Executive summary:
Brush war with russia went well, in spite of us losing two cavalry. German superior tactics made the day. Two new cities founded. Next leader decides if we want to get Sufrage or Theory of evolution on his first turn. If you decide to go with Suffrage, then make sure you time your next research so that it is finished before Theory of Evolution is finished.
Grimjack.
On to lengthy report....
Before picture:
1240AD(0) They have dared to question the German supremacy. Dirty Russian units killing noble german warriors, minding their
own business. They will be punished I say. EVer greedy french obviously saw their chance to reap some cheap benefits from
the Russians preoccupation with us, and also struck at the russian back lines.
For punishment it is decreed the border needs to be moved. We will issue a few settlers to move to our claims.
We have Babylonian knights supporting us on our eastern shores. The greedy Russians have also kept their secret
knowledge of The Corporation from our grasp. This is a knowledge deemed vital to our cause, as is medicine.
All our four Cavalry will have to make our point. ( They would of course have teh support of our three cannon
We will need to show great strength to mother Russia, or she will not part with her knowledge.
Looking over our cities, I see some things that make me raise my eyebrows. Leipzig churning Cavarly at an extremely evil 39 shields per turn. If we chop the forests and railroad, we can easily get the extra required shield. WIll run at a small food deficit for now. I also optimize several other cities for shields, as they are at size 12.
IBT: The proud Carthage Knights lose all three troops and is victorious with one knight. See french rifle pillage russian horses before getting full of arrows from a russian longbowman.
1250(1) Start to gather our very first force of offensive troops in Salzburg. Will try to get some 8 cavalry and 3 riflemen
together with our three cannon and see what we can do to Tblisi. If things turn out well here, Sverdlovks will feel our
strength. First engagement for Grimjacks council was a russian longbowman. OUr elite Cavalry eliminated them as target
practice. Hmm, I notice Universal Suffrage due in 12. Since we want to have ToE, I will see if I can crank up research
a bit so we make electricity faster.
IBT: Palassenberg starts a 14 turn prebuild for Hoovers. We also see the last of our stalwart Carthaginian allies kill
themselves on Tblisis walls.
1260(2) In a lightning move, our strike force gathered outside Tblisi, and weakened as that city was from the Carthaginian
strikes, it fell to our Cavalry. Not wanting anything to do with dirty russians, the city is promptly ordered to be razed.
Munich is instead founded on the exact spot where Tblisi was. Hah, take that Catherine. Catherine is hardboiled though, or
else it is teh roman advisors leaning over her shoulder, preventing her from writing a favorable peace deal with us.
( A peace deal we couldn't in good conscience sign, since we would be forced to break it due to our mpp with France. )
Sigh, discover Köln has produced a cavalry without having a barracks.
IBT: Persia joins the dogpile against Russia. She is not very hot now.
1265(3) MOve our joint forces to the forest outside Sverdlovsk. Soon Catherine will feel the wrath of our forces.
IBT: The quiet before the storm... See a lone longbow trying to change bases in Germany.
1270(4) With sorrow in our hearts, we note the first losses in the skirmish with the dirty russian. One of our Cavalry do
not manage to retreat in time, and the russian riflemen have a field day shooting them. In response to this dirty deed,
Sverdlovsk is now razed. This is the amount of grounds I had aimed at gaining. Now to keep it until we can go to peace.
We will need to declare peace soon, as war wearines would have to strike real soon now.
Catherine is still being stubborn. Says it is only a flesh wound. I will not go to peace with her without substantial gains.
NOticed France now has 3700 gold in treasury. Wonder what she is doing.
IBT: Quiet. Quiet.
1275(5) Move some more forces in position against Russia, since she does not want any peace. Will see how much I can bomb
her last border city before she will yield something substantial in peace settlements. Have to set up lux taxes to 10 %
again. Hammurabi wants our left arm together with our treasury for some spices. This is unacceptable. We get Espionage for
Communism with the Aztecs. Konigsberg starts CIA as a prebuild for Hoovers
IBT: Electricity comes in. Lets hope we have a monopoly, so we can do some fat trades and then research at max.
Otherwise very quiet on the front. Babylon and Russia signs peace. Never seen them exchange blows. Chickens. They will
soon feel the wrath of the steal beast.
1280(6) Joan offers corporation, Medicine and 2000 gold for Electricity. Better by far than any other civ could offer.
I take it. See that she is now up refining on us. Persia also has refining, but want electricity and 1000 gold for it.
I do trade ELectricity to baylon though, for some SPices and some 340ish lose gold. I set research in Scientific method at
max, giving us teh tech in 5. In Berlin we have Universal Suffrage in 5. Hmm, Universal Suffrage would be a nice wonder to
have. I kind of like the income in Democracy. Very well, I will let Erik decice. We also have two prebuilds, one palace and
one CIA both due in 9 turns. Either of them could be Hoover.
IBT: Since we obviously are not a threat to Russia, they are sending out ships with forces to the seas. ( Or they are
fleeing. )
1285(7) Those Cannon surely are much slower than Cavalry. They do not get faster by me mistaking some jungle for forest.
IBT: Russian ships continue heading northwards.
1290(8) Cannons are fired across the mighty river protecting Kiev. They are of course singularly ineffective.
IBT: The russian fleet must have seen something awful out to the seas, as they now head on home instead.
1295(9) Artillery bombardment shows us that there are at least three riflemen in Kiev. For some reason they moved one
rifleman out of that city. Once again the evil russian riflemen manage to isolate and kill one of our Cavalry. The response
is as usual by now. Burn the city to the ground, and haul away the former russian army as road builders ni teh german
empire. ( Lost one cav, redlined three and no promotions, nor leaders. ) Our victorious troops are now heading home.
IBT: France and Rome signs peace. France no longer wants an MPP with us, and I concur. I would want us to go to peace now,
so we may fully explore the tantalizing possibilities our friends in the universities are coming up with.
1300(10) Nuremberg is founded to celebrate our latest victories against the evil russians. I cannot wring any tech out of
Catherine, but I get 150 gold and 30 gpt for peace from her, Romans does not have anything to offer, so I go straight peace
with them.
We have Scientific Method in one, and also Suffrage in one. If we do decide to get Suffrage, that should kill the cascade,
since there are no other free wonders out there. This may let Palassenberg get Theory of Evolution or Hoovers as they have
Palace in 8. Konigsberg have CIA in four. They may switch to Theory instead. All of them are solid cities. I have not built
any coal plants, since I was aiming for Hovers.
After picture:
I have started to build some Riflemen instead of Cav, since we may want to fight next war in character. Next war may very
well be the last war also, since we would fairly fast be able to get to Motorized with the tech advantage we will have with Theory of Evolution.
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Grimjack.
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