As usual, I am bad at the economic aspect of M2TW, especially merchants and their use. How does one properly use them to make the most money and stop them from being put out of business by everybody and their grandma!
AC
Merchants
As usual, I am bad at the economic aspect of M2TW, especially merchants and their use. How does one properly use them to make the most money and stop them from being put out of business by everybody and their grandma!
AC
"Such is the pride of the Romans that they would think that citizens of a Greek city would need their protection."
- an ATL Aristophanes of Byzantium from his work De historía Priteni
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=96006
Re: Merchants
A good first step is to try and get a Merchant´s Guild, to do that train all your merchants in one city and refuse any other guild but the Merchant Guild there.
If you can identify a monopoly resource, train your merchants up on those, once they´ve got a couple of finance points you can either improve their skill further by attempting some takeovers or you can send them to the real money makers - the cloth at Constantinople or the sugar, spice and cotton near Antioch. There´s also a gold mine near Ragusa, the only one immediately accessible, if I´not mistaken, so try and occupy that, too.
Re: Merchants
The good resources you shold put merchants on are gold, ivory, slaves, amber, and silk in the old world. Try to monoploize it, have only your merchants on the resources and you can easily get 200-300 gold with an okay merchant. Should you get access to the new world, get a ton of merchants since there are like 7-8 resources that just make a crazy amount of money for you
"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." - Issac Newton
Re: Merchants
If your capital is in the levant, antioch for example, iron is a good resource too. After gold, ivory and amber, iron is the fourth best resource I have as the turks based in antioch. They make more money here than on the silk and spices.
With my capital in antioch, the list for best resource is this:
1. Gold
2. Amber
3. Ivory
4. Iron
5. Silk
6. Slaves
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
Re: Merchants
Also remember that you get money upon a succesful aquisition so do not hesitate to try to aquire a merchant even if it is 1 level above you since through my experience, attacking merchants seem to be more successful
"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." - Issac Newton
Re: Merchants
Dear Gents:
Good afternoon from Canada!! I hope this finds you and yours well. As for me, I could complain...yadda, yadda, yadda.
Where would one get ivory? I know it's actually the tusks of elephants, but I don't see any of those in this game!!!!!
By the by, I wrote down the list for my own future reference. I also want to thank you very kindly as to telling me how to make money in this game!!!!!
Live long and prosper, take care and thank you kindly!!!
Sincerely yours always,
Indy.
P.S. What are your thoughts on sulphur? I remember seeing little yellow piles of the stuff--one of those being on Sicily.
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