Jman and Tigger Play: Sid Meier's.....Colonization

[Space Voyager]

I told you about it but none listened I guess

So you did, I checked! Sorry, so many AARs going on right now... Hard to remember all info.

 

I think we saw enough of Jman's AARs to know that voting for anybody else would be a seriously risky gamble, so I'm going with the Dutch in the poll.

 

EDIT; HE HE HE, it is really funny to see who voted for what option! BTW, Jman, we're not placing bets so you can't take our money with suddenly letting Spain win.

[silencer_pl]

Well Spanish is of the game so Tiger must accept Dutch superiority.

 

Also I am wondering why Dutch but no Portuguese in game.

[Jman4117]

They made a remake called FreeCol, sort of like FreeCiv, and it has them in it and several others like the Russians, Swedes and Danes. I might play that later, but idk if it's complete.

 

https://www.freecol.o....html#x1-620006

 

Edit: Downloaded it and I'm trying it. It's rather slow and clunky, probably due to being a java app. Also, the interface is rather lacking, and it's a pain to explore uncharted areas.

[Jman4117]

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And with the Treaty of Utrecht, we hit 50% total rebel sentiment in the colonies and 71% in New Amsterdam!

 

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Trade time. We haul in some trade goods to the Cherokee, but they are cheap bastards. A fairer price would be about 240 more than that!

 

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And they stop it at 702...firm...Oh well, more than we paid for it..Maybe we can get a better deal buying what they have.

 

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Like furs. We need furs to make coats to sell to Europe. Yes! We can get them for cheap here, only 2.73 each!

 

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Ah, the Incas! Finally a civilized tribe. Greetings!

 

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With Pocahontas, we get to have all our transgressions against the natives forgotten and they won't get pissed with us as quickly in future interactions.

 

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Next up: Thomas Jefferson

 

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In the meantime, our magazine is completed and we start on the arsenal. We put a master gunsmith to work making 14 muskets a turn. This further moves our colonies toward their eventual indepenence.

 

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Since we've been having some indian troubles lately, Pocahontas aside, we're going to send out a missionary to the Cherokee. The missionary reports back that they are approaching Christianity with curiousity.

 

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And we find the English starting place....all the way at the bottom end of the southern continent. Hi again English!

 

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Also this year, we learn about being able to do more in a year. From now on, we will be able to issue orders twice a year instead of once!

 

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A scout wanders from the Cherokee village we just sent the missionary to. Seems they are on hard times and don't have enough food to get through winter. Since food isn't a problem, we give them half. In exchange they give us a gift of 11 ore.

 

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Wooooooooo! In a long series of popups we get to pick a seasoned scout, expert ore miner, master tobacconist, veteran soldier, expert lumberjack, master carpenter, master distiller, and expert silver miner.

 

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And to top it off...it appears that the soldier comes armed and with a horse to boot!

 

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At the very tip of South America we come across some native burial mounds....Let's see what's inside!

[Thorondor]

Aaaaaand behind tomb number 1 we have... *drum roll*

 

::

 

Well, whatever we have I trust we're about done with smooching a certain decadent royalty member's ring finger.

[Jman4117]

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A measly 60 gold. Luckily, we don't enrage the savages down here!

 

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Screw you kingy!

 

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And we end up with our warehouses filled with muskets. Time to start exporting so all our work doesn't go to waste.

 

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Also, we have our max stock of horses so we're going to send some to the indians and get some money for them. 7.4 a head isn't too great, but at least it's something!

 

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In exchange, we take 100 furs for 271.

 

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And the redheaded lawyer from Virginia joins the party. Our statesmen cheer as their output skyrockets!

 

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Excellent, the "king" has added more troops to his forces....Luckily, we have cannons and other such stuff to deal with them..

 

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Next up: Magellan!

 

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Wooooooooo!!!!

 

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Shit..

 

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With the added liberty bell output, we get higher Sons of Liberty membership. Our capital is now at 81%!

 

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In the past few years we have built a larger warehouse and now, a college. This allows us to train some of the more advanced skills such as the guys that convert natural resources into finished goods!

 

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In order to do this, first we need some free colonists. Since we don't really need the seasoned scout or the distiller, we are going to clear their status. We then move a blacksmith to the college and put the two new free colonists to work in his place. In a few years, he will have trained them and we can send them over to another colony to build some tools!

 

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In the meantime, we have a weaver moving up river to a new city location. Since we aren't on the coast, we get the usual warning about it to try and get us to build on the coast so we end up the victims of the royalist forces when they arrive...anyways, we're naming this one: Fort Nassau!

