0 1295 AD
We have one settler that is still active in a stack. Wake the stack and move to 1N of Salvador.
Clear and set a continental rally point between Rio and Fortaleza.
In New Canton, wake 'Spears No More, a vBef, and send to the capital.
Wake the cBef in Tulia and send to New Canton.
Wave a wand and we have Galleons A, B and C. Effective, but hardly inspiring, names.
Galleons A, B and C sail from Umfolozi into Thomas Olney and unload 11 settlers and 1 vBef.
We build Sarah Palin 1S-2SE of Captain Douglas with a native settler. Start a temple, 30 turns. vBef moves in to defend.
The trade routes to the three Egyptian cities in Alaska now pass through our borders. None of them have a harbor. And it may not matter.
[IBT]
Persia (12) and Babylon (75) sign an MA vs. Sioux (4).
Persia
declares WAR on Sioux.
Sioux and China (???) make peace.
Scare off a Russian cavalry at Eliskases (1 of 1).
Beijing riots; hire some clowns.
Captain Douglas: barracks -> vBef in 90.
Pollution at Rio.
Yaroslav'l flips; we lose a cBef.
Chengdu riots; specailize everybody.
Uxia Cambarro: bank -> vCav in 1.
Pollution at Fortaleza.
Wilbur Whately: hospital -> vCav in 4.
River Tam: hospital -> vCav in 2.
Ash Tray Can riots -> specialize everybody.
Eliskases: barracks -> temple in 30.
It Be Salty: factory -> vCav in 2.
We gain 11 vCavalry, 11 settlers, 3 Galleons and 2 Befs.
We build 9 temples, 1 bank, 2 hospitals and 1 factory.
Three cranky cities: Biejing, Chengu and Ash Tray Can.
1 1300 AD
Tresspassers
In Iceland, a 1/3 Cossack is 1W of Eliskases on a hill.
A vPike is 1NW of Eliskases, in a forest.
Actions
Gather everyone that we can around the capital for a Boy Scout Jamboree.
We have 23 vCav and 37 vBef.
We have 3 eCav and 1 eBef.
We have 3 rBef.
We have 4 cBef.
We have 2 vGuerilla.
We have 94 artillery.
We have 10 trebuchets.
We have a stack of 10 lightly wounded units that can heal by themselves this turn, if we let them.
We have a stackof 12 more seriosly wounded untis that will need a barracks to get well.
We have around 200 slaves with full movement.
We have about 75 slaves with almost full movement.
We have 10 settlers.
We have 14 full size armies, some that need a barracks.
We have already done some forest chops for settlers.
Now it is time to get busy.
In Madagascar we build
Peter Jason Quill. We gain some land but do not trap any Chinese units inside our borders.
We chop the forest 1S of our new city and then road it.
Artillery redline a vCav 1N of Cheyene.
Cheyene (1)
Twevlfth Cavalry bulldozes over the 1/4 Cav (2 of 2).
Two eMuskets inflict 3 HPs on this Army (4 of 4).
Nineteenth Cavalry Army stomps vCav flawlessly into the ground (5 of 5).
And
Cheyenne becomes ours. The one citizen in Cheyenne, a Sioux, resents their liberation from China. We start a temple anyway.
From Grunfield (not Breyer, which is closer) we ship across 2 workers and 2 vBefs into Peter Jason Quill.
PJQ and Cheyenne are connected.
New Nanking (3) (capital)
Twenty-Second Cavalry Army takes out vRilfe (6 of 6).
eCav retreats from rRilfe (6 of 7)
eCav followup has better luck (7 of 8, 0 of 1e).
New Nanking has new bosses. Has a cranky and gets a taxman and begins a temple.
New Tsingtao (1) (new capital)
eCav retreats from vRifle (7 of 9).
vCav shatters itself on a vMusket, promoting it to eMusket (7 of 10).
vCav retreats from this Chinese D'Artagnan (7 of 11).
Another vCav does the same (7 of 12). And D'Artagnan-san is still unscratched.
Well, the city is on a hill.
Thirteenth Cavalry Army (11/13) ends the charmed life of D'Artagnan-san (8 of 13).
Thirteenth Cavalry Army (11/13 still!) tramples the wounded vRifle (9 of 14).
vCav meets vCav and our vCav wins and promotes (10 of 15).
vCav meets another vCav and again we win (11 of 16).
