Spanish at 50 turns

I managed to get 5 veteran dragoons and 3 cannon in 50 turns, my city has fort 100% defense and im building printing press then newspapers. 4 of the 5 dragoons have formation, grenadier 2, and veteran 2, the general has surgeon and will get surgeon 3 after i destroy the next city. 2 of the cannon have bomb 2 and vet 1.

I will leave the low exp dragoon and cannon to defend my city and with the next cash i gain i will buy guns for my colonists to form militia troops if i get attacked.

I had the option of buying a frigate instead of 2 dragoons and 1 cannon, if i had done that i could have disrupted shipping lanes and bombarded coastal defenses to 0% before i move my elite troops into range for attacking their cities.

After buying guns for 3 militia i was planning on buying a statesmen and training more in a school to start the revolution. But on multiplayer its better to buy frigate or more dragoons/cannons and just wipe out all thier cities.

Anyone have a better setup by turn 50? I'd like to see and compare. I will play this one out and see how quickly i can declare independence, then post a save at that spot.

Won independance at turn 137.

I linked saves for when i reached 3 statesmen and had to disband 17 civilians to begin generating rebel sentiment, and when i declared independance (turn 100), and when i won my independance (turn 137).

BTW this was on explorer mode when the ai has the same capabilities as you do, i will try on a harder difficulty to see how that goes.

This time i did hardest difficulty and won at turn 183 with that same strat for most part, except i bought a frigate to harass the ai colonists and i didnt buy statesmen so the rebel sentiment took twice as long to generate.

The three saves below show when i started to attack the indians and nearby ai colony (i only attacked ai colony because they wouldnt give me open borders agreement), and second save is where i stopped growing my army and started to generate bells for revolution, and the last save is when i beat all the kings armies for independance.

Next i will try a speed game, to see how fast i can win on difficult.