all over again (for this i usually need about 1200 Forage and 3000 water). bringing alcohol etc from Boxto or Tifk is possible but not really lucrative as it adds maybe 100k or so to the profitability so not even worth the few clicks when the first part of the route nets 4,5 million.

I assume this would also be possible with a camel-big carts caravan but then the distances are very great and need huge amounts of forage and water. not sure how lucrative it is with cars. never tried it. at least one could fuel up cheaply in Twin Rivers so it could easily be possible, too, but ive decided to stick with horses so far.