 

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Our merchantman returns from Amsterdam. She's carrying a full load of immigrants from the Old World, coming to seek freedom in the colonies!

 

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Since our new colony is well...new, and hasn't built a stockpile of food, the Cherokee assume we're starving and deliver several months worth of food. Not complaining, they'll just be back begging eventually, I'm sure.

[Jman4117]

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Our ship pulls into port and unloads the new settlers. Since we don't need the scout that came over, we're going to take his horses away and clear his specialty. He will join the other two free colonists at the blacksmith shop while he learns a trade that is actually useful to us at this point of the game: Blacksmithing! Power to the hammers and such!

 

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Oh jeez....we're deep in hostile territory and we have found yet another horde of treasure! Let's hope that we can get this back to Amsterdam without getting killed!

 

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Meanwhile in North America we send out that missionary that was shipped over from Europe. He walks into a a Cherokee village and is welcomed warmly. Doesn't look like we're going to be tied to a stake and used for target practice here!

 

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He preaches to the heathen. They embrace our Dutch Christianity with curiousity.

 

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Few turns later...and we're not dead...yet...Our scout has managed to get north of the Andes so hopefully we're home free..

 

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HAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!

 

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Ok, back in Amsterdam with our ship. If you see some hardy pioneers for 520? That's an EXCELLENT deal. The tools alone that they carry are worth 400, and this is in essence a veteran pioneer unit which works at twice as quickly as a normal colonist with tools!

 

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YES!! Magellan lets our ships all move one space further in a turn.

 

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Also, the trip back to Europe through the Pacific ocean is shortened considerably!

 

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For our next Founding Father, we're going for Drake to allow privateers to get a 50% bonus. This will make them a really practical ship to buy since they are so fast, they are cheap and this bonus gives them attack power equal to a frigate!

 

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Yay!

 

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In Amsterdam, we're nearly up to 100% rebels. This is going to be good...

 

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Looks like our scout managed to make it to the coast without being killed! We found a new temporary city here so that we can get this loot back to Europe.

 

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Considering that we don't have a galleon in our fleet, we're going to let the king transport it for a cut of the loot.

 

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And that bastard totally robs us for 1700 gold!

 

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And that SOB uses it to buy some more troops!

 

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And soon after our other load of treasure if transported. We actually could have just bought a galleon and done that ourselves...

 

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With all the treasure moved to Europe, we disband the city and the scout flees back to our home territory.

 

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[Jman4117]

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More indians wander in from the Cherokee nation. We'll put them to work doing what they do best: Menial labor!

 

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Back in Amsterdam we look at the roster of people that wish to leave for the New World. To our surprise, we have an Elder Statesman that wants to leave and only requires 391 to transport!

 

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And a farmer wishing to leave as well for 560. Not the excellent deal that the statesman was, but still, less than what he's worth!

 

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And to wrap things up, we get another guy to make us some coats before we return back to America.

 

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Oh yeah! This pretty much makes our starting colony UNSTOPPABLE!

 

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We got us a fortress! We got us a fortress! This means that when the King's men show up and want to take our only port city from us, they will have one hell of a time!

 

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Yea yea yea, screw you and feel free to add more regulars to put us down! We dump 90 tons into the harbor in pretest of the "king's" tyranny!

 

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Yes! Finally got one of our guys trained in that. Usually, it's the Iroquios that teach this, not you guys!

 

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As we gear up for war, this guy becomes very useful.

 

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He gives the Privateer a 50% boost, making it a respectable warship that can be used for scouting and plundering enemy cargo.

 

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HAHAHAHAHA!

 

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Cheap Fisherman? Check

 

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$3000 Galleon? Check

 

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6 people bound for the New World? CHECK!

 

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And while we have the Merchantman here, we buy 2 lumberjacks and 2 blacksmiths to go to America as well.

 

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In New Amsterdam, we finish the Drydock, which will allow us to conduct repairs on our damaged vessels locally without having to send them back to Europe. Next, we start on the Shipyard, so that we can build our own warships!

 

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We send out one of the ore miners to found a city near some ore deposits. We call the new settlemen: Vlissingen

 

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Back in the capital, we set to work retraining a tobacconist as a fur trapper!

 

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When our ships return to Europe, we only seem to have criminals remaining for recruitment but fear not!

 

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They make perfectly good missionaries so long as we go to a church and bless them as such!

 

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Also, 2 farmers..

 

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and 2 cannon.

 

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Onward!