New Tsingtao changes hands. We gain 1 gold instead of 1 resister.
We road from Peter Jason Quill to New Tsingtao.
Ponca (1) (newer capital)
Fourteenth Cavlary Army (10/14) runs over vRifle without taking damage (12 of 17).
rMusket draws some blood from the FOurtheenth but not much (13 of 18).
Ponca is permitted to live, since we got 3 gold, despite the one resister.
The trade embargo on us by China and India ends.
Good News
And China is gone.
Twelve land units in Madagascar disappear, as does several stacks of ships by Orlando.
Ship back home Thirteenth and Nineteenth Cavalry Armies and send them straightway to Alaska.
Yaroslavl' (7)
Second Cavalry watches as we attempt to promote vCav to eCavs on the rRifle defending.
First vCav gets slaughtered (13 of 19).
Second vCav retreats (13 of 20).
Third VCav redlines the Rifle and then dies (13 of 21).
Fourth vCav retreats (13 of 22).
Blast! I forgot we had artillery!
Redline that lucky 2/4 Rifle, with gusto.
Fifth vCav starts their attack....
And
Yaroslavl' is liberated from itself (14 of 23). We gain 1 gold and five resisters. We start a settler.
We move our 12 more seriously wounded units from last turn into Yaroslavl to quell the resistance and heal from the barracks.
We also move in those wounded in taking the city.
In Iceland, our armies, one redlined (1/13) and the other yellowed (5/13), need to heal.
We do redline the Pike with artillery.
Ship 8 slaves to Alaska, to rail every tile we have over there while we send units across.
Shipping recap:
Galleons A, B, C and D: Sailed Thomas Olney (Alaska) -> Umfolozi (Siberia).
Galleons E, F, G and H: Sailed Umfolozi (Siberia) -> Thomas Olney (Alaska). Eight slaves and two Armies.
Chop 3 forests to rush a settler from Yaroslavl'.
In China's South Africa, we put in MPs to shut up the Chinese rebels.
Rush 8 Galleons in Sibera and 1 in Alaska.
Rush harbor in Peter Jason Quill, so that we can have rails in Madagascar.
Rush temple in Sarah Palin.
Short rushing towards markets.
Workers
Pollution clean up.
Raling in West Africia.
[IBT]
Argentina (4) and Sioux (4) make peace.
Captain Obed Marsh: factory -> vCav in 2.
Yaroslavl': settler -> temple in 30.
Krasnoyarki riots.
Kansa riots.
sarah Palin: temple -> barracks in 40.
Peter Jason Quill: harbor -> temple in 30.
Also produced: Six vCavs, 3 vBefs, 1 settler (Russian) and 9 Gallons.
Five temples completed.
2 1305 AD
Trespassers
Sioux Guerilla and Rifleman in the jungle 1NW of Kiowa (Phillipines).
Actions
Ship back 3 Armies from Madagascar.
Ship 4 cBef to Madagascar.
Vladimir (5) (capital)
Eleventh Army stomps on a Pike and Rifle (16 of 25).
Sixteenth Army lassoes a Longbow and Cossack (18 of 27).
Vladimir is razed. We find 3 gold in the rubble.
Ship across 5 Armies into Alaska.
Ship across 3 rBef to Phillipines; boot one off near Ezra Scott; the other two arrive in Kiowa and fortify.
In coastal Africa and Madagascar, in our smaller cities, temples -> walls, rush, back to temples, and hire engineers. Lots of Temples in 4 turns.
Workers
Pollution cleanup.
Rail and water in South Africa, working south to north.
[IBT]
We lose a Bef at Kiowa (18 of 28).
Indonesia (31) and Babylon (75) sign an MA vs. Sioux (3).
Indonesia
declares War on Sioux.
Xavier Cambarro: factory -> vCav in 2.
Mrs. Frederic: hospital -> vBef in 7.
Units Produced: 14 vCav, 2 vBef, 3 setters.
Eleven temples completed.
3 1310 AD
Trespassers
Sioux rRifle 1W-1NW of Kiowa.
Yellowed vGuerilla 1NW of Kiowa.
Both are in jungle tiles.
Actions
Oogah-Chaka is built on the ruins of Vladimir in Iceland.
Eleventh Cavalry eliminates the redlined Pike near Oogah-chaka (19 of 29).
Eleventh and Sixteenth Armies load into galleons and head towards Pskov in Greenland.
