Dominatrix Cathy - round 5 (to 940AD) part 3
You'll notice Mansa now has machinery on me and is busy teching engineering. He seems to be ignoring feudalism for some reason though.
Yet more exciting builds of courthouses
Izzy ias prepared to do this trade so I can catch up with Mansa a bit...
She still doesn't want tech to go to war with Pacal though
I decide I am far too drunk to make decisions and call it a day, and have a couple of days off civving to spring clean my brain.
I took the metal casting deal anyway, when I restarted play.
Mansa is also prepared to give me machinery for philosophy + 55 gold. I delay the decision. Izzy is prepared to trade Theocracy + 10 gold for philosophy at this point as well.
And she is now prepared to DoW on Pacal for a high price...
Too high, in my opinion.
Heroic Epic is finished in Moscow, so I build a quick Hindu missionary to speed up build times in St. Petes. It'll probbly be troops and more troops after that, until it is time to build a university and Oxford there. it's a bit of a weird combo, HE and Oxford, but I am different
My navy reaches the limits of its exploration. Pacal must be paying a ton of maintenance for this city. EDIT: This next picture makes no sense. Pacal has a city further south of this, on the east coast, while his main cities are on the west coast I think. I didn't look at the screeny properly before uploading it
Most of my army has assembled near Mansa's borders. It's not looking too bad, although if he builds lots of crossbows that wouldn't be good.
We haven't had a shot of a courthouse being built for a while... here's one to keep you all happy
And here's one being whipped to completion. The economy is back on its toes now, and will be even better when civil service comes in. I start on a library here next.
Mansa's only other city I think
Now that I built a stable I suppose I should build some mounted troops here
I'll spare you another gratuitous courthouse building shot, this time at Angkor Thom.
Civil Service is in, Cathy's coffers will swell when all the civil servants come to her dungeon after a hard day at the office. I revolt immediately.
Mansa will do this deal
And Izzy will do this one
I stopped the round here.
I'm thinking of doing the tech deals and then attacking Mansa. What do you all think? I'll change to theocracy when the courthouses are all built, probably switch to caste system at the same time as well.
Here's the latest save...