 

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And another useful combat founding father joins us: George Washington

 

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When he commands troops, they get to veteran status after winning only one combat! This is great considering that usually it's totally random if a unit achieves veteran status!

[Jman4117]

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HA! Roanoke burned!

 

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We have a new fur trapper. He will be sent out to the inland colonies to trap animals and skin them.

 

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Meanwhile, our criminal moves toward the Iroquois village to convert the heathen to our ways.

 

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Our trapper parks in Fort Orange and finds a spot that he can get 32 furs from!

 

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Ouch....we'd better start trading those to the indians instead of with Europe...

 

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Since we're starting to have trouble trading with the indians, we get some trade goods to try and change their minds!

 

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And he's the guy finally explaining indian converts about way too late...

 

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Yay!

 

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We shall build...a Frigate!

 

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It's a light warship, but the best colonials are allowed to have. King's orders.

 

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Our missionary arrives a proceeds to convert the Iroquois.

 

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Yep, you know the drill.

 

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Into the sea with it all!

 

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Trade goods...they are cheap, but the savages don't know that and have known to trade whole islands to us for very small amounts (true story).

 

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We take that cotton for cheap so we ca make more cloth to sell back to them.

 

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Ok, lumberjacks. You're going over to those lakes to found a new colony.

 

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And we're calling it: Curacao

 

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We get another fur trapper and send him to Fort Nassau....he makes 40 per turn!

 

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Dammit!

 

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Yay! Loot the heathen and such!

 

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He REALLY powers up our conquests: Assuming our indian friends ever turn on us at least..

 

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This is what can happen when you clear some land. ^^^^ Try to keep some free warehouse space!

 

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Excellent! Now he can learn a trade!

 

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Back in Europe, we get another servant, as well as a pair of cannon.

[Jman4117]

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Woooo! This guy is important if we're going to break with the Netherlands!

 

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He gives every colony an additional 20%. This means that when we have a colony at max, like our capital, and then we add people, it won't go down below 100%!

 

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Our frigate slides down the shute into the harbor!

 

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And we begin building our Privateer!

 

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Back on the docks we load up some more useless people and 4 loads of trade goods!

 

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And with all these additional people coming in, we're going to build one final colony: Recife

 

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Meanwhile, in Port Orange, one of our trade cavavans is standing by waiting on our weavers to finally get through all this cotton...as a note, the starting price for the cloth coming from that factory is 18.....any bets on how long it's going to stay there?

 

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Screw you, we're not accepting a 6% raise on our taxes when it's something we don't even trade AT ALL...

 

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FREE FRIGATE FOR US!

 

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Hrm....we'll stop buying that now, 4 is just too high for trinkets and beads!

 

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Time to scout the seas!

 

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And the cloth falls $4...

 

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Hiho Frenchman!

 

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Moar statesmen!

 

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And we get some Paul Revere action going on.

 

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He allows random colonists to pick up any muskets in a city in order to defend against an attack.

 

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8...

 

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Back in Amsterdam, we start to just recruit the ore miners for 600 because it's cheaper to just convert them into free colonist and train them as we want them now that we're getting independent in every way but in name..

 

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Yeah! The English bastards are trying to prey on shipping from our city...Little do they know, we have loads of cannon within the walls of our fortress!

 

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FIRE!

 

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56 firepower with a 50% bonus and we only damage their little 8 firepower ship?!?!?!?!?!!!

 

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In the meantime, our Privateer enters English waters to return the favor.

 

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And we send their little Caravel to the bottom!

[silencer_pl]

Looks like you are on fire with the updates

[Thorondor]

Well, he's setting the opposition on fire, that's for sure.

 

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...and then drowning it.

[Jman4117]

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4 guys with guns for 5500? HELL YES!

 

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And in Amsterdam, we fill up the boat with some ore miners so that we can clear out their specialties and retrain them to be soldiers.

 

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Greetings Mr. Penn. Welcome to New Netherlands!

 

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We will give all of our cross production a 50% boost and make people want to come to the New World!

 

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Hi Frenchies.

 

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Bye Frenchies!

 

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And we're throwing those in the ocean too..

 

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Since we have pretty much nothing left to do with New Amsterdam besides training people... LET'S BUILD CANNON!

 

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And we get 2 more fishermen...don't really need anymore of those now!

 

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But know what we're going to do next? We're going to train a shit load of soldiers! That's what!

 

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Piracy? Me? NEVER!

 

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Now you insult the honorable Dutch!

 

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Prepare to die!

 

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Just up the coast we have this English vessel. Let's go kill it!

