How do I get to Canarias?

[ToastOfDoom]

I'm new to the game and I'm playing the Learning Scenario. It is telling me to attack Canarias, which after 10 mintutes of looking for, is a small island far away. Why it decided this is the best place to attack is beyond me. Anyway the place is too far away, I can't get my coucil guy to fabricate a claim for there, so what am I supposed to do? How do I get over there if it's so far away?

[Hadouken]

This is the part that made me wanted to quit the game :D Are u sure u can't get your council to fabricate a claim there? Because the only part I had problems was getting there.
Can u describe more accurate why u can't put your councilor there? For example when u want to put him there the place on the map looks black? Nevertheless, to get there u need to raise your fleet. To do so open the military tab a go to the fleet tab. There u would be able to raise a fleet. After that u need to get your fleet to the port of the same city where ur army is. After that just click on your army and tell them to go to see where ur fleet is or press the button that says embark army. I hope I helped :D

[Nehebsis]

I will need more details.. Who are you playing as? You should be able to send your chancelllor there unless you play like.. in India. You could raise you vassals boats if have costal provinces..

Anyways I'll be glad to help further when you provided me with more details.

[Pingwho]

Better way to play as leon us to invade one of your brothers, who is liked least by the others (basically so they won't ally against you), because you have claims on all of their land. Galicia is usually easiest. If you want to expand to somewhere with closer land that isn't one of your brothers, go for brittany, Ireland or Wales, because they are all relatively weak, but easy enough to get to. You could go for some holy wars for some land in the south, but make sure your brothers will ally with you. If one holy war goes well, then you should invade one of the muslim nations that allied against you, because they will be short on troops from the last war. Just make sure you have strong allies (ie Castille (your brothers in general) and maybe a large nation such as france). Hope this helps :)

[ToastOfDoom]

Alright well I later found out my Council guy was busy fabricating somwhere else (when I started I thought the pace right next to me was Canaria). I'm playing as the Leon people (if it's not clear yet this is like my first time running the game) and all this is seriously making me regret my hasty decision to buy the full Paradox collection. After that I don't really know what other details I can give, not because I don't have anymore but because I just purely don't konw them myself. The best I can probably say is I was playing the Learning Scenario that the game considers a "tutorial".

[Donathan Cheadledge]

Honestly the tutorial's god awful, I learned the game through glorious trial and error instead, was ridiculous but entertaining to watch everything fall to bits.

[Traveller339]

It's a very complex game to learn but it's worth persevering with. I played the tutorial you have mentioned, if you follow the instructions exactly it all works. You have to raise a fleet to board your army and then sail them to Canaria.

[John Hadley]

Canarias is the island down at the very left side of the map at the north of Africa.

I would think that the reason the tutorial tells you to attack Canarias is because Canarias is independent and has very few troops. If you can get the claim on it then you can conquer it. Nobody will ally up with them and stop it usually. It also gives you a chance to learn how to raise fleets to carry your troops. I haven't played the tutorial so I don't know if it is well done, but they don't want you to fight against 3 or 4 allies and get crushed when you try to attack someone. They want you to take your huge army, put it on a boat, and crush the puny island with ease so you can see what happens when you attack, when you siege a castle, and when you win a war. These are all things you will want to learn how to do.

There are some pitfalls here for new players that could be a problem if they aren't explained, like how to find Canarias on the map if you don't know where it is. That is done by using the find title button in the lower right corner of the screen. Another one is that the new player might not know how to call their fleets so that must be explained possibly. Another one is that boats cost a lot of money to keep raised for long and the new player might go bankrupt not realizing this. It could cost several hundred gold if you let the boat sit there and wait for the troops rather than sending it back right away after dropping them off, then dismissing the boats when they get back to port.

[socko]

ive found the canaries find and i set my boats over but every time i try and send my troops in to attack they get destroyed and i lose the battle. i have 17 ships with 1500 troops aboard and i lose to their 700 every time

[suchiuomizu]

Originally posted by carlos danger:

ive found the canaries find and i set my boats over but every time i try and send my troops in to attack they get destroyed and i lose the battle. i have 17 ships with 1500 troops aboard and i lose to their 700 every time

Troops coming off ships have a morale penalty, which can impact the numbers you would actually need.

[Anacleto]

The tutorial is terrible. I bought this game a week ago, watched some Youtube tutorial, started a couple of games where I knew I was going to make ridiculous mistakes (like not paying attention to succession law or assaulting castles defended by 800 men with armies of 1100 men) and now I am in the midst of my first decent game.
As some people remarked earlier, trial and error is what does it.