GUIDE · TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY
Paper Money late-gold planning
Paper Money turns Vietnamese woodcutting into a slow additional gold stream. It is most useful when ordinary gold deposits are exhausted and Market prices have fallen, rather than as a replacement for early gold mining.
Overview
Paper Money turns Vietnamese woodcutting into a slow additional gold stream. It is most useful when ordinary gold deposits are exhausted and Market prices have fallen, rather than as a replacement for early gold mining.
Plan and execution
Keep lumber production active through the late game and research Paper Money when a broad wood economy can support a trickle of gold. Use that income to sustain occasional gold-unit reinforcements, upgrades, or siege support while the main army leans on units that cost less gold. Continue trading when routes are safe, and treat the technology as one part of a longer resource plan.
Risks and adaptation
The gold arrives too slowly to maintain a full gold-heavy army by itself. Do not research it while the Market still offers a better immediate exchange or when gold camps remain safe; protect lumberjacks and preserve a mixed composition so the passive income has time to matter.
- Focus
- Supplementing Vietnamese gold after deposits run low
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- Age of Empires II system
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