Ank13 - Monty goes into Space

[Ankka]

650AD [preturn]: Slow down the prebuild by changin 2 forest tiles to coast.. we get some more gold doing that... and gunpowder drops one turn.

660AD [1] - 730AD [8]: We get Education from the Great Library. Slow down the prebuild a little just in case.

740AD [9] - 750AD [10]: Slow the prebuild a little more. Lower science when only one turn left on gunpowder.

Gunpowder comes in. Start Astronomy at 100% science, coming in 20, -17gpt. Easily affordable.

We lose silks, gems and horses and Monti is about to riot.

Sell gunpowder to..

Hammi for 2gpt, silks, horses, 2 gold, WM.
Joan for 41gpt. She's rich.
Bizzy for 12gpt, 5 gold and Gems.
The others are either poor or stupid or both.

Argh. German borders expanded in the North and we lost incense. Again. And he's trading them away... Have to hire an entertainer... but it i still cheaper than to lift luxtax.


760AD [11] - 800AD [15]: Bizzy kicks our archers out of his territory.

Bizzy completes sun tzu's and Alex starts sistine's a few turns later.





Tomoyo - UP!
Cuivienen - on skip until January
bed_head7 - on deck
Formula51 - are you here?
Ankka - just played

REMEMBER: 24h to post a "got it", total 48 to post turnlog and save.

 

[Tomoyo]

Got it.

 

[Ankka]

Tomoyo? You there?

 

[Tomoyo]

Oops. Got it for real.

30 second rule.

 

[Tomoyo]

Pre-flight: Trade Monotheism to India for Iron and furs. Research upped by one turn and prebuild by two.

IT: Avignon completes Hanging Gardens… uh oh, here comes the cascade…

810AD:

820AD:

830AD: Buy Astronomy from the Germans. Yes, I’m sure that I want to waste 90 shields.

840AD: Copernicus’ Observatory completed. Start on University and remaximize shields.

850AD: Music Theory is out, but we don’t want it.

860AD:

IT: Athens completes Sistine Chapel. The cascade goes to JS Bach and Leo’s. I hope this cascade doesn’t go too far…

870AD:

880AD: Get Banking from the Babs.

890AD: Why did a German horseman just walk into our borders?

900AD: And why did he just walk out?

910AD:

920AD:

930AD:

940AD:

950AD: Renegotiate deals.

Notes to the next player:
- After university is done, re-maximize shields.
- Must stop wonder cascade or we won’t get Newton’s.

Save

 

[Ankka]

Ok... How far are we from ToG/Newton's? Do they AI's have that? Any idea if the cascade will end before we get it?

How fast is our research? We should build a bank too, after the university.


Tomoyo - just played
Cuivienen - on skip until January
bed_head7 - UP!
Formula51 - are you here?
Ankka

REMEMBER: 24h to post a "got it", total 48 to post turnlog and save.

 

[Tomoyo]

We're still researching chem. We'll need Physics, then ToG.

The AIs are only up Music Theory.

 

[bed_head7]

I have it.

 

[bed_head7]

980 AD (3) - Chem discovered. With it known, we have more beakers than we need, so science to 10%.

1030 AD (8) - Buy Music Theory from Babylonians for 10g. Couldn't get them down to 9g. Oh well. Navigation was learned in the last couple of turns, so sell contact to Iroquois and Russia, with 16g thrown in on tiop, for Navigation. Get 170g, 3gpt from Germans for same contacts.

Metallurgy and Economics are out there. We learn Physics next turn, and should be able to get both through trading. Switch colosseum to Smith's for prebuild and then transfer over to Newton's once we learn ToG.

 

[bed_head7]

Oh, good, I just realized no one had responded again, and I thought I had forgotten to post again. Not the case this time.

 

[Ankka]

Ok... looking fine.

Formula is up. If he doesn't show up tomorrow, I'll play and he is considered MIA.

What should our strategy in the industrial era be? What techs & wonders are the ones we must have, if any? What would be the research path so it doesn't interfere with the AI's ones?

 

[Cuivienen]

I'm back. (10)

 

[Ankka]

Ok... if you want it, please play it as I'm still a bit tired and up in another SG too.

And I just played...

 

[Ankka]

1100AD [preturn] - 1110AD [1]: Research Physics... slow down the colosseum in case it could be used for a prebuild... but we're to slow to research ToG.. or are we?

Yeah, we are. Veto it, we need not a colosseum. Build a pike instead... this way we'll get a mini-prebuild of it anyway.

1120AD [2] - 1150AD [5]: After the pike we can get the prebuild just nicely.

1160AD [6] - 1190AD [9]: Some lux deals just ended... renew:

Chivvy to Hiawatha for 2 luxes, horses, WM + 25 gold.

1200AD [10] 1210AD [11]: Sell Banking to Gandhi for PP, furs, iron, 13 gold.. and WM.

1220AD [12]: A stupid barb galley destroys my prebuild... by one turn.

Because I had slowed it a little and then the galley takes several tiles by just moving through them... shouldn't it affect only the tile it ends its turn on? Gah.

1230AD [13]: 23 turns until Newton's is ready... way too long for my taste. Oh well... start Magnetism.

1250AD [15]: Ok... 8 turns to Magnetism. 21 to Newton's. Nothing else to report....




Tomoyo - UP!
Cuivienen - on deck
bed_head7
Formula51 - not here - we need a replacement
Ankka

REMEMBER: 24h to post a "got it", total 48 to post turnlog and save.


Which one is it?

 

[Tomoyo]

Got it. It really bothers me how the galley could do that. I'll play this after Zavior's SG.

 

[bed_head7]

The colosseum was a prebuild, to be switched to Smith's and then Newton's. It should have worked out about right. I definitely didn't want a colosseum.

 

[Tomoyo]

1270AD (4): ARGH!!!!!!!!! Germans found New Berlin! Stealing our Wines!

1280AD (6): Give India Chemistry for Economics and some gold.

1285AD (7): Magnetism comes in; start Metallurgy.

1300AD (10): Renegotiate the resource deals.

1305AD (11): If you're reading the turnlog, then you'll know that the save is here.

1310AD (12): A whole lot of people are building Shakes’ also, some enter the Industrial Ages. We didn’t even get to trade ToG…

1325AD (15): Sell Physics to India for some resources.

Newton’s in 6, Metallurgy in 2.

 

[Ankka]

bed_head: didn't see any longer time taking builds going on...

Tomoyo: forgot to mention: I used the jag warrior to block the settler pair, which would always turn around. Then I would go into my terrtitory and when they showed up on the mountain again I would block the plains... and so on. Forgot to say that.

Let's hope we get Newton's even though I have done some moves... seems that I was too tired still yesterday to play effectively.


Tomoyo
Cuivienen - UP![/b]
bed_head7 - on deck
open for an interested lurker
Ankka

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[bed_head7]

I suggested trading Physics for Econ. to get a prebuild of Smith's, then as soon as we learned Physics, switch to that. Smith's hadn't been started but a couple turns before, so there is no danger in cascade, as they might be able to beat us to 360s for Newton's, but not 540s for Smith's and then the cascade to Newton's. I guess you didn't trade Physics so that no one else could get ToG first? I guess it doens't really matter.

 

[Cuivienen]

Okay, I've got it.