Warner left the field for a tug just before SA declared and couldn ' t come on for a while still . Fell on shoulder and was off for treatment <| sep |> You already know . You must trust the process . Life takes you through specific situations sometimes difficult ones because the embedded lessons are the specific ones you need to progress . Walk on . <| sep |> Well , okay , if I have to . <| sep |> If you subjugate the danes and move your capital to any of those Norsecultured lands , you ' ll get an option to convert to local culture IIRC , you need Rajas of India andor Sons of Abraham for that <| sep |> Some great observations in this post , really helped me get started . Once I got a good map seed , I set up my route , but failed once due to a mistake I made in the later expansion . I reloaded from the initial train setup and went on to get the achievement with ease . The hardest part is without a doubt the starting phase , plus it ' s a challenge to find out how to expand and secure the sizeable income that you ' ll need for future trains . Honestly with the difficulty early on and the measly profits at that point , I didn ' t think it possible , but here I am in 2040 something just having passed 1 billion and a whole host of achievements in the bag from the very same game . This savegame has gone from hardcore masochism to sandbox in the truest sense . Apparently I chose right in setting up a really long oil route later . It is currently earning me around 50 million per year feeding 7 cities badly . The distribution trains from the oil well to the cities are losing millions since wait for load is broken , but the supply trains are so profitable I don ' t care . And there is still much untapped potential on this route . I know because spreadsheets tell me so . But I can ' t really be bothered . My own observations My initial food route of ~ 6 minutes and 5 cars was a tad on the short side seeing how much money I had left , but I managed . 5 seems to be the correct number of cars for starting out I don ' t think you can do 6 and have enough for the rest , but I haven ' t tried . It would mean an even shorter route , and that ' s no good . Extra tip Distance is everything . Extend your train route as soon as possible in either direction , if you can find another suitable industry . As the years go by , the cartstrucks can cover more distance in a reasonable time , which means you don ' t need the raw material source quite so close to a city anymore . Either way though , the important thing is your train is carrying cargo the whole way both ways and the line frequency on the distribution afterwards isn ' t killing the production .