At this point I do think we have to be a bit ambitious though. All teching is done, what remains is logistics, basically. Capping AIs and domination within 20 turns should be quite doable imo.
I think you are being a bit optimistic. We have not even declared on Augustus yet. We should be able to force him to capitulate within 20 turns, but I doubt we will even be landing troops in England within 20 turns much less have forced either English civ to capitulate.
Should start work now on some boats for England.
Yes. Presumably these can also serve to ferry troops to the Islamic holy city. Plus we need some boats for the Jewish holy city (unless some are already en route? I did not spot any but I only quickly looked over the save). We need workers for the Taoist holy city to build a canal fort on the iron, should be quicker than getting a boat out of the gateway city.
What remains is reli spreading, but with likely 5 religions or 15 missies at a time shouldn't be that hard, if we use our collective grey masses a bit.
There is quite a bit still to be done, however we use our grey matter. Here is the list again -- items in
bold are not yet completed.
Game Objectives
1) Achieve victory other than conquest - Not yet, planning domination; need 14% more land
2) At least one civ from each pair must be eliminated or vassalized (by anybody)
2a) Ottoman - Done, Suleiman eliminated
2b) Russian - Done, Peter eliminated
2c) French - Done, Louis eliminated
2d) Roman
2e) English
3) No one else can control a holy city - 3 of 7 so far
3a) Buddhist - Owned by us
3b) Hindu - Owned by us
3c) Jewish - Currently barb
3d) Confucian - Currently barb, but our troops are adjacent
3e) Christian - Owned by us
3f) Taoist - Currently barb, troops adjacent to gateway city, need workers for a fort canal
3g) Islamic - Currently barb
4) All of our cities must have at least 2 religions - 0 of 31 cities so far
03 cities with 0 religion
28 cities with 1 religion
00 cities with 2+ religions
5) Have at least 70 temples in our cities - 5 of 70 temples built so far
1 settled great prophet (courtesy of Louis
) == 4 temples
1 Hindu temple built
6) Enter and remain in Free Religion once Liberalism is learned - tech not learned so no need (so far)
We have quite a bit still to do. We need ~14% more total land; compared to our existing 44% this means we need almost 1/3 more than we currently have. Vassalizing Augustus and Churchill gets us half of their remaining land, plus any we take directly. The Confucian holy city and its island cities adds a bit more. Given timing we should probably raze the Islamic and Jewish holy cities. Maybe raze the Taoist holy city as well -- almost no land there to claim. Do mountains count for domination? I seem to recall reading that they do not.
I am worried about the Jewish holy city -- we need to get some forces heading its way ASAP. If there is time we could also claim some of those island Jewish cities for the land. Confucian holy city looks to be almost ours.
Taoist holy city we need the workers down there quickly, I see one loaded but building a fort on tundra will take a bunch of worker turns. Islamic holy city should be easy enough as part of attacking England.
The religious spread needs plenty more work as well, as we need to get a second religion to every city and in some cases that will mean some travel time. We will also need to handle the inevitable spread failures, which of course will happen in the most inconvenient cities.
Getting missionaries out to the various holy cities should probably be pushed early, in case we get failures on the islands and need to ferry more missionaries by boat.
Temples...well, we can always go for a mass whip fest at the very end. We currently have 31 cities total, and will add at least a few more even if we vassalize multiple AIs. Call it roughly 2 temples per city. Some cities will have trouble whipping 2 temples, since we need 6 pop available to whip the second temple, plus more pop (or time to regrow it) for the first temple. US and cash rush is one solution, spreading third (or even fourth?) religions to stronger production cities could also help. Of course that requires more missionaries...but our stronger production cities should be able to pump those out pretty quickly. I am not sure if we will have missionaries available for the extras, though. Just how much cash are we looking at to rush a temple? It is a big enough build that it will not be cheap....
I would be looking to whip temples
now in any city that is not busy building missionaries or high-priority military/boats. That will leave time for the city to regrow for whipping the second temple at the very end, or free it up to build wealth or more missionaries later.
We may also want to consider giving cities to our vassals, if that would save time. We don't want to give away too much and have our vassals break free of our control, and of course vassal-controlled cities count for only half the land. We do have to hit the domination threshold. But any city we could give away, especially at the end, is a city that does not need missionaries. It would be one less city to build temples, though. Trade offs, always trade offs....
Will finish up tomorrow, 3 or 4 turns more.
Never saw that before I'm sure. No harm though.
