Ag9- The turnover. The plot thickens.
70BC Too bad we cannot afford to buy in the Indians against Greece. This will get bloody fast.
50Bc I note we need to raze Pharsalos ( The ivory town) as it is built on top of the Ivory. I will pillage the road at once though.
30Bc fend off a greek archer landing from a galley. It costs us two swordsmen, but we raze Ur, and the Oracle. guess they were not so good, or they would have moved out when they foresaw our firs coming.
IBT: Sumeria comes, and wants us to pay for peace. We laugh at them.
10BC I start to move troops down towards German lands. We need to take out Bremen ASAP, ptherwise Germany will have both horses and iron.
10AD Chase down the two Sumerian Settlers. I have gotten what I wanted out of the Sumerians, and thus I get the last thing we can get. I get Feudalism from them for peace. Too bad you cannot capture techs by killing the last city of a civ.
IBT: Germany sends two stacks of archers northwards. Looks like they are on a sneak attack vector.
30AD
50AD
IBT: Delhi completes the Great Wall.
70AD Horsemen are in position for striking at Germany. I will wait a couple of turns for the swordsmen to regroup.
90Ad Ourt swordsmen wave at the german archers as we pass each other in no mans land between Sumer and Germany.
110Ad Six horsemen are good enough odds for taking on a Greek city, and Pharsalos lies in ruins. We lost none due to the nimble commanders who retreated to fight another day.
I fight off another marine invasion. I need to raise lux tax, since I use the units inside our city to strike a warrior.
IBT: Germany and Sumeria is at war.
Greek archers destroy an exposed horseman.
130AD Troops are into position for war upon Germany. I start to collect another stack of troops that can deal with the Greeks nearby.
150AD Declare war on the German empire. They have grown fat and complacent.
IBT: Lose a couple of captured workers heading homeward to archers from the shadows. Zambalam expands its cultural borders, and shrinks to size 2. Looks like Sumer is about to expand.
Greeks are starting to show up in force now, I will see if our newfangled medievals are up to the task of making them regret their choices in life.
I discover that regular archers do not attack elite swordsmen on the flat ground. That knowledge can be useful.
170 An approaching indian settler is making eyes on our gems/iron, and it is time to play interference.
IBT: Greece pulls in 8 archers underneath a Hoplite. It is perhaps time to speak a bit with them.
190Ad Our elite troops makes mincemeat out of Bremens defenders, and the main force will continue southwards.
I sign peace with Greece for Literature, 94 gold and 34 gpt. We could probably deal with their archer stacks, but I would much rather go to war against India now, with Greece on our side.
I spend some money building an Embassy in Greece. Athens is size 12, 20 spt. They have no clowns, and run 40% science. They own no strategic resources, but have two luxes.
They have 14 turns on great library.
Hmm, my plan backfired. They say the will NEVER go to war against India. Sigh.
I will let next player, or group decide if we want war with India sooner rather than later, and leave them in peace for now.
IBT: Greeks start Great Lighthouse.
210AD Move troops into position.
IBT: German counters strike out one swordsman.
230AD Munich is razed without losses. I build up a wall of units, preventing passage between the two halves of our continent. ( It is not completely closed, if it is completely closed, the AI will take offense. )
IBT: Germany offer straight peace. I decline, and lose a swordsman and a horse for my troubles. But the germans destroy the Sumerians. I will need to reposition our forces to save our iron, as it is likely the germans will send their archers northwards now.
250AD I set our city on Catapult. A couple of those will help immensely.
We could get peace with germany if we wanted. We have enough forces down south to maybe take another city, if we do not lose to much while travelling to that city.
There are a lot of Greek archers trying to travel south. I think we might want them to do so, as a sneak attack upon Germany would be the only reason to travel in that direction.
Our economy is rather good, and I can see us building a library and trying for Chivalry by ourselves.
I would also like to see a war against India, with greeks on our side. We could use a couple of cats to soften up the wall protected Indian cities though.
Onwards ho.
Grimjack
them all.
it's weird to get scientific funding from barbs..
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