P666-04 : Yet Another Trash Game

I do like a Hwacha.


Boy was that confusing.

Quinn looks like Kubali, Kublai looks like Quinn, Different land colour,India's usual colour, but India's there too next door. Whew. I liked having Toku next door because at least I know who he is. Lotsa fun though.


Oracle in, construction.
Teched to pottery to start a few cottages, then currency.

After currency in, a decision, Alphabet or Monarchy. Decide on Monarchy to boost population and really work the cottages after the war.

War? Yes attack Shanghai with Hwacha Axe stack. Take it for the loss of a couple of hwachas.

Fend off one axe attack on my capital. Quinn seems to be turtling.

Monarchy in, revolt to HR

Plan;
Take Nanjing and Tainjin with existing units
Develop the wine, cottages , put archers in cities to boost population, build some units some markets until CoL, then build/whip courts.

CoL or Metal casting to get an engineer to build the GL? Either way, head for GL

Qin is annoying. RNG is annoying.

Oracle in. Construction slingshot. Rushed a settler to grab marble site.
Qin built a city really next door. I whipped some hwachas/axes and declared when I saw a settler/archer combo near Nanjing. Defeated the archer and snagged a worker. Took the two nearby cities too. Qin sent a galley. I saw myself obliged to trade for sailing and whipping a trireme. No good. The galley sank my trireme at 88% odds. I lost all my seafood at Seoul. I was lucky to have that corn around. When I reached Shangai with 3 hwachas and a medic chariot I saw about 4 archers, 3 spears and 3 axes protecting the city. I kept whipping reinforcements, but that wasn't enough, so in turn 118 I sued for peace. I got all his 110 gold, Meditation and 1 GPT. Better than keep him building units!
Toku founded a city between us and marble site. I think it's a good time to declare on him with our current force (we might just need some protection on marble site) and take that city for us. Literature is 3 turns from now. We may need that marble for the GL.
Warning: Toku has Ivory (good for us) and I think he has Monarchy, so he may be beelining to Feudalism and that nasty longbows (bad for us).

We have monopoly on Alpha, Currency and Construction. I traded Maths around for Sailing + Archery and for Iron Working.

I opened borders with Genghis to get some foreign trade routes. It turns out good!

Really a round of two parts - gearing up for war while not dropping 'the commerce ball', and then pulling the trigger in the last few turns.

Turn summary in spoiler;

In summary: Two Chinese cities taken for only one lost unit. Troops are mustering at Shanghai.



I think that there was reasonably good scientific development, although I held back on the trades somewhat. I opted to build a Cottage on one of the Wine tiles for a super-commerce square, still leaving one for trade once we get Monarchy (already have one because P'yangyong is sitting on it). I farmed the other one, but it can later be converted into a Winery.

Take construction with Oracle, start improving our lands and get some Hwachas out. Tech -> the wheel, pottery, alphabet, monarchy. Traded alpha to Asoka for sailing, meditation and war with Qin. Needed sailing to counter galley which was just created in Qins city, though it never actually came to my seas. Declared war of course, cba with southern city so took western one, Nanjing, then headed for Qins capital, Shanghai. Took it on last turn. To sum it up, we now have some City Raider Hwachas and Axes and one chariot, one axe in each city to guard. Qin has one city somewhere north and the southern city, which should be piece of cake to conquer.

Aaaand one bad thing, I accidentally played one extra turn.. I hope it's okay.
Here's some screenies:




There was 4 axes, 3-4 archers, 2 spears, 2 workers defending. Didn't lose much in attack, I love Hwachas retreat ability!