Pre-turn- Upgrade 3 warriors to swords. Change Diety from sword to walls. 8 horses move by Munich and the rest by Salzburg. Change Diety back from walls to sword. The big question, to attack now, or later. Their iron needs to be taken out ASAP, and how many swords is it necessary to take out Hamburg without cats?
Continued, and Germany is NOT in the middle ages.
1. Istanbul sword to sword. Antayla builds worker, and has nothing more useful to build, so it builds a temple (prebuild for a catapult I guess).
2. Aydin horse to horse. Konya worker to curragh. If everything goes right, Hamburg should be Ottoman on turn seven.
3. Istanbul sword to sword. Diety sword to sword. Bursa sword to sword. Sinop worker to curragh.
4. Change Diety to spear. Uskadar horse to horse. We're average in military to Germany
5. Istanbul sword to sword. Here's a big turn. My stomach is nervous. I declare war. I have a feeling I'm gonna regret that, though I know it's the right decision. Move swords from Diety into Hamburg territory. Capture Munich without losing a horse. Lots of resistors, though, so move all horses in. Start on a settler to abandon and replace. Ooh! The map looks oranger! Such a pretty sight than compared to when that city was blue. Move warrior in hopeless pillaging mission to get the iron. Also move horses by Salzburg, but can't attack.
6. Capture Hamburg! Capture Salzburg! Lots of German swords are approaching, this is the time I wish I had cats. Move the pillaging warrior on the iron. I think he won't be attacked! All our money with 0% science isn't enough to buy in Izzy. Maybe when we've made more progress and weakened them they'll agree. I'm exited! I'm afraid of the counterattackers. I wish I had planned better, I don't know where to attack next nor how to handle the counterattackers.
7. Pillaging warrior survives, and attracts a lot of attention
! Buy Spain for 29 gpt, and they go from annoyed to gracious! Istanbul sword to sword, Iznik sword to sword. Izmit (aka GLTown) needs a specialist to continue happiness. I have already sent 4 workers to help Izmit out.
8. German sword dies trying to take Hamburg, and a German sword succeeds in killing a horse in Salzburg. Diety sword to sword. Bursa sword to sword. Sinop curragh to spear (incase Brandenburg attacks). Pillaging warrior the great dies, but his sacrifices will be remembered.
Rest in Peace.
Pure AI Stupidity! The turn before moved two horses to Germanies last iron. There was an archer nearby. This IBT, a german sword from the fog attacks, and the horse retreats. Their archer can then take my horse off the iron, but chooses to kill off the retreated horse instead . Half the war is won.
Important Depressing Discovery: That wasn't Germanies last iron. They have one more residing under Nuremburg. Dang Germany has had a lot of iron. It's tough, the cities on a hill, and we have no cats. We don't know if it's connected or not, but each city has only had 2 defenders, so Nuremburg can be taken by 5 swords.
9. Same sword attacks Salzburg, is succesful, but takes 2 hp away from him. The reason I haven't attacked him is he's on a mountain. Hmm... Should I attack him with a sword? Sure. The sword dies, takes a hp away, but he's now promoted to elite
. Attack again. Germany loses. Istanbul sword to sword. Aydin horse to horse. Attack a 2 hp sword on flatland with a horse. The horse dies
and the sword is 1 hp. Another attacks and dies and the sword promotes. Nurememburg has reached 7
, so should be starved before attacking. Send 4 swords on the journey to Nuremburg, and up to 4 more can follow, and will be there by the time the city is starved. Back to weak again against Germanies military.
10. Konya curragh to curragh. Sinop riots
. Salzburg isn't a target so I move some horses from there to Munich to assist in future seige of Cologne.
General Progress report:
Will have save and 2 screenies soon!