Preturn: mm Rome to 20 spt. Start Neopolis on galley to scout for other civs.
410: 2 Jap horses land at Antium. They are dispatched by 4 MI as they both redline and retreat. Pillage with Army.
420: Kill American pike/settler pair. Collect troops at the choke for advance on Amsterdam. Pillage with Army
430: Kill American spear settler pair at choke. What a joke. Where do they get the idea they can just plop down weakly defended settlers right next to our armies? Like I wont notice. They send no troops really, just settlers.
440: Bunch of Dutch troops show up @ the choke. I get impatient and decide to attack Amsterdam with the pillaging Army. Its only defended by spears. First attack flawless. Second attack loses a couple HPs. At the choke kill about 4 archers and a spear, lose 1 legion.
450: Continue attack on Amsterdam. Take out 2 spears and army is now in the yellow. Send out galley on suicide run.
460: More battling for position on the mountains and hills with Dutch spear/archer groups. We are finally getting the upper hand. Decide to go one more time with the Army. Kill spear to reveal the single remaining archer but am now in the red. I charge anyway and win. Amsterdam is burned to the ground through the heroic work of our army. Galley survives and we safely reach empty land.
470: Out of nowhere off a road appears a vet Jap horse which proceeds to attack our 3HP army. We go to 1 HP immediately but win the remaining 4 heats to survive. That was close. I almost lost the army. The new lands are not empty, we meet the Mongols. They are up engineering and chilvary. Dont have Lit or $$. No trades we declare against these scum.
480: Americans land a MI/settler pair which is dispatched by an elite MI and we get Hadrian. Move him back toward Rome for Col build so we can go to 0 Lux. Move troops into position for attack on Gronin.
490: Siege of Gronin: bombard with 5 pults, 2 hits reveal only 2 spears in the city. MI takes 2HP spear (after an archer shot misses). Legion takes spear #2 final Legion takes the Archer and we burn the city down. We meet Spain who are also up chiv and Eng. And down Lit. No trades and we declare. We get Mono, engineering, chilvary and invention from the GL. nice
500: Army is healed and we take out a spear settler pair moving into the open space. Hadrian builds Cathedral. Elite MI takes out archer and we get another leader. Leader heads back to the core.
Summary: We made good progress against the Dutch but it feels like a slow slog with no horses. I almost lost the army, which you could argue would have been a bad mistake but I sort of changed my view on armies this turn. I basically attacked because I was bored pillaging and waiting to get regular troops in place. But the attacking army is very powerful and took out a big city single handed. And it healed completely in 3 turns. I generally agree that they are best used in this type of game for pillage because they dont get attacked. However, we are a militaristic civ with the heroic epic and we can only have 1 army at a time. I got 2 leaders this turn. If we lose an army another one shouldnt take too long to get. Also, if we dont use the army to attack we dont take advantage of its ability to heal in enemy territory. Anyway, next leader can lower lux to 0 because Rome will complete Cathedral. There is a leader headed back to town for something, I dont know what. We cleared a lot of space so the settlers will start streaming in soon. My goal would be to get to Jap horses ASAP so we can get some knights, we have chiv.
410: 2 Jap horses land at Antium. They are dispatched by 4 MI as they both redline and retreat. Pillage with Army.
420: Kill American pike/settler pair. Collect troops at the choke for advance on Amsterdam. Pillage with Army
430: Kill American spear settler pair at choke. What a joke. Where do they get the idea they can just plop down weakly defended settlers right next to our armies? Like I wont notice. They send no troops really, just settlers.
440: Bunch of Dutch troops show up @ the choke. I get impatient and decide to attack Amsterdam with the pillaging Army. Its only defended by spears. First attack flawless. Second attack loses a couple HPs. At the choke kill about 4 archers and a spear, lose 1 legion.
450: Continue attack on Amsterdam. Take out 2 spears and army is now in the yellow. Send out galley on suicide run.
460: More battling for position on the mountains and hills with Dutch spear/archer groups. We are finally getting the upper hand. Decide to go one more time with the Army. Kill spear to reveal the single remaining archer but am now in the red. I charge anyway and win. Amsterdam is burned to the ground through the heroic work of our army. Galley survives and we safely reach empty land.
470: Out of nowhere off a road appears a vet Jap horse which proceeds to attack our 3HP army. We go to 1 HP immediately but win the remaining 4 heats to survive. That was close. I almost lost the army. The new lands are not empty, we meet the Mongols. They are up engineering and chilvary. Dont have Lit or $$. No trades we declare against these scum.
480: Americans land a MI/settler pair which is dispatched by an elite MI and we get Hadrian. Move him back toward Rome for Col build so we can go to 0 Lux. Move troops into position for attack on Gronin.
490: Siege of Gronin: bombard with 5 pults, 2 hits reveal only 2 spears in the city. MI takes 2HP spear (after an archer shot misses). Legion takes spear #2 final Legion takes the Archer and we burn the city down. We meet Spain who are also up chiv and Eng. And down Lit. No trades and we declare. We get Mono, engineering, chilvary and invention from the GL. nice
500: Army is healed and we take out a spear settler pair moving into the open space. Hadrian builds Cathedral. Elite MI takes out archer and we get another leader. Leader heads back to the core.
Summary: We made good progress against the Dutch but it feels like a slow slog with no horses. I almost lost the army, which you could argue would have been a bad mistake but I sort of changed my view on armies this turn. I basically attacked because I was bored pillaging and waiting to get regular troops in place. But the attacking army is very powerful and took out a big city single handed. And it healed completely in 3 turns. I generally agree that they are best used in this type of game for pillage because they dont get attacked. However, we are a militaristic civ with the heroic epic and we can only have 1 army at a time. I got 2 leaders this turn. If we lose an army another one shouldnt take too long to get. Also, if we dont use the army to attack we dont take advantage of its ability to heal in enemy territory. Anyway, next leader can lower lux to 0 because Rome will complete Cathedral. There is a leader headed back to town for something, I dont know what. We cleared a lot of space so the settlers will start streaming in soon. My goal would be to get to Jap horses ASAP so we can get some knights, we have chiv.
