Turn 0 :
- I hire a scientist at Sorbonne and send musketeers for intelligence.
The first city, Libyan, is poorly defended. It is size 5 so no draft there.
But I need to take those knights on the hill. Grenadiers are good to wipe them (I hope). Upgrade four experienced maces to greandiers for 440 gold to do that
Huamanga is well defended. I don't plan to ever approach this city. It is blocking MM and that is the most important thing. Only 2 mounted units there. Good. I don't like seeing improvmenets pillaged
Note the indian worker building a road to Delhi
Turn 1 :
- Found Rheims (I don't know if it well ever grow and work sea tiles before colossus is obsolete but whatever). I did in all my turnset, tried to get some sea tiles worked
- Troops head to Libyan. Units on the hill are hidden into the city by HC. Is he sensing something ?
The CR cats are kept in Lyons. When upgraded to cannons, those units will be far more valuable and won't just die against longbows. They can take even rifles.
Turn 2 :
- Tabriz starts a courthouse. Lyons finshes grenadier and starts a cat.
I take 210 gold from HC as ransom then declare on him the same turn. What lack of chivalry
I also find this deal with Mansa tempting. I want to upgrade all units that are at hand and this guy has a loooooot of money
First grenadiers loose to knight and longbow on the hill. Grrr. I finish them with musketeers. They will have promotions next turn.
Turn 3 :
Libyan has 5 units
cat 1 Bombard city and reduces only 3% culture and I brought only 5 cats. pffffbt.
Send cat 2 against LB. Withdraws and causes only colateral damage.
Send cat 3 against LB. Withdraws and do direct and colateral damage.
Cat 4 dies but LB is brought to 0.5/6
Take the city then with grenies and musketeers. I tried to get all 4 xp units to 5 xp
Research is set to liberlaism. No one has it yet but HC has economics so they must all compete for liberlalism at the moment. We can finish it in 8 turns and have almost enough money to continue at 100% research.
Turn 4 :
Pagoda is finished in Capital. Capital gets back to settler
I upgrade one musketter to medic I to accelerate healing. I plan to stay a little bit at Libyan waiting for HC and Mansa to clash at the borders. Mansa must be transporting his SOD to HC borders now.
There is already some happiness problems. We lost the fur traded with HC and WW is at +1 in many cities
Turn 5 :
Kill a knight of HC trying to pillage a farm
Asoka is the first to discover liberlaism
. I keep researching it. This is good trading material and value has already decreased by 2 turns. We also need to adopt free religion for the extra research and attitude with Hatty and Asoka
If Hatty decides to declare now, we are toast
Turn 6 :
Troops are again on the move. Asoka used liberalism to discover steel. He is the most advanced AI as he has little land and organized trait. Mansa and Hatty are crippled with their vast empires maintenance costs
Turn 7 :
I whip courthouses in Tabriz and Ningh-Hsia.
Mansa troops have arrived. It is more secure now, so I take Lyons extra defense to Libyan
Paris finishes settler and starts a university
Turn 8 :
Troops are at vilcas doors. I bombard city then a greny kills the Longbow. All other units have poor odds against a mace. I decide to wait for next turn to make the final blow
Turn 9 :
Raze Vilcas with a loss of a cat. Muskeeter looses to LB in the open at >90% odds. Second muskeeter kills another LB. We get a free worker from Vilcas and city is razed. HC culture is overwhelming here
Turn 10 :
A stack is healing and preparing to go take Macchu Picchu or raze Cuzco.
- Liberlaism is discovered and research is set on printing press. No beakers invested yet so we can switch to something else.
I am taking this as the path to rifling mainly and the extra money (printing press) and production (repalcable parts) won't hurt us. Hatty is running mercantilism so the great lighthouse is not giving much benefit at the moment
- I did not revolt cuz I thought we might decide on this together but free religion seems like a no brainer here
- There is a settler in Libyan to settle a filler city between Libyan and Macchu Picchu (see sign above) and claim the spices
- Rheims will grow next turn. I think we might whip the granary and start a lighthouse or courthouse there
- The iron is now 50% malinese
- Huamanga has not fallen to Mansa yet. I guess a raging battle is going up there. It'll be great if we manage to do the same between asoka and Hatty
Fellowship :
blid -- just played
acidsatyr -- UP
Kikinit -- On deck
Asperge
soooo
acid, are you able to play in the 72 hours timeset ? If so, I'd rather wait than have you skipped for 2 consecutive turnsets
@sooooo : how did you manage to take that screenshot with a view on all the ring. I can't do the same here
You might need
that too
