Settled in place, no mining resource, so I opened the tech tree and clicked on HBR, survival is ahead of everything else. Army is the only guaranteed way to protect yourself, no others!
Capital started a scout and then a settler once hitting size 2. After that worker->Settlers
After AH was done, Saw a horse in the 2nd ring, good! Spent 50g to buy it immediately as I want settler up as soon as possible.
Met Wu Zetian, OB was available, let's grab the 1st basket of gold -- 50g for selling OB. Note: Hostile AI won't pay anything for OB and less friendly AI will only pay less amount of gold. Wu Zetian became friendly when she came to ask for Pact of Secrecy a few turns after we met.
Songhai's capital is very close, my warrior faced a temptation, stealing that worker on forest tile is quite safe even there's a Songhai warrior nearby, so I went for it and in fact I was able to steal another worker nearby since there's no military unit around his capital.
Unfortunately the 1st stolen worker was intercepted by a brute near my 2nd city. So did the 2nd one since the culture border no longer see the unit.
It's good that barbarian does not kill worker, so I could take the 1st one back with a rental fee of 25g.
And the 2nd one as well. Where on earth was that brute heading toward!
Songhai decided to settle a city nearby, so I attacked as my warrior had a promotion available to finish it in the following battle.
The military adviser told it's a decisive victory
However the battle ring did not favor, as a result, my warrior was barely killed by the new city. Also notice that Wu Zetian DOWed Songhai this turn.
The horse was improved and it provided 8 horses. I was confused, each horse resource should provide 3 horses and Russian should get 6 horsed. Since I was still 4 turns away from HBR and another horse in capital will be improved in a couple of turns, so I sell all of them to Chinese. See, the horse in Catherine's hand has better value than happiness resource. In fact, selling 5 horses will gain the best return of 225g. However I thought the 2nd horse resource will also give me 8 units of horse, which was wrong, it merely provided 4.
2440BC, HBR was completed and I immediately rush-bought a horseman with 410g in SP. My 1st horseman faced his 1st battle, guess the result. Tech was set to Calendar as a ruin gave the Mine tech.
It did not kill that warrior, but Askia showed up and proposed a peace treaty of 2 happiness resources next turn. I was pleased to modify the peace treaty a little bit like this since I like the gold much more than the happiness resources. I'm not sure whether it's a diplomatic bug although Askia was facing a war from Wu Zetian at the moment.
Capital started a scout and then a settler once hitting size 2. After that worker->Settlers
After AH was done, Saw a horse in the 2nd ring, good! Spent 50g to buy it immediately as I want settler up as soon as possible.
Spoiler :
Met Wu Zetian, OB was available, let's grab the 1st basket of gold -- 50g for selling OB. Note: Hostile AI won't pay anything for OB and less friendly AI will only pay less amount of gold. Wu Zetian became friendly when she came to ask for Pact of Secrecy a few turns after we met.
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Songhai's capital is very close, my warrior faced a temptation, stealing that worker on forest tile is quite safe even there's a Songhai warrior nearby, so I went for it and in fact I was able to steal another worker nearby since there's no military unit around his capital.
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Unfortunately the 1st stolen worker was intercepted by a brute near my 2nd city. So did the 2nd one since the culture border no longer see the unit.
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It's good that barbarian does not kill worker, so I could take the 1st one back with a rental fee of 25g.
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And the 2nd one as well. Where on earth was that brute heading toward!
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Songhai decided to settle a city nearby, so I attacked as my warrior had a promotion available to finish it in the following battle.
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The military adviser told it's a decisive victory
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However the battle ring did not favor, as a result, my warrior was barely killed by the new city. Also notice that Wu Zetian DOWed Songhai this turn.
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The horse was improved and it provided 8 horses. I was confused, each horse resource should provide 3 horses and Russian should get 6 horsed. Since I was still 4 turns away from HBR and another horse in capital will be improved in a couple of turns, so I sell all of them to Chinese. See, the horse in Catherine's hand has better value than happiness resource. In fact, selling 5 horses will gain the best return of 225g. However I thought the 2nd horse resource will also give me 8 units of horse, which was wrong, it merely provided 4.
Spoiler :
2440BC, HBR was completed and I immediately rush-bought a horseman with 410g in SP. My 1st horseman faced his 1st battle, guess the result. Tech was set to Calendar as a ruin gave the Mine tech.
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It did not kill that warrior, but Askia showed up and proposed a peace treaty of 2 happiness resources next turn. I was pleased to modify the peace treaty a little bit like this since I like the gold much more than the happiness resources. I'm not sure whether it's a diplomatic bug although Askia was facing a war from Wu Zetian at the moment.
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