Ptw open thinking of 20K
Bought myself into the MA in 330BC, being at peace with everyone. Initially nothing much happened. I improved the empire with libraries and markets and continued to buy my techs.
In 230BC feudalism was bought from the Persians for wm, 78 and 23 gpt.
In 150BC a Korean pike enters Japan
. We buy monotheism from Korea for wm, 53 and 26gpt and in 130BC ask him to leave. They must have felt insulted by the request because they declare war on us. We use the Korean savings to buy chivalry from Otto for wm, 52 and 23 gpt.
50BC Our first samurai kills the Korean pike and ignites our GA. For a brief moment in history, I think, we have the best military unit. Now its time to kick ass.
We do some lux-trading with Otto and Mao and ally Otto against Korea. In 10AD we capture Sinop, but speaking frankly, we dont really want to conquer Korea yet. Our FP is at the Mongol border and thats the direction we want to expand first. So we build up strength and in 190AD we dow the Mongols and ally Mao against them too.
The second Mongol war is going well and in 360AD we give them peace for chemistry and theology, leaving them with 2 cities. The Koreans have managed to be at war with most other civs and are slowly losing. We give them peace in 400AD for metallurgy.
The research-titan Persia and research-giant Russia seem to have forgotten all about free artistry. I jump in the niche and prebuild Shakes (Im still dreaming of 20K). Now things start to evolve fast:
540 free artistry researched
550 Vikings destroyed by Carthagians
560 we dow Mongols and Korea
570 Mongols destroyed by Japanese
580 Koreans destroyed by Japanese
590 with shaking knees and hoping someone will have mercy on us, we dow Persia and ally all the world with our free artistry monopoly.
The Persian war.
With our battle-harded cavalry from the third Mongol and Korean campaign, we clean up the illegal Persian settlements on the ring-shaped continent. When we attack their last continental settlement we encounter a Persian gorilla. This does not bode well. A gorilla isnt a disaster but our prophets tell me they also could have infantry if they have rubber. And that would be disastrous. With all the world allied against them, they cant trade for it, incase there are other civs who know replaceable parts. We however are far to ******** to establish if there is something like the needed rubber for the Persians.
In 640 our seasoned heros, (1 settler, 1 musketman, 4 elite samurais and 14 cavalry) land on a hill beside Bactra. Its like landing on another planet: the roads are all made of iron and the city is defended by the prophesised infantry. In the interturn two infantry attack: one loses against the musketman, the other wins against a samurai. 650: We attack Bactra.
There are at least 5 infantry in Bactra, we kill none but loose 1/3 of our cavalry. Thanks to the three movement point of the cavalry we can retreat our surviving museum-pieces in the same turn. After swearing we will come back and covered in shame we enter the Industrials in 660AD.
20K status:
4000BC palace
3500BC temple
350BC library
110BC colosseum
30BC cathedral
470AD university
630AD Shakespeares Theater
660AD 1601 culture, 29 cpt, est. win date: 2127
With a research lab, the available small wonders and 1 or 2 MT-wonders, theres a reasonable change at pre-2050 20K win. So Im quite content at this stage.
In the COTM12 spoiler I spoke of GOTM43-horrors. As you can read they didnt occur in the MA, although at the end of the era the writing was on the wall. In the next spoiler they will revealed.
i wish you could somehow stop the AI from wining the game before you achieve 20k. well, the 3rd spoiler is out and let me see whether u've already posted your spoiler there or not.
