Alright, got a couple more turns in but need to get some sleep. Going to post a half-assed report and the save and then if Ichabod wants to take over, great. If not, I'll finish, also great.
Ok, playing now, I'll rush the ToD as requested. I'm going to have to play pretty fast - very sorry for the holdup again. But the report will probably leave a bit to be desired. All apologies on that front.
T170: Use the GE on ToD then finish it off with cash. Not sure I entirely understand all these Gambling House builds - we don't really have anything to use our expanded happy caps on.
Burn Inishbofin.
This pillage economy is ridiculous at this stage of the game. We could easily be running 100% science all the time and cash rushing. I made something like 400g from pillaging improvements this turn.
T171: I really want to ToD Blasting Powder but I decide to stick with the plan. Rush the settler in the cap so it can start on The War Machine next turn. Since there's not a single city in the empire that needs Gambling House happy, I decided to turn tech to 100% for a bit. Mardoc left me on Taxation, which is fine. As Ichabod said earlier, I'm not entirely sure what we really need. I guess might as well do the Mithril thing after this for lack of anything better to try.
Burn Renegade Hill.
Burn Cahir Abbey.
Some cities are complete crap and only settled for resources. In those cases I'll just have them build Beastmen to upgrade for all eternity.
T172:
Burn Ballinasloe
Settled Will for Mana.
T173:
Taxation in, onto Mithril Working.
I explored a lair and got Lizards vs. Dwarves. It was close to a city and didn't care so I just ignored it.
Settle Spirit for Gems/Silks/etc.
Burn Slane, Einion is dead.
Seriously, what is with the Gambling Houses? At least Money Changers would have given us another spec slot. Cash rush a bunch of stuff, still have 3600 gold.
T174:
I don't recall if we had a no peace treaty thing but Sheelba's last city is a billion miles away on an island and we're not getting it anytime soon so I take peace for 40g and her map.
Anyway - check it:
Most ridiculous thing I've ever seen.
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