RBC13K -Middle Ages- Faithful Fatimids (Emperor OPEN SG)

[romeothemonk]

Preturn: Pretty solid setup, some of the guys before me must have known what they were doing.
IBT: Get an MGL on Defense, forms Samaritan league. Rus and Byz sign peace.
Turn 1: Raze Ascalon (edge city) lost ansar to long bow. Kill barb camp. Swap a few cities to hospitals. Meld some natives to help the income problem.
IBT: Byz bombard Antioch for us nicely. Damascus flipped, lost 4 ansars and an assain there.
Turn 2: capture Antioch, move up troops.
IBT: Abbys sign poles against us. Swedes and Poles team against Byz. Bremen builds Notre Dame.
Turn 3: Recapture Damascus, Move on Tyre. Kill offending abbassid units.
IBT: Rus and Turks ally against Cordoba. Norway and Turks against Cordoba.
Turn 4: kill tons of loose units.
IBT: Abby's working over the Byz and vice versa. Abby's basically ignore our units, ususally covered by armies, and let culture flips kill our units.
Turn 5: Cairo starts Robin Hood due in 10. Capture Tyre and a ton of slaves. Frag a barb camp.
IBT: not much
Turn 6: Capture Brusa and Nicodema. Keep moving on up.
IBT: Bulgars declare on us. Swedes declare on us. lose an ansar to keshiks.
Turn 7:Not much
IBT: Celts declare on Byz. You know the byz are in trouble now.
Turn 8: Capture amorium, frag a barb camp.
IBT: Magyars declare on turks. Swedes capture Fayyum lose an ansar to keshiks over by the pillars of Herc. Medina flips again.
Turn 9: sell sherriff office in New Damascus!! Odd. Capture Samaria Build embassy with Norway. Norway will ally against Swedes for free and throw in their WM. Build embassy with Danes, ally versus swedes for divine right and get 222 gold back. Capture Iconium. Trade Theo tar and 152 gold for intelligence operations. Osman gies us seamanship for iron!! Get invention and WM from theo for seamanship 17 gpt and WM. Swith Oran to harbor and rush it.
IBT: Lost fustat to swedes. Rus and Byz ally against swedes.
turn 10 recapture Medina capture New Baghdad.
The save

 

[romeothemonk]

The good: We have a huge lead in VP, 23690 to 15925 Burgundians. We are first in land area. We have the Abbassids on the ropes. 3 ansar armies. We have a crescent shape aound the remaining Abby cities. By leaving Baghdad alone and taking all the other Abby cities we will easily win in about 8 turns. Robin hood is due in 5. We can leverage for Tech that is out there. Religious persecution is the only one I know of.
The Bad: It takes forever for troops to make it to the front. Even ansars take 8 turns to reach the front. Culture flips killed more of our troops then combat.
The Ugly: the swedes can really hurt us, but the Byz, Norse, Danes, and Rus are all at war with them and I assume we are low priority on the scale to hurt.

Good luck to the next player. You should finish this easily.

 

[Doc Tsiolkovski]

Turn 9: sell sherriff office in New Damascus!! Odd.

That's what the AI wastes its Leaders for...we'll see it in the replay, but I'm pretty sure about that

Yes, the Abbassids alone should give easily enough VPs (luckily, you don't want to fight against Dromons).

 

[romeothemonk]

Hey Doc. Just take and finish this in 1.22. It shouldn't go past 6-7 turns. That way we can get cranking on the AOD conquest. It would be only fitting if you finished it.

 

[Doc Tsiolkovski]

Right. Got it.

 

[Doc Tsiolkovski]

Not much to do…no trades available. Change A LOT of MP builds to Spies. Will build nothing but Spies, Robin Hood and of course Ansars.
Enter.

IBT: Byzantines and Abbassids sign peace! Abbassid Assassin captures one of our Slaves. Swedish Longboat runs away. Poland declares on Turks.

Turn 1: 1248AD
Kill named Assassin. Make peace with Germany (we had a MA against the with Byz, but they broke the deal). MAs against Abbassids would cost everything we have. Reinforce. Byz and Turks know Religious Prosecution. Abbandon New Baghdad, no chance to hold it with a 3/14 Army against at least 2 Longbows, and an unknown number of Assassins.
IBT: Rus and Bulgars declare on Turks – sub bug?

Turn 2: 1251AD
Capture and raze size 12 Sidon. VPs at 25030. Establish Embassy with England; Chippenham has insane amounts of units, but is producing Wealth…

Turn 3: 1254AD
Kill a stack of Assassins advancing Bursa. Attack and capture Aleppo (only 2 Spears).
VPs at 25855 (Burgundy 16940).
IBT: Abbassids recapture Tyre.
Sweden lands 2 Berserks near Antioch instead of attacking it . Fustat flips back to us.

Turn 4: 1257AD
Loose 2 Ansars trying to take out the Berserks. Capture and raze size 6 New Medina. Start joining native Workers to help with unit support.
IBT: Abbas sign Castile against us. 3 Assassin fail to kill an Ansar.
Robin Hood completes.



Turn 5: 1260AD
Recapture Tyre. Raze size ? New Ascalon at the Southern edge of the map.
Trades: Religious Prosecution fro Turks for Quarry. Improved Siegecraft from Byz for WM and 10gp. Steal Western Church from England. Trade Map Making to England for Monasticism. Trade Improved Siege to Germany for Feudalism, turn around and trade Seamanship for Chivalry. VPs? 29340….
Rush a Longbow in Fustat; it’s simply a question of honor to retake Fayyum.

Turn 6: 1263AD
Capture Hatin (size 6). That’s it, 30030VPs. And, just for style points, I retake Fayyum.
Don’t feel like handling a gazillion of Slaves, so I just SHIFT+ENTER.
IBT:
Tyre desposes again, taking an Army with it. Who cares?




Final turn

 

[romeothemonk]

Nice finish. The Fatimids just take about 80 turns of infrastructure, and then they explode on the abbassids. Higher difficulties with them is a definite possibility.