1325ad, turn 0:
Spend a long time looking around.
All available Wonders has already been built, and noone is building ToE yet... (no danger of loosing it to cascade) I switch Orleans to palace as Prebuild.
The dutch are down electrisity, and we need medisine to see when sci methods is available.
electrisity and WM (was worth 1gp) to dutch for medicine and 289gold
Rome has monopoly on sci methods, but has not started building ToE yet (guess they rightly fear we will raze whatever city they start it in...)
Rome would pay us 1220gold for peace, so still some way to go before they will give us a tech.
Persia has some gold, and dont have music theory yet (rome dont have it yet either).. then I realize noone has JS Bachs? was the city that built it razed. or was it simply not built yet? Only one way to find out.
Give Egypt military tradition for Music Theory (MT cant be very useful for them on their one tile island with no horses and no salt)
Seems Bachs has not been built yet... so wont sell music theory to persia afterall..
Switch the ToE prebuild to Bachs instead to easier see how many turns left.. 18.. need a factory to speed it up.
Carefully steal industrialization from Portugal (worst case we wont have to wait 11 turns for the MA with them to end..)
Steal is success.
(Would have stolen replaceable parts if rome didnt have monopoly of it.. need espionage to steal from rome)
Lack a little bit of gold to be able to rush factory in Orleans, so I decide to sell Music theory to Persia afterall.. this way they will have a harder time buying sci methods, and rome can buy it from the dutch anyway.
Persia has the biggest island, so capturing Bachs on that island later if they build it wont be bad.
Sell Music theory to Persia for 300gold,WM and 17gpt (we pay up front, they pay gpt so no rep hit if we break the deal, not that it will be a problem to get them to break it since they are furious already)
Find unmoved cav armies, and start to move them towards rome to pillage
pillage one of romes 2 horses.. and they suddenly dont have horses.. guess they are trading the other away to persia...
DocT mentioned Lisbon was coastal and could not be blocked from trading by pillage.. it isnt coastal.. and rome has already pillaged portugal away from trading posibility
I decide to raise lux tax with 10% and can fire lots of entertainers
I see no roman infantery anywhere.. so I assume they dont have rubber...
I decide to kill off the redlined roman settler pair, I dont want to them found a city on the horses
IBT:
Persia request audience... They want RoP and MA vs dutch.. I say no
Portugal move some boats.. rome moves a rifle-settler pair into view..
That is everything.. guess rome is gassed on their main island and all thir troops are on the other island
Persia capture the last dutch city on their island, and start JS Bachs in amsterdam.. (hope it flips back to dutch.. netherland has about 3 times the culture of persia..
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1330AD, turn 1:
pillage the first of the roman wines.. and they no longer have wines.. guess the 2nd one is traded away to persia.. so I pillage the 2nd wines too.. there goes roman rep and persias wines..
pillage the iron, and they no longer have iron either
found lyons and new paris on old aztec island
Notice rome captured lisbon last IBT, guess they are not totally gassed yet, portugese capital jumped to one of their northern tundra towns.
This means portugal should be able to trade with us now.. but they would only pay a few hundred hold for all our extra luxes plus iron and salt, so I decide to not sell them anything
Start moving our artillery units towards ravanna-sagres-antium
IBT:
loose 2 cavs as rome move a ton of forces down from former portugese front.
Portugese start JS Bachs
1335AD, turn 2:
Rome is cut off from the world
All paths romans can use to send attacking troops are either pillaged or blocked by armies
Use De Gaulle to rush pentagon in Amiens (only city on main island that finished the builds in last IBT)
Turn around the cannons, and instead bombard the stack of roman cavs sitting outside New Orleans
kill off all the roman units in view except a guerilla that cant do any harm in the IBT
Found New Rheims and New Lyons
Just noticed that everyone but us and egypt is in fascism now
IBT:
Netherlands and persia sign peace
lose a cav and kill a rifle outside ravanna (I landed units there from home island last turn)
complete pentagon
The dutch start JS Bach's (again)
1340AD, turn 3:
Rome has built fort and barricade on their chokepoint.. luckily they had no units there.. so I place one of the pillaging armies there, cutting off the return path of the units from portugese offensive (8 of them managed to slip though in last IBT)
kill 3 rifles, a guerilla and a cav in ravanna, and then raze it, gaining 6 slaves
kill off the guerilla I didnt kill last turn
Found New Tours
IBT:
portugese wants to swap territory maps.. we tell them to add 3gold to the deal and they agree
loose 2 cavs and kill 1 cav in roman attacks
1345AD, turn 4:
wow.. pillaging a barricade takes away all the movement points of an army.
kill off 4 rifles, loose 1 cav
found New Chartres
IBT:
Lots of roman boat movement.. and eventually they drop off.. 2 settler pairs in the same square... and its next to about 10 of our cavs and 2 armies..
Hmm.. Persia builds JS Bachs in Persepolis.. I never noticed they switched city... rome still has monopoly on sci methods and replaceable parts thou, so the JS builds wont cascade
1350AD, turn 5:
Rome sold sanitation to persia in the IBT it seems
Can finally pillage the 2 roman furs that was connected
IBT:
Rome and egypt sign peace
1355AD, turn 6:
found New Avignon
kill off units in reach of our cities, rest of forces start march towards Sagres
1360AD, turn 7:
kill off about a dusin cavs and rifles that came into reach of cities or was dropped off by boats.. still no leaders
IBT:
roman ships drop off 2 cavs on west coast, then start the long way back around the island to the east side again..
1365AD, turn 7:
loose 2 cavs, but capture and raze Sagres
loose a cav when killing off the cavs that was dropped off by boats
IBT:
weird.. the empty roman ships turned around
1370AD, turn 8:
both Portugal and persia picked up replacable parts in the IBT.. everyone has roughly the same amount of gold, and all the same techs, so they must have both researched it.
Ouch.. WW hit a new lvl.. have to put lux at 60% and hire clowns
kill off 4 rifles in Antium with 3 armies, and raze the city
IBT:
Persia and rome sign trade embarbo vs us
1375AD, turn 9:
found New Besancon
kill off 5 rifles that was dropped by boats, but cannons missed a lot, and I end up with 2 redlined armies
IBT:
persia and portugal sign peace
1380AD, turn 10:
WW hurts too much, and rome is not close to want to give up a tech
So I decide to pull some risky deals before someone vetos it
kill off all roman units in reach
make peace with rome for 1861gold
carefully steal from rome... success take sci methods
sci methods is not enough to get replaceable parts from anyone.. so decide to risk another steal
sell sci methods to persia for wm and 2458gold
carefully steal from portugal success again.. take replacable parts
switch Orleans to ToE, due next turn
switch research to atomic theory
lower lux to 20%, and fire lots of specialists
We have 3 sources of rubber
The Army build in Paris is meant as a small prebuild for Hoover.
Portugal will sell us sanitation for sci methods and either iron or saltpeter.. I didnt pull this deal incase we want to attack them.
I assume we want to go after Persia next, and then go after Rome again in about 20 turns.. their lands will be pillaged for a long time..
I deliberately didnt take Rome the city so the capital would not jump to a coastal location.
The Save
How fare are we behind in techs?
time. I have it.
We lose a galleon full of slaves heading back to the mainland.
Rome has Guerillia and artillery -> replacable parts 
, but seems to miss rubber 
Maybe we should go for domination... only some 45% land to go... I doubt e have time. Spaceship is fine, too.
