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7/23/2025, 9:35:27 AM
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>>96159572
Honestly probably true, water access is important. It does depend somewhat on what the greater world looks like however. If the world is not mostly water like our own, sea access becomes less important (though still important, if the meditterranean was blocked off at gibraltar it would still be massively helpful for trade).
Checking the map it looks like fantasy Switzerland, very defensive and surrounded by mountains, rivers and other nations. It does have two rivers that connect to the sea, one looking very large, so if navigable by boats that could be okay.
It also has three different nations (Welelah, Murkin and Paladia) between it and water so trade is not wholly under the control of one enemy nation either.
Still, the nation needs more living space and sea access must be secured for the future of our nation! Paladia is strong and rich and so can't be messed with. Welelah (whom the first river goes through) is a weaker mercantile country so they're probably the main trade partner and probably would not want to cut off trade to their wealthy powerful neighbor. The last option is Murkin, which is described as barren swamp no one cares about. Swamps do not tend to be infertile - the opposite actually - so getting our Netherlands on and developing polders and reclamation techniques would need considering.
Future actions would likely depend on the opinion of powerful Paladia and how happy they are with us expanding the realm into Welelah, vs what our surveys of Murkia indicate about the difficulty of taming the landscape. Honestly if Welelah *did* try to cut off trade that'd be a powerful cassus belli to use with Paladia and our own citizens ('we're not war mongering jerks, we have to take this country to prevent ourselves from being cut off again').
>>96159572
Honestly probably true, water access is important. It does depend somewhat on what the greater world looks like however. If the world is not mostly water like our own, sea access becomes less important (though still important, if the meditterranean was blocked off at gibraltar it would still be massively helpful for trade).
Checking the map it looks like fantasy Switzerland, very defensive and surrounded by mountains, rivers and other nations. It does have two rivers that connect to the sea, one looking very large, so if navigable by boats that could be okay.
It also has three different nations (Welelah, Murkin and Paladia) between it and water so trade is not wholly under the control of one enemy nation either.
Still, the nation needs more living space and sea access must be secured for the future of our nation! Paladia is strong and rich and so can't be messed with. Welelah (whom the first river goes through) is a weaker mercantile country so they're probably the main trade partner and probably would not want to cut off trade to their wealthy powerful neighbor. The last option is Murkin, which is described as barren swamp no one cares about. Swamps do not tend to be infertile - the opposite actually - so getting our Netherlands on and developing polders and reclamation techniques would need considering.
Future actions would likely depend on the opinion of powerful Paladia and how happy they are with us expanding the realm into Welelah, vs what our surveys of Murkia indicate about the difficulty of taming the landscape. Honestly if Welelah *did* try to cut off trade that'd be a powerful cassus belli to use with Paladia and our own citizens ('we're not war mongering jerks, we have to take this country to prevent ourselves from being cut off again').
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