Dutch Empire

Dutch Empire
Location Properties
Dutch Empire territories
Continent	Africa Europe Asia South America Oceania
Naming Properties
Demonym	Dutch
Base Statistics
City Count	262
Square City Count	25
Base Population	105,706,530
Consumers Required to Upkeep	106.13
Base Income ($)	6,046,793
Base Manpower Capacity	2,122,743
Requirements
Starting Nation(s)	Netherlands
Required Entities to Form	Aruba Belgium Curacao Guyana Indonesia Luxembourg Mauritius Netherlands Sao Tome And Principe South Africa Sri Lanka Suriname Taiwan Trinidad And Tobago
Achievements
Stability Gain	10
Title	Stadtholder
Formable Modifier	Gekoloniseered: Base Stability: +5% Building Speed: +20% Naval Recruitment Time: -25% Naval Upkeep: -15% Tax Income: +8%
Formable Modifier	Gekoloniseered: Base Stability: +5% Building Speed: +20% Naval Recruitment Time: -25% Naval Upkeep: -15% Tax Income: +8%
Formable Modifier Description	With international shipping being the lifeblood of the global economy, it is unsurprising that the goals of the Dutch Empire would make a return.
Formable Modifier Description	With international shipping being the lifeblood of the global economy, it is unsurprising that the goals of the Dutch Empire would make a return.
Interface
Decision Name	Take back our land that we lost to others
Decision Name	Take back our land that we lost to others
Decision Description	We shall control the spice trade once more!
Decision Description	We shall control the spice trade once more!
Title	Take back our land that we lost to others
Title	Take back our land that we lost to others
Description	We shall control the spice trade once more!
Description	We shall control the spice trade once more!
Enclosure	Excellent!
Enclosure	Excellent!
Resources
Aluminum	5.55
Aluminum	5.55
Chromium	21.1
Chromium	21.1
Copper	4.43
Copper	4.43
Diamond	17.82
Diamond	17.82
Gold	17.73
Gold	17.73
Iron	8.85
Iron	8.85
Oil	29.47
Oil	29.47
Phosphate	1.11
Phosphate	1.11
Titanium	9.98
Titanium	9.98
Tungsten	3.33
Tungsten	3.33
Electronics	32
Electronics	32
Motor Parts	6
Motor Parts	6
Steel	6
Steel	6
Aircraft Parts	16
Aircraft Parts	16

“	We shall control the spice trade once more!	„
	— Description of forming Dutch Empire

The Dutch Empire is a formable which is exclusive to the Netherlands. Forming this gives the player the Stadtholder title.

Background

The following is taken from Wikipedia which is licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0. You can view the article it was taken from here.

The Dutch Colonial Empire consisted of trading posts and territories held by the Dutch West/East India Company and by the Dutch Republic.

Following the Napoleonic Wars, the British had seized most of their colonies, including the Cape Colony (part of South Africa today). However, most of the colonies would be given back to the Dutch after the Napoleonic Wars. Dutch Malacca (part of Malaysia today) was ceded to the British in 1824. Modern Belgium and Luxembourg were given to the Dutch after the Napoleonic Wars, but they lost both after the Belgian Revolution in 1831. The Dutch sold their possessions in West Africa (which aren't included in the formable) to the British in 1872. The Dutch avoided WW1, however in 1940 The Dutch was invaded and occupied by Germans, and in 1942, the Empire of Japan invaded and occupied the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) until 1945. However, the Dutch had to fight a war with Indonesian rebels once trying to retake the area, in which they lost and withdrew in 1949. Dutch Suriname would be given independence in 1975 and Dutch New Guinea would fall under UN administration in August 1962, and then would be given to Indonesia 1 May 1963.

The Dutch Empire is not based on a time period, rather it's based on the ideas of mass trading, as both South Africa and Belgium are needed. Not only with that, but trading ports around the globe also made it the richest state at one point.

Geography

Terrain

The Dutch Empire's terrain is not very different from each-other, despite the fact that it is a massive empire, they had colonized the flatlands of the coasts and islands around the globe. The terrain of the empire is generally flat in Europe and in South America, whilst the rest of the empire is more changed than the other lands, being flat and Hilly in South Africa, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Taiwan. ‍

Biome

The Benelux area experiences Mild Winter throughout December-January, and is the normal biome in the rest of the year. Other countries in the normal biome are nations made up of one-city islands, Mauritius, much of South Africa except for the area surrounding the cities of Sprinkbok and Upington (which is Arid), and Trinidad and Tobago. All of its Asian and South American colonies are in the Jungle.

Borders

The Dutch Empire borders the nations of France, Germany, Venezuela, Brazil, French Guiana, Lesotho, Eswatini, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, and Timor-Leste.

Cities

The Dutch Empire consists of 242 cities. Its capital is Amsterdam, while its largest city is Jakarta.

Economy and Manpower

The Dutch Empire gains around $8,720,000 in income. The Dutch Empire has a manpower cap of 1,623,978, which is a massive amount that hugely boosts the empire in any conquests that the current player feels like beginning in order to expand. It gains around 10,440 manpower.

Base Manpower Capacity of Dutch_Empire per Conscription Law
The following columns below present the manpower capacity from lowest (Disarmed) to highest (Required). RP stands for "Recruitable Population".
Disarmed [1% RP]	1,061,372
Volunteer [2% RP]	2,122,743
Limited [5% RP]	5,306,856
Extensive [10% RP]	10,613,711
Required [25% RP]	26,534,277

Resources

The Dutch Empire has an increase of the following resources:

• 4.2 units of aluminum
• 15.8 units of chromium
• 4 units of copper
• 14.4 units of diamond
• 14.7 units of gold
• 9 units of iron
• 27.6 units of oil
• 0.8 unit of phosphate
• 3 units of tungsten

Strategies

Strategy A:

Build a recruitment center in your capital city. This will give you a major manpower boost which will be well needed by the times of the end-game when your fighting Indonesia and China (If they took Taiwan).

At the start and through-out the early game, you are surrounded by the powerful and expansionist regional powers of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, which these powers will most likely want to annex you before you have the chance to form the Benelux. If you fail to form an alliance with any of them early game, you must act quickly and build a defense It is best advised that you place fortifications your cities and your border cities. Since you have 3 of these major square cities, which all of them can and should be used to deploy tanks, the best focus to to dominate early game and taking them over is by upgrading the power of your tanks via technology. It is also very helpful to fortify your borders with a pair of artillery units to go along the side of your already upgraded tanks. Place down a naval unit as well, to prevent a mass invasion from the United Kingdom or other countries.

After weathering the major powers either by diplomacy or conquering them, make sure to annex Belgium and Luxembourg. This will allow you to form the Benelux, granting you cores on the entire region and giving you a stability boost. Now that you have destroyed the mainland and became a noticed regional power, it is best advised that you should focus on annexing your former colonial possessions before the United Kingdom, France, or China gets to them (the latter is unlikely that you will get it first).

The first colony your tanks should deal with will be located inside the Jungle lands of South America . First, if Brazil has Guyana and Suriname, you should try to form an alliance with Portugal if they are a player, so that you can partition Brazil, helping you and them form. If not, it is best advised that you quickly take over the two tiny states located inside the continent, because Brazil may take your required nations before you to form the United States of South America. If the latter occurs, negotiate with them. If they refuse, then send at least 3-4k tanks to the region, and build an aircraft manufactory to build an aircraft carrier is possible. If not, build a destroyer and/or battleship to chip at the units near their capital, so you can safely launch an invasion. Also, send a submarine to reinforce these units. After showing you are more than capable of conquering Brazil, attempt to negotiate with them once more. If they constantly reject, or if they rage quit, simply continue to invade them, and once it collapses or you take 90% of its cities, annex the country.

