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Yeah, but getting churchhill would get us to something like 30 cities, and he still has more land to settle. Monty is Monty, and has a neighbor with a different religion in between us and him. Eventually there will be blood, but as long as we keep up the pace there's little chance he could...

Well, SP was an idea for GP points in Berlin and would allow us to use Theocracy without having to invest at all in Theology. As for plan of attack: I was thinking that we would go basically straight to engineering, which means we'd be looking to form some stacks Churchhill that would probably...

@lymond We want a Great Prophet cause we've got Judaism holy city and like 15 cities with it. That's part of the reason I like NE there, because then we can run extra priests to give us better chances of getting that 3 GP golden age. I still like HE for Lailabela, just because I don't think we...

Well, I can see your points, but my quickest dom victory on immortal (1420 AD) was basically one with medieval, and only around the end of the game as I was claiming the last few cities did Curis actually play a role. The way I see it, if we can declare war on the English pretty soon and bribe...

Some thoughts looking at the save (Great job Lymond): NE Discussion - I think it can be a GPP source and be Bureau, but there's no real reason to put NE here. Instead, a binary with a not as great GPP farm would still be just as good. So far, I think it's got to be Barca. Cows, sugar, some...

Deity/Normal/NHNE 1760 AD (T262) Failure...

Deity/Normal/NHNE 1400 AD (T200) 66 turns or less

The biggest difference is, and I'll stress now it may be based on a faulty assumption (AI vision = Wherever their units can move to + natural sight and AI reaction to cities in danger), but: The staging tiles for the southern force on T112 would be hidden from Izzy's AI view (Presuming doesn't...

The problem with just grabbing marble/toledo is that it isn't really worth the war right now. Toledo is still jungled to here and back and Marble will have a hard time stealing the corn from Barca. If we had those two city sites on an isolated map, and corn wasn't there for marble (which it...

Turn 112 sound good for the a war, anyone? I think I've got it so we can deploy 6 HAs on Marble while moving our 13 HAs in Germany towards Madrid. Please excuse the hand drawn numbers: Okay, so bear with me here. Red dots represent cities. The Cyan dots on the bottom represent 4 HAs on...

Yeah, Barca should be a priority. With Izzy still several turns from metal units we might as well cripple her now and then we can play mop up later. Have we tried bribing Montezuma onto Cyrus yet?

Deity/Normal/NHNE 820 AD (T151) So we beat on...

@Ohblivion

I haven't checked to see if we've captured any more workers besides the first turn but we want to make sure we have 8-10 workers. Otherwise builds/research look good. Maybe put the Berlin forests into a palace. We could also collect a little fail gold if we put some hammers into palace in...

Any way to bribe Shaka onto Cyrus? While he could end up with another vassal, at last then you could be pretty sure he'd send his stacks that way, and you could just go for Genghis and eliminate his backstab potential. If you're going Cossacks and you get there while they are running around...