ANNO 1602 (1998) by Sunflowers | Speedrun
Campaign Mission 08 New Discoveries
Played by MilkToast
No Fast Forward
Objective:
100 Aristrocrates & 500 positive balance

About the game:
Anno 1602: Creation of a New World, entitled 1602 A.D. in North America, is a 1998 construction and management video game developed by Max Design and published by Sunflowers Interactive. Set in the early modern period, it requires the player to build colonies on small islands and manage resources, exploration, diplomacy and trade. The game design is noteworthy for its attempt to implement a 'progressive' artificial intelligence, meaning that the pace of the game changes in response to how quickly players act.

Anno 1602 aims to be a mix of simulation and strategy gaming, giving players the chance to create a realistic and lively world, modeling it to their liking. The ultimate goal of the game is to discover chains of islands, settle them, develop on them, and then trade with other players. Players can also trade with their own colonies, and various neutral CPU controlled players such as native tribesmen. Even though the game focuses heavily on an economic standpoint, on various occasions the player will be forced (or will bring it upon others) to defend their islands against possible enemies.
(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_1602)

About the run:
No real slow down during the run, money is always tight, but I was most of the time able to spend it when needed. For some reason the blue player lost all his inhabitats and was available as a trading partner for a long time. Biggest mistake was the second eruption of the volcano on my spice island. I didnt realize that the roads were destroyed so the firewatch couldnt handle the fires, that resulted in losing a lot of buildings which sucked, but didnt really cause any problems. I was pretty risky in the late game by destroying half of my village so only merchants buildings would stay, so they could upgrade to aristocrates and nothing else. Then I destroyed almost all of my production facilities to get the 500 positive balance.
Great scenario and challenging.

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