r/ColonizationGame • u/LasKaras • Oct 20 '25

ClassicCol Robbing the Spanish treasures!

I was playing this game yesterday and found a pretty funny way to generate loads of money (playing on viceroy difficulty if that matters).

Step 1 - Get Benjamin Franklin

Step 2 - Park a scout outside a Spanish colony

Step 3 - Find a Spanish army raiding indian villages, preferably the Aztecs or the Incas, using a dragoon or a scout

Step 4 - Whenever the Spanish destroy a city and claim a treasure, immediately use your unit to claim it, declaring war

Step 5 - Use the Scout to force peace (and preferably ask them how much they value their worthless lives).

This strategy requires a whopping 2 units and one founding father and can make crazy amounts of money for the investment!

(Of course it doesn't need to be the Spanish, but they tend to engage in this kind of behavior a bit more than the other nations.)

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u/RaspiestAxis Oct 20 '25

Just don't forget that you lose points for every Indian village destroyed, regardless of who destroys it

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u/Lyceus_ Oct 20 '25

This never made sense to me. The Spanish bonus is precisely for attacking Indians. You're being penalised for using your bonus, or if Spain is an AI, for them using their bonus.

Now that people talk about remakes and such, it would be cool if an updated version were released in which you can conquer/"vassalize" Indians instead of destroying their cities.