Found colonies in lvl 3 provinces-they give like 252 manpower each day no matter how high or low the morale is. Doesnt sound much but a settler costs just 1000 Manpower-so after 4 days u are in +

With Trade Companies they also giive a fine amount of recources.

Also Conquer countries with provinces lvl 5 or higher and immidiatly core them-is cheaper and more effective than uprising ur own provinces at the start. At the start just focus on provinces lvl 5 or higher.

Give them also barracks, they increase the manpower. Lvl 2 barracks can be teched at day 1-good for ur 3 biggest starting provinces(lvl 6, 7 and 8).

Oh and use mercs instead of regular troops at the start

All of these points I mention in the STRATEGY section.

True, but he asked so i answered. Many new player look in the forum and say huh sooo many threads...would be better to reduce them all many are anyway useless now like the championship ones-this one is gone for years

Yes, but others will have the same questions, over and over again. I try to get it so that those of us who have been here for a while to post in STRATEGY to give them ONE place to find answers.

As far as reducing or removing other folks threads, I dislike doing that and save it ONLY for violations of ToS.

Sorry, in the future i wont answer if anyone asks such stuff

Not what I was trying to do either. Don't take it personal.

It's just that if we can get folks to find one spot, we won't have the mess that the forums have been in the past.