I think next game I'll definitely have to play without bots and traders though. I would say the traders feel like cheating but that's not entirely true... The ai is pretty good at killing ones trade ships (and it's honestly not worth protecting all of them, better to concentrate the fleet tbh). And the AI is also a cheating bastard. No traders and no bots seems like a more challenging and honest way to play though. Just you and the logistical challenges of growing #Anno1800

So now Beryl and Marg are both eliminated from the game. Only ai left is Bente and she's lovely ofc. I was smart about this war, had surplus trade ships tucked away early, so restoring trade was easy despite the massive 200 influence debt. And for that... Yes, probably going to spam more artists to fix that and spend the next X hours of game time fixing the consumer goods logistics to feed them lol

First war? Yes there was a second. Beryl finally got the shits with me early investor stage. She killed a lot of my trade ships, starving my investors & engineers of coffee, carpet bombed my Harbours with airships. I systematically took her island by island. Two fleets this time, two islands at a time, one in old world one in CT. Battle cruisers with plate heat exchangers & extra armour tank, ships of the line spank. This war took less time, but still long slow and systematic

After that I had a big big influence debt, I downsized, got rid of all the tiny useless islands, keep most of the big ones, spammed artista hacienda quarters on the NW to bridge the influence gap. Then I had to fix the consumer goods shortage for those. Due to the war and the influence shortage I probably spent way too long in the artisan phase. Thank goodness for beer. I had a few self reliant islands W artisans +beer economy that got me through that first war.

And yes, I did have an agent review the code before I reviewed it. Also had another create an ffbd for me with line annotations. Still ended up having to go deep on that code review at the end to understand it.