Mexico fast 4 falc

[andrewgs]

4 falcs at 6.48 with enough anticav to beat 5 spahi.

Age 1.
Build a market and trade to get a trading post + house. Send the 2vils + hacienda wagon. Age up with Durango (2nd one, has the wood into coin card) then send the cathedral.

Transition.
Macro for 300f/w/c, then all vils to wood. Get gang saw if you've excess food.

Age 2.
Hold off using the military wagon. Revolt to central america.

Central America.
Send 700w. Build 2 houses. Gather the wood. Send the wood into coin card. Move vils to food. Buy wood for falcs + houses. Queue a falc, then a revolutionary, then send 5 soldaro + a petard. When you've trained as much as you can, over pop with the church tech for an insurgent for each house.

Deck

[Thrar]

Pretty interesting. I'm wondering what alternatives there could be to the church card either in age 1, before, or after the revolution, although the insurgents plus free TP-equivalent are pretty nice too.

Is there really a need to revolt before you're ready to convert resources and queue falcs? Maybe 700w in age 2 first could let you fit in an extra 2 vils without delaying the build. Then revolt while gathering up the wood followed by the conversion card.

[andrewgs]

Need to revolt to place the artillery foundry down, so you'd have a wagon around for 40s. Having an extra (7-1) vils gathering wood for ~50s gives 150w extra for the conversion.

I think the Cathedral is neutral in terms of shipments, as it costs a shipment but you'll get xp from it so get the shipment back... but I think you get the shipment back a bit later than needed for this timing, so it delays the 5 soldaros. A falc takes 45s, shipment 40s so ideally I'd train a falc then send shipment. Didn't have shipment in time this game. Maybe needs more houses built before the conversion to have xp ready for the shipment in time.

Skipping the church card is an option, as is the cheap revolt card. You'd get an extra roughly 75*3 w to convert with the revolt card which I don't think is a big deal. However with 225w you could build a second TP and send cheap revolt and be in the same place as the cathedral, without the insurgents, but with the option to send 700c and go IV cheaply...

[andrewgs]

Well this is more like 3 falc at 6.55 now, need to gather another 400res which would have been another falc. One less soldardo too.

[aaryngend]

Well this is more like 3 falc at 6.55 now, need to gather another 400res which would have been another falc. One less soldardo too.

If the strat is still strong despite the big nerf you know that 4 falc at 6:50 was hilariously OP