[SoI]Fatimids Cultural Victory

SanJose · Dec 3, 2014

Completed siege of Antioh, Edessa (razed both) and capture Tartus with losing only 1 catapult.
Lucky with Great Engineer in Al-Qahira, bulbed Kizil Kule in Duba.
Settled Hamah, Maras, Irbid, Al-Uqsur(completed land goal), lucky with free shia spread twice.
After peaceful vassalize Sindh, i clear place for Maras(poor Armenian Malatya :cry:

)

Spoiler :

Meeting Seljuks(trade olives for 6 :gold:

/turn), Khwarezm and Hindu states - nothing interesting.

Victory condition:

Spoiler :

Zengids capture Samarra, their offensive army consists of 18~20 units.

Steal Guilds from Abbasids and at end i capture Baghdad and Qustantiniyah

Total lost: 1 catapult, 2 trebs, 2 BCs.

To do:
Avoid completed 3/3 UHV;
Build Kutlug-Timur and Bagrati Cathedral;
Change civics after Golden Age start;
Steal and trade tech(Cheque system, Crop Rotation and Selective Breeding).

Jusos2108 · Dec 4, 2014

Looking good! :goodjob:

I'll probably continue during the weekend.

Jusos2108 · Dec 8, 2014

I focused mainly on building in this set, since we had already done our main conquests (in short term). Abbasids collapsed on the second turn and Byzantium some time later. I built or started building all the available wonders. I traded for Crop rotation, Cheque system and stole Selective Breeding from Rum. I had to limit the growth of our re-settlements with only Shia, since they were taking us dangerously close to our UHV. I also concentrated on spawning GMs, since we need to settle them in Cairo.

Spoiler :

To do:

Build wonders
Spawn GMs
Improve economy
Prepare for Mongols
Conquer Kufah?

SanJose · Dec 10, 2014

Jusos2108 said:
To do:

Build wonders

Spawn GMs

Improve economy

Prepare for Mongols

Conquer Kufah?

3. Priority for companies buildings if possible?
4. Active def vs Mongols or not? If first - need OB with Seljuks for suicide catapults near Baghdad.
5. No, need manage to complete 2/3 URV as last step.

More discuss:
We can steal one tech (don't remember name, before Cavalry Tactics) in 1210 AD Khwarezm

, later Medicine in Gujarat.
I can vassalize Zengids and conquest Smirna+Attalia for Roman Imperor title, do it?

Royal Mint better in Al-Alexandria or in Al-Qahira?
Place for other National Wonders?
Tech path - beeline to Astronomy?

Jusos2108 · Dec 10, 2014

3. Research and company buildings sound good. Some gold buildings to the coast cities as well.
4. I would say semi-active, meaning that weaken them spawn with suicide-catapults and mop everything wondering inside Baghdad's BFC.
5. Ok

You mean the Heavy Spearmen tech? Go ahead (as you seemingly have..)

We can vassalise Zengids for their company resources, I would take Attalia and Ankyra to avoid Ottoman flipzone.

I was pondering the same thing during my set, so I that's why I didn't start it yet. Alexandria can quite easily get +50 gold from companies, which would mean roughly seven settled GMs in Cairo + Karim company, so perhaps Alexandria would be better, since we'll need the gold more now than later.
If we put Royal Mint to Alexandria, I would put the Research building in Cairo and vice-versa. Medical building to Damascus naturally. Soltaniyeh or Summer palace in Bagdad?
For tech path I would go for Mechanical Engineering and take the extra beakers towards Astronomy. Sometimes Oman has Optics to trade.

Spoiler :

SanJose · Dec 10, 2014

Our spy made a trip to the great city of Urgench(steal Levy Armies). Next country - Gujarat via sea.

We have discovered Finery Forge, Mechanical Engineering and Optics. Now we have 100% science and +25 :gold:

pt

Vassalise Zengids(declare war with Kingdom of Georgia), trade hemp/sheep/etc for cotton/wheat/money when it become possible.

Great Seljuks have become Shahanshah and capture Southern Iraq.
Crusaders respawn as Kingdom of Cyprus.
Only two bad events happen: indies destroy work boat near Constantinople, dye near Dimashq exhaused. One good event happaned: i choose +2 :gold:

for confectioner in Al-Qahira.
Little Anatolian army ready to capture Attalia.

To do:

Prepare Mongols(Syria, Iraq);
Choose tech path;
Build WWs;
Complete Roman Imperor title;
Start preparing for expansion in Mereb Mellash and Aksum;

Jusos2108 · Dec 14, 2014

Quite uneventful set. We took Attalya and reinforced Baghdad. I began training two assassins by letting them always sit two turns in Rakka or Edessa and then stealing money with 97% odds. We should promote the assassins to escape artist first and then detection evasion.

