[TAS] Any% Genesis by ShesChardcore

Gemfire Speedrun Route

There's a lot of RNG to contend with but my general route is as follows:

1) Choose Gemfire Scenario, Blanche Family

2) Set message speed to 0.

3) If Keyla (Province 1) attacks Owen (Province 3) 1st round, it's a reset.

4) On Owen's turn, buy most troops (this will prevent Keyla attacking)

NOTE: If you have the Lyle "seed" (see Speedrun terms/tips - https://www.speedrun.com/gemfire/guides/54k3y) you can immediately go for Adryl/Andrew/Walther/Seth defections even without Ander banished.

5) Use anyone to try and defect Pender (Province 19) and Raith (Province 18), they are easy defects.

6) Use Gweyn to try and defect Hubert in Province 28 (she has best chance of success)

7) If Lankshire family spreads/not land locked, usually reset. Geoff is an easy defect (Province varies), and Shabard (Province 20) is stubborn but there is a chance of defect.

8) Go for the Ander bait strat with 10; move 000 troops to 15 in hopes Ander attacks you there.  You can retreat and then attack Ander in 15 later on with a strong force and might get capture.  When Ander is banished, you can easily defect Adryl (Province 9), Andrew (Province 2), Walther (Province 8) and Seth (Province varies) and surrender Lyle.

NOTE: If you get Pender, Raith, Hubert, Shabard, Province 15 and 16 along with your starting provinces (essentially you need to possess 12 provinces to surrender families) you can surrender Divas as soon as possible.

9) Move all your troops to your Province 10 - you need a strong front to push through Lyle if you fail defects.  You will need to corner Ander and win (usually fighting off Adryl first).

10) Defect Kelvin (Province 25) and Alaine (Province 29) to get Tudoria down to two provinces and surrender them.  Sometimes Bradley makes it out there, he can be defected easily, too.

11) If you move all your troops to Province 25 and 27, and entrust those two provinces, they will wipe out Province 24 in 3 turns/attacks (2 fail, 3rd is success).  That gives you a chance to surrender Tate family.

So by now you should have Divas, Tudoria, Tate - that usually leaves Lyle being worked on, and Lankshire being worked on.

Lyle, you have to get down to two provinces to surrender them - if you have enough troops, you can fight or rely on defects. If you got the Ander bait, you're in good shape for defects.

Lankshire, you have to defeat them - they do not surrender.  If Eselred isn't landlocked in Province 22, a fight there will leave you having to fight his backup, Elford. But if he is landlocked, the strategy is to plunder him till he has no food left and then take Province 22 with an entrust fight.

It's a very loose "route" because how the computer uses their turns can change the course of everything. You should never see a battlefield if you use Entrust properly; and you should be done by September (before harvest comes because then it's really hard to get through fights).

But watch a few of the runs and you will see the general idea of what we try to get done in the first couple of months.

Gemfire Speedrun Terms/Tips

**Ander Bait** *Thanks to JacoboTheChocobo for this tip*
In Gemfire scenario, using Blanche, when possible, move troops from 10 to 15 (you can set everything to 000). If Ander takes the bait, he will attack 15 so you retreat back to 10 (or 16 if it's available). This leaves Ander as the ruler of 15 with a very weak force. The bait was successful! Now you can attack 15 and have a good chance of an Ander capture/banish without Ander being landlocked!

**Bounce** 
Term used when initiating a battle where you have no intention to win/will retreat but the computer wastes their Gem/5th unit. 

**Defect Strats** 
Defection gives you immediate control of a province, anywhere on the map and the speedrun heavily abuses the fact there are vassals that will defect somewhat freely. 

**Early <vassal>
or Breakfast with <vassal>**
An expression used when you defect a vassal in the first attempt/month. For example, "Early Hubert" or "Breakfast with Kelvin". If a month elapses  but the defect is still possible to keep the run alive then it would be "Late <vassal>" or "Lunch with <vassal>". In Ishmerian lore, some believe an early Kelvin is the sign of a good run.

**Entrust Strats** *Thanks to Daladrus for this tip* 
This has two major uses. 
 1) You no longer have to waste time making decisions in a province that you don't need to use anymore.
 2) The computer AI will conduct battles in the map without going to a battlefield sequence saving SIGNIFICANT time. Entrust/Attack can be done on the SAME turn allowing you to set the resources before battle to better ensure a victory.

**Free Fight**
Attacking a weak province with so many troops/resources that it goes straight to a victory screen (skips the battle sequence, no resources are expended).

**Plunder Strats** 
If you plunder a province to the point it has low or no food, then you can either force a free fight or if it goes to battle, simply wait out the enemy for 1 day and you will win.  This strat is used heavily against Eselred's 22 province in Gemfire scenario.

**Landlock**
Prevent the enemy family from being able to spread to unoccupied territories.

**Leapfrogging**
You can retreat from a fight into an unoccupied, neighboring province. For instance, in Gemfire scenario you can initiate a fight from 19 to 20, and then retreat to 21.

**Lyle "seed"** 
We've noticed there are attempts where Lyle defections are possible in Gemfire scenario without Ander being banished.  ShesChardcore has confirmed that if Erin gets the +2 stat boost and Ander doesn't, you can defect from Lyle.  To confirm the stat boost, use View (One) and choose the Ruler.  Erin will have 89 (default 87) political and Ander will have default of 95. Happy defecting!

Name	Author
[TAS] Any% Genesis by ShesChardcore	sYn 2 years ago
Gemfire Speedrun Route	sYn 1 month ago
Gemfire Speedrun Terms/Tips	sYn 2 years ago