Many Leaders Game 2 - Sword Training

FB said:

Turn 21 - 150 AD - Alex is asking to die. He destroyed my Library, my Odeon, two cottages and a camp outside my Confu Holy City. I'll deal with it soon... For now, whip a temple there to contain the unhappy faces.

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Did spies do this?

Still planning to get control of the Apsotolic, but I might not use it for victory, instead using it to avoid "stop the war" resolutions from anyone else, and go Domination. So this turnset was about grabbing the Apsotolic and spreading the religion, Christianity.


First ten turns. Great Prophet, Christian shrine. Settlers to grab marble on the island, and gold site to the east. Opening borders now, even with Alex.



Trade Alpha for IW with Washington. too early? not sure.


Second ten, teching to construction to build elephants/cats. Building Statue of Zeus . I like it very much for peace or war.


Third ten, apostolic started in Aksum. Monestaries because I dont want to go OR, and I like the tech boost of monestaries.
Statue of Zeus comes in.



Barbarian galley fight. Don't see that very often




Fourth ten, traded Metal casting for Calendar with Churchill.

Christianity to Alex and Gandhi so far. Opened borders with Khan after he extorted a tech. Should be able to get the religion to all of them on this continent before Theocracy kicks in.

An Artisit appears, from the staue of Zues



Sink him into the city for gold. The capital will be a big gold earner so it's not a waste.

Parthenon nearly finished thanks to marble from the island.

So next turnset should be preparing for a bit of war with Alex, and getting those missionaries to Khan,Churchill and Washy.

Possibly colonize the islands to the west

The war might wait for Oromos, so a bit later on.

During the previous set, I concentrated on expanding the empire and developing the land. My objectives for this set would be to solve the happiness problem and revolt to Bureaucracy. After that, I wanted to get into the Liberalism race.

The first order of business, though, was happiness. Each of my four cities was at or near the happiness cap. Economic growth was about to come to a screeching halt. I was blessed with a multitude of health resources; but looking around the empire, I had only three happiness resources within the borders. They were ivory, wine, and incense. The ivory was only a road away from being connected. But I lacked the techs for wine and incense. And worse was the fact that Monarchy and Calendar was not on my intended research path.

To that end, I identified two more cities that would net me 3 happiness resources. Namely, fur, gold, and silver. And I already had the techs for all three.



I was rather hesitant about the fur city until I saw those fish. With the fish and the deer, there would be enough food to work all three of the fur. Working the coastal tiles would just mean an extra bit of commerce. I would later learn that the city center has fur, as well. Found atop the fur allowed me to quickly bring the happiness online.

The gold and silver city is really in the wrong spot. It should have been founded 1S in order to pick up an extra floodplain. But with the the sheep and the one floodplain, there is enough food to work both mines plus to lay down several cottages. The city will definitely pay for itself.

I would also send a settling party over to the island across from the mainland. I'm still undecided about whether to make that a production or a commerce city. It could really go either way. I'll probably end up putting a 2^nd city down, a production city, to pick up the iron and just cottage this one up.



After completing the Code of Laws research that was started last set, and founding Confucianism, I decided against converting. Both Gandhi and Alexander were Jewish. And neither Khan nor Churchill had a religion; although Churchill would later convert to Judaism, as well.

I decided to delay Civil Service in order to grab Alphabet. I had been skipping an awful lot of techs, including all of the religious techs. This turned out to be a waste, in that these AI are incredibly backwards. Needless to say, there has been very little tech trading and I'm having to research almost everything by myself.

In the year 1AD, I received my first quest! I've read about these things, but never actually seen one until now ...



And frankly, I'm not too sure about this horse whispering quest. Building A Stable, let alone seven, wasn't exactly on my priority list. Nevermind that I didn't even have the tech to build Stables. I decided to go after it, though. After revolting to Bureaucracy, I picked up Horseback Riding.

I've built 5 of the Stables, so far. The gold/silver city will be able to whip its Stable in a couple of turns. My fur city needs to whip a Granary before it can whip the Stable. My guess is the quest will be complete in just about 20 turns.

The big problem with this quest is that it has forced me to delay my research. I would have easily completed Education by now if it wasn't for this quest. Fortunately with the AI being so backward, there is no danger of me losing the Liberalism race.

And with the extra time, I decided to start grabbing some wonders. I built the Great Lighthouse in my copper city. That city is also 2 turns away from completing The Colossus. All those GM points going into the same city.

I'm also seriously considering putting the Great Library into this city and then turning it into a GP farm. With the forests, the hills, and the copper the city has a bit of production to build some wonders. Later on, all of the forests can be chopped and all of that grassland can be farmed for the extra food. It actually might make a decent GP city.



The big news of this turn set, though, was Kublai Khan. My wandering Scout came across quite a few assembled troops ...



And a quick check of the diplomacy screen showed that Khan had enough on his hands right now. I was rather concerned that he might have been coming for me. But a few turns later he declared on Alexander.

I started cranking out a few more troops and quickly researched Construction. I wanted to be ready to invade Greece when Khan came calling asking me to join. Unfortunately, he called a bit too quick and I had to decline. One of my objectives for the next turnset will be to put a stack together and go take a couple of Alex's cities.

Ozbenno said:

Did spies do this?

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Look, I don't really think it should be doable with spies. At least I couldn't find an option.
The city kept only it's granary and The Oracle. All the first ring improvements were lost...
BUT, I really do recall something like a Greek spy doing it. From that time on, Alex had a -2 with me for "Past events" or something like that.
Maybe we can find it in the game log... If you can't find it, I can try to!

Quest6:
Master Blacksmith
Prereq: City with Forge
Obsolete: NATIONALISM or PRINTING_PRESS or EDUCATION or GUNPOWDER
Active/Weight: 25/500
Aim:
Build default number of players for this world size forges (6 for standard) while not loosing the city triggering the quest
Result:
1.1 Copper resource is revealed
2.All Swordsman units gain the Shock promotion
3.IF you have a state religion gain 1 engineer specialist in the triggering city

Quest3:
Horse Whispering
Prereq: ANIMAL_HUSBANDRY AND Horse resource
Obsolete: NATIONALISM or PRINTING_PRESS or EDUCATION or GUNPOWDER
Active/Weight: 25/500
Aim:
Build default number of players for this world size stables (6 for standard)
Result:
1.you get default number of players for this world size Horse Archers (6 for standard)
2.All mounted units get the Sentry promotion
3.All stables provide +1 food

Quest13:
Warships
Prereq: SAILING and METAL_CASTING
Obsolete: NATIONALISM or PRINTING_PRESS or EDUCATION or GUNPOWDER AND Map has at least 55% water tiles
Active/Weight: 35/200
Aim:
Build default number of players for this world size Triremes (6 for standard)
Result:
1.All Trireme units gain the Combat 1 promotion
2.IF you control the Great Lighthouse all harbors gain +2 commerce

Quest3:
Horse Whispering
Prereq: ANIMAL_HUSBANDRY AND Horse resource
Obsolete: NATIONALISM or PRINTING_PRESS or EDUCATION or GUNPOWDER
Active/Weight: 25/500
Aim:
Build default number of players for this world size stables (6 for standard)
Result:
1.you get default number of players for this world size Horse Archers (6 for standard)
2.All mounted units get the Sentry promotion
3.All stables provide +1 food