After Alchemy I used one GS for the +50% beakers building in Cairo and chose the +1 health option from the following event. I also chose the +1 health from the Al Jazari workshop, since don't really need the beakers.

Spoiler :

To do:

Defend against the Mongols
Build few more Heavy Lancers
Train the assassins
After Mongols, take Ankyra
Avoid UHV for few more turns, it is going to be tight, since the mongols will decrease the overall population

SanJose · Dec 14, 2014

Jusos2108 said:
To do:

Defend against the Mongols

Build few more Heavy Lancers

Train the assassins

After Mongols, take Ankyra

Avoid UHV for few more turns, it is going to be tight, since the mongols will decrease the overall population

It's easy

1. Planned after 1250AD to raze Amastris, Eskişehir, Sivas+Kaisery(can rebuild city between 3 food resources, 6 hills), Samarra(rebuild later 1N, no overlap with Baghdad, cover wheat, cotton, sulfur, 3 hills, disband Mosul :rolleyes:

sometime).
2. Imamat of Yemen ask to be vassal state. Agree?

Jusos2108 · Dec 15, 2014

Yeah, take Yemen as vassals, because we will want all of their incense and later coffee.

SanJose · Dec 15, 2014

Many events in my set:

Imamat of Yemen become a vassal state, trade all incenses:

Spoiler :
Little cultural event(+250):

Spoiler :
The soil near Al-Qahira(-2, -1 ) has suffered:

Spoiler :
After Mongols Invasion in Asia Minor and Iraq I razed many cities, rebuild Samarra 1N:

Spoiler :

Also i capture Ankara and start to improved land near this city, plus receive 3rd title. Completed Ulugh Beg Observatory and Soltaniyeh.
Buy map from Seljuks, nearest Hindu cities - Farah and Firuzkuh.

Other: Armenistan and Abbasids has been destroyed.

To do:

Clear Asia Minor;
Return assassin from FarEast(Gujarat dont want study Chemestry), training other;
Trade fur and deer with Sindh,rice with Delhi Sultanate when it's become possible;

Discuss:

The colonization of the African coast of the Red Sea for us or liberated cities for Imamate of Yemen;
Rebuild Smirna 1N? It covered additional silver and olives

Jusos2108 · Dec 23, 2014

Sorry, I have been quite busy, but I get to this during the holidays.

SanJose · Dec 26, 2014

Jusos2108 said:
Sorry, I have been quite busy, but I get to this during the holidays.

I hope the weekend is not until January 11, as we have

Jusos2108 · Dec 26, 2014

I declared war on Byzantium and they collapsed soon after, so you decide what to do with their remnants. I focused on training the assassins and building health buildings for the coming plague.

To do/decide:

What to do with the Ottomans?
Train assassins
I left one assasin in India and made Sindh to research Chemistry for us, it is going to take a while though
I have been kissing Delhi's ass to get rice and other goodies and I got them, but the deal was recently canceled. Renew it, if possible.
Decide what to do with Indies in Asia Minor and Thrace.
Should we take Patronage already? Our economy is extremely solid

SanJose · Jan 1, 2015

HNY!

I razed all cities in West Asia Minor and rebuild Izmir 1N.

~~Santa Claus~~ Mansa Musa visited us with ~~a big bag of gifts~~ 50% inflation in 1308AD:

Spoiler :

Also i capture Gwadar(for Hindu) and gifted Suq for Yemen, start to clear Persia.
Kingdom of Gujarat declare war on us and attack Mansura:

Spoiler :

Other events:

Spoiler :

To do:
Train general;
Try to stop war with hindu-states;
Build Hindu missionaries;

SanJose · Jan 1, 2015

Jusos2108, we missed that some WWs requires "The Mongol Invasions Era or earlier". We need regame or failed 2nd goal

Jusos2108 · Jan 1, 2015

Which one?

SanJose · Jan 1, 2015

Qutb Minar and Vijay Stambha
Administrative Reforms are start Gunpowder Era
Also we can build Shahnameh which not in challenge

Jusos2108 · Jan 1, 2015

I reloaded an autosave, switched research and played few turns. Byzantium hasn't collapsed yet, but otherwise everything is pretty much the same.

SanJose · Jan 2, 2015

Regame.
Sultanate of Delhi declared war on us, hajj of Mansa Musa in 1312AD.

Spoiler :

To do:
Train assassins and general;
Clear Abyssinia from indies;
Settled Suq and Salalah for Imamat of Yemen;
Enjoy the plague

Jusos2108 · Jan 5, 2015

Is the save somehow corrupted? It gives an error when trying to open it: Failed uncompress data or something like that.

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