Pre turn check (the right turn this time
)
There's hardly any space for building new towns and we need the
iron to build swordsmen. We need more workers and more military.
I almost never build towns 2 tiles apart and it will take far
too many turns to clear the marshland so the only alternative is
a colony . I almost never build colonies this early but I don't think
there is an alternative here.
Check for trades - nothing sensible available.
875 BC (1) - Build Iron colony
IT Switch Macchu Pichu and Cuzco to swordsmen
850 BC (2) - Nothing
IT - Nothing
825 BC (3) - Workers work . Carrack gets nearer the light blue
borders. May have contact next turn
IT - Nothing
800 BC (4) - Notice we have a clown in Tiwanaku. I don't like this in
our largest city - we need to grow and produce as quickly as
possible early on.
I up lux from 10% to 20% and fire the clown.
Happiness is a big problem
We only have one lux, no prospect of getting any more soon so
we are continually having to move lux to keep happy. As our other
cities grow we are going to have more happiness problems. Therefore
after Tiwanaku produces the cat I'm going to start using it to
produce workers (which we still don't have enough of)
Light blue borders are America. We are impressed by their cultural
achievements
.
We can get Mysticism +10 g for Alphabet. Seeing as Byz and Zulu already
have Alphabet it isn't worth much so I do the deal.
IT - Tiwanaku Cat->worker, Machu Picchu Sword->Sword
Olly cat->spear, Pelargir cat->cat
Zulu are building Pyramids in Zimbabwe That's good news - it menas that
they aren't building military in their best town
I check the military - I reckon we could do with a couple more swordsmen on the front
line before attacking . There's one due in Cuzco in 6 and one in Macchu Piccu
in 4 so I reckon we should be ready to attack in the middle of the next turn.
775 BC (5) - General movement
IT Americans ask our Curragh to leave . We apologise and say we will
750 BC (6) - Curragh finds shallow water the far side of Seattle
IT America has Polytheism. We would need to give writing and Maths to get it
BUt we would then have Phil and Poly to trade to Zulu for HBR.
Decide against it for the time being.
Tiwanaku produces a worker. At size 5 it is growing every 2 turns and
producing a worker every 2 turns. I leave it like this otherwise we have
trouble with happiness.
Lux back down from 20% - 10% . We're now losing 2gpt
730 BC (7) - Nothing much
IT Nothing
710 BC (8) - Nothing
IT Nothing
Do we want to be in Monarchy or Republic as our first government ?
If we want Monarchy (which will be better if we are going to be at
war with the Zulu) then we need Polytheism.
We still need both Writing and Maths it get it from the Americans so I will leave
it to the next player to decide (we need to pick a new research target in
2 turns time anyway)
IT Cuzco sword->sword, Tiwanaku worker->worker
690 BC (9) - worker / sword / curragh movement
IT We learn Map Making. I switch to Currency . PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A PLACE
HOLDER. The team should decide what we research next!
America already has Map Making, Byz and Zulu do not
Map Making would get us Code of Laws + 14g from Byz.
I think about doing this since the Byz are very weak anyway, but
then consider that they may trade it to the Zulu which we don't
really want.
I meant to establish an embassy with the Americans (but forgot when I
met them) . Do it now for 34g
They have 2 troops in Washington, and are building Pyramids due in 47 turns
Pop 68,888. They are 90% sci, 10% tax, 0% lux. They have horses.
670 BC (10) - General movement.
We now have negative cashflow. This is partly due to us now having 29 units when our limit is 28 . Obviously this will get worse the more units we build since we have no space to build more cities at the moment.
However we should raise some cash from trading and hopefully we will
capture some more land soon.
Hopefully we should soon have enough non-chasqui troops to make sure we can defeat
the Zulu without risking triggering our GA in despotism.
Sorry if this turns are a bit
- As I playing the wrong set first time round
I played later than expected and had already consumed a few more large glasses
of wine than intended
