650ad
quick look shows thereis no one at home in Gewauga. I hope they have just popped out to buy pizzas and don't invalidate the variant.
A couple of other towns have only one defender. I pillage our iron to allow warrior builds.
ibt carthage, england and hittites offer peace treaties: as the only alternative is war I accept. The Byzantines are tough enough for us.
Spain and Sumeria sign an embargo against us. Byzantines move lots of troops, and many ships (7 off our poorly defended north.
coast alone).. Spain declares v America.
660ad
kill a 1/4 byzantine cav (it had retreated from our musket) with a cav.
Army on pillaging duties.
ibt Sumerians and Spanish declare war against us.
Spain declares v England. The Spanish are a bloodthirsty lot.
I had rather optimistically moved all but a warrior and an archer out of Tyendengada ( in SW by Byzantium) in order to move cannons to attack the Byzantines.
A byz cav emerges from Edessa and makes short work of the warrior.
Byz have 11 ships off our northern coast now. This turn they off load 2 longbows.
670ad
Kill the byz cav with a cav.
Kill the 2 northern longbows who landed next to Gandasetalion with a cav and a MW.
Elite knight kills a 1/4 rifle (bombarded first outside Oxford).
Whoops, finally spot chief Grahamiam: he wants to be an army.
4 cav retreat v a single byz rifle in the open, the first 3 not even knocking a HP off it. The 5th one then just dies in the attack and the byz
survives. The 6th one finally kills it and captures 2 settlers.
ibt
America nad Japan sign peace
Byzantines ally with China against us.
Lots of Byz attacks. Two cavs attack Gayagaahe and both kill defenders but fortunately we have more left.
Lots of byz rifles attack in south killing a musket and a cav, and recaptuing 4 slaves.
680ad
bombard Edessa's defenders (2 rifle one cav) to one HP. Attack first off with an elite knight which dies, but then 3 cavs all win and we take the town.
Kill the 2 cav that attacked Gayagaahe with the new cav army.
kill a longbow that landed in the north.
690ad
kill a loose longbow in the west.
Byz found Taormina next to Edessa.
kill a number of loose byz units. in particular the cav army picks off 2 more cav, and a cav kills a 1/4 rifle that had picked off one of our retreating cavs in the
ibt
ibt Japan and Byzantine trade embargo us.
Carthage declare v America
Carthage attack again and kill 4 times very easily. Particularly tough is a cav attacking a knight on a hill and not losing a HP. Eventually the rot is stopped when a hero MW (chief grahamiam no less)beats a cav on defence.
700ad
Assault on Taomina:
bombard so 2/4 rifle on top.
elite knight kills rifle.
vet cav dies v 1/3 rifle.
vet cav kills 1/3 rifle.
3/4 cav kills longbow and destroys the town.
bomard cav outside Gayagaahe to 1hp and kill it with an MW
Cav army kills an elite cav and pillages roads in byz land near Gayagaahe, as this is under a lot of pressure and may buckle.
York and Edessa have just one defender. Edessa might be best abandoned anyway.
I have sterted some peaceful builds. This game is living up to its name, and it is going to take a while. We need to improve our finances.
Iron is disconnected, as I have been building warriors.
I really think we NEED steam power. It is available in trades, but only just.
Now back to COTM19: a similar variant.
, I had a couple of MW's going over there, then the sneak attack occured and of course I lost the plot. Good spotting though, we have to at least try to do our best to keep the only rule we have left. 2 defenders per city.
Sumer allies with Byz and declares war on us
