Blind SG 1.1

[MarigoldRan]

If you want the next person to war, you build up your economy first. This is why Boudica is a bad war-mongerer. Her economy always stinks.

 

[FlyingSwan]

@marigold

Spoiler :

the whole vibe about this SG is that the next player doesnt know whats going on in the game.Surely anything you want to vent about can go in spoilers,your time as is over,and I,d like to know nothing about your rule till ive had mine,and then I,l enjoy reading and seeing what what you,ve been up to and how you would recomend fixing the empire.

 

[MarigoldRan]

It's ok. The next person can take over. I will spoiler more in the future. But needed to vent some!

 

[woopdeedoo]

Well, I guess it's me then. How many turns am I supposed to play now?

 

[woopdeedoo]

Ok. Well, I will play through the course of this evening and post report tomorrow or the day after. Haven't had a look at the save (in the spirit of the SG) but would like to add that I also don't like Boudica...

 

[woopdeedoo]

Spoiler :

Sooo, I played a number of turns last night. A number of things really bothered me. For starters, we are Buddhist (as is most of everyone) and in OR but only 2 of our cities had Buddhism!? WHHYYYY???? Also, cities without food had cottages on 1f1h tiles. How is that city supposed to work those cottages? I have destroyed them and replaced with farms, workshops (food allowing) and windmills wherever possible. On that note, our economy is in the toilet. So I understand the need for cottages.

WFYHBTA issues abound. We are pretty low on the tech spectrum and (I'm guess) way too many early tech trades were made. Now, nobody will trade with us. On that note, We finally got Feudalism in. I have built a LOAD of LBs for city garrison with maces are cats as well. We have a respectable SoD in the event that the MASSIVE Chinese SoD to our East attacks.

A few wars have broken out. We have been asked to join some but since we had almost no army to speak of, I had declined. We are now in a position where we could maybe attack someone relatively fast. No SSs, was too busy getting an army together

 

[woopdeedoo]

Sorry about the delay. I will finish my turn today.

 

[woopdeedoo]

Spoiler :

So I played a whole bunch more turns. Focusing on growing our cities for increased commerce. Building ever more military. We have somewhat outdated units (axes and spears) and are too poor to upgrade them. I am also planning on DoWing Korea. Was going to DoW China but not sure of the viability. Although we are last on the scoreboard, I think a successful war effort against Korea can really help us out. My future plans are to move my SoD to Korea and declare. I've attached the save for comments, input etc.

 

[FlyingSwan]

Spoiler :

Boudica-swan has inherited an austere empire indeed....

Boudicas boobs bounce off the table as her fist comes bashing down,

"BY BONAPARTS BALLS WHAT THE BLOODY HELL ARE WE GOING TO DO NOW????"

"we have an empire with the bare bones of infrastructure,no Wonders and a standing army in a state of barbarism,I see only one course of action..WAR"

With all civs bieng Buddist(boudica included) except 2 and me bieng bottom of the scoreboard an attack on another Buddist civ would be suicide at this point.This leaves Qin and Catherines Hindu empires as the only viable targets.On the plus side Qin is already at war with Ragnar and Toku(although they appear to be miles away and we dont even have open borders with Toku(but he,s at pleased!) so I dont think he can even reach Qin!!)

First point of call is a switch into Vassalage,research slider to 0%,re-evaluate all trades and beg as much gold as possible in order to upgrade the spearmen into Pikes(Qin has guilds and we dont).Trade embargos and espionage of Qins strategic resources are going to be a priority.We have lots of Catapults but no trebs yet so it may be worth starting a war and fighting it on home turf.Im not sure yet....

 

[woopdeedoo]