How do you actually get to Arguin?

[jackbush]

A couple of days ago I spent close to an hour trying to get a merchant onto Arguin. I know where it is, roughly, but could never get him to actually find it. I kept getting the little red X everywhere he tried to go. Any help?

[Larkin]

Go down to Timbuktu, go straight left and keep going until you reach the coast, then turn upwards slightly.

Alternatively, just go into the console and do toggle_fow, and click on the location directly, then toggle_fow again.

[Avatar]

Alternatively, just go into the console and do toggle_fow, and click on the location directly, then toggle_fow again.

Actually this wont work. Even if you turn off FOW the game still considers the land to be undiscovered before you actually march someone there, so clicking directly on Arguin would still result in the inaccessible location icon.

[fredtrotter]

Actually this wont work. Even if you turn off FOW the game still considers the land to be undiscovered before you actually march someone there, so clicking directly on Arguin would still result in the inaccessible location icon.

This means that you need to continue to move into the area that you can see.

[Larkin]

Actually this wont work. Even if you turn off FOW the game still considers the land to be undiscovered before you actually march someone there, so clicking directly on Arguin would still result in the inaccessible location icon.

It works just fine to click on passable land, it plots the route for you.

[Ishan]

Re: Is it possible to take Arguin in vanilla?

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.