How to get Colonial range as England

[Big Fella]

I rlly need help to get colonial range as England

[Laladen]

Colonial Range towards which continent?

Start by taking Ireland. That will move you slightly toward the New World. All the little islands on the way there are taken by Portugal and Castile. SO you would need to war them to get those islands.

There is a Colonial Range dip adviser. Outside of increasing Diplo tech levels, the adviser, Exploration & Expansion idea groups and any policies coming from those idea groups, that's about it as England.

[Big Fella]

oh yeah btw im trying to colonise North America

[Big Fella]

could I get Land in the New World by conquering a Native country

[Big Fella]

also i only have 272 colonial range

[Laladen]

Colonial Range is also Coring Range. So if you can't colonize the area, you won't be able to Core anything in the area either.

You should be able to vassalize though. So you could vassalize and then Annex in 10 years which should give you cores on the land.

[Aktep]

Take Iceland from Denmark/whoever has it.
You also may be able to reach Greenland.

[Big Fella]

yeah i also tried getting fleet basing rights with Norway but they are "threatened" by me sooo thats nevver going to happen unless if i take over Iceland but Denmark is allied with Muscovy and i dont want to get screwed over by Muscovy

[Laladen]

Originally posted by PhantomAssasin:

yeah i also tried getting fleet basing rights with Norway but they are "threatened" by me sooo thats nevver going to happen unless if i take over Iceland but Denmark is allied with Muscovy and i dont want to get screwed over by Muscovy

Weird. Muscovy and Denmark usually do not ally.

[Big Fella]

yeah well they did now

[Big Fella]

history is odd

[linutika]

Take over Ireland and Scotland.
Dip-tech level 7 gives +115 colonial range
An advisor gives +20%
Exploration idea group, idea 3 gives +50% colonial range

[Aktep]

You could justify on one of their islands (if you own Scotland), and use your navy to prevent their forces from landing.

[linutika]

With 272 colonial range you could try getting a colony on one of the Caribbean islands or in Brazil and colonize from there
OR you could colonize Aguin (Africa) which also puts you a bit closer

[Flyvbjerg]

bermuda island could help, if not wait until your diplomatic tec is advanced enough to get there, its usually how tha Ai is doing it

[Findus]

I would conquer the canaries from castille and the islands portugal start with. These are cheap in warscore so you can easily take them in war even when both join as allies to defenders.