0 550 BC
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No fine tuning to do; just hit Enter.
Bad news; a barbarian appears 1S of our settler, on the hill we wanted to build on.
Berlin settler -> vSword in 5.
1 0530 BC
Worker NE of Hamburg starts mine; finish in 6.
vSword N of Hannover heads east to help our settler.
New Settler in Berlin heads generally south, towards Hannover.
Worker pair 2NW of Cologne start mine; finish in 3.
We move our exposed settler 1N, back across the river.
I check MapStat. For what it is worth, we are the most cultured people on this little island. We have 297 cp, +17 cpt. Iroquois are slightly behind us, with 267 cp and +5 cpt.
Barbarina on our hill attacks a nearby Iroquois Warrior and dies.
Hamburg vSword -> vSword in 8.
Konigsberg catapult -> catapult in 5.
Nuremberg rGalley -> library in 8.
We have 2 Mongol warriors NE and E of Hannover.
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2 0510 BC
New Settler arrives in Frankfurt.
Worker pair SW of Frankfurt irrigate; finish in 2.
Our other settler moves S to the tile he once was in.
The vSword joins him.
Worker pair 2SE of Heidelburg start moving to the grassland 2NW of the city, to irrigate and road. Two turns of walking.
Worker par in the forest 2W of Heidelburg move to S-SE of Berlin and irrigate, planning to bring irrigatiion to Konigsberg.
The rGalley Graf Spee, new in Nuremberg, sails counterclockwise, to remap Mongol cities and see who is on the tundra island to the NW of the Mongols.
Wake the rWarrior in Frankfurt and have him guard the workers outside the city gates, in case the nearby Mongols have any wrong ideas.
New vSword in Hamburg moves to Hannover.
According to MapStat, the Iroqouis have just now connected their 4 Ivory to Salamanca for trading.
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MOngols warriors split up trespass even more.
Iroquois warrior moves onto our hill.
Leipzig vSword -> vSword in 4.
Cologne vSword -> vSword in 6.
3 0490 BC
New Sword in Leipzig heads to Hannover.
Moved the worker W of Leipzig S, across the river, by accident. The Leipzig Sword had to cross a river, but I hit the South key twice, which forced this worker's move. My bad.
Worker pair arrive at 2NW of Heidelburg.
New Settler arrives in Hannover.
Settler and Sword just stand on the flood plain, hoping the Iroquois warrior will go away.
New Sword in Cologne heads to Hannover.
Worker S of Nuremberg begins to mine, finish in 6.
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Iroquois warrior moves South, attacking and defeating a barbarian camp.
Vikings are building The Great Lighthouse (Map Making until Magnetism).
Wonderful News
The Oracle is built in Trondheim, Scandanavia.
Mongols are building The Temple of Artemis (Polytheism to Education).
Mongols are building The Great Library (Literature to Education).
4 0470 BC
We move our Sword first, followed by our Settler, onto our hill SW of Munich.
Catapult arrives in Hannover.
Worker pair SW of Frankfurt move South onto Flood Plain, to irrigate and road.
We begin to irrigate the grass 2NW of Konigsberg.
Miskeyed worker from last turn head towards Munich, to connect our new city.
Worker SW of Konigsberg finishs the mine on the hill and moves SE onto grass, to road.
We begin to irrigate 2NW of Heidelburg.
We road the new mine 2NW of Cologne.
Leipzig grows to size 6 and gets cranky. Raise luxury rate from 0% to 10% and all is well, Republic still due in 9 turns.
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Bad News
Mongols DoW us.
We both have 10 cities.
But we will take some early losses, like 4 workers.
Mongols attack Frankfort and lose. They pillage the Iron near Frankfurt. They ignore the 3 workers around Frankfurt.
Mongols capture the 2 workers 2NW of Cologne.
We are 1 of 2 in this war (one victory in two attacks).
Berlin vSword -> vSword in 4.
Palace Expansion.
Old Palace
New Palace
5 0450 BC
Looks like the Mongols slaughtered our two workers near Cologne. They don't show up on the map.
The catapult in Hannover moves and misses the Mongol rWarrior on the hill NW of Frankfurt.
The second catapult in Hannover does better.
VSword vs. rWarrior 2/3, vSword wins (2 of 3).
Workers irrigate the Flood Plain S-SW of Frankfurt.
Worker S of Konigsberg makes road, finish in 3.
New Sword in Berlin heads to Cologne.
We build Bremen on the hill S-SW of Munich. Walls in 10, grows in 10.
Worker moves to connect Bremen via Flood Plain.
Now we have War Happiness, so we can boost Science back to 100% and Leipzig will not riot.
Republic drops from 8 to 7 turns.
We had not planned on a war with Mongols.
Hmm.
We can get the Vikings to MA vs. Mongols for 130 gold.
We can get the Iroquois to MA vs. Mongols for Wine and 132 gold OR 272 gold (no Wine).
Seems like a good time for input.
