So yeah, back to 100%
slider, let's steal some $hit.
A few turns in I am incidentally
elected AP resident:
A chance to AP cheese??
My Workers are
preparing the land for State Property, my new conquered cities are coming online 1 by 1 and
start building the infra they lack: Granary/Forge/AP Temple/Courthouse (for EP + Spy slot), Market/Grocer/Bank in 43
Shrine city.
I also start on the
National Epic to get my GP mojo back on track (no obvious candidate so it goes to a random city with Pigs and Cows...) and
farming fail gold on the HE.
2 other cities will be producing GPs in the immediate future.
After a few turns of EP build up, let's take a look at the tech screen...
To my great surprise, my vassal shows he can be a
workaround to WFYABTA because the other AIs are still willing to trade with him
Still, getting
Joao to Friendly would be very practical (but I will have to manipulate him and my vassal).
Ok let's get
Replaceable Parts and
Military Tradition because they're useful and only Gandhi has them.
77% discount. Booya.
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Nota very bene: in hindsight, the extra EPs I am gaining from the free Merc Spy specialist are
really not worth what I would gain from the 20% extra Trade Routes discount. That's 1900 EPs right there that won't be compensated by a ~100+ EP/Turn... food for thought!
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Alex goes WHEOOHRN. Can't do anything about it, I actually would rather he attacked me than Gandhi and be rofl-stomped...
Next turn I get my first GP in a long time.
And it's a freakin GE. WTF am I supposed to do with the dude?? All wonders are long gone.
Golden Age...
Now let's make some friends:
He is now willing to trade because he is also Friendly to mah vassal (since I converted him back to Hindu and switched him to HR, Joao's fav). He even wants a Defensive Pact!
A few turns later it's time for another crucial steal...
And a
civic switch...
FINALLY I have the possibility of actually tech'ing something that
Gandhi doesn't already have...
But it's still
too early to go back to self-tech'ing.
I get this outrageous request...
...
which I grant!
Alex is of no use to me whatsoever, apart from a few meager trade routes.
And then this:
Will this be the end??
BTW, my production ramp-up
And my next GP:
COME ON. Keep for second Golden Age? Rush UN? Meh...
Joao goes WHEOOHRN... whatever.
Gandhi has reached RRs and is kindly accomodating me with new transportation infra...
Time for another steal:
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Nota very very bene: notice that I am not paying attention and suffering a
+50% increase due to a Security Bureau. I should have sabotaged it first and save ~2K EP...
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A few trades later and....
... I am very close to
Assembly Line!
Time to take a step back.