ANNO 1800 - Top 10 SPECIALISTS I Can't Live Without 

Not sure if you know this or not, but "Chef Michael" is the code name professional chefs use for the Microwave. "Chef Mike prepared it" means the dish was reheated or cooked in the microwave. :)

For those who are looking for a list here it is. 1. Actor - Rare 2. Cola Wola Mola Machine - Legendary 3. Costume designer - Rare 4. Mr. Garrick - Rare 5. Gordon the Master Grocer - Epic 6. Torcedor Lucia - Epic 7. Chef Michel - Epic 8. Brasserie Patron Mertens - Epic 9. Prof. Ram Devi - Legendary 10. Susannah the Steam Engineer - Epic In my opinion Costume Designer and Chef Michel are by far the strongest items due to the fact that the point in the game when you need them you don't have a lot of money or Land.

Hellos guys! First of all thank you Takarazuka for producing anno 1800's videos. I love your work! Some things to considerate before any attempts to adquire the items Takarazuka showed us.. 1. Constumer designer is a must for any big company you want to build... BUT... The chances you get her before engineers are 1% every 100 rolls... Its like impossible... So how you get her before building a big cotton chain in the south america?? Here is the tip, Madame Kahina sells an item that for 5 minutes artisans are provided with fur cloths, buy it!!! Use it in the town hall and upgrade to enginners, ONLY THEN you try to get costumer designer from Eli Bleakworth's harbour. After you get enginner is much more simple to get her.

I recently found 1 specialist for the soap chain that was just a must have if u like me tend to overproduce soap to sell to Eli at the prison. I cant remember the name atm but it was found at the prison and it replaces pig and tallow for simple wood directly into soap. After that point i think i hade 25+ soap factorys that just spammed out free money.

The costume designer is WAY more awesome than you mention.She is a complete game changer. For one; it lets you get fur coats, and therefore engineers prior to going to the New World. This is huge, especially in campaign, and *especially* if you have the Bright Harvest DLC. This means, as soon as you arrive in the New World, one can immediately start building tractors there. Tractors make the New World a *lot* easier. Secondly; 'Occasionaly produces Ponchos', that affects fur dealers *and* framework knitters. Occasionaly meaning; 'consistently'. Every fourth or fifth garment they make, they also produce a poncho. In my current game, this effect is on 9 or 10 or so shops all running at over 350% capacity. That means a single island in the Old World is producing more Ponchos that anyone in the New World can use, again freeing up workforce and buildspace to provide my coffee needs. Only problem I face now is, I'm overproducing Old World Clothes in order to keep up with the Poncho demand; so I'm hauling clothes straight to a neutral trader just to keep my storage from filling up. LOL! "You just need coal" Coal has been the bane of my existence in my current game. My manufacturing island is burning through 160t of coal per minute, and it's the one good I've been constantly struggling with, imagine how excited I was to reach the Arctic. I was not. Getting rid of this specialist was the best decision I made. Also steam motors produce slightly quicker than cars; and you neem them in small quantities for tractors/ships/transmuting so you need that chain regardless.

I like the Baker :D Throws the need for a Flour Mill out of the equation!

Those are some great items, I would add in the guy who replaces steel with iron for bicycle and sewing factories aswell

There is 2 more honourable mentions. 1. Bakery extra chocolate from bakery "Fine cake decorator" 2. Brick factory extra steel beams" General foreman" this one is expetialy usefull because reduces the number of steelworks you need. And that whole chain for just 1 steelworks require around 300 workers, 200 on the steelworks. So he is massive help, brick factory need only 25 workers and you will build bunch of them anyway. Once you build enough brick factories you can even delete all your steelwork chains. I cant play without that one.

You could totally update this and maybe even do 20 specialist I have 200 hour and still learned a few things, the cotton to wool for one this was insane I don’t know how I missed that one so much

10:04 a cat meow

Thank you for your videos. I love watching them! However, these days it's so easy to make money in Anno 1800, as you can unlock Enbesa immediately and create a trade route to the King selling him Gramophones and Pocket watches from Archie. Your money problems are effectively over as this trade route is so OP

I also like the guy who replaces tallow for wood in soap factory. PS it's Perfumier Prunella (Epic)

you have missed feras alsarami, the persuader. This guy has to be in every trade union in both worlds, no matter what are you producing, this guy increases productivity by an amazing 50% and reduces workforce and fire chance by 10%..

Wood veneers are a really good item to over produce and sell in Docklands. Can usually get a good trade ratio using selling them.

