there was a black friday deal for a $ 99 nintendo 3 DS at a few stores , and i was able to get one from the comfort of my bed . first time ever getting a crazy black friday deal and it wasn ' t too big of an effort xnothing skincare yet , although i ' ll probably finally bite the bullet on a full size of the PC resist serum during their black friday sale <| sep |> A tall Japan game is quite similar to a tall Britain game , the difference is that Britain gets amazing naval ideas and Japan gets amazing army ideas . 10 % discipline , 10 % morale and 15 % infantry ability is deadly strong So it would be a waste to not use those ideas . My recommendation would be to take exploration and colonise north to Alaska and hope you get the colonialism institution , from there go for the spice islands before Terante and Sulu start colonising themselves . Move you ' re trade center to Malacca and at that point you ' ll be making so much money you can just go ham in Asia . Take Korea early if you can but Ming is really strong in the early game and I find the Manchu hordes to be very poor allies , if you can ' t get Korea don ' t sweat it , plenty of time . Just colonise and conquer till you can take Ming on , just keep beating them and they will implode . I got lucky and vassalized them and reconquered China with them . Seriously a vassal at 300 AE and ~ 500 dev is a bitch to manage , I had to expand massively just to annex themYou ' ll have to open the game tall because of limited options to expand but by the late game you ' ll end up blobbing because there ' s nothing left to do .