Get rich quick as the English!

[ScrapTower]

(This is on m/vh)

TURN ONE:
1) Send merchant on one ship to gold in Timbuktu.
2) Send Emissary to France – Get 1900 florins for trade rights and an alliance.
3) Set all settlements to build land clearance.
4) Send King to take Wales and Prince to take York
5) Send southern army in Cain on ship to help King.

OTHER TURNS
1) Build all settlements up to communal farming first, then build ports and roads.
2) Don’t build any more units. You should be able to take all of the British Isles by turn 12 with the units you have, a few mercs, and the 4 mailed knights you will probably get for taking York.
3) After taking the Isles, build a stack and put in Cain to protect your lands.
4) Send whats left of your northern army and your generals on a crusade to the Holy Lands.
5) Preferably take Acre to use as a staging point for multiple raids and priest production.
6) Periodically sack Jerusalem and surrounding Egyptian settlements for a massive cash injection. Let them revolt, repeat.
7) Send priests from acre to surrounding settlements. Start converting them so you can keep them later.
8) Let Egypt pay you for a ceicefire, but continue sacking their settlements.
9) Send a merchant from Acre to the silk in the East.

If you do all this stuff you should have 100,000 florins around turn 40.

Comments and suggestions welcome…

[Hamelus]

And France is just gonna sit there and do nothing?

[ScrapTower]

Every time :)

[Quillan]

The French go to war with the Spanish.

[Darkmoor_Dragon]

Well the scots, welsh and Irish just sit there doing nothing....

[ScrapTower]

Dude the welsh and irish are rebel. Yeah. you should be fighting the scots on turn 11. they never atack before then, In fact they always ask for trade. Sometimes they take Iverness.

[ScrapTower]

And France is just gonna sit there and do nothing?

Remember all your armies will be free to smash the french on turn 12 so they dont really have time. If you see them start collect an army in Cain, a couple more mailed knights in the garrison keep them from atticking till turn 12...

This works every time, I have tested this openening many time, so there is no question that this works.