T180: Shooting Umgung. Reassigning citizens.
T181: Captured Umgung. Spotted a Zulu caravan in our lands and a lonely GG near Machu. Killed the general, will plunder TR next turn.
T182: Shooting Mecca. Citadelled Citrus.
T183-184: Shooting Ulundi.
T185: Captured Ulundi. It has Notre Dame but not Chichen, which seems to be in Nobamba. Shaka was offering 5 cities for peace last turn, I check to see if he wants to give up Nobamba, and he doesn't, so the war will continue. Bought Cloves from Gajah for 5 Horses, happiness still at a comfortable +17.
T186: Killing units near Nobamba.
T187: Shooting Nobamba. Wine, Cotton, 9 gpt <> Sugar with Monty for a WLTKD in Mecca. We're getting Cotton back in 5 turns and we'll get an extra Wine with a Bazaar in Carthage.
T188: Citadelled Copper for some WLTKDs and CS quests. Captured Nobamba, not a great city but has some useful buildings and Chichen Itza.
We're getting Industrialization next turn, so I make peace with Shaka and take 2 cities (liberate Tiwanaku and raze one useless city), 11 gpt and 3 Coal from him. This puts us at a net total of +50 gpt with other civilizations, Industrial era limit, gives us instant access to factories and denies them to Shaka.
T189: Industrialization. We don't have instant Coal other than the 3 from Shaka, but we can connect more near Guangzhou and Ulundi, and either Medina's or Quebec's borders will grow to another Coal tile eventually.
Offered DoF to Pachacuti, he accepted. Sold him Salt for 197 gold. Trying to get enough gold to buy 3 Factories one turn before the next policy. Spotted a Zulu Rifleman.
5 Iron <> Nutmeg with Gajah.
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Notes and discussion:
- I left the decision of where to send the new spy to
@beetle
- Same for in which 3 cities to buy the factories
- Saving the GW and GA for World's Fair
- Next policy in 3 turns, 3150 gold is needed for 3 factories. Mecca's been building Wealth for a little bit to make sure we get enough gold to buy factories in 2 turns and have the option to take a level 2 ideology tenet as our next policy. Unless we want Secularism or something else first.
- Speaking of ideology, which one are we going to follow here?
- Let's replace the hammer caravan to Damascus with a hammer Cargo ship
- Timing looks good for Sci Theory spy steal from Ashur
- Some of our cities asked for Wine and Cotton for WLTKDs, we'll get Cotton back soon and connect Wine with a Bazaar in Carthage
- Didn't build National Epic because I zoned out and annexed Guangzhou too early. Forgot that captured cities never have monuments
- Islam missionary is still just exploring. Might just delete him to stop wasting gpt though.