Played 15, 1250AD - 1400AD
The game has been in the bag for quite some time, it's now mop up time. I see some fun ahead
IHT
Rearrange our ressource-deals, looks like there has been some bugusing:
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After:
IBT
Stalin builds the AP.
(1) 1260AD
Beg 50g from Shaka
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GS born in Thebes
(2) 1270AD
Make this deal with Shaka
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Shaka builds the SPaya
(4) 1290AD
Cuzco finishes the Taj, we start a GA (12 turns)
Gunpowder in, bulb the GS on PP and selfresearch the rest
Beg 60g from Justinian
I could now bribe Shaka vs Stalin (to me the only bribe that would make sense) but for the price of something like 160g + music + paper + philo + gunpowder. Every one of these techs is a monopoly
Switch to Caste System
Pic of Thebes before caste - specs and after. Why on earth haven't we switched to CS much earlier? I just waited those few turns for the GA to start.
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After:
(5) 1300AD
PP in > Guilds
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Fred builds some useless shrine
Stalin captures the barb city I was about to reach
(8) 1330AD
Thebes generates another GS > Aca in thebes
(9) 1340AD
Guilds in > Banking
Make this deal with Justinian
(10) 1350AD
Banking in > RP
Switch to Mercantilism
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Stalin builds the Notre Dame. Cuzco was 4 turns away from finishing it itself
(12) 1370AD
We get 380g for the not-finished ND
We get another GS, still waiting in Thebes to bulb Chemistry
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Fred recaptures Stuttgard from Stalin
(15) 1400AD
RP in > Eco.
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A few points:
- Switch to Theocracy and continue building maces and trebs. Our offensive untis are waiting in Rheims. Switch on the inherited turn as it is the last of the GA
- Another GP is due in 3 @ Thebes but it'll take longer as we'll leave pac and GA. BTW we're paying very much money for units. Hopefully its a GM. We can send 2 GMs to the ToA city and make trade missions to pay for upgrades.
- Both lib and eco are currently taking 4 turns to research. IMO we should go for Eco first as Shaka can research it as well. Lib is still save, no one has reached edu or philo. We should then take rifling from lib, upgrade and
the crap out of fred, followed by stalin.
- I cancelled the build of the AWat, which we definitely don't need. Thebes is slowly working on the USak we don't really need either. I prefered the SPaya much more, we could've bypassed Theology. Cuzco is currently building the Sis chap just for fun. All other cities are producing units at a brutal pace. Check the graphs - esp MFG must've improved dramatically with us finishing guilds RP and adopting CS!
To the "war-strategy": I picked fred as target as Just is no threat - weak and our friend, while fred isn't. You should use trebs to reduce defences (so they have something to do) but not sacrifice them. Our numberous CR3 and CR2 rifles will face good odds. We could probabely capture and keep one city, move our trebs in and upgrade them to cannons so we don't have to move them back. We then can move our units out again and let fred recapture it. With cannons, we'll be safe in attacking (strong) stalin.
BTW I had some moments of bewilderment while playing: I suddently lost OB with all civs - most have reopened the borders by now but shaka hasn't. Once he does, you can use the missionaries to spread judaism in his cities. WTH were they doing, moving to rheims? Fred is at war with us, we can't convert him!
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