Ok here goes the set.
IBT
Another German LB appears and takes out our eSword (1-1).
Ugarit: Settler --> Galley (due in 30)
Hattusha: Settler --> Courthouse (due in 20)
YakYak: Galley --> Galley (due in 3)
Cologne starves, flip risk less.
1160 AD Turn 231 (1)
Settler in place founds Pskov next to a river and 3 flood plains. Set up to build Courthouse, but I might change my mind later.
Galley renamed CivAct's Folly, sets sail in a southerly course to try and find a likely spot for a suicide run.
2nd Mace Army forifies to heal. 3 trebs join them to prepare for an attack on Izibia.
eSword kills German longbow (2-1). Attack force joins him in the forest to move toward Berlin. 1stSwordArmy will meet them there to give some added punch to the attack.
IBT
Not much. German LB emerges from Konigsberg and promptly loses a hp from our army bombarding him.
Bab LB moves in toward
Omsk: Harbor --> Galley
1170 AD Turn 232 (2)
Bombard the 2 pikes in Konigsberg and take the town. (4-1) Decent locale, so I suppose I'll keep it. Also bomb and kill the LB that came out of there (5-1)
vMace kills Bab LB (6-1)
Berlin attack to begin next turn.
See a good collection of sea squares next to YakYak - might try to cross once galley #2 is finished.
IBT
zzz only see another Bab LB coming.
MM: vMace --> vMace due in 3.
As I feared, Leipzig flipped back to Germany. We lost 2 garrison units that were quelling resistors. (6-3). Glad my attack stack left the town before it flipped!
Munich: Worker(slave) --> Settler (due in 30)
1180 AD Turn 233 (3)
CAII sais the Germans learned Theology, for all the good it will do them.
Iron Hill is about to riot. Hire a geek, find I can drop SCI to 60% and still get Chemistry in 3 turns
vMace retakes Leipzig (7-3).
Battle of Berlin.
Artillery redlines all 5 units - 2 vPikes, 2 rPikes, and a LB.
Army takes the 1st 2 attacks, wins (9-3)
eMace attacks and wins (10-3)
eMace attacks and wins (11-3)
eArcher attacks LB and wins (12-3) and double bonus -
I knew we were keeping that guy around for a reason.
Oh, and we got this too.
Temples everywhere!
Staraya Russa founded on the hill between Ugarit and Dyesville to be able to capture the fish offshore.
1stSwordArmy attacks a spear in Nuremburg and kills it losing only 1hp (13-3)
IBT
Bab LB passes our army and gets bombed down a hp
Hattusas: vHorse --> Courthouse (due in 40). This has the potential to be a semi productive town.
Iron Hill: vMace --> Market (due in 8)
YakYak: Galley --> Galley (due in 3)
HnS: vMace --> Settler (due in 5)
Gold Hill: Harbor --> Library (due in 8)
1190 AD Turn 234 (4)
Leader moves back toward NewHorseTown, which will finish it's previous build just before he arrives next turn and rushes the pentagon
1stMaceArmy takes Seattle, easily knocking off the 2 redlined Pikes there (15-3). I know there was some discussion about leaving Seattle to finish off once we get cossacks, but with the German's culture accumulated I want them off the continent.
Attack and kill spear in Izibia (16-3), raze it because I don't like the name.
Mace from Hilton takes out Bab LB (17-3)
2nd Mace Army kills a spear and a Bab Mace on the way to pillage first their saltpeter (just in case), then their iron. (19-3)
1st Sword army attacks 2 spears in Nuremburg, takes them losing a couple hps (21-3), Decide to rze Nuremburg. The foolish Germans built it on top of a wheat!
Moscow build change from Mace to Settler due next turn.
Berlin has almost a 15% flip chance - take our troops out.
IBT
Nothing!
MM: Settler --> vMace
NHT: vMace --> Pentagon
1200 AD Turn 235 (5)
Moving units into position for the next round of battles, surprisingly, no attacks. Rush the Pentagon.
IBT
We learn Chemistry. Sci up to 80%, breaking even and Metallurgy due in 9 turns.
