Turn 0 1300 AD
MM Cities:
- Houston is building an university. Why? Spending 2gpt to buy 3 culture per turn? I'm switching it to a hospital.
- Buffalo is size 12 already, Houston is only size 11, so Houston borrows a food tile from Buffalo.
- Because Houston does not need the shield tiles this turn, it gives up all of its shared shield tiles, and work coastal tiles for the commerce.
- Chicago takes over Houston's shield tiles, then gives its own shield tiles to Miami. Saving one turn off of Miami's Police Station.
- SF needs some worker mining help. Same goes for Philadelphia. Atlanta need to have its gem mountain mined.
- Boston can give its hill tile to Seattle and still finish the Stock exchange in 4.
- Seattle hires a policeman, tradubg 1gpt for 1 turn on the Bank.
- I can do more, Boston borrows a 2spt tile from Denver, and gives a 3spt tile to Seattle, shaving one more turn off Seattle's bank.
- Denver can finish courthouse in 5, or hire engineers to finish in 4, or hire more engineers to finish in 3. The cost of hiring engineers is gold. So I pick the middle option, courthouse in 4. It can maybe get better with more mining.
- LA: I hire engineers to hurry its factory, as well as putting it into WLTKD to reduce flip chances, at the cost of stopping growth.
- Hire an engineer in Cleveland to save 1 turn off its marketplace.
- Hurry the temple in Macao for 48 gold. Hire some taxmen in there to get WLKTD.
- Hire engineers in the rest of the corrupt cities.
IBT: Some Russian ships dock in Tatung
Turn 1 1305 AD
Some temples in corrupt cities finish, start courthouse.
SF: Bank->commercial dock.
Miami: Police Station->Hospital
Houston:Hospital->courthouse
workers mine around Denver and SF.
Turn 2 1310 AD
Atlanta:Courthouse->Bank
Joanie learns MT, Cathy got marines.
Continue to mine tiles.
IBT: Japan wants to renew RoP, I say no.
Turn 3 1315 AD
Kongsberg: marketplace->granary, with a engineer to finish it before growth.
Philadelphia: inf->inf
Russia is researching electronics, and rather quickly too. The price on it dropped by a few thousand.
Electronics to Russia for MT and 2143 gold.
Electronics + 31 gpt to France for flight. Since France will take our gpt, and she is at war with India, we must have broken a deal with India.
That puts all 3 of us in the Modern age. Russia rolled Ecology as its free tech.
Now that I'm sure we don't need to cash for trading, I spend close to a thousand of it upgrading troops.
Turn 4 1320 AD
Washington gets Hoovers as expected. It starts a hospital due in 3.
Both Boston and Philadelphia has more than 50spt, so they start 2-turn tanks.
Chicago stays on 2-turn infantries, though with another mine it could go to 50spt. as it is, I'm letting it fill up its shield box.
Denver finishes courthouse, starts on 3-turn artilleries.
Cleveland finishes marketplace, set to WLTKD and start on library.
2 deals expire this turn. The silk + money to France for Saltpeter deal and the Japanese Ivory deal.
We don't need saltpeter anymore, do we? I get the French spice with our silk + a little money, then I buy the Japanese Ivory with Medicine.
IBT: India come to renew the gem deal. They won't pay 24gpt anymore, because their country is much smaller now. I make the deal for 10gpt. They can survive for 20 more turns, can they?
Turn 5 1325 AD
New York completes its police station. It has 48spt, starts on Infantry.
Canton: temple->courthouse
Houston: courthouse->commercial dock
Cincinnati: courthouse->marketplace, it's an island tundra village
Shantung: courthouse->markeplace... under WLTKD, it has only roughly 50% waste. It's corruption is around 66%.
Our first tanks rolls off the assembly line in Philadelphia.
Macao finally expands borders. LA is now our only city with significant flip risk.
Turn 6 1330 AD
Seattle: Bank->Hospital
Miami: Hospital->Commercial Dock
Turn 7 1335 AD
Washinton: Hospital->harbor, it's pretty amazing that it doesn't have one yet.
Konigsberg: Granary->factory
Atlanta: Bank->commercial dock
Frankfurt: Bank->police station
Buffalo: courthouse->factory, I didn't lose any turns on the factory by building a courthouse first, but the city get to enjoy the economic benefit of courthouse in the mean time.
Irrigate 1 tile at Washington to help it grow.
I'm also going to turn on the "always build previous unit" preference.
Seem like things are going well. I'm going to take a chance and plant a spy in Russia...
Ack, and they declare war on us
That changes everything!
Sign up France for 27gpt.
Sign up Japan for gem.
Sign up India for Sanitation.
Almost Every city switches to building units.
Kansas city to barracks.
LA to civil defense.
Konigsberg to Settler.
Using our few artillery to bomb out roads that would allow Russian tanks to attack us.
IBT: Japanese cav runs away from Russia inf.
4 bombers attack us. Some inf move in, no tank showing up.
A Russian destroyer/transport pair leaves Tatung. The Russian do have marines, so we have to be careful.
Turn 8 1340 AD
Kansas City: barrack->civil defense
I start a couple bombers of our own.
short rush a tank via knight.
Arties redline inf, our cav army wins first, and washington switches to Heroic Epic.
1 tanks goes to elite after killing inf. another tank dies trying to kill 2nd inf.
mop up 2 more inf in our land using the army and tank.
IBT: Japanese cav attacks Tatung, and actually wins.
Russian bombers bomb Boston, because I fortified our army in there. Not a wise choice. Our army didn't get hit, but Boston lost a pop and its stock exchange.
1 Russian tank stops just outside of Chengdu.
Turn 9 1345 AD
Kongsberg: settler->granary.
Boston grows its pop right back.
Russian cities showing TOW's!
Kill russian tank with our own, after bombarding it.
Bombarding Tatung shows that it has 10 defenders, 3 tanks attack, 1 win, 1 retreat, 1 loss.
Cover cities in range of Russian transport.
IBT: Russian appear to be going after Macao, with their infantries that is
a Russian tank attacks our inf guarding iron mountain, and retreats.
Turn 10 1350 AD
Short rush a tank and a bomber via knight.
reinforce Macao.
kill the redlined tank with cav.
bombard everything in Tatung to yellow and red.
killing 5 units in Tatung using army and tank.
NOTES:
Our tanks are healing in Kanas City, and the army is healing in Miami. The spare settler is also in Miami.
There is a fur deal from Japan due next turn.
Watch for short rushing opportunities.
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I don't know what to say, must be my luck, or Cathy must really hate me. The war does slow us down a bit, though this time we are much better prepared. If we could knock Russia out of Republic, then I'd say we've done a good thing. If we have a chance, let the AI capture some Russian cities.
The 1350 AD Save
fast workers and Civil Engineers !!!
so it can build Hoovers. It has a possible prebuild in Universal Suffrage, but I fear it might be build before TOE finishes. 
Atomic Theory and Electronics are now known to us. The Russians are building US. We switch our US build over to Hoovers and its due in 4 turns!
So I'm glad your Electronics deal w/ her was for a lump sum.
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