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Merchant Legacy

cth_merchant_legacy

The Phoenician trade fleets of Tyre, Sidon, and Carthage knit the Mediterranean into a single commercial system for half a millennium, and the silver shekels of Cartagena paid the Iberian, Numidian, and Balearic mercenary captains who fought our wars under Hamilcar and Hannibal. Our maritime law inherits the customs of the Punic admirals, our recruiting agents follow the same captains' itineraries through the western Mediterranean, and our paymasters draw on the same model of paying cash for service that spared Punic citizens from the battlefield. The combined commercial and mercenary inheritance gives the restored Carthage merchants of great reach and an economy that can pay for armies, as no younger trading nation could build from scratch.

RequiresFeudalismAdvancerequires

Conditions

Potential

Is or was Carthage

Exact conditions

Advance tree

1. Agriculture
2. Windmill
3. Ranching
4. Horse-Riding
5. Feudalism
6. Merchant Legacy

Modifiers

• Trade Capacity+10%
• Mercenary Maintenance Efficiency+10%

Connections

Requires 2

Advances

• FeudalismTraditionsRequires

Formable Countries

• CarthagePotential

Belongs to 1

• TraditionsAge

Definitionin_game/common/advances/country_cth.txt:1

age = age_1_traditions

icon = merchant_power_from_maritime_reformation_advance

▾potential = {

has_or_had_tag = CTH

}

global_merchant_capacity_modifier = 0.1

mercenary_maintenance_efficiency = 0.1

requires = feudalism_advance

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