We're almost ready to build Oxford. Washington is the obvious big beaker city.
As usual we're getting through seige faster than they're being replaced so need to build some before mucking around with knights and maces and similar riff-raff.
Here's a summary of what little happened over the past ten turns:
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1250. Start, swop Washington and Boston to trebs. Stagnate Washington before it turns miserable.
1260 Sitting Bull resides in the Apostolic Palace.
1270. This turn was really boring.
1280. Gunpowder > Banking. Banking is very dull...
1290. Sacrifice 3 cats at Orleans for nothing.
1300. Banking > Economics. perhaps we'll get a free GM .
Sacrifice sword, pike and 2 maces at Orleans for nothing.
1310. Having reached a bare minimum of six universities Washington starts OU.
Sacrifice another cat and mace at Orleans. Eventually capture the city. This had been a bit tedious because the defenders actually outnumbered the attackers, 3 knights eventually turned up to tip the balance. Was it worth it? All these units thrown away just to capture a city and the Mausoleum of Long Golden Afternoons?
1320. An absolute nadir of ennui:
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We refuse Sitting Bull's demands to stop trading with Isabella.
A spy stirs up a short revolt in Paris before fleeing to Washington. We throw away yet another treb.
Oh look. Some pyramids, an academy and another scotland yard. Could have been worse I suppose.
Still, DG is even more fed up that we are:
Ok, you want to capitulate? Well, if you insist.
Try to break the tedium by swopping civics:
Probably the dullest turn ever...
1330. Finally, something interesting. We get two Great Merchants turning up in Washington.
Economics>Rep Parts.
1340. Sitting Bull builds the Sistine Chapel. Another AP vote arrives and we vote for Lizzie.
1350.Well. That's that. We'll be hard pressed to win this game
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before 1500ad.
I'm bored:
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Hermitage finishes next turn. OU finishes in two. How about picking up rifling, switch back to Buddhism and theocracy and just wipe out Willem and Izzy. Maybe send our GMs on some TMs (can you have two TMs to the same city on the same turn?) to raise cash and upgrade our maces to rifles. Maces are currently stacked in Orleans. Got some knights in Rheims. It's possible that when Orleans and Paris end their revolts and pop their borders this will push DG below 50% of his territory and thus break the vassalage. Still, that'll be vaguely interesting for the next player.
Once upon a time, it was a dark and stormy night. AK had some and played in Barbslinger (for those of you who remember early civ3) mode. Fortunately, no impotent decisions were required. Seriously, we're in cruise mode. Conquest or dom is doable. hitting the highlights:
195 - AP vote for leader. Abstain.
Build various economic buildings and some military until Turn 202 when Liz demanded econ. I caved since she's the only one who remotely doesn't hate us. This caving made her pleased. The econ monopoly was broken anyway. Music -> Chem on the road to steel.
turn 204 - Chem -> steel (cannon)
turn 205 - Mr. Bull desired we declare on Izzy. Nah, not yet. AP vote for leader again. Abstain again.
turn 206 - 2 GM reach Amsterdam and net 2600 gold on trade mission. We'll use this to upgrade units.
Turn 208 - Steel -> MT (better mounted units) drop research to zero and continue to upgrade.
Turn 210 - MT in a few. Upgrade the ponies and then go after Billy or Izzy.
I may have gone slightly overboard on the military buildup.
I luv
The army looks great!
Il look at the save and play tomorrow morning so if someone has any comments or suggestions on the follow up plan make sure they are in before then.
Pre-Turn :
Our citizens tremple in fear and as Shadzy takes the reign again ,
They still remember all their great-grandfathers/mothers that didnt to this maniac and got brutally or :suicide: .
They have learned their lesson since.
Shadzy feels mercifull and pleased over his citizens and decides to spare their humble lives this time .
As he visits all of the city's in the glorious American country he fires all the merchants , the spy's and the artists since they are ripping his people off , in stead he hires more scientist hoping they will discover some new and stronger guns in the future.
The greedy Admiral Kutzov who had lead our people the last 150 years seems to have slowed down our research to put in more cash however the treasury i very smal!
Where has all this money go , did he put it to use for the new army's or to fill in his own pockets?
We will never know.
Shadzy wants no such things any more and demands more and faster research!
He spots his beautifull army's and decides the time for peace is over!
