An Island Race

My deepest apologies. Am in a bit of a bind at work and home. Doesn't happen too often but please skip me.

Thanks
 
PFT

I move our ranged garrison troops out of the cities and put the on alert.

In London I switch a worker from the Iron to a sci spec.

1

IBT Arabia bombards and kills a barb so our troops take the camp for 25 gold!

We meet Copenhagen
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2

Arabia get all het up about us settling near them. I tell him to shove it as we can't promise not to settle near him in future and breaking the promise would have wide reprecutions. I think :confused:
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3

Cathrine drops by and asks us for an RA. I agree.
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4

IBT Aztecs and Arabia, and Japan and Songhia sign RAs.

We get told about pointy sticks.
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To my suprise we're mid pack and Monty is bottom!

A ruins gives us advanced weapons
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Making a rifle:D



5

Clear a barb camp.

6

London, Tri > Settler

7

Theo > Education
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IBT Eygpt and Arabia sign an RA

8

Hastings, Harbour > Market

A Ruins gives us culture.

9

Oda asks for an RA. I say yes (250 gold). Forgot the screen shot.

Cantabury, Mon > WB


Info

Demo. Still mid pack. could really us some happyness for growth.
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Economic. Nottingham could use a Market.
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So we really need an extended period of happyness to grow our cities and settle 1 or 2 more. I guess build Colosseums and hold of lux trades for a while.

After our RAs I left our gold pretty low. Should save to pay off venice when our influence is degraded.

Save GSci if he pops in the next ten for Astro.

I started the next settler for the Marble/Gibraltar site.


The Roster
grandad1982
cripp7 - up now
McLMan - on deck
Admiral Kutzov - auto skip
Estarrioll - on holiday

Sould I look for another player while we're short staffed?

The save
 

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RA's are a money sink in my opinion. Usually get the lowest value tech available so if you're beelining during an RA you'll very likely have paid too much for the tech you get. Cash for buying city state's allegiance and their happy resources (and their eventual votes) is what we should be concentrating on.

Cash=friends=happy resources=growth+votes.
 
Yer after I spent the money on RAs I realised that maybe I should have saved it for units or CSs. Guess I was playing in a bit of a hurry so didnn't think it through properly.

Go ahead cripp7 but please keep it to a muliple of 5 so my brain doesn't explode like a nappy in a war.
 
IHT-
nothing to do
Hit enter

Turn 156-
SW trieme attacks barb warrior
NW trieme (renamed Barb Hunter) promoted to Hunter I
GG born, fire off GA to speed up Colosseums

Turn 157-
NW triemes attack barbs

Turn 158-
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SW trieme attacks archer

Turn 159-
London settler > colosseum, settler goes to marble island
Canterbury wb > colosseum

Turn 160-
SW trieme (renamed Barbie Hunter) promoted to Bombardment I
London worker out of things to do, goes to marble island

Turn 161-
Make a trade with Harun
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Turn 162-
Barbie bombs barbs

Turn 163-
York market > colosseum
Nottingham colosseum > sword
GA ends

Barbie attacks barb trieme
Deal with Cathy
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Make friends with Warsaw adding +6:c5culture:
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Turn 164-
Barbie attacks trieme

Turn 165-
NW trieme attacks barb warrior
Fur online, +2:c5happy:

Turn 166-
triemes bomb barb units

Turn 167-
GS born in London, put to sleep
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Trades are ended
Ramasses deal
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We're +5:c5happy: now we can grow

Turn 168-
Education > Astro (bulbed! missed screen) > queue Engineering

Stop here for group input on where we go from here.
Getting observatories would be good, settle SE of London. Settler is going to settle marble/fish/iron
Engineering > Machinery for our LBs
 

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Nice set.

So tech up to longbows and use the next GSci to bulb Navigation for Ship of the Line and Seaport?

Don't think we can build any Observitorys as we don't have any mountains near our cities. Balls.

Try to concentrate growth in our non tundra cities for the time being.

Do we want to try to make dipo trouble for some of our rivals with PoS and war bribes?
 
Just took a look at the save and things are looking pretty good. We have some nice GPT deals for our luxuries. No current deals will be ending within the next turnset.

Looking at city states:

  • We are allied with Venice and are getting 4/3 food + horses and whales from them. We need to keep this relationship going.
  • We are neutral with Warsaw (cultural) at 26/30. They have pearls that would be ours if we were allies. We need to foster this relationship
  • We are friends with Almatay (militaristic) at 45/30. We are receiving a unit every 20 turns from them. They also have pearls that would be ours if we were allies. We can let this relationship die and pump money into other cultural and maritime city states whose resources aren't redundant.
Our current production projects and proposed follow ups:

  • London: Coliseum due in 4 -> Caravel
  • York: Coliseum due in 16 -> can decide later
  • Nottingham: Sword due in 4 -> Sword
  • Hastings: Coliseum due in 4 -> Lighthouse
  • Canterbury: Coliseum due in 19 -> can decide later
  • City to be founded 2 turns from now -> Monument
Goals:

  1. Long Term - Diplomatic Victory - will require lots of cash to pay off city states.
  2. Mid Term - Productive land is pretty much gone from the map after our next city. We should work towards an alliance with Brussels so that we can enter their borders and DOW Montezuma and take his wine.
  3. Short Term - Get enough cash together to make Warsaw an ally.

If everybody's in agreement I can play tomorrow (Saturday US east coast).
 
Thats seems like a pretty good plan to me.

There is still the multi fish island north of Arabia whch will be ok post sea ports if we want another city out.

So after reading some of the stuff about diplomacy on the forums I think we need to engineer a common enermy. Askai would fit well as hes already waring with eygpt.

I think we need to increase our culture as well as our SPs are really dragging. I guess the best way is cultural city states as it fits our diplo aims. However some temples in the next 20 turns would be ok IMO.
 
Turn 169 - 1090 AD
Harass some barbs with our tremies

Turn 170 - 1100 AD
Coventry Founded -> Monument


Turn 171 - 1110 AD
Move Tremie back toward our territory to heal.
London Colosseum -> Caravel
I notice Brussels is blockaded by the symbol under it's name. Check diplomatic screen and sure enough, Montezuma is at war with them. Giving Brussels money won't be a good idea since they may not be around long. If they fall it will make taking Montezuma's island tougher.


IBT
Ramses asks for a research agreement - No thanks
Caesar enters the Renaissance
Arabia allies with Copenhagen
Haran al-Rashid completes machu Pichu

Turn 172 - 1120 AD
Nottingham Sword -> Sword
Hastings Colosseum -> Lighthouse
Fortify Tremie near Hastings until healed

IBT
Montezuma Demands Whales

Tell him no - in the not nice way
Oda also demands Whales - tell him no in the nice way.

Turn 173 1130 AD
Sink Barb Galley in South. Our Tremie has only 2 HPS left at the end of this battle
See what Oda is willing to give for Whales - 250G + open borders. Take the deal.

This gives us more than 500 gold which I then use to bring Warsaw to Ally Status giving us Pearls and 12 GPT.


Turn 174 1140 AD
Start another Tremie moving towards friendly territory to heal.

IBT
List of most well fed people:


Turn 175 1150 AD
Engineering comes in -> Machinery (and longbows)

Turn 176 1160 AD
Nothing

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Harun al-Rashid enters Renaissance

Turn 177 1170 AD
Tremie healing in Alexandria

IBT
Caesar finishes Angkor Wat

Turn 178 1180 AD
Nothing

Turn 179 1190 AD
Research agreement with Catherine comes in and we get Acoustics

London: Caravel -> Temple

IBT

Catherine wants another research agreement. I politely refuse.

Turn 180 1200 AD
Nothing
 

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Nice set. We're in good shape. Can't remember when Estarrioll is back so I guess I've got it.

PPP

Tech, Mach > HBR and up to banking or MC for Forges as we have 4 cities which will benifit. I lean towards Forges so we can spam LBs and Ships of the line. I say spam, more like build a few.

London, Temp > LB or Lighthouse
York, Colosseum > Lib
Nottingham, Sword > Market
Cantabery, Colosseum > Market
Coventy, Mon > Barrack. I wonder if this may be a rare case of a city we could build a granary in.

On the diplo front I was wondering about getting some PoS against Monty. Save money to pay of our CS allies.

SP should be Philanthropy so gold goes futher with CSs.
 
So After another look at the save I might go WB > Market in coventry as etra GPT is more important that troop XP.

Also realised I hadn't mentioned Hastings yet. After the LH is done I'll go Market.
 
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