The mace of office hands over to President Storm...
Pre-turn adjustments:
In the city of Surin, we put the entertainer back to work. He was a slacker and got found out.
Turn 1: Year 1
President Storm graciously accepts the accolade of a paved palace road built in his honour.
The trusty phalanx at Khon Kaen repulses two barbarian legions.
The city of Pattini builds a temple. Hooray! But it's undefended so a musketeer is started.
We meet with the Russians. Stalin has two minders.
They want us to cancel our treaty with the Yanks. We say no.
They say they'll refrain from crushing us if we give them Gunpowder. We ignore their hollow theats and suggest they get a reality check.
They welcome peace with us anyway. Wusses.
What a surprise. The Yanks want to see us too. Aren't we popular. Lincoln has three senators with him.
They want us to cancel our treaty with the Russians. We say no.
They too want Gunpowder for peace. We say no to that too.
They welcome peace with us anyway. Been there before?
We place a unit on the best bit of agricultural land around New York.
Turn 2: Year 20
Ruskies and Yanks make peace with each other. They exchange brown trousers as a token of their friendship.
Unrest in Argos. Change production to temple and rush build it.
Phitsanulok builds settlers and starts on a temple.
Turn 3: Year 40
Our diplomat enlightens the people of Pharsalos with the wonders of the Siamese civilization. They join our throng for just 197 gold.
Alexander and his three warriors are a little upset about this. What did they expect?
They say they'll refrain from crushing us if we give them Gunpowder. Ha!
We ignore their hollow theats and suggest they get a reality check.
They take umbrage and declare war on us.
Their stranded units around Nishapur take a beating from us but we lose a chariot in the process.
Turn 4: Year 60
Argos builds a temple and begins the protection of our newly acquired booty with city wall foundations.
This city is stuffed full of chariots. One of them knocks out an inquisitive Greek legion. One stays behind. The rest are en route to Herakleia!
We discover Explosives and start on the road to Metallurgy. However...
President Storm persuades all Siamese scientists to take a holiday for a generation or two and taxes flood into his coffers with a vengeance.
Despite this, when Hua Hin finishes building a chariot, it begins a library. It'll be ready when education is funded once more.
Turn 5: Year 80
The Greeks take revenge on one of our new subverted settlers. Oh well.
Hat Yai builds a marketplace and starts on a musketeer.
Chianthaburi builds a chariot and starts on a temple.
Unrest in Lop Buri is quelled by rearranging one worker from a deer forest onto the sea.
No such luck in Hua Him where TWO entertainers are required for the time being.
Turn 6: Year 100
Greeks try to stop our herd of chariots approaching Herakleia but fail. Our brave veteran chariot on a mountain beats off the attack and strikes back twice to denude the city of defenders.
So successful is the van that the rest of herd swerves off inland towards Mycenae.
One diverts to Pharsalos, where our staunch phalanx has survived a revenge attack, and squashes the rest.
Meanwhile two frigates and a sail are crossing the ocean with more forces for a triple pincer movement on the Greeks.
Rayong builds a chariot but starts on a temple.
Turn 7: Year 120
Nakhon Sawan builds Barracks and starts on a Chariot.
Hong Kai builds a caravan and starts on another.
Bun Yun builds a temple and starts on a musketeer.
Unrest in Rayong is quelled by an entertainer.
We take the now undefended Greek city of Herakleia and start building a temple to thank the gods for our victory. The citizens rejoice (because we told them to).
Pharsalos rush builds a temple before food runs scarce.
We also head south and find the city of Corinth emerging out of the mists.
Alexander and his three ministers want to talk. I let them and this is perhaps a mistake.
They want Gunpowder. We say no.
They want peace. Our negotiator refuses but is overruled by the Siamese Senate who in their wisdom want peace.
Just as well we have a healthy bank balance and diplomats on the way too.
Sara Buri completes a frigate and switches to building a temple.
Ayutthaya builds a phalanx and switches to a temple.
Lop Buri switches production from frigate to diplomat. I'm going to bribe Antioch with that one.
Frigate deposits chariot north of Mycenae and turns back towards Lop Buri for new diplomat.
Turn 8: Year 140
Bangkok builds Caravan and keeps doing so. Caravan adds to Wonder building at Da Nang.
Sara Buri gets an entertainer to stop the panic.
Pharsalos builds temple and switches to building a diplomat to incite further rebellions.
Turn 9: Year 160
Lop Buri builds a diplomat ready to sail and starts building another.
Panic in Surin is quelled by rearranging workers onto the sea.
Thung Song builds settlers and starts on a temple. Settler head northwest to found a new city.
The French want to talk to us. Are we at war with them? Hmmm... I forgot. They like to keep their heads down. (As above so below.) A familiar litany ensues...
They want Gunpowder. We say no.
They want peace. Our negotiator refuses but is overruled by the Siamese Senate who in their wisdom want peace. I'm not going to make that mistake again!
Mycenae is surrounded and we have a diplomat on the door to work his magic.
Turn 10: Year 180
Those despicable Russians create some mischief around New York and we're at war with them.
Our diplomat forces his way into Mycenae and incites a revolt but it costs more than 400 gold.
Our chariots move south. Alexander wants to talk but we refuse to grant him audience. We find we're once more at war with them. Good. Right decision at last!
We now also have a diplomat and a chariot next to Antioch.
I'm vacating my palace now. Before I hand the mace over, here are my thoughts for the new encumbent...
If I was playing on, my plan for the next turn would be (in order):
* use the chariot next to Antioch to soften up the city and reduce the bribe price;
* bribe Antioch with the diplomat;
* put the science rate back up straightaway - we can't delay that any longer;
* use the chariot swarm to take first Corinth and then the other Greek cities.
(And the turn after that I'd build a new city north west of Thung Song on the corner.)
Note: We are three turns from building Darwin's Voyage. That should kick start our science again.
Here's the save file:
siam180.zip
And once again, if you believe that looking at the retirement powergraph is cheating, don't look
here!
addiv... can you go now, or shall I play?
