Ank07 - Plain Deity

[Rik Meleet]

Well: we better do kill our production; in 2 turns 2 more lux-deals expire.
But it will get better soon; once we've railroaded and the techs for gpt with the Americans expire.
I'd put luxuries to 0%, hire some entertainers and taxmen and just try to hold on.
I tested your save and MM-ing the cities I could get it to gold: 68, gpt -8. And you can always try to sell our WM every turn.
We have 5 warriors, 1 longbow. Disbanding them gives shields and reduces upkeep cost.
Also some cities can build wealth.

Sufficient options to survive the 7 turns which it takes to get back 64 gpt. In turn 8 we get back another 110 gpt. Just hang in there !

 

[Ankka]

Ok. That is what I thought. I'l finish the turns when I have the energy, I'm for some reason quite tired now...

 

[Ankka]

Doubleduh.


1405AD [Preturn]: Let's see how we are doing. Looks like Rik's trading had a dark side: we are running a little (-4gpt) decifit... Well, let's see.

Nothing to change. Press enter.

IBT: Yamama market > bank.

We lose our supply of wines. Looks like it's useless though, no city is in danger of rioting.

1410AD [1]: Great, we have a total of 3 workers... gotta get some more.

Build Suhar at the coal > temple.

Also our economy is boosted a bit. Looks like we will need those wines... the citizens demand it. D'oh. Cleo isn't willing to sell them, though...

If I turn on lux, we'll run 28 gold decifit. Gah. And Cleo won't sell her lux's for anything... Turn lux on again.

Without extra taxmen I can get our decifit only to -25 gpt..

IBT: RoP with Osman ends, and they don't want to continue. No problem, we wouldn't have had any money for that.

Kufah worker > worker.
Khurasan bank > worker.

1415AD [2]: Do a lot of MMing, and get our decifit to -8gpt. Not so bad, just mainly switched from plains tiles which didn't affect production to coast tiles which give 1 more trade. Simple.

IBT: Khurasan and Yamama build workers.

1420AD [3]: Realise that we'll get 22gpt back from Cleo next turn, that'll solve some problems... at least I hope so. We'll lose a luxury at the same time... let's see what happens.

Do a little MMing and our gpt is -5.

IBT: Kufah and Khurasan build workers.
Merw builds settler > worker.
Anjar musket > worker.

Our Gems for 22gpt deal with Osman ends.

1425AD [4]: Notice that we don't need them, no city is gonna riot.

Disband longbow in Aden to get the bank faster.

Cancel our Incense for 22gpt deal with Cleo, no problem still.

Ou income is still -4gpt... someone was paying to us?

Well, our economy isn't that bad now.

Wonder where to taake our settler and notice a hole in the Egyptian (former Chinese) terrotory with silks. Egyptian troops block the railways, so the trip there will take a few turns...

Now what's this? I have moved the units and am MMing the cities and... many are in riot danger? They weren't like this in the beginning of the turn...

It would cost 39 gpt to raise the lux again. And noone is accepting our gpt payments?

Do some MMing, and get no cities to riot. But the gpt is down to -46!

Back to the cities...

With the best MMing I can do I can get it to -38 gpt. And many cities are on shortage...

One more round to check. -33gpt. We have 55 gold.

IBT: Mecca colosseum > wealth.
Basra starves, couldn't help it.
Khurasan musket > worker.
Wamama worker > worker.

1430AD [5]: Gah. We won't survive over 2 turns without going under the 0 gold limit. Oh dear.

With all MMing I do, I can only get the decifit to -20gpt. We have 22 gold.

I manage to trade our WM around for 8 gold.

Some extra MMing and disbanding a warrior gets us to -13 gpt. Maybe this is doable. But not very easy. And hectic.

IBT: Kufah worker.
Basra starves, but builds the bank > cath.
Several other workers built.

1435AD [6]: Now why didn't I get this before? The drops in size in the cities make us lose a lot of gpt, now we are at -45!

The best I can get us is to -24gpt. We have 17 gold. Time for the Wm trading I should've remembered to do every turn...

Only 22 gold now. Not enough. And no one is wanting to do a lux trade... oh dear. I must say I can't do any further. Any ideas?

 

[Ankka]

Savey too. If someone wants to try, feel free to play, This is pretty tedious MMing... still 3 turns on the gpt deal with Abe.

 

[Bede]

You got the right idea, but building workers dropped trade and increased the unit support cost so there was a double whammy for every worker produced. There may be some buildings to sell. Pulling citiznes and making taxmen reduces the lux burden and may improve the cash flow, especially in the western peninsula towns.

 

[Ankka]

But actually, this is PTW so one taxman produces only 1 gold, while a coast tile makes 3 and even normal roaded tiles make 2.

