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[Servant Corps]

Are the lower tax rates some sort of bug? Surely tax cuts is something the game should inform you, right?

[Twiggie]

ive never seen a tax cut before... and afaik damaged artillery cannot be reparied. ever.

[Creamcorn]

Providence? HEY I KNOW THAT PLACE!

Anyway, I suggest to make a town in one of the poles!

[Duke 2.0]

 Time for new names, courtesy of the top maps from DFMA:

 Reinhammers
 Flarechannel
 Copperblazes
 Pagebend
 Orbinches

[Karlito]

I don't believe you can repair damaged artillery.
And do you have a BEEEEEEEES yet?

[mainiac]

The great town of We Need A Slogan! is still missing.

[Aqizzar]

Cool, I needed the names.  I have no idea how many towns I'll found, but I can think of at least six places I'd like to plant some.  I really need to get this place fortified.

You really can't repair artillery?  Fucking bugs.  Well, I'll just have to build more cannons.

[Lear]

That's the spirit! Doom via long range for all!

[Aqizzar]

The time of patient words and deeds is over.  Now is the time of consequences.

Spoiler: Dawn of Nonsense (click to show/hide)

The last great battle of La Conquista Final del Nuevo Mundo starts off swimmingly.  I sink an English Privateer in harbor, then lose a Frigate to the Dutch, before damaging theirs in turn and stealing a bunch of stuff.



The Dutch put up a surprisingly solid fight.  The English - not so much.



What a hole.  But now it's my hole.



I almost feel sorry giving a proud Dwarven name to such a shitty town.



And that's the final remnant of the Dutch.  Even got three trained soldiers who lost all their guns.

The English fleet (all one corvette of it) remains a pain in the ass, until slapped home again.

Proving my theories about cheating AI, I've seen a Dutch Pioneer emerge from an empty Galleon.



The consolidated remnants of my conquering armies, crossing the straits to Plymouth.  Though small, Plymouth is guarded by the only foreign artillery I've yet seen.  Men will die.



George Washington was famous for losing almost every horse he rode into battle, for often returning with new holes in his coat but no wounds, was nicknamed "Devourer of Villages" by the Iroquois, and once said "there is something charming to the sound of bullets."  Total badass.

Aside from Jan de Witt and Paul Revere, I'm spoiled for choices this time.
The dangerously sensible Thomas Paine gives a bonus to Bell production equal to the tax rate.
William Brewster eliminates Criminals and Servants from immigrating.
Ferdinand Magellan makes ships move faster, and decreases the travel time over the Pacific.

I was going to hold another vote, but I decided the Magellan is by far the most rational.  Paine is cool, but my tax rate has yet to break 20%, and has been hovering around zero.  Brewster is useful early on, but I've hired/attracted so many people that no one immigrates on their own anymore, and I've got colleges.

Now then, on with the conquest!



Oh the horrors of industrial war.  Honestly, if this doesn't work, I think I'm fucked.



Luckily, the law of averages once again fails the computer.  Lost a lot of horses though.



Because why wouldn't I, really?  What could I possibly do with all these trade goods?



My breakfast (or dinner, being the middle of the night for me), and my incredibly filthy monitor.



Autumn of 1666 - Know this time well my friends.  The Age of Empires has ended.



The Age of Nonsense has begun.

Look upon your New World!


Yeah, I only did a dozen turns, but they were an important dozen.  Here's what's on my plate now.

The Sioux, after generations of strife under the English, despise the white man in all his forms.  The only cure for them is death.  They're not dangerous, but if I don't wipe them out they'll be irritating forever.  After that, I've only a few options-

Wipe out the other primitive tribes, since they are theoretically sitting on land I can use.
Embark on the Second Voyage of Gold to slaughter the Incas for mountains of treasure.
Actually build and develop all those towns I've neglected, and the many more I need.
Restructure my population to a full scale military mode to fight the Incas, and later Spain.

Put simply, my entire military is about the size of the Expeditionary Cavalry Corp.  Spain's infantry number more than the whole Mountainhome district.  On the other hand, I have a hundred thousand pesos, and at least that much left to claim.  I could buy literally dozens of Privateers or Frigates to stop the Expeditionary Force cold, and attract more immigrants to turn into Dragoons.

And as always, more names needed.  So Nonsensicans, what's my next move?

[Glacies]

Buy a ton of stuff and then seceed. Destroy the loose little tribes and the reclaim party spain will send you, and then go home for tea and cakes.

[Boksi]

Consolidate your forces, fortify your towns and prosper.

Then kill, pillage, slaughter, burn, murder et cetera.

Not your own towns though. That would be stupid.

[Aqizzar]

Not your own towns though. That would be stupid.

I dunno, I got some pretty wealthy towns.  You know I'd be worth plundering.

[Wild Goose]

Build up your own cities as much as possible, while sending our your Grand Army of Nonsense to conquer whoever's convenient.

What else can you spend money on?  Just supplies, soldiers, ships, and colonists, right?
Your army can still conquer a few more towns, right?  If not, reequip and reinforce them, send them out, and spend the rest on the colonists and colony improvements.
You  need to have a fortified megacity as the capital to your new Empire.

[Gantolandon]

Have you already named one of your cities "Bloodanus the Muscular Tunnel"?

If not, you know what to do with the next captured place

[Wooty]

Wipe out primitive tribes and build up cities. Once you have a hardcore army, conquer the Incas and use their gold to defeat Spain once you secede.