- indians doesn't seem to attack early in the game, no matter how many delays I used or other difficulties
- reinforcements (3rd options with a ship image) only starts from ~5th turns
I've tried a lot of delays, but your's is the best so far (disaster stops last enemy from going to the train). Also checked with indians, but even if it was faster to start the fights, the disaster went "wrong places", not stopping the left guy.
So I'm pretty sure that this is the best setting (only disaster) and delay (2 frame delay) as your movie.
Trying and will report here once I finished checking battle scenes (for random 1-2 frames)
edit1:
- bizhawk neshawk loads the game 1 frame faster (f829)
before the delayed start (which is ~f899). syncs perfectly and doesn't changes outcome
- the extra 2 frame delay is also the best before the first fight (so the horsies comes from the top)
edit2 and 3:
- 5 frames can be saved in 1st battle by pausing and unpausing at the beginning. If done correctly, the last frame of last position update for the soldiers is f2305 instead of f2310
- this also can be used at 2nd battle but unfortunately it also affects enemy units (cannon for sure, not sure about soldiers)
movie with pause trick only for 1st battle
User movie #43824651158289541