Gilgamesh actually does have a nasty fleet right here. It's only up to 6 units, but it's 6 units every 2 turns, and I have no navy to defend against it. I will have to divert some Cuirassiers and upgrade that Keshik and maybe the Axe and Archer...
He concedes a turn or two after having lost his landing party though
I open borders and renew my trades again, of course. At this point, I have 20 cuirassiers.
With this stack (Keshiks are shortly before leveling up), I think I'm ready to declare. Ramesses entered the Industrial Era last turn, presumably from Scientific Method. Jute will be very annoying here, so I will probably have to declare on Asoka soon just not to lose Akhetaten to culture.
He no longer has Iron now. Asoka has one pretty much in his heartland though, and both have phants. Still, not as nasty as Pikemen.
As the Golden Age ends, I'm one turn from Rifling, have over 53 living Cuirassiers that have taken 3 cities, and adopt some new civics... After losing the peace modifier with Gilga, foreign trade isn't that viable anymore...
Time to get rid of this border gore before it swallows my conquests...
This city actually contains quite a lot of units. Also looks like Cuirs are affected by Chichen Itza as Ram has 85% tile defense. I could turn back and upgrade everyone...
... but after 3 Withdraw cuir attacks, odds got significantly better as the pike and best longbow were whittled down and I only lost 3 guys
With a huge military tech lead, I march on Thebes, which holds a large amount of junk. Asoka is founding cities in presumably AstroLand, bad news.
Let's see if this guy has any idea... I don't think he will trade Gunpowder to Asoka (who can research RP) as are mutually annoyed from the earlier war.
Unless there is a hidden Australia as well, Asoka's cities are probably right here. Pretty close to his lands.
A brutal fight, I lose several good veterans (actually, only 4 according to logs... but they were good)... but where is your 9 wonder hill capital now?
Much rejoice is had as, in the north, Asoka's Iron is no more... unless he has some more up that island, I guess. Those cats have been useful in the slow terrain in this region...
... while in the south, I have added a GG Treb to the army around Pi-Ramesses, it also helped in Thebes. Read about this strategy some time ago and decided to try it, quite nice
Second one has been created already.
Last yellow hill city.
Asoka has 2 more.
2 cities taken in the same turn. Somebody is about to be mummified.
Shame about "Cuir 1", that guy was great.
Egypt goes down...
... my war exhaustion doesn't. Is it really all from Asoka? That darn Statue of Zeus...
And yeah, I settled a number of excess GP in here, even if maybe another GA would have been stronger. Still don't have Ox and probably won't build it... 5/6 universities and I kind of forgot about it
No city reachable or coming out of revolt next turn, but in 2 turns...
Then again, on the other hand...
That double cuir/cav war was way too easy.
Kind of lucky that Gilgamesh's + Astronomy's combined land was so small.
Spammed out quite a few of these guys. The Mansa war was obviously the bloodiest here, as shown by the high Keshik losses...
I did build a lot of theaters near the end to combat the
in my larger cities. Surprised that I only have 3 acadamies - those are all self-built...
Karakorum sometimes just queued up wonders while other cities, most prominently Beshbalik and in the late game Timbuktu, were building horses. Some of these like Sankore are kind of junk, but it helped pump random GPs.
The score is probably a joke to you veteran players (just like the end date
), but for me it's nice
Haven't won a game pre-industrialization in quite a while, and never on an at least normal-sized map and above Prince...
... and then I clicked "Exit to Main Menu" instead of "just one more turn" to have a last look at the empire. Oh well. Very fun game
One thing I really need to know though, I will reload the last save...
I
knew that Plains tile was suspicious all along.
A nice farm to live on, no surprise Beshbalik is sick here.