Recent content by Pifou42

After some more tries and discoveries, I'm down to less than 20 minutes for Viceroy, even without using the tools-abuse. This start getting really ridiculous :p Among the cool tricks I found, I noticed that keeping from 2 to 4 artilleries in your colony is a huge key to a faster win : it...

Ok, in fact, Viceroy difficulty doesn't need to use an infinite money trick at all. Just De Soto + Cortes. Knowing the RNG a bit helps too, and gives easy wins under an hour. Here's one win in less than 45 minutes, where I got some lucky start (getting 20K of Cibolas maybe 5 minutes earlier...

Oh, I see... I didn't know about this until I looked for some trade exploit and noticed this a few days ago. Funny thing that this abuse was already known somewhere. Guess I don't know the right places to look for this kind of tricks :p Tools are not only a cheaper start base, they also...

I didn't initially think it would be that easy, indeed. Anyway, I just went one step further, and looked for an infinite money trick to make the Viceroy speedrun fast, since I'm afraid farming some aztecs or incas would take too much time. Found one ! :p On the "test game" I played, just to...

I got it \o/ --- So, having been back into colonization recently, I tried to find a way to have an idea, whether cutting a forest would be likely to get a special resource or not. With a quick glance at the map, I noticed that "the cell right under one special resource on a forest often holds...

Hello folks, I recently got back into Col, and after a few games to understand all those complex things I didn't catch when I was young, I quickly realized how easy (and fun) it was to break the game. Yet, playing as Viceroy feels too loooooooong for me. Farming those fellow...