Round Played:
I'll update more later, but provide a quick summary and the save:
Took Moscow and a couple of turns in I capped Russia. Peter gave me a city Kurfan in the bargain, which I had planned to just gift back to him, but for some reason I could not. Traded a military tech to switch him to Bud and have him stop trading with our enemies.
I capped Rag the next turn after he broke from Russia. We were getting hit pretty hard by everyone so I felt capping Russia was the right move. Rag gave us Haithalba in the deal, but I gifted it back to him - no point in keeping that city. Stopped his trades with the enemies as well.
Upgraded the Jap Armada and moved it all the way to Athens. Parked the fleet on the Sinai for a few turns to upgrade as many of the units as possible - there are still a few older units but there is enough here to take Rome. It can hit Rome next turn.
Took Visegrad and liberated to Just. We have a rather large stack and some fighters parked in this city as a waypoint to HRE.
Moved units from East Russia to Moscow where a rather large stack now exists, but could use some more upgrades.
Turfan built National Epic and some more GP buildings. Tried to build Pentagon here but Louis beat us. Of course, we will take it anyway soon.
Was able to prevent Mongolia from losing any cities to HRE and then took Etruscan and New Sarai from Charlie. Actually was a tough fight here since I lost some units at bogus odds.
Lotsa Factories/Shale Plants built.
Demanded a bunch of gold and stuff from people to piss them off - not our vassals. Traded military techs with vassals for civic changes and to stop trading with jag offs. (keep an eye on who is trading we whom - we should only have our vassals trade with us and each other)
Made peace with France near the end for a nice chunk of gold and Riba, but I could not liberate it back to the Vikings, which is BS IMO. Anyway, I figure we take the gold for some upgrades and not worry about pot shots from Louie for 10 turns while we take out HRE and Spain.
So, we are position to take HRE out pretty quick I think and then hit Spain and then maybe England, then France when the peace treaty is up. I think we can really steam roll the Euros now.
Oh....and France has settle on Australia so keep an eye out for that
a few screenies (I did a terrible job with screenshots this TS, but there was not a whole lot of events):
cap vikes:
Visegrad falls and returned to Biz:
Kick HRE out of Siberia: