I played until T137. I stopped just before I intended to start the war against inca.
Made this deal with Portugal:
Also made some resource deals to get us more gold and swapped into vassalage and representation.
I was thinking about taking Rostov but decided against it. Stalin would already capitulate and it would have just taken too long to go to Rostov. Also Stalin sent a stack of spears towards us which made me decide that we we're ready to cap him:
We could have handled these guys but would maybe lost some units or at least got our army wounded, and thus wasted time. Huana looks thinly defended (I know I keep saying this about AI players
) and has good land + would be a great vassal for tech trade so I want him sooner rather than later.
So Stalin gave in:
Pcs about our new cities, Novgorod which has nice shrine:
Moscow, really needs that courthouse:
I've been thinking if we really should put the HE there. Without stone quarry it has only two hills and the iron, we have better production in Aksum, the Ethiopian cap. Maybe put the HE there? I sent our last GG towards Aksum it already has 1 GG settled (another factor when considering HE site). Aksum would also be awesome NE site and GP farm but I'm not sure if we need one in this game.
Stalin was 1T away from Drama, so I let him reasearch that to trade for it:
Both Currency and Monarchy are owned by most other AI civs.
"Cry, 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war." Julius Caesar, Shakespeare
Last turn JC let slip his dogs of war towards Huana Capac. I immeadiately moved our spy chariot towards roman-incan borders to see if we're in a race with Rome for incan cities. No Roman legions spotted yet. I had already decided to go for this war next turn. Here's the plan:
I've splitted our stack, the healthy units went to Novgorod since they had to move further and so couldn't spend time healing, while wounded units healed with our general in St.Pete. Inca has some troops in the cap which will probably go towards Roman border. The idea is that southern stack will strike towards Ollantauambo and northern will take the nicely cottaged city of Tiwanaku and then press on towards the cap.
Edit: We have one problem: lack of siege. The southern stack will get a third cat from St.pete since I whipped it but that's still a bit low. Far from the 50% rule. Northern stack has about 1/3 siege so when advancing I would try to spare some cats to keep the offensive running.
Edit2: Added the save.
@Sampsa: Do you want to take turnsets or just give advice?