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AD1470:
Things look ok. In the Golden Age we don't need to build quite so much Wealth.
IBT:
Liz counterattacks, kills a couple of grenadiers.
Huayna starts a Golden Age
Liz adopts Emancipation.
AD1480:
I made a slight mistake with the clockwise galleon chain, so some units will be delayed slightly.
AD1490:
London has 7 redcoats and a similar number of knights. We have a stack of new units, in Hastings, and I'll have to decide next turn, whether to send them to the main stack, or to try and get Canterbury for the Silver.
IBT:
Huaynagawa discovers Liberalism, takes Astronomy
AD1500:
London is bombarded down to 0%. I think the stack we have there is sufficient, so 17 Grenadiers start to move towards Canterbury.
AD1505:
We capture London, and take control of The Statue of Liberty, The Pyramids, Notre Dame, The Mahabodhi, The Hagia Sophia and some other wonders. It also has three settled Great Generals and two settled Great Prophets.
I think we'll be able to hold it IBT, and definitely reinforce it next turn.
We also advance on Canterbury, to open up a reinforcement route to London.
Now I've got some free specialists to assign
I think it's time to start organizing a stack for Huayna.
AD1510:
The attack on Canterbury doesn't go so well. Maybe I was a bit premature attacking it, I'm not sure.
We killed all the redcoats there, but there are several knights left. If it isn't reinforced from York we might be ok.
AD1515:
Well, York is also sparsely defended - if you call 4 redcoats sparse - so none could walk up to Canterbury.
For that reason, I'll advance on York before Nottingham (which is also on a hill). We need to regroup our stack before going after that one.
I'm trying to build a nice mix of Grens+Siege for Huayna. He has Military Tradition, so the toughest units we'll face will be Lbows and Cuirassiers.
AD1520:
The sacrificed Grens at Canterbury pay off, and we capture it, defeating several units with no defence bonuses.
This makes unit movement a lot easier, and in 2 turns we'll get another +2
from the silver resource coming online.
AD1525:
Our units surround York. I've bombarded it a bit, and I'll capture it next turn or the one after. I think we've broken the back of the English resistance, so I've put a bit of time into arranging our boats for Inca and Mali. Why both? Because we have units in the right place for each, and to attack only one would force many of our units to travel for several turns to get there.
Mali has a source of Fur on the very northernmost row of tiles.
War weariness is a problem, but running a golden age allows us to continue to pump the culture slider, while still making a gold profit, and captured resources (and vanquished foes) should alleviate this soon.
AD1530:
One more turn of bombardment at York, then we'll be set to go.
AD1535:
Gandhi is elected AP Resident.
We capture York easily. Now Liz has just 5 redcoats for her two cities.
Next turn, ships will set sail for both Mali and Inca. The first target will be the port city of Vilcabamba so that we can reinforce more quickly.
Espionage switches to Inca/Mali (they are one team, so it all goes into one pot).
AD1540:
We sabotage the walls in Nottingham. That'll make it an easy kill. Units swarm around it.
We declare war on Inca/Mali, landing units in the Inca right away, with the Malinese landing coming soon.
Our Golden Age is over, but we still run a profit and have 3k gold in the bank.
AD1545:
Our initial landing party of twelve is routed by Incan Cuirassiers
Well, one Trebuchet survived, and runs away, tail between legs.
The other three boats decide not to land, and the next landing will be full of defensively-promote grenadiers - siege can be dropped off once we have a beachhead.
In Mali, there's a forested hill to land on, so we should be safe there.
AD1550:
The Malinese stack of 20 units lands safely.
A second landing party for the Inca is forming - we have 9 Grenadiers now, with several more in the next two turns.
AD1555:
We capture Nottingham, and are over 50% land.
Four Malinese units suicided on our stack. I'll wait a turn to see if any more are coming.
AD1560:
One unit pokes his head out, and sees what's in Djenne:
7 Cuirassiers, 6 War Elephants, 6 Macemen, 13 Catapults, 4 Longbowmen, 5 Crossbowmen, 2 Trebuchets, 1 Horse Archer, 1 Swordsman.
The rest of the stack decide not to follow him, and instead load up on Guerilla promotions.
The Incan attack force is up to 15 Grenadiers; I'll ship those and a couple more across soon. They don't have a forested hill to land on, but numbers and promotions "should" see them ok. I'll try and send some old highly promoted units from the English war when it's done, and upgrade them to be the real shock troops.
Since the Great Person from Kyoto was a Great Artist, I won't fire a golden age, but rather save him for a culture bomb somewhere.
AD1565:
The Malinese units all fall over and die, and since they're already Guerilla 2, I promote a couple of Grenadiers to G3 for the withdrawal chance.
One more turn at Warwick - I want to cross the river before attacking.
The stack for the Incans will board the ships next turn.
AD1570:
We capture Warwick and Liz bites the dust. I'll just play through to the end of the turn so that war weariness resets.
AD1575:
Time to upload.
that need to expand one more time to grab extra tiles. Most cities were able to expand in a reasonable time by building culture for a few turns.
