0 1740 BC
Germany and Japan both charge the same price for Math, 222 gold and 16 gpt. We buy from Japan since they are closer and a steady supply of gold may keep them off our backs.
We then sell Math to Greece for 86 gold and 13 gpt.
We are now at 93 gold and 15 gpt.
Boston: granary in 1 -> Siege Workshop in 5.
Make sure we are at peace with everyone before the turn ends.
[IBT]
Philadelphia is connected.
Washington: vTHawk -> vTHawk in 2.
Great Iron Mine. Forgot about that Small Wonder.
Mongol scout moves 2S and leaves the USofA.
1 1700 BC
Scout moves 1W.
Workers
At New York, workers and defenders move 1NW. Workers road, 2 turns because we are IND.
At Philly, workers and defenders move 1SE, onto BG, to mine and road, 3 turns to mine.
[IBT]
Training Chariot in Washington.
New York: granary -> vTHawk in 4.
2 1660 BC
Great Iron Mine cost 50 shields and can only be built in Philadelphia, since Iron must be in the city radius. Philly is netting 2 spt at the moment. After Walls, perhaps.
Both Canada and Mongols now have 17 cities. Gatineau, Canada, is 5SW of Philadelphia. We still might be able to build in the near by hills.
Upgrade the Training Chariot.
Workers
No change.
[IBT]
Washington: vTHawk -> temple in 5.
3 1620 BC
Germany and Japan know Code of Laws.
Chariot goes to New York.
Workers
New York stack moves 1NW and roads.
[IBT]
Enslaver in washington.
Germans are building Hammruabi (Code of Laws, 300 shields, courthouse in every city, does not expire).
Japan is building Hammruabi.
4 1580 BC
Japan and Germany both learn Mysticism.
Greek rWarrior just outside the borders of Philadelphia. We'll let him trespass before we use our Enslaver in Philly.
Workers
Mine completed, the Philly workers begin a road, 2 turns.
[IBT]
Siege Workshop is built in Boston. A C3C barracks and a source of auto-produced rock throwing units.
Boston: Siege Workshop -> temple in 10.
5 1540 BC
Mongols and Canada both learned Mathematics. Canada learned Iron Working, too. We now have no techs to trade.
Mongols have a settler pair northish of Boston.
Greek rHoplite, rWarrioir and settler are 1E-1NE of Philadelphia on a hill. They look like they are heading to where we want to build. We might be able to poach their settler, or at least delay their movement through our lands. Move vWarrior 1NE out of Philly to block the most direct route.
Move vEnslaver in Washington partway to Philly.
Workers
New York stacks moves 1NW, to road.
[IBT]
Greek stack moves 1NW, hill to hill.
New York: vTHawk -> temple in 8.
Germans are building The Oracle (Mysticism, 300 sheilds, 2 Techs to whoever builds it first).
6 1500 BC
We are building 3 temples and 1 walls in 4 cities.
Enslaver arrives in Philly. Both of them are now in Philly.
Greek blocker moves 1NW.
Workers
Philly workers head to Washington. They outrun their defenders, so both vTHawks leave the capital to protect them.
[IBT]
Greek stack moves 1NW again.
Japan is buiding The Oracle (Mysticism, 300 sheilds, 2 Techs to whoever builds it first).
7 1460 BC
Japan, not the Mongols, build Sapporo 3N-1NW of Boston, on the coast. They are now up to 15 cities. We spy another settler pair up near Hiroshima.
Greece learned Construction.
Blocking warrior stays put.
Former Philly worker protecor moves 1W of the Greek stack.
Other Philly worker protector stays in place on the road.
This is risky, inviting attacks from Enslavers, but we only need to delay the Greeks a few more turns.
A 10 gpt trade from us to Japan ends this turn.
Workers
Philly workers move 1SW of washington, road in 2.
New York workers move 1NW, now just outside Boston.
[IBT]
Greek settler stack moves 1NW one more time.
A second Greek settler pair appears 2SE of Philadelphia.
Washington: temple -> vTHawk in 2.
Philadelphia: walls -> Great Iron Mine (placeholder) in 17.
8 1420 BC
Germany is now at 17 cities.
rHoplite on hill 1S-1SW of Washington, heading east.
Workers
Apprentice in New York. I missed the memo. Upgrade it.
[IBT]
Hoplite near Washington is killed by something unseen.
First Greek stack moves 1NW into America.
Second, and smaller, Greek stack moves 1S of Philadelphia.
Three Canadian settler pairs appear.
Philadelphia has culture expansion.
Germans are building The Great Library (Literature -> Chivalry, 400 shields, same function as in C3C).
9 1380 BC
Japan and Germany know Literature. Next turn Japan will start building The Great Library.
Redlined vEnslaver 1S-1SW of Washington.
Canadian settler pair with rSpear 1E-2NE of Boston, near Regina.
Canadian settler pair with rWarrior 1E-2NE of New York, near Ottawa.
Canadian settler pair with rWarrior 3NE of Philadephia, near Mississauga.
Greek settler stack with rHoplite and rWarrior 1E-2SE of Washington, on our soil.
Greek settler pair with rHoplite 1S of Philadelphia, on our soil.
Greek settler pair with rArcher 3SE of Philadelphia, in no mans land.
We leave the redlined Enslaver alone, for now.
Send Chariot in New York back to Washington, to release vWarrior for worker protection duty.
vEnslaver retreats from rHoplite at Philly.
Second one defeats the rHoplite and grabs a Move 2 slave. Only one of them, not two as I would expect.
We send our new slave towards Washington.
The Enslaver did Enslave the Hoplite, but that slave shows up the tile our Enslaver attacked from.
We send this Move 1 slave to Washington, too.
Our Enslavers are 1/4 and 2/4.
This is the last turn of sending 1 gpt to Germany.
Japan is loaded, with 1060 gold.
Workers
Philly stack moves 1SW to road.
New York stack, roading to Boston done, irrigates the tile (2 turns).
Send new worker to Washington and beyond, protected by Spear from Washington.
[IBT]
The redlined enslaver moves 2W out of our sight.
Washington produces a Clan.
Washington produces a Training Chariot.
Washington: vTHawk -> vTHawk in 2.
Japan is building The Great Library. Who would have guessed that?
10 1340 BC
New York goes cranky, so we hire a clown.
Upgrade the Training Chariot.
Upgrade the Clan.
Canadian settler pair is now 2NE of Boston.
Canadian settler pair is now 2NE of New York.
Canadian settler pair is now 1N-1NE of Philadelphia.
Canadian settler pair is now 1NE of Philadelphia.
Greek settler stack is 1E-1SE of Washington.
Greek settler pair is 2SE of Philadelphia.
The Greek settler stack blocks our road from Washington to Philadelphia.
Both Enslavers heal.
Leave one vWarrior unmoved.
Workers
The Greek settler stack blocks moving our latest slaves into Washington to join with other slaves in the near future.
Rename the move one slave to Moves One - Beware!.
Move the newest worker, now 1SW of Washington, 1SW and then 1S, through the workers roading. Shuffle defenders so that each tile has two.
Move the two newest slaves to 2W of Philadelphia, with some defenders. One starts a road, 9 turns.
And the save is attached.