Washington: Worker(slave) --> Worker (due in 10)
SSP: vHorse --> vHorse (due in 8)
Ashur: Warrior --> Settler (due in 30)
NHT: Pentagon --> Library (due in 8)
Anywhere: vHorse --> Courthouse (due in 16)
1210 AD Turn 236 (6)
Army pillages Mountain with Bab saltpeter. Gets ready to move to the Bab iron to find that... it's gone! Sure enough CAII says they need iron. Guess the army will move toward Babylon then.
2 other armies approach the last 2 German cities on our continent.
Suicide galleys heading east
IBT
Bab Settler, Pike, and Mace moving up to try and fill in some land.
Boston: Worker(slave) --> Settler (due in 30)
YakYak: Galley --> Galley (due in 3)
Murmur: Aqueduct --> Market (due in 17)
West Moscow: vMace --> Library (due in 14)
Whale City: Warrior --> Harbor
Both suicide galleys lost.
1220 AD Turn 237 (7)
Silk City founded where we wanted.
Heidelberg has 3 defenders, army kills 2 (23-3) with no losses. City will fall next turn.
Hamburg has 2 defenders. eMace kills 1 (24-3), army kills the other (25-3) and we raze Hamburg
Attack the Bab Pike and Mace with 2 of our Maces, both win (27-3), we capture the settler.
IBT
Bab LB appears
Cultural expansions happen everywhere!
New York: vHorse --> Settler (due in 8)
Ellipi: Settler --> Settler (due in 30)
HnS: Settler --> Library (due in 7)
Add another story to our palace
1230 AD Turn 238 (8)
Take Heidelburg. The Germans are kicked off our continent.
Nizhniy Novgorod founded.
IBT
Just some bab units moving
MM: vMace --> Heroic Epic. Might as well.
Halifax: Harbor --> Galley (due in 5)
Eulbar: Warrior --> Horse
1240 AD Turn 239 (9)
According to CAII, getting the German capital off our continent has helped the flip risk tremendously. Incidently, the Yanks look like they are to the West of the top of our continent. And the germans are to the East at the top. Now that our borders have expanded, I can see theirs. Sending a galley to check it out. Might not be a bad idea to keep some troops up here to deal with any landings.
CAII also says the Yanks have iron again. Maybe when that Bab iron disappeared it popped up where the Yanks are?
Not much else. Bringing some attack forces back South.
IBT
See this
YakYak: Galley: --> Galley (due in 3)
1250 AD Turn 240 (10)
Make contact with the Aztecs. They are up at least Republic, Theology, Chivalry, and Metallurgy. Looks like they have Knights, we are in awe of their culture, but they "feel like they are our scientific equals". That might be good.
Take out 2 Bab LBs trying to interfere with our worker party on the silks. (29-3)
And that's all folks.
End Notes:
- Sorry I didn't do the compilation of our forces at the end of the turns, or take any pictures. It was late and I was tired after I was done.
- I held off on declaring on the Aztecs (we did just meet them during turn 10). Just in case anyone wants to try and check out what they have before they refuse our envoy for the next few turns after we declare. Also, we can build an embassy with them - do we want to? I would say yes. Norton, I leave it to you to gloriously declare war on the Aztecs.
- The silks will be finished roading next turn, giving us 5 luxes. Also note the attack force there headed toward Babylon. We are in good shape so push on.
- We should be well timed to get Metallurgy in next set and then learn Military Tradition right before we clear the continent.
- The Babs look like they have an island alongside the Germans up in the NE. I have a galley headed up to check them out. I am hoping none of those islands are 1 tiles that we won't be able to clear until Marines. I'd love to clear off some of those islands of Yanks, Germans, or Babs. They will probably be nuisances, landing troops periodically, which is why I left some attackers up North.
- More settlers are building to fill in our land - we've got room.
- Workers I have been attempting to improve the lands around the core (right now in the western core, like West Moscow) before they move out to the outlying areas. I'm not always the best with worker tasks, but I think they are in good shape.
- I had the Heroic Epic building in Moscow. If we decide it's not necessary, change it. It's just that I think we are good on units right now.
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