 

[conehead234]

We can try to irragate some tiles to keep the people from starving. Who is up?

 

[Bede]

Looks like I'm next after Ankka finishes.

 

[Ankka]

Ok, as you guys want me to finish... I'll do it today in the evening.

 

[Ankka]

1435AD [6] (cont):Do a little more MMing... We are up to -16gpt. That will save us this turn.

1440AD [7]: The settler and escort finally get there. Let's hope Cleo won't get angry...

Our gpt is now -14, a little better.

Sell our WM for 5 gold. We now have 11 gold. Must sell something.

Disband a warrior, get one gpt more.
Disband our last warrior, gpt is now -12, we have 11 gold.

2 more turns to go on the gp deal with Abe.

Sell walls from Karasjok, we have 13 gold and -12 gpt.

IBT: Spain and China sign peace.

Mosul riots.
So does Well Worth Rest.

1445AD [8]: Settle The Risk is Our Friend at the Egyptian border.

w00t! Our gpt is now -6, we have 1 gold, by selling our WM around we should be on clear waters again, the deal expires next turn... Pretty tedious.

Oh dear. Cleo is broke. We'll only get 4 gold from the trades...

Oh, but we got a new lux, so we don't need those entertainers.

MM round begins...

-1gpt. 5 gold. We survived and lost only 1 City Walls. And some production. But we survived. Phew.

IBT: America and Spain sign peace.

1450AD [9]: We are up to +67gpt. [dance]

Now we can afford a good 20% of luxtax so I can kick all the clowns to the road.

Khurasan can be a nice 2-turn worker factory.

I must apologise for the fact that I forgot to set the scientist for a few turns...

1455AD [10]: Now the 110gpt deal expired. +117 gpt. Now that's a big number. We should be able to hurry the temples and stuff in the Eastern Colonies one per turn with this rate. Approximately.

We should also be building workers, a lot to get that terrain worked to the max, we are suffering badly from the lack of them.

The worst should be over now on the financial side...

at least until Rik's next turnset.

Mecca is building Weath because I wasn't sure what to build there, I mean would it grow next turn after the worker as the foodbox is full...

 

[Ankka]

Save to next better player.

 

[Ankka]

Bede - UP!
conehead234 - on deck
Rik Meleet
Ankka

REMEMBER: 24h to post a got it, 48 total to complete the turns.

 

[Bede]

Pick it up tomorrow, play tomorrow.

It's tomorrow,so got it.

Post tonight late

 

[Ankka]

Bede? Any news?

 

[Bede]

0-1455
Growing population and increased entertainment cost is expensive, so I go looking for trade goods. Also we need to maintain good relations with the Egyptians and the Ottomans at a minimum and trade deals will help with that. We are going to need ~3000 in the bank to acquire any tech, however, so if the lux deals don;t reduce total outlay....10% on the entertainment is worth ~34gpt so here goes A couple of palces remian a problem but the judicious use of tax collectors resolves that and we have 8 more gpt incoming.

When I try to make a deal with Isabella she tells me of Ottoman accusations of "perfidy", and I walk away trying to remember what we ever did to Osman. Osman gets 21gpt for gems as the last 10% on the lux slider is worth 43gpt. The deal nets another 13gpt in income so we are now up to 140gpt. 10 more and I can buy a tech WooHooo.

2-1465
We get to +152gpt so go buy Industrialization from Abe for Ivory, Saltpeter, 103gpt and 75g. I can sell it on Isabella for Spices and 142g but decide to wait. She has zero free cash flow as she won't even give 1gpt for 100g, so maybe she is researching something useful that we can trade for. As the lux deals have satisfied our citizens and I agree that self researchis just too expensive now that I've studied the cost curves, change cathedral and university builds to factories.

Egypt sends massive numbers of troops into China in the north, then declares war.And Mao comes looking foe our protection sorry apl but I think I'm going to thrwo in my lot with Cleo as she just cpatured Vadso from you, and Stockholm is next.

3-1470
Abe wants a Mutual Protection Pact and then Osman demands our territory map and 31g. Turn one down and acquiesce to the other and peace is maintained.

Xinjan falls to Egypt.

4-1475
Thw Witch of Thebescomes calling wanting maps and 31g. Sure honey.

5-1480
Rush a settler out of the far northwest to claim a salient next to Stockholm.

Canton falls to the Egyptians and Ottomans start Hoovers Dam.

6-1490

Egypt has crushed the Chinese and the entire northern half the continent has gone yellow. Switch Anjar's acquescut to settler (no loss) for dispatch to the north to claim a sliver of ground next to Risk is....and another out of Yamama to claim some ground on the river near Well Worth...

