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Preturn Well, we're at war with the rest of the world! :goodjob: T1 - 1430AD Heliopolis: Factory -> Infantry Corinth: Factory -> Infantry Kua: Marketplace -> Courthouse Edfu: Bank -> Library We finish our palace! Looks good! :king: Capture Norwich! T2 - 1435AD Germany wants to...

Preturn Changed all Cav builds to Artillery - We have 42 Cavs, how many will we need? T1 - 1280AD Mongolian Longbow attacks our Spearman and kills it, but redlines. The Mongols send a Warrior and a Keshik in our land. England declares war on the Mongols! Byzanz demands Wine! I tell her...

Preturn Isin: changed Marketplace to Courthouse (too small and so corrupt!) Zabalam: changed Musketman to Courthouse Tutlub: changed Settler to Spearman (where did you want to settle?) IT Heliopolis: Bank -> Heroic Epic Lish: Granary -> Musketman T1 - 1010AD Repositioning of troops...

Got the save, will play soon!

But by pillaging the saltpeter we keep them from building more Cav. We can then again play defensivly for a few turns, let their Cavs die befor our cities (or the English's) and then roll over them with our never ending stream of Cavalry. Any thoughts concerning our GA? IMO now would be a good...

Good job Mr. B! :goodjob: Cav it is, eh? Any estimates if we can get a MA with England against Byzanz? Although I believe we alone would win a war of attrition, the Brits surely would be a big help. Especially as it will be an all Cav war, so mass is quality, no? Since we're tied up with...

Both the English and the Byzantines have Cavs (although Byzanz' putative only saltpeter source is within our reach), Sumeria should be stripped of its strategic ressources (except iron) by now. I don't think the Sumerians can threaten Thermophylae, they have no fast units and would need to cross...

We are the only ones who know Economy, that's why I think Smith's is in the bag. England is down Economics and doesn't know Physics yet. IMO they must be broke since they're paying us 85gpt and are in a war. Risk of culture flip is (among other things) related to distance to the two capitals...

Note to the next player: I forgot to MM the cities in the last turn. Please check them to make sure, war weariness isn't causing problems. During my turns it was farly quiet, but it will happen sooner or later.

Preturn: Sci to 40%, Lux to 20% -> MilTrad in 1 @ +58gpt Avaris: Changed Knight to Aqueduct Kuara: Changed Musket to Temple Edfu: Musket to Courthouse IT: We research MilTrad T1 - 710AD Astronomy from Mongols for Chemistry and 7gpt MilTrad to England for Banking, 79g and 51gpt...

Got it, playing now!

A pity we couldn't trade Metallurgy, we could have at least one of the two missing techs by now (the civ nearly finishing the research wouldn't trade it away for tech, I guess). OK, so it's MilTrad to give away, although I'm not comfortable with a civ on our doorstep that has Cavs. I'll trade it...

Solid play, Mr.B. Let's hope the Byzantines and the English neglect the lower tech path for a while - I hear a Cavalry push coming! They might have some plans of their own for this place, it's really time to give them something to do...........

I'd second the direct way to Mil Trad. Nothing beats a good old cavalry push (well...infantry perhaps....and more cavalry.....) and perhaps the Sumerians neglect this path, so we can extort some techs when we make peace! Let's hope there's not too much Saltpeter around!

Yes England has Gunpowder, they would sell it to us for Wines, Incense, 612g (all our gold) and 12gpt (although this is still negotiable). This would still leave one wine to give to Byzanz for an MA against Sumeria. IIRC a 50gpt deal with Byzanz runs out in a few turns, so an additional 12gpt...