RBC12c - Attila the merciless
324AD Found our capitol , Great Bulgar at spot A in the last dotmap. Get a little surprised when we receive 4 commerce in the center tile.
Set it on granary. If this is to be our worker / migrant factory, it will need to grow, and build something useful while growing.
I set research max on Marauding.
Next I found Pliska on spot B. Spot B could also have been a great capitol, but I chose spot A because then I can include the cow in culture expansion. Had I founded on spot B first, I would have needed to move two steps with my northernmost migrant. Now I save one turn on founding.
Pliska is set to barracks. Kutmichevitsa ( say that three times fast. ) is also set to barracks.
I send three of our migrants northwards, one south, and the rest west. I will see what I can settle next turn. Research is set on Marauding at max.
326 Found Veliki, and set it to worker. Switch Kutmichevitsa to worker as well. Found Madara and set it to worker.
328 I find a road in the west. I put a horse on it, so I can see where it leads. Found Sofia and set it to barracks.
330 Start to slowly draw together the horse from the mad mapping expedition. Found Plovdiv in contact with the road, and set it on worker. Build Varna and set it on worker. Build Ruse by the iron and set it to worker. Found Stara Zagora and set it on worker.
Found Pleven and set it on Barracks.
332 Find a fur way up in the north, and I send my last migrant up there to secure it.
334 This is the year where we manage to follow the road all the way to the Ostrogoths. They have managed to build a spearman in the four turns that have run.
We are up horseback on them.
336 Ostrogoths sell our contact to both of the romes. ( Which earned him Masonry and Alphabet. )
Western rome grants us contact with Anglo-Saxons, Contact with Franks and 11 gold for our world map.
Eastern rome gets us contact with Sassanids and Celts for world map and 12 gold.
Contact with Celts gets us contact with Visigoths and 5 gold from Sassanids.
None of the barbarian borthers has any money, so I will do some suboptimal trades.
Alphabet from ostrogoths for Horseback.
Masonry from Visigoths for Horseback
Sailing and 73 gold from Celts for Horseback and Masonry.
We are now even in tech, and own all the money of the barbarians. The romes are of course ahead still.
Madara was the first to grow, and it would need a whole lot of lux tax. ( 40% is not enough.) so it gets a scientist instead.
338 Found Sliven up by the firs, and start it on a worker.
Pliska and Great bulgar also grows, but a modest 20% lux tax will keep them in check.
340 Get Contact with the Vandals for world map and 25 gold from Eastern Rome.
Get World map and 3 gold from Sassanids for Communication with Vandals and our World Map.
Get 16 gold from Rome for World map.
Get 20 gold from Eastern rome for World map.
Get 50 gold from Vandals for Masonry
Ostrogoths have a monopoly on Marauding. We still have two turns to go. I could get it for 140 gold, and then possibly use it for a math deal with Anglo-Saxons, but I will wait. Most likely I will get Marauding next turn or two.
I can hope ostrogoths hasn't been as diligent in getting contacts.
IBT: Pliska completes a barracks, and starts a Raider.
342 Ostrogoths has spread Marauding around, or some other barbs have researched it, as research this turn is down to 1 gold for 1 turn.
Get territory maps and 11 gold from Eastern rome for maps
Get same but 16 gold from Western rome
Get same but 13 gold from Sassanids.
Get Marauding and 28 gold from Vandals for Sailing.
Discover that Pillaging at min science is 333 turns, so I scratch the min science plan.
We get Pillaging in 14 turns if we use max science. This will possibly take longer, since we will likely need to raise lux taxes as our cities grow.
If we stunt our growth and run a lot of scientists, we could be the first to reach Pillaging.
Otherwise I will let next player decide if the horsemen we have should be used for MPs, or if they should be used in a strike against Ostrogoths for loot and plunder.
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