Once you have dealt with the South American question, you should push all of your colonial divisions (which should be made up of tanks and infantry) all the way over to Africa . Check if South Africa is a player. If they are, you may have some trouble, as by this point, they could have tanks, aircraft, and already have formed the South African Union. In order to counter this, it is recommended for you to take your naval and artillery units in order to assist in quickly defeating the great big nation. If South Africa is an AI, auto-capture as quickly as you can. After you have done that, take a few units to conquer Sao Tome and Principe and Mauritius, best to use tanks for this.

Next, take your troops to Asia and quickly conquer Sri Lanka. Check if Indonesia is a player. Again, if they are a player, take naval units to assist defeating them. If they are not, bait the AI and take over the country. Lastly, you will need to annex Taiwan, which will likely by annexed by China by this point of your journey. If they are annexed by China (which may have formed into the Qing Dynasty), you will have to negotiate with China, capital snipe them to put them in low stability, allowing an independent Taiwan for you to annex, or wait for them to leave the server so you can easily invade them (they likely already have due to not knowing what to do after forming their only formable). thus the possibility of Taiwan declaring independence. Otherwise, conquering all of China will prove insanely difficult. Once you have annexed Taiwan, you can form the Dutch Empire. Congratulations!

You do not have to conquer these nations in the exact chronological order in which is recommended on this wiki page, and it is best that you should make your tactics be based on the threats made by other players throughout your imperialist campaign (e.g. if Japan seems to be conquering the southeast nations, focus on taking Indonesia before them). Also, this strategy assumes that other players have not conquered any of your required nations yet, which drastically helps.

Strategy B:

Have a friend playing as the United States, Brazil, China, or India. Have them also expand so they can grow more and more capable of helping you in any future troubles. This is so you can easily secure the colonies in the region those countries are in that are usually conquered by them, and so you have a big and powerful ally to assist you in any difficult wars. If a country like France, Britain, or Germany attacks you, have your friend perform one of the two actions listed below, depending what country they are:

1. If they're the United States or Brazil, have him send a lot of troops abroad to Europe to perform a counter-offensive against these countries to win the war, and have those troops be stationed in your country just in case of another invasion. Order them to send reinforcements if necessary.
2. If they're China or India, have them send you a lot of aid in the form of money and manpower, as they are too far away to help in the war in any other way. If all of these fail to help your cause, you can just restart.

If these actions succeed, annex Belgium and Luxembourg to form the Benelux. After that, recolonize the other areas needed for the empire. If another power takes a required country for the formable, have your strong ally threaten them to give you said country. If they give in and cede, great. If they don't, declare war, and add your ally in. By now, you should be strong enough to take them on by yourself and just spam tanks, but add your ally in just in case they strengthen themselves during the war, having difficulty in the war in general, or if they manage to repel your invasions. Repeat this process of conquering and threatening until you have all the required lands, from which you can restore the once mighty Dutch Empire!

Threats

• France, Germany, and the United Kingdom invading the Benelux region.
• The United Kingdom conquering South Africa, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Sri Lanka, and Mauritius to form the British Empire.
• France needs Sao Tome and Principe and Mauritius to form the French Empire.
• Belgium or Luxembourg may invade you to form the Benelux.
• South Africa will easily get powerful if it is a player and form the South African Union.
• Any African nation trying to form African Union.
• China will easily annex Taiwan to form the Qing Dynasty.
• Japan may annex Taiwan and Indonesia to form the Empire of Japan.
• Any nation willing to form Alam Melayu, which requires Taiwan and Sri Lanka to form.
• Brazil, Colombia, or Venezuela may invade Suriname and Guyana as they are one of the weakest nations in South America.
• The United States may take over colonies in the Caribbean or expand over into South America.
• Any Southeast Asian nations willing to form the Federation of Southeast Asian States requires Indonesia to form.

Removed
North America
South America	• • • Patagonia
Europe	• • • • • • •
Asia	• Assyria • • • • • • • • • •
Africa	• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Oceania	• •