The Great Hall

Turns like these and the whole thing changes. First of all, cav scout didn't accept, so we're some tech (= some turns) away from rifles, and after all, we're not very capable from our position now anyway. We we're able to revolt 3 civics for 2 turns anarchy but strike is near.

They are a tech from infantry; muskets and cats mere xp

Afraid they'll be no new world order; amazon's after us







3 More cities than shown and 3 galleons came through the wheel this round; could that mean those numerous cities are putting 7+ spies through for this spoke?, i suppose it's possible.

and they have Railroad and almost Assembly Line, muskets and cats aren't looking too good. Just a few MG would negate the attack damage component of our catapults' 100 effective collateral hits I'd put closer to 80. 4 Machine guns w/ 36 units is closer to the break even point of what we can handle.

Back in despo

Are the galleons on the move?

We finally get a glimpse of their graphs. At first glance I feel they still need more turns

We get to revolt to something else which is nice

Galleons are creeping up the coast though still within borders to save money so likely a bluff. I shuffle 5 troops from dungeon (leaving only four) to baths (cursored)

They take out 2 farms and throw castle into revolt. We dip into the red financially. Next turn we get a grace period but the turn after is unit reducing strike.

Although, so long as the spy situation eases up, we may gain enough happiness to make positive :fingers crossed:

So here it is, AMAZON lands!!!

Above is what they landed, 4 MGs with 7 cannon and 16 rifles, and the last three shots are castle, center tile and baths. Below are the event results and as you can see, it went horribly. My thinking here is that the units with the best odds were the maces (mgs have the 50% vs our muskets) and so i wanted to take those down a bit before the catapults came in cause I wanted the attack damage from the catapults to count for something. But the maces hardly did anything to the MGs. The numbers were 8.8 v 22 or 18, but with the first strikes they hardly did anything. The first five did no damage and the few that did i think always were only one shot. In hindsight, the way to go was to maybe go in with the catapults first and hope for some damage or just try some muskets first or maybe even just don't try it on hills. In the 40+ battles, the best odds were like 27% and maybe only 5 were 11% or greater. Alot of odds were way under 1% against drill II/III MGs. After enough of it I stopped and gave up. Before I said we could handle 36 units w/ 4 MGs. 27 total units with 4 MGs did us in. The last shot shows what they had left when I ended. The cats even did all the collateral they could.

During the 300 years of the Diaspora, the slave trade, Europe killed 30-35 million Africans.
In 30 years of Imperialism, they killed 100 million with the machine gun.

They shuttle in some new troops, keep some, ship others and move a tile closer.

Well, this should be it. 2 out of 3 happiness missions undertaken in our fallen cities and the last of the gold sent to cav scout. game over. Merlot has fallen