There's a barista but I think is really great for coffee. Coffee Sommelier. Increased production, uses jornalero and decreases workforce by 50%

DAMN chef is OP Although Docklands changes everything I have one island just set up with 30 jewellers using a specialist that replaces gold with gold ore. They pump out an absurd number of rings which i then trade for gold ore and all other items I need.

I came across Sir Lewis Brindley really early on in my most recent run. Combined with docklands I'm just pumping out rum in schnapps distilleries and exporting the excess for other goods. Adding to that Yvonne the Yeowoman for a touch more schnapps and things got pretty silly.

This is going to be a game changer for me. What a great video

Great video and very helpful, thank you! Am wondering if you have any tips for maximizing Town Halls? You mentioned how important Mr. Garrick is for example, what do you usually combine him with for the other two slots? Mertens is worker specific, but who else would you combine him with? Just curious, thanks again!

In one of your other videos you mention a ship-item, can't remember the name , but found one there a little bit better 'pilot' a 5% increase in movements peed with same decrease with cargo

Now this TOP 10 should be more relevant and in the same time easy to get thanks to the new DLC, researching those specialists instead of rerolling for millions xD

Now with the latest DLC, you can reasearch all the items from the Research institute

Specialists are great, but whenever I have some money, I try to visit the prison notoriously and very regularly to buy them out. I usually leave an empty transport ship in his port to buy, to free this unfortunate man. I start with the cheap ones, and when my kingdom has a lot of money, sometimes a reroll, but only once because 5k was difficult to earn. Especially at the beginning of the game. Respect money and money will start to respect you. In the game, it also works :)

Anyone else notice the meow around 10:04 :P

You don't have to ship veneers to the NW. You can make them there.

I also cant live without the oil items and persons. Good video :)

How about the +50% on all productions guy? He is so needed

Nice, a couple I've never gotten. But I have not gotten to the research institute yet, I recently attained the new DLC for it and am working on it. Great info!

This is a super interesting video. I'm new to the game, up in the artisan tier nearing engineers however I've never used any trade unions or harbour masters. Etc. I had no idea about purchasing people too. Informative if not super confusing at first!

Drew Durnill, never go to the expedition that requires diplomacy without him.

Another helpful video. Thanks a lot!

Watched video decide to roll some and got chef michel after only 350k. Ty for video :)

Video request: what are the top 10 best items to IMPORT instead of produce? (Assuming cannery will be pretty high up there)

This Tips video 'series' is awesome. Would you happen to have a plan to do like a "deep dive" into the different zones? I have yet to play in the Arctic because I am a scrub so I honestly don't know a ton about it.

Good vid

It is so unfortunate they cancelled the Ark-concept in Anno1800. Would be nice, if you could take at least one or two of them on your flag ship into a new game.

I can't find chef Michel for nothing, I've got recipe archivists falling out of my pockets though lol

I wrote all of them down, thanks Taka x

I would argue that Cola Wola (being arctic DLC and late at that) and Devi are not that good. My picks instead would be duo Cecilia the Coffeessieur for Coffee Roaster (chocolate every 4th cycle, reduces needed chocolate factory need) + Charlotte the Chocoholic (free sugar from fried plantain and chocolate factory to reduce/remove need for pure sugar) - both go well in tandem to minimize the size of chocolate industry to feed all these investors. The second would be simple and humble Arborist - tobacco every fifth cycle for almost every plantation mean you can have cigar production line without any tobacco plantations. This require a bit of finesse to squeeze into single trade union, connect farms to producers to reduce number of warehouse traffic, plus Bright Harvest tractors can go into that too. Still, I manage to usually go without tobacco farming at all using her

yea Chef Michel is extremely frustrating to get. I needed second one for my Crownfalls, it took... I dunno... my reroll cost is at half a million by the time I got him. LOL

Hello ! Great vid as always ! Did you plan to do a video about the mods you are using ? I know you are using mods for the islands shapes and for the ornaments. Thanks !

REALLY GOOD VID THANK YOJ

I'm surprised to see that the "Baker" specialist didn't make the list, considering that it is one of the best specialist in the entirety of game : it's effect is that of getting completely rid of the "Flour" ressource for the "Bread" production chain and replace it directly with grain, *AS A GREY (COMMON) SPECIALIST.* Meaning that this guy is arguably THE most cost efficient specialist of the whole game, for being so damn useful from the beginning up to the end game.