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He visits the puny French and grants them some of his horses and marble stones only asking for some fishes and some military support in return.
Offcourse the French dont dare to refuse knowing this maniac will burn down every house they have.
1505AD: Our English neighbours got a great priest.
Knowing Shadzy he isnt to pleased with being at war with only 1 civ he wants more blood!
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1510AD: Our bright scientists have discovered the secrets of military tradition , after much training our rifleman can now fire their rifles from their horse without falling off and so move faster over the battlefield!
Our scientists get a new task at hand , our prisons are getting overfull so they have to look into the art of constitution so we can lock those criminals up in jails.
Shadzy who has seen the future is glad that military dictatorship is not yet a crime for many years to come.
Lizzy has build the Islam shrine and from now on will only kneel to the east and make some funny noises chanting things Shadzy does not understand , as he is in a good mood te decides not to kill her (yet).
The first city falls under the might of our knight and rifleman , Shadzy is sure many more will follow .
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Our Victorious troops killed 6 batalions without losing any ourself!
1515AD: Those dutch pigs cant hide in their city's and behind they walls neither , we just shoot them down
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We killed no less then 10 batalions losing none ourself!
All our spy's are moving to English lands .
1520AD: Our army keeps marching and massacring everyone in sight.
In spain we captured
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Where we killed 7 batalions with only some wounded troops of our own , while in The Netherlands we captured
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Where 2 of our batalions got overcondifend and got theirself killed but we punished the dutch pigs by killing their 6 batalions defending this city.
1525AD: Our scientists have learned how to make prisons , now they will focus on corporations to increase our trade network.
1535AD: Our scientists who are working their asses off have learned the secrets of corporations , they start on steam power so our workers will work more effeciant.
After many years off bombarding the walls and enjoying the spoils of war we captured 2 more city's towards our glorious empire being
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The Army of Sevilla fought bravely and killed 2 of our finest rifle squads trained in conquering city's , we regret their loss.
While the army of Maastricht didnt put up much of a fight , they killed 1 of our rifle batalions by a lucky mortar strike but where quickly annihilated.
The leaders of these backwards civilizations came to beg Shadzy on their knees for peace , despite being a bloodthirsty maniac he agreed to their plea for peace.
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We also got a very bright scientist who was send to Washington and teach the other scientists how its done.
While our general who is getting to old to lead his troops into battle was send to Boston to increase the quality of new recruits.
1540AD: We make some trades with our new vassel Bill , we get astronomy and divine right for economics + constitution and 40 gold pieces.
We also get open borders with both Bill and Skinny Bella and give them some of our excess resources .
1550AD: Bill gets a Great Artist , who needs those anyway?
Our people in Philly are revolting , they can be very pleased that this is the end of Shadzy's reign of they would have felt his wrath!
Our army's are in place to kill the weird looking old man with stripes on his face , they keep spotting weird smoke patterns they dont understand .
We have more troops on the way but not all of them are healed up but since
they are elite American troops Shadzy requests nothing more then victory from them , wounded or not.
Spoiler:
We almost have enough lands for domination and have around a 150k score if we finish soon.
Pls keep a save of the turn before victory so we can get the game into our HoF .
The greedy Admiral Kutzov who had lead our people the last 150 years seems to have slowed down our research to put in more cash however the treasury i very smal!
Where has all this money go , did he put it to use for the new army's or to fill in his own pockets?
ROSTER
quill18 : RL blues still? Up, on the clock. 13 hours or so let for a got it
wenz : on deck. up if no got it by quill
trynthlas - earning money for Civ V. skipped
pigswill -
AK -
shadzy19 - opened a whole lotta whackage on our foes!
Thank you all for making my first emperor game such smooth sailing.
Somehow I expected a more difficult game. I think I'll make a sweeping generalization that arboria plays at least one level lower (power of the chops and all that).
Anyway, I'll try to come up with something less boring for next time
Thank you all for making my first emperor game such smooth sailing.
Somehow I expected a more difficult game. I think I'll make a sweeping generalization that arboria plays at least one level lower (power of the chops and all that).
Anyway, I'll try to come up with something less boring for next time
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and played in Barbslinger (for those of you who remember early civ3) mode. Fortunately, no impotent decisions were required. Seriously, we're in cruise mode. Conquest or dom is doable. hitting the highlights:
as Shadzy takes the reign again , 
or :suicide: .
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