Is it possible to take Arguin in vanilla?

**Portuguese Man-Of-War** · July 28, 2011, 04:38 PM

The question says all. Is it possible?

BTW: If you don't know where that is, it's northwest of timbuktu, and southwest of marrakesh(on the atlantic coast)

**Aeratus** · July 28, 2011, 05:05 PM

Yes, you can reach there by land by traveling west from Timbuktu. Although the path is not yet revealed on the map, it is accessible.

You can also reach there by sea by sailing in a Carrack, Caravel or Barglah.

**Portuguese Man-Of-War** · July 28, 2011, 05:22 PM

i tried with f.o.w off, and it only let my merchants/soldiers travel to a certain point, and not past that.

I guess my second question is if it is possible to access the gold and ivory in the arguin region. Is that possible?

**In3x** · July 28, 2011, 05:24 PM

Originally Posted by Portuguese Man-Of-War

i tried with f.o.w off, and it only let my merchants/soldiers travel to a certain point, and not past that.

I guess my second question is if it is possible to access the gold and ivory in the arguin region. Is that possible?

You have to have fog of war on to open up the path from Timbuktu.

**smthhappy** · July 28, 2011, 05:43 PM

You have to reveal the map with units... i mean when they go west to timbuktu you have to move them by clicking on their line of sight ..

**Aeratus** · July 28, 2011, 06:36 PM

Right. you have to move them step by step, almost.

**Portuguese Man-Of-War** · July 28, 2011, 07:50 PM

oh ok, thanks

**MeMongo** · July 28, 2011, 09:28 PM

When playing as spain I always send general Vasco and 4 units of jinetes towards timbuktu right at the start, then on to arguin. Once you can produce merchants at timbuktu, the income they produce is awesome!

**Ishan** · July 29, 2011, 06:27 AM

You can't reach there by ships until you have high tier ships which you can get after world is round event from naval dry docks etc (Carrack, Caravel etc) and via land you have to go through:

Spoiler for Arguin:

When playing as a catholic faction if you want to capture these regions then it's better to send around 4-5 priests in advance to those regions (to get a easy control over the city after sacking them) before sending an army containing a general of high loyalty. One could also hire African mercenaries if you want to reach there early by only cavalry or only general.

Arguin is not really worth it unless you want to suck all the resources which will come in handy in the later part of the game and a chivalrous general will also help in faster population rise which in turns upgrades your settlement bringing in more income.