This game is insanely complex

Respect! Useful.

very cool, however in my opinion that is kinda insane to keep rerolling and not even making certain production chains if you don't have these specialist. I mean if you get lucky and RNG is on your side to get them great but having every specialist anytime u wanna create something could actually get more annoying than just producing the chain normally. Also thou when I do actually reroll to look for some items, what I do is just reroll a few times till the price jacks up then I stop. After a period of time the price goes back down and you can do some cheap rerolls again. EDIT: Chef Mike is godlike thou, I can't deny that one.

Nice video. I like theese tips videos :-)

First time I bought a specialist from him it was 370k my tv is far so thought it was less and accidentally bankrupt myself

Best Video you have done, should do more like it.

I would have added Bruno Ironbright if you want extra steam motors and advanced weapons

There are so much more combo specialist i wont spoil but they literaly break game :)

I've never seen the costume designer. Have rolled hundreds of millions of cash.

awesome vid

Nice video. Powerfull ITems but and maybe its just me but especially the People who replace a good in a production chain are kind of contradicting the anno design/ whole point of the game? I mean. of course its supposed to be harder and more unwieldy as you go up in Pop Tiers to fullfill their needs. Oh I need New World ressources.. eh no you dont anymore for this chain now. It forces you to expand and at a certain point yes you cant get anymore Pops . I would never have designed the ITems/people who replace a good with an easier model. But maybe its done to make the game more accessible? Might be. Either way I actively avoid these Replace goods item cause in my eye I want to use all the building chains ^^

I thought Feras Alsarami going to first. I have no trade unions without him. Or is he so common and basic that its not worth mentioning? Sorry im new to Anno 😅

Garrik the alchemist

“Be careful rerolling” wish I’d listened earlier, where did 20mil just vanish to?... its like pokies addiction

I JUST BUILT MY UNIVERSITY and i can make the hard ones to find, i havent went to new world , if i could get some sugar somehow i could unlock new world trade

Bruh u wont believe it me....but 3-4 epic tier that u said would take me millions i literally got them one after the other as i was watching your guide and randomizing it....Rngesus didnt only smile upon me he literally rained rng on me today xDDDD

Man that legendary one that extra produces 5 goods is inssnely OP. Almost cheating lol

does the variety theatre have to be with in range of her in town hall?

I have a Reddit post, and it's geared around population. I haven't covered my production chains yet, would you be willing to look it over and critique it? You seem to have a handle on the game, lol.

Just curious, but what kind of pc are you using like the hardware and stuff?

sorry what text is that? So the house has to be with in theatre range

Ah this is an older video but Bruno Ironbright is absolutely overpowered since Docklands... he gives you free Advanced Weapons AND Steam Motors every 3rd cycle... and both of those can be used for trade at Docklands at a very favorable rate to replace entire production chains. You can get free goods from other specialists but none are produced at such rate and so advantageous for trade. Not to mention his 50% bonus to several production chains.

*He's fairly rare so be prepared to spend millions at Eli* Then there's me who got the Actor the Fashion designer both while my ship was still busy reaching the new world. And not to long after that I got that chef. PRAISE RNG JESUS !!! All hail the Omnissiah

This guy just dies when he starts a new game

So if I use Chef Michel, how man pig farms do I need for one Cannery? If my Cannery produces 0,667 t/min and my pig farm produces 1 t/min, does it mean I need 3 pig farms for 2 canneries? And if yes, does this calculation method (1 ton of input supplies 1 ton of output) work for every chain in the game?

firas is good too

Setup sewing machines for extra goods add to the 4th union slot and increase productivity to workforce by 50 percent. You'll be making 150 motors and carriages per minute game broken

I spend millions rolling for specialist...millions...

I just bought the Actor from Eli and now I have 5K bucks

Anywhere to buy these specialists? Specially Mr Garrick

Meg and feras

on chef michel so you delay getting engineers and investors just because you want to skip the kitchen? how do you make enough money without waiting very long for the rerolls? I usually only start rolling once I have at least a few thousand investors

Seriously actor, Mertens and Garrick are just cheat mode.

Ha I can create anything with land of lions...

i have exactly zero of these guys...

roflmao lol there not even red peppers you have red peppers in the new land of lions they are called "PAPRIKASZCH" some say no live whitout ducktape i say no live whitout pigs lol

You can keep videos shorter. You often repeat yourself few times before going to another point. Keep it nice and short.

in my opinion you have some very useless stuff un there and miss out on two very important ones. dario!!! für the production of sewing machine an bicycles. and then the one that produces chocolate in the bakery. i never had any trade route for choclate ever again and also skip sugar and cocoa in the new world for extra space.