Merchants : how to (get 20,000 florins a turn)

**Captain Pugwash** · 03-20-2007, 17:52

Originally Posted by gardibolt

One important point not addressed in the training section there: you want to train merchants in an area where there are multiples of one kind of resource. Put a merchant on all of them, and they will get the Monopolist line of traits, which can add up to 3 coin to their skill, making them much more useful for killing and robbing.

Or ordinary merchanting.

When you talk about training is this simply standing on a resource for several turns. And if so do they have to be trained in a foriegn land or could your own suffice. My English merchant is crap and always gets taken out . Considering sending him to cornwall for the training if this is the way forward

Ta

**Odin** · 03-20-2007, 17:57

Originally Posted by Captain Pugwash

When you talk about training is this simply standing on a resource for several turns. And if so do they have to be trained in a foriegn land or could your own suffice. My English merchant is crap and always gets taken out . Considering sending him to cornwall for the training if this is the way forward

Ta

Yes, the longer they are on a resource the more adept they become. I use merchants offensively now and place them on resources close to home to get them trained then i send them out to start mugging other merchants.

So yes, this is your way forward, but remember you can leave merchants on resources and they will generate per turn income which isnt a negative strategy either.