How do You get the First Tokens to Set up Districts as Jade Dragon ?

[Antearz]

The Jade Dragon gets his Tokens by Declaring Districts.
But how do You get the Tokens to do this ?
It Costs 3-4 Tokens to Declare a District. But I only Start with 2 each.
So I cannot Declare a District. But also cannot Earn Tokens.

[Dagy47]

u have to spend 2 stones to turn them into 2 steel
or the other way around (steel->to stone), your choice

once u have 4 of single type get a district

[Antearz]

Oh ok so they get Reinbursed as the other ?

Damn. I missed that completely because I never tried using them.

[Immortalis]

Yep, after using them they are transformed into the other but it takes five ticks per token for you to actually be able to use them.

Each battle you fight (factionwide, not just with Yuan Bo) counts for one tick, as does passing your turn.

[Antearz]

Great... After I spend the Stones to get Steel. It actually gives me the Tutorial Popup Explaining me that the Stone I Spend will now become Steel.....

Seriously...
Why the Heck does the Tutorial for this only Come AFTER I Spend it.....

[CrUsHeR]

Originally posted by Immortalis:

Yep, after using them they are transformed into the other but it takes five ticks per token for you to actually be able to use them.

Each battle you fight (factionwide, not just with Yuan Bo) counts for one tick, as does passing your turn.

IIRC it is 3 turns per charge, and every battle reduces it by 1 turn.

So if you can do something like 10 battles per turn, you can do both city upgrades about every other turn

(when you have 8 charges to bounce forth and back, so it goes from 4/4 to 0/0 and almost immediately 4/4 again)

[Darklordnj]

Originally posted by CrUsHeR:

Originally posted by Immortalis:

Yep, after using them they are transformed into the other but it takes five ticks per token for you to actually be able to use them.

Each battle you fight (factionwide, not just with Yuan Bo) counts for one tick, as does passing your turn.

IIRC it is 3 turns per charge, and every battle reduces it by 1 turn.

So if you can do something like 10 battles per turn, you can do both city upgrades about every other turn

(when you have 8 charges to bounce forth and back, so it goes from 4/4 to 0/0 and almost immediately 4/4 again)

Immortalis had it correct with 5 turns per stone

[CrUsHeR]

Yeah just checked, 5 is right. Could have sworn it said 3 turns somewhere.

Anyways, if you make your first T3 city a commercial one -> buy more armies, do more battles -> get fortress city to raise better armies faster -> repeat with comm / fort cities

If you also play the campaign on both continents, it snowballs pretty ridiculously.
Doesn't take long before you have all cities in Lustria and Cathay upgraded.