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Re: Indian Consulate

El_tres — Fri, 30 May 2008 05:01:56 GMT

Port consolate in age 1 allows you to age for 680 food. Also this reduces all building costs which allows you to make more villies. The besieros are decent units, and the fishing boats are nice too.

I suggest using ports in age 1 and 2 then switching to French in age 2 or 3 to get the gather upgrade and the crates. The ottomans are ok late game for the bombards and hussars.

Re: Indian Consulate

gooback — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:22:15 GMT

The ottoman consulate is pretty good, but I like the British the best, and it can be used on ANY HC level, ports are way overrated tho

Re: Indian Consulate

Walah Walah — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:34:05 GMT

thank you im almost a lvl 40

im pretty new at the asian dynasties

Re: Indian Consulate

unstopable17 — Tue, 06 May 2008 03:18:21 GMT

only india can alli with the ottoman

Also you have a home city level at 40 to get the option

Re: Indian Consulate

unstopable17 — Tue, 06 May 2008 03:17:06 GMT

Only india can allie with the ottoman

Re: Indian Consulate

Walah Walah — Tue, 06 May 2008 01:27:53 GMT

indian.sepoy:

very important to go to fortress.

i usually send my 4th or 5th card as 300 export.

and i make sure i build a consulate as soon as i send the card and then i ally with french and get food and gold crates which helps me to age up.

if i got food in excess i send for the gold crate and then ally with ottomans and get 4 settlers.

indian consulate very good.

How do you ally with the ottomans

i really want to but i havent figure it out yet

do you have to be a certain level or just something else

Re: Indian Consulate

indian.sepoy — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:05:30 GMT

Tappanhanock:

Export is derived from villagers gathering other resources. The more villagers you have, the faster you get export. You can also send a card for 300 export, and select faster gathering at the consulate, at the expense of slower resource collection.

Another question: Is swapping faster export for slower resource gathering decent? I noticed that for only a 10% decrease, export can gather 60% faster, What are people's thoughts on this?

i havent used that feature in rush games but i think now i will find some way of using it.

Re: Indian Consulate

Tappanhanock — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:44:48 GMT

Export is derived from villagers gathering other resources. The more villagers you have, the faster you get export. You can also send a card for 300 export, and select faster gathering at the consulate, at the expense of slower resource collection.

Another question: Is swapping faster export for slower resource gathering decent? I noticed that for only a 10% decrease, export can gather 60% faster, What are people's thoughts on this?

Re: Indian Consulate

indian.sepoy — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:24:03 GMT

very important to go to fortress.

i usually send my 4th or 5th card as 300 export.

and i make sure i build a consulate as soon as i send the card and then i ally with french and get food and gold crates which helps me to age up.

if i got food in excess i send for the gold crate and then ally with ottomans and get 4 settlers.

indian consulate very good.

Re: Indian Consulate

lubi125 — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:23:22 GMT

How do you quikly gain a lot of export?

Re: Indian Consulate

Tappanhanock — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:20:37 GMT

@ Himmelmann16:

Are you sure that that would be a viable usage? You spend 300 wood + villie second to make the consulate, use a shipment for the 300 export, and send the 500 crates from the French ally. Not only do you not break even in comparison with a 700 res. shipment, but it takes much longer:

-300 wood and villie seconds to build it (also takes a while to build), waiting time for the 300 export shipment to arrive, waiting for the alliance to complete, and waiting for the crates to arrive.

Basically a shipment for 700 res. and a LOT of waiting

Expense of a 700 resource crate

Much less time and no villie seconds.

If I'm correct, the French do not seem to be useful in age, but are the other options OK?

Re: Indian Consulate

unstopable17 — Sun, 04 May 2008 21:04:02 GMT

I am a ok indian player.

I some what agree with mr. milo on that consulates are very good and if your india you should be making lots of wood. So build a consulate, but where i disagree with mr. milo is that you should have french as your allie. The reason is you get 5% better gathering rate so you will be making resources faster there for you can afford upgrades and bigger armies. Also if you make it to the third age you build the karni Mata in which you will be producing resouces like crazy.

So you should be able to make a huge army.

My india home city level is 75 if that means any thing to you. Since i play India alot.

Hope this helped!

Re: Indian Consulate

ES_MrMilo — Sun, 04 May 2008 20:41:53 GMT

Consulates are an incredible bonus! I suggest building them around 10 minutes into the game, if not sooner. Around this time you'll have enough export to get a unit shipment (with India you'll usually want either 6 Red Coats from British or 4 vils or 3 Hussars from Ottoman). Not only that, but the "passive" bonus they provide is awesome. +10% on unit HP would be a pretty darn good card to send in the second age. Second age cards are worth 700~ resources, so getting that for 200 wood and some villie building time is an incredible deal!

Re: Indian Consulate

Himmelmann16 — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:51:22 GMT

in prolonged skirmishes in age 2 i like to ally with french and send the 300 export card it lets you get 2 500 crates of your choosing(wood coin food)

And to the player that posted above me why post if you have nothing to add?

Re: Indian Consulate

SIXmachina6 — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:40:28 GMT

sorry im not familiar with Indias consulate options due to the fact that im not an experiened india player.