ExpeditionAcross the pillars
The Gold Caravan
Send a caravan south across the Sahara to the golden markets of the Bilād as-Sūdān, trading salt and cloth for the wealth of the Sahel. The road is long and the desert perilous, but a caravan that returns home will pour the gold of the Sahel into your capital's market.
Marked unique
Potential
- Is or was
Andalusiaor
Morocco - Has Variable: gold_caravan_setup
Can start
Is at Peace
Exact conditions
- Remove variable: gold_caravan_setup
- Expedition
- Set variable
- Name: gold_secured
- Value: 0
- Set variable
- Name: gold_haul
- Value: 0
- Set variable
- West African GoldfieldsOrdered location in scripted geographywhere
- Raw material:
Gold - Has an owner
ExpeditionAdd Previous as a new waypoint - Raw material:
Exact script
Will Discover LocationArea
Exact script
If
Location
- Raw material: Gold
- Is in West African Goldfields
Then
- Expedition
- Set variable
- Name: gold_secured
- Value: 1
- Change variable
- Name: gold_haul
- Add
- Value: LocationRgo level
- Multiply: LocationLocal control
- Add: 1
- Add
- Value: 1
- Add: LocationProsperity
- Set variable
- Set variable
- Name: gold_caravan_last_haul
- Value: Expeditionvar:gold_haul
Exact script
If
Expeditionvar:gold_secured ≥ 1
Then
- Gold Caravan Last Haul Gold added to the supply of our market in CapitalRootCapitalMarketGains Rootvar:gold_caravan_last_haulGold
- If
- The
Golden Century is currently happening - Has Global Variable: battle_for_the_strait_winner_country
- This: global_var:battle_for_the_strait_winner_country
ThenColonial Dominance: 1- Colonial Dominance: ValueGolden CenturyChange variable
- Name: Colonial Dominance
- Add: value
- gc_mirror_dominance_to_country↗Thenglobal_var:battle_for_the_strait_winner_country
- Set variable
- Name: European Dominance
- Value: Golden Century › European Dominance
- Set variable
- Name: Colonial Dominance
- Value: Golden Century › Colonial Dominance
- Set variable
- The
- IfCaravan leader existsThenGain var:gold_caravan_last_haul × Caravan leaderTotal abilities ÷ 50, at most 5,000 DucatsOtherwiseGain var:gold_caravan_last_haul × 2, at most 5,000 Ducats
- One of these, at random
- 25%
- Desc: Merchants flock to the caravan's success
- Show chance: no
- Gains Caravan Windfall for 5 years
- 25%
- Desc: The caravan leader earns a golden reputation
- Show chance: no
- Caravan leaderSet nickname:
nick_the_golden
- 25%
- Desc: The ruler is touched by the caravan's riches
- Show chance: no
- Ruler or regentGains the
Midas Touched Trait
- 25%
- Desc: The caravan leader gains hard-won experience
- Show chance: no
- Caravan leader
- Add adm
- Add dip
- Add mil
- 25%
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Requires 6
Situations
- Golden CenturyWhen it ends
Traits
GreedyWhen it ends- Midas TouchedWhen it ends
Goods
- GoldOn reaching a waypoint, When it starts
Countries
- MoroccoPotential
Formable Countries
- AndalusiaPotential
Grants 2
Traits
- Midas TouchedWhen it ends
Static Modifiers
- Caravan WindfallWhen it ends
References 1
- GoldWhen it ends
Referenced by 1
Dispatch a Gold CaravanEffect
Scripting 14
Requires 4
Variables
- battle_for_the_strait_winner_countryWhen it ends
- gold_caravan_setupPotential
- gold_securedWhen it ends
Scripted Geographies
- West African GoldfieldsOn reaching a waypoint
Grants 4
Variables
- Colonial DominanceWhen it ends
- gold_caravan_last_haulOn reaching a waypoint
- gold_haulOn reaching a waypoint, When it starts
- gold_securedOn reaching a waypoint, When it starts
Removes 1
- gold_caravan_setupWhen it starts
Uses 1
- gc_change_colonial_dominancevalue = 1When it ends
References 4
Script Values
- gc_bump_caravanWhen it ends
Variables
- gold_caravan_last_haulWhen it ends
- gold_haulOn reaching a waypoint
Scripted Geographies
- West African GoldfieldsWhen it starts
unique = yes
repeatable = yes
returns_home = yes
travel_speed = 0.75
dynamic_first_waypoint = yes
triggers_regency = no
category = commercial