I really love the idea of Merkan but I guess I have to bend towards the will of the faux-spanish.
Pre-landing phase 2
(Week 4, April, foggy)
You are Pablo? Tonio? whatever, you still have time to finally remember. As the leader of this military expedition, you currently have 75 soldiers, 30 adventurers, 30 colonists, and 15 slaves on board.
Soldiers: They are basically men paid to fight. They are professional, more in a sense that they expect to be paid, but still in general they are as good as twice as many similarly equipped unskilled men in battle. They are not really willing to do anything other than fighting, so they work slower than most, and they will want to pay constantly or you might have a mutiny on your side.
Adventurers: More genre-savvy for life in this part of the world. They can take care of their own asses - if they have enough land to gather from and equipment to hunt with, and is 50% better than unskilled men in battle. Their downside mainly lies in their unwillingness to stick to one place, so they take a default morale penalty unless they are on the move.
Colonist: Your average run of the mill men, going on this adventure for a variety of reasons. They are taken as the baseline.
Slaves: Slaves in this game represents slaves, prisoners, or generally unfree men unable to make a decision on their lives. They are easier to placate, but are subject to many penalties, including lower skilled labour ability, forbidden to bear arms, and unable to get onto ships unless someone make them free. They also tend to be the most problematic group if they are pissed off enough.
You also read your letters patent carefully. Your king specified that you are to claim any land for the crown, and you are given permission to forcibly stop any natives, previous civilization, and other states interfering with your job. To save money, the king will not send follow-up for the first year, unless you give him concrete proof that you got yourselves on your feet.
You think of your aide. You remember that you invited a few friends for this expedition, but only one responded, and he is...
a. Abel, A skilled navigator
b. Kiko, A scout
c. Raul, A cleric/priest (make up your religion, please!)
d. Flavio, A sharpshooter
e. Ernesto Barrios, A minor noble
f. Your call, need approval.
You also noticed that Garcia, your secretary assigned by the king, reports that you have reached the charted lands that a previous navigator had mapped. This place... [58] Hills rises up from the heavily wooded coastline. There is flat land here and there, but fertility is a big unknown and on the maps there are also some small streams, enough for the inhabitants of this ship. You are not really sure there are other civilizations or settlements within tough due to foggy weather.
From here you can travel north or south on board along the shoreline. You notice that the wind is blowing constantly from the north, so you have a easier time going south than north.
You can explore along the coastline, or to prepare for final landfall.