Pholk is clearly losing skills
Clearly you're not reading any of my other SGs ~
Sorry about the delay all. I lost my power last night out here in the boonies north of Philly for no reason that I could gather ~ only a very mild storm, but oh well. Heres my report, a day late ~ seems Im the biggest culprit of delaying the game!
I started off by MMing our cities. At Munich, I whink we should keep a couple forest for the hammers, but otherwise farm it out. Cologne could due with turning the plains and maybe a grassland or two into workshops. And I think the internet might not be a bad idea, maybe after Radio, go for computers for labs and Internet?? Frankfurt is building a grocer, but we aren't producing that much commerce and can't hire merchants. I'm going to change that to the globe now
(20 turns). I further MMed it down to 16 turns. Im going to have Essen focus on hammers now. It should build culture buildings, and maybe even culture itself to get that iron back. it will be a mad production city. Dortmund, another good hammer factory, is MMed for production.
The techpath is set for Econ > Corporation > Steam Power. Im going to stop there and the next player can go up to AL.
Turn 218/500 (1540 AD) [18-May-2008 12:41:07]
yeah, right. I"m going to side with Louis! Hah.
A diplo vote came up again:
Went with Abstain of course. Hopefully we dont lose next turn. At Munich, the worker finished and I'm going to have it make some units this set i think. Ill also focus on the jungles for farms there. In all, I had about 4 or 5 cities ending up building grenadiers this set. It helped a lot!
Turn 219/500 (1545 AD) [18-May-2008 12:47:05]
Sweet!
Surya and Louis signed peace, while Auggie wanted us to jump in against Toku. I said no.
Islam spread to Dortmund on the IT, and I started Oxford at Berlin. I was going to wait until the end of the set and get some discussion, but I made an executive decision. To me, that w/all the settled scientists there, Berlin will be producing the most science anyway all game, so it seemed like the natural spot.
Agh ~ a market got constructed! doh. and at Hamburg! That place is a production center if i ever saw one. And a uni was in queue at Essen? It IS the highest culture building, so i am thoroughly humbled.
Turn 220/500 (1550 AD) [18-May-2008 12:52:09]
Buddhism into Essen on the IT, and this guy stopped by:
No thanks.
There was a theatre in queue at Stuttgart. I started to get annoyed here at the seemingly large number of queued buildings in our cities. I Stutt. to an aqueduct as we're above healthy cap. I also turned off growth for a bit and added one more scientist.
We birthed another GS:
Merged at Berlin. Well get another GP in 18 turns, too. We should save one for a GAge once we get Assembly Line, I think, to aid in production. We should really consider another civics swap then, as Caste System will lose its appeal ~ unless its for the extra hammer on workshops.
Turn 221/500 (1555 AD) [18-May-2008 12:56:28]
Louis wants a trade now:
Uhh, let me think. No. And more religion: this time Buddhism in Cologne!
And:
Corp next of course.
Turn 222/500 (1560 AD) [18-May-2008 12:59:28]
I made this trade to continue 100% research a little longer:
Turn 223/500 (1565 AD) [18-May-2008 13:00:46]
We popped a copper!
We have to consider this, too: w/railroads, lumber mills will be 3 hammers. Engineers are 2 hammers plus 3 beakers. Hmm.., w/Assembly Plants and forges online in all cities, well have 5 engineer slots open. Should we shoot for that in most cities, besides the production powerhouses. Remember, they are going to be most of our science, so we should employ as many as possible, I think.
Turn 224/500 (1570 AD) [18-May-2008 13:03:04]
Nothing but worker moves! Sometimes its more fun to do worker actions in SGs ~ gives you a good sense of visible progress.
Turn 225/500 (1575 AD) [18-May-2008 13:04:30]
On to Steam Power!
Turn 226/500 (1580 AD) [18-May-2008 13:05:09]
Toku and Auggie have signed peace, too, now. I started a grocer for health in Stuttgart as its unhealthy now; better than harbor it seemed to me, for the health bonus.
I was also thinking that maybe we should convert to workshops all around once we hit the production mode for more and more hammers. let's see how many we can get in all cities total!! Of course, this conflicts with the get as many engineers as possible idea, but with Biologied-grassland farms, wed only need 5 of them for the 5 engineers, and the rest could be shopped! We get an extra food, too, with State Property, if we revolt to it.
Turn 227/500 (1585 AD) [18-May-2008 13:08:26]
No again.
Turn 228/500 (1590 AD) [18-May-2008 13:09:34]
New vote for AP leader: toku vs auggie. I took AC of course.
Turn 229/500 (1595 AD) [18-May-2008 13:10:59]
Notice the 2 voting blocs ~
Turn 230/500 (1600 AD) [18-May-2008 13:12:18]
Moses has been born in a foreign land!?!?! NOW?!?!
I took a good look at Essen this turn, too. I don't think we're going to win the culture war any time soon as Ive been building culture and haven't gotten anywhere really. Im just going to a straight prod town with the tiles we have now. we should farm 4 of those jungles and workshop the 5th. Or rather, farm 5, shop 2. Once we take Bombay, well have the iron.
Turn 231/500 (1605 AD) [18-May-2008 13:15:37]
10 Million German Souls:
After I roaded our new copper, I see that we should mill and shop all of cologne ~ thatll really get the hammers going!
Turn 232/500 (1610 AD) [18-May-2008 13:18:26]
Dang!
We have a coal source, too, near Essen and France. Well have to now proceed directly to AL, and fire our scientists once we get there. Were at 0% science now, with AL in 14. We should look, maybe, to sell another tech around for more cash.
Also: research is going to die once we hit fire our scientists, so let's plan ahead for that. Where should we head next?? More military techs? Straight for the SS techs?? Personally, I think we should see what things are like AFTER we make The Great Leap Forward and have all our Engs hire.
I still think a GAge is in order once we get to AL. I also think we should declare on louis rather quickly after that. Take out those 3 cities just east of us, and use the money for some deficit research. With what army you ask?
If we could, i'd like to eliminate France and India rather quickly. If we can take those 2 plus surya, we've taken out the entire other bloc of civs. and unfortunately for them, they don't share religions! We can then figure out what to do about getting rid of our other rivals.
Heres a Cases Blue and Purple for wars 1 and 2, coming to an empire near you once AL hits!
For the 2nd war, obviously bombay is the city to go for first. It looks like a lot of culture in delhi and bombay, too, even though AC is in the lead for culture at 6000 for his top 3 apiece. Well have to watch him.
Lets build some mostly siege now that were getting low on funds, a bunch of trebs will make things smoother for our grenadiers!!
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