Now this was a nice set. Thank you, pigswill for those nice axes to play around with
Played
12 turns, 575BC - 275BC (to keep turns uneven and can boast about my play yielding 2 Great Persons
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Inherited turn: I trade Writing to Ramsses for fishing and archery (WFYABTA will decrease over time so why not have some to decrease?
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I move those axes and the spear who have MP left closer to incan borders. What was that spear for? We can see that he has no horses and one axe already got medic-promoted. BTW that sign marking the possible city site is pretty much wrong. Look at the borders more closely next time
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IBT Shaka adopts Buddhism.
(1) 550BC
DOW HC
5 Axes + 1 Spear in position to take [some city] next turn
(2) 525BC
2 Axes face 1 unpromoted archer plus 1 Que, on flatland, 20% so no problem there, raze without losses.
(3-4) 500BC-475BC
Move towards Cuzco.
(5) 450BC
Our troops are ready to liberate Cuzco next turn - finally.
Shaka comes with a request (I tell that we'd rather trade with the Germans than annoy him
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(6) 425BC
woot!!
5 Axes face 2 CG-1 Archers and one axe, flat, with 40% defence (I really hoped you mapped him out properly (as sweetchanson requested) pigswill so I could've better estimated how much I need where (and where his other cities are)).
First axe dies and doesn't deal any damage
To even things out, the second axe wins @~18%
axe dies but takes remaining archer to 2.5 health
axe kills injured archer
shock-axe (stack defender!) kills axe and take Cuzco
Spot Tiwanaku, defended by two swords and an archer:
IBT: We get that event where we could take peace -> Hell no!
(8) 375BC
Battle for Tiwanaku: 4 axes and 1 spear vs 1 CG-1 archer and 1 sword, 40%, hill. This could be ugly and I barely have enought units to take it in one turn but I risk it.
I lose 3/4 axes. I tried to sacrifice the spear as I don't really see much use for him there. But he survived
(he currently is at 11/13 xp, CR-3
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IBT: Our C1 woody2 scout kills a barb archer
(9) 350BC
Herodotus thinks he's important:
IBT: Buddhism spreads to us, or rather Cuzco comes out of revolt (with buddhism), Cuzco builds a Granary btw. As we're in no state religion Cuzcos borders will pop without Monument (we can whip that later).
(10) 325BC
I chopped one forest and now whip a settler for 2 pop @ Paris. There has been some incomplete scouting... The settler heads west towards Corn/Gold/2 floodplains spot.
(11) 300BC
I raze Manchu Picchu (on hills, 20%) for the cost of 2 axes. We get a GG for our trouble, who is still at Orleans. I suggest settling him there as this is a nice production city.
(12) 275BC
Get a GS, still @ Paris, suggest academy there.
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Now they say you should always know what you do and have a plan so here we go:
I hope we go for conquest (space and time is boring!). I think our next target is Ramsses. Ramsses has the jewish shrine and the henge in his cap (which has 3 calms, pigs and some hills) and still only has 2 (!!) cities, Thebes and Memphis. Thebes would be our 6th city and likely GPfarm. I marked another spot for a possible GPfarm, problem only is it'll lack fresh water until its third border pop
. I almost pity Ramsses, he's lost in jungle and doesn't know IW yet! Even though I lost 7 axes so far (if I counted correctly) and stopped building more, we're more powerful than Ramsses. We should attack asap.
Another thing is diplomacy: Ramsses is jewish, stalin hindu, and the rest buddhist. If we finish him off, we don't have to be afraid of a backdoor attack when we adopt buddhism.
Honey managed to slip by a settler and has craptown on the cost near a fogbusting warrior of ours. I have a axe heading this way and a chariot done next turn. He once launched a 'counterattack', an archer and a swordsman. Glad I could kill them on flatland (and not in the city). Cory btw is on a hill but has only 20% and should be no problem. I checked every turn what we'd get for peace and since Manchu Picchu fell, he'd give up IW, sailing and Masonry (~500 beakers IIRC). However whe should probabely take cory first as it has iron (mined).
Justininan is currently in WHEOOH, probabely planning a holy crusade against the heaten Stalin. We should consider closing borders with Stalin.
State of the World and save in next post, reached pic-limit ^^
. Sorry 'bout that.
so we're safe from barbs which is a good thing on this map. It also frees us up to raze recklessly 
), Orleans also isn't a biggie commerce... Cuzco and Thebes, I presume, will be our, although clay, legs foundating the empire. 
I think that we have our few next years capped, boys. 
