EventAcross the pillars
El Norte
The sky to the north has gone hard and gray, and the glass is falling fast. A norte is bearing down on the Gulf — the violent northerly gale that comes without much warning and drives a short, vicious sea before it. In these shallow waters, with the shifting banks of the coast close under our lee, it is a killer of ships.
Target Leader must choose how the fleet meets the gale before it is upon us.
Fired by
Flota de Nueva EspañaExpeditionFrom on monthly · right away
Triggered by 1
- Flota de Nueva EspañaEach month
Scripting 4
Grants 2
- gf_norther_doneAs soon as it happens
- Treasure CargoOption 1, Option 2
References 2
Script Values
- prestige_weak_penaltyOption 1
Variables
- Treasure CargoOption 1, Option 2
type = country_event
title = gold_fleet_nueva_espana_events.15.title El Norte
desc = gold_fleet_nueva_espana_events.15.desc The sky to the north has gone hard and gray, and the glass is falling fast. A norte is bearing down on the Gulf — the violent northerly gale that comes without much warning and drives a short, vicious sea before it. In these shallow waters, with the shifting banks of the coast close under our lee, it is a killer of ships.
Target Leader must choose how the fleet meets the gale before it is upon us.
Target Leader must choose how the fleet meets the gale before it is upon us.
outcome = negative
location_backdrop = {
backdrop_preset = backdrop_at_sea
}
immediate = {
scope:expedition = {
expedition_leader = {
save_scope_as = target_leader
}
pause_expedition = 5
}
}
historical_info = gold_fleet_nueva_espana_events.15.historical_info The nortes were cold northerly gales that swept down across the Gulf of Mexico between autumn and spring, distinct from the summer hurricanes and no less feared by the men who worked the Veracruz trade. The anchorage at San Juan de Ulúa lay open to them, and a norther could pin a fleet against the coast or drive it onto the shoals of the Campeche Bank. Loading at Veracruz was timed as much around the norther season as around the arrival of the silver, and a fleet caught on that lee shore in a strong blow could be lost within sight of land.