Only designate a few key cities in your homeland provinces as production centers. They do take long periods to build, so only build them in provinces safe from attack. You should still try to buy them whenever possible. Mines and high end ports are very expensive. Roads have the highest return on investment for their cost. Taxes and farming are much less of your overall income. Its simply not cost effective.ĥ: Put all early money into trade/economic structures.Ħ: One city (either a large one, well developed one, or simply populace one) should be reserved for Military use.ħ: Get competent governors. Never use cavalry as garrisons for long term. Unless they are earning their pay, they have no reason to be sitting idle as garrisons. As for cavalry, they are generally the second most expensive units after siege craft and elephants. Taxes go as high as possible for obvious reasons. You really need the absolute minimum in any possible province.

Unless you actively need to defend borders or wage naval war (Romani and Quarthadastrim may need to early game in their war for Sicilia and other Mediterranean islands) you dont need ships. They take a long time to construct and are massively expensive. Ships in EB represent entire fleets, and have cost/size relative to this. 1: Disband fleets unless absolutely vital.ģ: Raise taxes as high as possible without unrest going red (revolt stage).Ĥ: Disband any cavalry you wont be using for active combat.

Europa barbarorum 2 guide