Ship to Alaska: 5 eCavalry, 10 settlers, one empty Army (Next Army), Twelfth and Twenty-Second Cavalry Armies.
Oogah-oogah is also built in Iceland; starts a temple.
Drax is 3S of Orenburg (Spain) in North Africa.
Gamora is 3NW of Taco Grande (Russia) in Asia.
Rocket Raccoon is 3SE of Smolensk (Baltics) in Europe.
Groot is 2NW of Khabaroysk (Turkey) in Europe.
Short rush more temples, mostly in inland Africa.
Rush aqueduct in Duck Season, barracks in Sarah Palin, courthouse in Sarah Jane Smith and short rush in other places.
Workers
Mostly rail and irrigate in Africa. Some work in Spain, too.
[IBT]
Sarah Jane Smith: courthouse -> vCav in 12.
Seattle: market -> factory in 22.
Smolensk riots.
Wendy Marvel: hospital -> vCav in 5.
Beep Beep: aqueduct -> market in 15.
Megan Halsey: stock exchange -> factory in 12.
sarah Palin: barracks -> library in 80.
Also produced: 7 vCav, 1 worker, 3 vBef, 1 settler and 1 Galleon.
Nine temples were completed.
We lost our 1/4 galley in the Anarctic Ocean to a quick sucker-punch.
4 1315 AD
Trespassers
Sioux Rifle 2S of Erza Scarlet.
Sioux Guerilla 2/4 2S-1SE of Erza Scarlet.
Both are in jungles.
Actions
Hooked On A Feeling is 2E of Moscow (Germany) in Europe.
Blue Swede is on Madagascar, east of Cheyenne and New Nanking.
Ship one more Army, all of our unpromoted Elites and 16 vCav to Alaska.
Workers
Rail to our new cities.
[IBT]
Egypt (33) and Aztecs (1) sign a trade embargo on us.
Babylon demands Incense. Since we are not ready to declare war on our own, we give Incense.
India wants to talk. Ghandi wants our WM and Sanitation in exchange for their WM. No.
Leena: factory -> vCav in 3.
Gary Fullbuster: market -> factory in 24.
Also produced: 16 vacv, 2 vBef, 1 worker and 1 settler.
Seven temples were completed.
5 1320 AD
Trespassers
Lone Sioux rRifle 1S of Erza Scarlet.
Actions
Unload Armies at Pskov, Russia.
Ship 4 artillery into Erza Scarlet.
Redline and remove the rRilfe (19 of 29).
Ship 36 vBefs to Alaska.
Workers
Rails and water working and pollution cleanup.
[IBT]
Argentina (4) and Russia (1) sign a trade embargo on us. We are so afraid.
Duck Season: aqueduct -> settler in 30.
sarah Palin: library -> walls in 20.
Also produced 6 vCav, 3 vBef, 2 workers and 1 Army.
Thirty-five temples completed.
6 1325 AD
Trespassers
None.
Actions
Egypt bought steel from Babylon.
No new pollution this turn.
Pskov (4) (capital)
Elventh Army leads the way, thrashing an rRifle (20 of 30).
Sixteeth Army is allowed to join the fun, playing lethal paddywack with a second rRifle (21 of 31).
Pskov is taken, its 9 gold added to our treasury and razed. They were no survivors.
There was also no closure. Russia does not die.
And Egypt still has two Knights in the Aztec island, along with the Russian stack of Pikes, so we cannot invade Aztecdom.
Well, fiddle. This does not help us any.
We can, and will, stamp out Russian resistance over the next few turns. We have enough units to do that and prevent the city from flippping. Then we rush settlers/workers and get the city size down to one or so.
Might do the same to the Aztec resisters, too. We will see.
In Russian cities without resistance we rush settlers. In Russian cities with rsistance rush workers by disbanding some of the Chinese trebuchets in the museums around the capital.
Twenty-Third Cavalry Army is loaded with 3 vCavs and stationed in West Africa, to take on the Aztecs.
Ship 36 foreign artillery to Alaska.
We put a few Bef in Sarah Palin to reduce the flip risk to zero.
Spirit In The Sky is 3NE of Daffy Duck (Syria) in the Middle East.
They Call Themselves... is 2N-1NE of Cecil Turtle (Russia) in Asia.
Workers
No change.
[IBT]
Russia (0) and Sioux (3) make peace.
Orenburg riots.
Ash Tray Can riots.
