ou've noticed that the Asians are an extremely defense-oriented race which explains why the gold production has been neglected so far. If you haven't yet lost, I congratulate you. : ) You should now prepare for mounting an attack by building a gold mine and 2 gold smelting works along with a couple storage areas for the gold.

Your coal requirements are gradually becoming exorbitantly high. You can economize by lowering or even completely stopping delivery of coal to the iron smelting works. A substitute supply of iron can be obtained through an act of divine intervention: Stone to Iron. Applied properly, you can get up to 40 bars of iron in exchange for 40 stones.

To prevent your carriers from collecting the stone and carrying it back, you can have the donkeys make a small detour by setting way points.	Only when all of the stone has been brought to the market place, you can delete the way points and the donkeys will bring the stone direct to the grave.

Wow! 40 bars of iron almost for free.	Military promotions. This gets the soldiers' spirits up!

"Ch'ih-Yu's Shield" and the "Samurai Sword" give your soldiers additional reinforcement.

With the acts of divine intervention at your disposal and these tips, it should be possible for you to win a few more games even with the Asians. In any case, you know enough to give your opponent a good run for his money.

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Author: Psycho Napp (www.psychofamily.de)