How do you get explorers to where they're needed?

[Egg Bub]

Playing as Great Britain, I would like to use the exploration colonial action in sub-Saharan Africa, however I can only build exploration parties on national soil. Is the only way to get them to Africa to use a transport squadron, because that seems like massive overkill?

Thanks in advance.

[H Gilmer3]

I used my transport as Prussia. Most of the time my only transports are sitting around gathering dust.

[Sir Garnet]

As settlements develop you will be able to raise them in Africa. Riverine transport can be used along the coast and rivers - have not tried to see if that would take them down the whole European coast past Gibraltar.

[Jim-NC]

It will eventually, but it will kill their cohesion.

I would raise some colonial troops and maybe a prospector to go along with the explorers. Then move all of them at once with your transports.

[H Gilmer3]

That's what I'm doing. I'm trying to build up a lot of stuff while waiting on unification. I have railroads and forts in my "colonial" provinces. I've even build a tropical fruit plantation. Unification can't get here fast enough so I can really start colonizing these regions.

I think my goal will be to take over all of Africa. Or a lot of it. I am being pretty ambitious, I know.

[Egg Bub]

As settlements develop you will be able to raise them in Africa.

As Britain, there are regions in South Africa with CP at 90%+, but I cannot build explorers there because I am told that they must be built on national soil. Is this an exception? I can build colonial brigades there with no problem.