We produce 14 vCavs, 2 vBef, 16 settlers and 6 workers.
Twenty-four temples were completed.
7 1330 AD
Trespassers
None.
Actions
Ship across 36 vCav to Alaska.
I'm Starlord, Man is 2NE of Wabbit Season (Russia) in Asia.
A Planet of Outlaws is 3SW of Road Runner (Russia) in Asia.
What A Bunch of A-Holes is 2E-2NE of Bear Butte in Africa.
None of these were Settlers (Russian).
Workers
Rail and irrigate and clean up pollution.
[IBT]
Preboot from Babylon, but I don't know where or why. We automove.
Staraya Russa flips back to Russia. We lose a cBef.
Adam Brody: hospital -> rBef in 12.
Ezra Scarlet: bank -> stock exchange in 16.
Also produced: 8 vCavs, 3 vBef, and 1 settler.
Nine temples were completed.
8 1335 AD
Looks like Texuizquiac in Scotland had cultural expansion and I missed it last turn.
Russia now has two cities. Their new capital of Kostroma is just a bit south of their old capital. And, of course, Staraya Russa.
Trespassers
None.
Actions
We sail towards the new capital of Russia.
vCav brings Staraya Russa back into the fold (22 of 32).
Ship 36 vCavs to Alaska (2nd batch of 36).
Workers
Repeat.
[IBT]
Kansa riots.
Zunguin: harbor -> wealth
Also produced: 15 vCav, 3 vBef, 2 workers and 2 settlers.
One temlple was completed.
9 1340 AD
Babylon knows Refining. And, in looking back, they learned Steel in the 1300 IBT. We have nothing to trade for Refining.
In Alaska, Babylon has moved 115 units from New Eulbar westwards towards Richmond. They are currently 2N-1NE of Captain Douglas, on an unimproved tundra tile.
Trespassers
None, yet.
Actions
In Alaska, we rail the last two forests on the Babylonian border. We wake our Armies and they go on border patrol facing east, into Canada.
We have 2 e*Cavs near the captial.
Both places we can land our armies at Kostroma are blocked by Russian units.
We sign an ROP with Argentina. All four of their cities are in Greenland.
We land Elventh and Sixteenth Armies in Argentina.
Ship across 19 vBef, 4 e*Bef, 11 vCav and 2 e*Cav to Alaska.
In Alaska, Next Army becomes Twenty-Fourth Cavalry Army and both e*Cavs are loaded into it.
This Army and the Befs go on border patrol close to Richmond.
I don't think that Babylon will attack but I'm not taking chances, either.
Except for our 4 unit armies and the troops to take out the Aztecs, 90% of our Cavalry and Bef are in Alaska.
Workers
Rinse. Lather. Repeat.
[IBT]
Persia wants to chat. Wants to swap World Maps. I'm not too keen on the idea but until we attack Babylon, I don't want any distractions. And we may need their help later. So we agree.
The trade embargo on us by Egypt (33) and Sioux (2) is over.
Aztecs (1) and Argentina (4) make peace.
Dr. Jeremy Franklin: factory -> rBef in 5.
New Zimbabwe: walls -> vBef in 90.
10 1345 AD
Babylon did not attack, which is good. And I thought the Sioux were going to be destroyed when I saw that their trade embargo was over.
Trespassers
None at the moment.
In Alaska, the main Babylonian stack is 3N of Captain Douglas. The stack moved 1NW instead of going 1W; both have the same distance to Richmond. 114 of the 115 units moved here.
In their old tile are 3 Guerillas, 6 Infantry and 1 worker.
Actions
Kostroma (1) (capital)
When we landed we face the better defended tile, with four units. To get to the lesser defended tile, with two units, we would have had to move into a tundra forest. But for some reason, the unit allocations were changed and now the tile next to us has only two units, a Rilfe and a Longbow.
Eleventh Cavalry leads off again. Longbow draws some blood but it doesn't help the rRifle (23 of 33).
Sixteenth Calalry smothers the Longbow (24 of 34).
Sixteenth fells the vRifle defending the capital, but drops to 3/13 (25 of 35).
Sixteenth retreats into Argentina, to heal.
Eleventh Cavalry moves to 1W of Kostroma, forest, and stops. No way the capital has only two defenders. This may take several turns to wear these guys down.
Fortify Eleventh Cavlary.
Workers
Parked some by the capital.
[IBT]
And the save is attached.
