If you have wealth of nations, you can move your trade port without moving your capital. The benefit would be being able to steer trade directly from Lubeck and Chesapeake Bay, although you do lose the direct connection to the Caribbean and Genoa. However, unless it managed to conquer southern England you'd be losing money to them, potentially even making them stronger. It's an end node over which France can achieve almost total control with basically no effort, and it feeds from some very wealthy regions (both colonial and European) like the Caribbean, the Ivory Coast and Genoa.įrance could try moving its trade node to the English Channel (Antwerpen etc). Nine times out of ten, however, France's optimal trade node will be Bordeaux.
Some players like to leave it there when expanding into central Europe. France's home node is actually Champagne at the beginning of the game.