 

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Yay!

 

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Oh my!

 

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This English town is about to kill me with its one little cannon! What ever shall we do!

 

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Well, I guess the shot fell short or something. Our broadside however, doesn't!

 

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Our galleon sails back into port in Amsterdam. We load up on more people to train into soldiers!

 

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Yay!

 

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On the way home from the English town, we encounter a Privateer!

 

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FIRE!

 

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Oh ye!

 

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And we get that party animal Ben in the Congress! Woot Woot!

 

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Now we can be at peace with enemy colonials even if the home country doesn't want us to be. Is it relevant to us? Nope? Do we care? Nope!

[Jman4117]

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Excellent! We got some new soldiers!

 

https://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8008/sopening611.png

And we go to take care of that Privateer that keeps coming back...

 

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It evades our ship!

 

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And it evades the other!

 

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Never turn? It opens fire!

 

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And our Frigate has to put in for repairs...Shenanigans!

 

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Moments later, our remaining ship opens up on the Privateer! Die!

 

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GGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!

 

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And it fires on our ship again....it better not sink it...

 

https://img59.imageshack.us/img59/9418/sopening620.png

Woooo! Our ship holds its own agains the English and they are forced to return to London since they don't have a New World drydock to repair!

 

https://img705.imageshack.us/img705/9079/sopening626.png

Yay...I think.

 

https://img84.imageshack.us/img84/6568/sopening627.png

This guy lets us pick who we want out of a list of 3 people. Useful if you're the English and really dependent on immigrants, but that's not us.

 

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HI!

 

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Since they had cargo, we get it!

 

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And the English vessel sinks to the bottom while we are looting the wreckage!

 

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And we're throwing that into the ocean too!

 

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Tom Paine is one of the middle of the road guys.

 

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He's decent, but doesn't really function at his best unless there's a high tax rate, and well....we've been boycotting goods so...

 

https://img651.imageshack.us/img651/9248/sopening642.png

Greetings powdered wig man!

 

https://img855.imageshack.us/img855/4081/sopening643.png

You want peace? Sure!

 

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And we agree to that again.

 

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Bye!

[Jman4117]

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Guess who's back?!?!?!?!

 

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And it doesn't go back home this time!

 

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Excellent!

 

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With our frontier colonies getting statesmen, this number is just rocketing up!

 

https://img560.imageshack.us/img560/1686/sopening653.png

New guy!

 

https://img20.imageshack.us/img20/4886/sopening654.png

BOORING!

 

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And his royal highness has just added more troops to oppress these colonies!

 

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Remember my comment about picking the colonist being useless? I take that back!

 

https://img138.imageshack.us/img138/3093/sopening659.png

And in New Amsterdam...Our army appears to be ready!

 

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And another pretty useless guy joins!

 

https://img255.imageshack.us/img255/9242/sopening662.png

Good if you're the Spanish I guess, but we're the Dutch!

 

https://img84.imageshack.us/img84/2978/sopening663.png

Our most inland colony, Recife, has just risen above 50% in favor of independence. This means that we may now safely rebel and Recife will not join the Loyalists!

 

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And we will be throwing those into the ocean too!

 

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Yep! Buying two!

 

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Onward!

 

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Our massive liberty bell production is really bringing in the final founding fathers. They go up in cost as you get more of them but we're getting them about every 6-7 turns now!

 

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And he's another useless one unless we were going to kill everyone and needed to find everything on the map..

 

https://img163.imageshack.us/img163/7969/sopening672.png

And another pretty useless guy.

 

https://img542.imageshack.us/img542/5832/sopening673.png

Well, not useless, but you definately want to wait until near the end to get him since he's the only way to get converts to be free colonists.

 

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To be safe, we're taking Recife way up to make sure nothing goes wrong.

 

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And I believe this is the last guy.

 

https://img834.imageshack.us/img834/3387/sopening678.png

Totally useless if you have a customs house. In fact, he's going to make us throw more stuff into the ocean all over again and waste it! Anyways...

 

We can now declare our independence from the vile and tyrannical Netherlands! Who's with me!?!?!

[Thorondor]

We can now declare our independence from the vile and tyrannical Netherlands! Who's with me!?!?!

 

We be with ye! Down with the despot!!

 

::

 

Onwards to liberation!

[Space Voyager]

Do we have the distillery yet? I'm going nowhere without some tripple distilled... reason.

[Jman4117]

nope, we kinda didn't have cane patches so we went for cotton and furs...you can be clothed in reason instead?