7-1495

Renew the RoP with Egypt but her exponential growth through conquest raisies the price to 10gpt. Renew the RoP with Spain straght up, then trade Industrialization for Medicine straight up. She would have included gpt in the deal but I'd rather she keep and do some research for us. Renew the RoP with Abe straight up.

With the Chinese hanging by a silk thread the Egyptians move massive troop numbers into Ottoman territory but don't declare. Looking at the diplomatic screen suggest that America might be her target as she has an ongoing trade realtionship with Osman but nonme with Abe.

Rush the temple in the Risk is...and add a few shields to a musket building in Aden.
Fund Sana'a in the Far East and Tabik in the far north.


1500

Abe will give 75g for Horses and Mao will give 7gpt but for some reason he thinks we have done the Ottomans dirty in the past so no lump sum.

Send a cav out to do a little recon and find the Egyptians on their way to the Chinese cities in the Far East. So no new target just a round about way of getting there.

There is another source of coal available in the Far East and some more horses NW of Chengdu between Stockholm and Risk is...

conehead234 - UP!
Rik Meleet- on deck
Ankka
Bede

 

[Ankka]

Nice job, Bede. Factories will be aboost to our production.

We should try to get to Replaceable parts ASAP so we get infs, arts and faster workers. If Cleo attacks us before we have a decent force of those we're dead before you have the time to say "Cleo is mean."

 

[Ankka]

conehead? cooneheeaad...!

 

[conehead234]

Just skip me, I need to prepare for Vacation, I will be gone from the 22 to the 31.

 

[Rik Meleet]

OK, I'll take it then.

 

[Rik Meleet]

IHT: Check all cities.
Death or the Roses switches to August. Also hire 1 scientist.

IBT: America and Ottomans sign peace. Egyptian bombers bomb China.
The Risk is Our Friend temple -> lib
Khurasan Granary -> musket
Suhar (our coal city) flipped to Egypt ...
The people love me and expand the Palace.

[0] 1505 AD. Cashrush the settler in Fustat. We need Coal.

IBT:
Karasjok Market -> aqua
Fustat Settler -> settler

[1] 1510 AD. Get worker to irrigate and mine. Move settler onto RR. Rush temple in Tabuk for 112 gold.

IBT:
Mecca factory -> musket
Tabuk temple -> lib

[2] 1515 AD. Found "Live life on the edge" to get our coal. Starts temple.
Railroad Program restarted. Rush temple in Sana'a for 108 gold.

IBT: Edrine finishes Hoover.
Sana'a temple -> Lib

[3] 1520 AD. Workers return to their work on the Railroads. Rush Temple in Live life on the edge for 116 gold.

IBT: Watch Egyptian cavs kill some Chinese Infs. A lot of Egyptian warships sail our coast.
Live life on the edge (Llote) temple -> lib
Mecca musket -> Coal Plant.

[4] 1525 AD. Musket send to Llote.
Cashrush temple in Hama for 68 gold.

IBT: Egyptian troops raze the Chinese city of Karachi, freeing up another Coal.
Hama temple -> Lib

[5] 1530 AD. Workers work.

IBT: Chinese Infs in their Capital Madras kill 3 Egyptian cavs and retreat one, for no losses.

[6] 1535 AD. Cashrush Lib in Mosul for 100 gold.

IBT:
Mosul lib -> Cathedral
Death or the Roses Aqua -> Uni
Yamama settler -> settler
Aden musket -> Pike (we seem to have lost our Saltpeter)
Fustat settler -> settler.

[7] 1540 AD. sending settlers out to fill up holes. I can't reach former Karachi, the road is blocked by Chinese and Ottoman troops.
Rush lib in The Risk is Our Friend for 292 gold. It's "Cultural Domination" all over again

IBT:
Mecca Coal Plant -> Ansar
Najran factory -> Coal Plant
The Risk is Our Friend Lib -> court
Basra Factory -> Coal Plant
Bodo Factory -> Coal Plant

[8] 1545 AD. Found "The Lion sleeps tonight" in the jungle, the mighty jungle. Temple started.
Our settler can't reach Karachi in 1 turn because some sections aren't railroaded yet. Sending workers over to correct that. Hmmm too few available.

IBT: Egyptian fleet bombards China. The people love me and expand the palace.
Mecca Ansar -> musket

[9] 1550 AD. AARRGHH !! I can't settle on the Karachi-spot; an Egyptian canon is blocking the site.
Found "Close to former Karachi" close to former Karachi. -> temple.
Rush temple in The Lion sleeps tonight.

IBT:
The Lion Sleeps Tonight temple -> lib
Mecca Musket -> Musket

[10] 1555 AD. rush temple in "Close to former Karachi" for 116 gold.

The Save 1555AD.