Power Leveling

[voltaire]

A Newbs Guide to Tech Leveling

or

also titled:

How I learned to stop worrying and love Land Exchange.

First of all, let me remind everybody of the three triumvirate rules/axioms of battle mines:

1. Always keep coal on-hand for your cannons
2. Always have a trade posted
3. You can never scrap your last mine or cannon.

(Particular focus here is on #3, as it holds a direct relevance in the steps of this how-to guide.)

First step
Gain a legitimate TL, even if it’s just through use of your Technocracy bonus.

Tech levels 1-3 are not very intimidating; but to accomplish some of the higher ones can take heavy investments in hull or warehouses if you want to be able to store all the items needed for completing it fully. Thankfully there is a cheaper way!

5 EUR, 10 coal is a lot more easy to collect than these higher sums, so collect as much of these items as possible beforehand.

TL;DW

1. Get a vassal with higher TL than you. Idle players are less irate!
2. NB: They can not be in Anarchy.
3. scrap all your buildings or fight until you run out of coal
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5. change government out again to Theocracy.
6.
7. Profit!

NB:  Ideally these course of actions should not be undertook while it is raining heavily. Build quickly any new mines or refineries you might need to regain the magic number or consider a monument dedicated to this DIY guide.

Many questions above can be aimed at the writer since most intricacies of my ingenious plan are too devious for an average peon and have been excluded here for the sake of obfuscation.