[Jman4117]

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Screw you king!

 

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Manning the walls of New Amsterdam we have a vast multitude of dragoons to deal with this offense to the people of Dutch America!

 

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And everyone here is pissed with the "king"...We should do something!

 

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Something like, revolting against unjust Dutch rule!

 

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Representatives from all the Dutch colonies meet in New Amsterdam. Views are expressed and it's pretty clear, that none of them wish to live under European tyranny.

 

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Our ambassidors inform the king that we no longer recognize Dutch rule in the colonies. An army is raised, for there will surely be Dutch reprisals to this uprising!

 

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Mear weeks later, a Dutch Man-of-War arrives to blockade the harbor of New Amsterdam.

 

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She puts out troops who begin their march on the Capitol.

 

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Luckily for us, they are trained in the European style of combat where lines of men pick out a field, stand in neat rows and shoot at each other. We however have learned guerilla tactics from the natives. We will use this to our advantage!

 

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This just in: We have received a message through our ambassidor to France. They are willing to come to our aid if we prove our willingness to commit to independence. This shouldn't take over about a year or so!

 

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Every soldier that is based in a colony gets promoted! There's a new unit now above the veteran soldier: The Contintental!

 

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INCOMING!

 

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Our fortress takes a hit! One of the guns in battery is damaged!

 

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The Tories fire again!

 

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This time, they miss and our fort returns fire damaging the Tory gun.

 

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Also, a unit of their Cavalry charges and is cut down!

 

https://img59.imageshack.us/img59/3420/sopening726.png

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In retaliation, a pair of our Continental Cavalry ambush some Tory Regulars, decimating them!

 

https://img826.imageshack.us/img826/1940/sopening734.png

https://img84.imageshack.us/img84/9052/sopening735.png

BOOM!

 

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Prepare to die!

 

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HA!

 

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Neener neener!

[Jman4117]

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YES! This means we get free reinforcements from France!

 

https://img805.imageshack.us/img805/7513/sopening748.png

And see that ORANGE Man-of-War? Yep! That's ours!

 

https://img228.imageshack.us/img228/6673/sopening752.png

Let's test her out!

 

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Wooohoooo!

 

https://img94.imageshack.us/img94/2971/sopening755.png

Let's send out the Frigate and see what it can do!

 

https://img832.imageshack.us/img832/9877/sopening756.png

Dammit!

 

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And on a long shot: The Privateer...

 

https://img411.imageshack.us/img411/3043/sopening758.png

YES! YESS!!!

 

https://img716.imageshack.us/img716/204/sopening762.png

Moar Dutchies!

 

https://img7.imageshack.us/img7/3531/sopening763.png

Moar Frenchies!

 

https://img542.imageshack.us/img542/7913/sopening764.png

Now let's use the new French ship to deal with them!

 

https://img267.imageshack.us/img267/3452/sopening765.png

The Tories are sent to the bottom!

 

https://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7049/sopening766.png

A standard Dragoon....can they do it?

 

https://img507.imageshack.us/img507/2706/sopening767.png

Yes! Yes they can!

 

https://img703.imageshack.us/img703/7445/sopening768.png

And they are promoted to the highest level!

 

https://img585.imageshack.us/img585/8260/sopening779.png

Another wave of Dutch show up. Our ship moves on them but is slowed due to them being scary!

 

https://img856.imageshack.us/img856/905/sopening780.png

FIRE!

 

https://img443.imageshack.us/img443/368/sopening781.png

Another Man-of-War sunk!

 

https://img696.imageshack.us/img696/9898/sopening783.png

A lone cannon remains!

 

https://img26.imageshack.us/img26/7181/sopening784.png

It fires, misses, we return on it and we wipe it out!

 

https://img195.imageshack.us/img195/5992/sopening793.png

The captain on the Dutch Man-of-War surrenders and peace talks are negotiated!

 

https://img51.imageshack.us/img51/531/sopening794.png

The king begrudgingly accepts our independence.

 

https://img819.imageshack.us/img819/5008/sopening795.png

YEAH! Liberty bells ring all over the land!

 

https://img16.imageshack.us/img16/6074/sopening796.png

Our score: 1922. Not too bad, but we could have done better. Probably from waiting and getting a HUGE population that spanned the whole continent.

 

https://img805.imageshack.us/img805/4919/sopening797.png

And for our efforts, we get a medal named after us!

[Space Voyager]

They can take our lives, but they can't take our freeeeeeedooooooom!

 

Congrats, though I think celebration would be far more merry with a distillery.