Now finally picking up the game again. What do we have here? GL. Lots of cities. The northernmost not placed optimall, add to the trouble tightly squeezed by ham and SB. SBs stupid city adds -2 for close borders. Bad. Further we have 2 cities which haven't been growing for ages due to lack of chain irrigation and plantations.
Techwise isn't looking so good. We're learning CoL in 2 turns at least. Will bulb philo asap and tech CS. Seem to have popped silver in capital BFC
. GP generation has been neglected for far too long. Running 2 scis though.
Ham is conf (founder), SB and monty buddhist, other civs (including me) hindu. AP is hindu. Hindu only in one city. Bad.
I didn't take notes, only a couple of screens and memory
Well, philo bulbed sometime and backfilling. Tao has been founded a couple of turns ago, by ham.
Monty is being dogpiled by Biz, Hann and Louis. He later surrenders to Biz.
I later get the classical literature quest! Need 7 libraries. Have 5 cities (all have libraries). Switch the two stagnating (gold) cities to settlers. I really want that free scientist.
Just after I finished CS, SB turns up. He has CS already but lacks philo (the only one lacking it besides monty but he doesn't count right?) so I give in to sell philo.
I get around 300-400g for philo I think.
BtS 3.17 really spawns more barb galleys:
As you can see, this turn I found the two cities needed for the quest. Libraries are chop-whipped (it still takes 12 turns...).
Great, more cultural pressure from Ham...
Hann seems to think I'm puny or something and has mercy (I accepted, this counts to WFYABTA, right? Doesn't matter, hit it with most leaders already anyway
)
780AD, the two whipped libraries finish:
And I even get a nice RE on the same turn
This really was a good turn for HRE research.
The Greatest Civilizations cheer me up instead of depressing me for a change. Nice
920AD, Lib finally nailed. I only bulbed philo, lib and edu once, plus built an academy in Aachen. That's 4 GS this session.
940AD I take PP. Nat would cost more beakers but PP is on the way to rifles and has more trade value (only biz has it while nat is generally known to everyone who matters, besides me
I stop here. Techscreen:
Not too encouraging but no huge hole. As you can see, both biz and louis got lib one turn after me
Also note Biz, SB and Han are in WFYABTA, Biz is friendly, Hann close to friendly. I can sign a DP with Han at friendly if I like. Monty is my tech selling machine. Too bad SB is in WFYABTA he lacks several techs but would have several to offer, guilds, gunpowder, engineering and chemistry. SB is was pleased with the +4 "trade relations" (+3 comes from selling philo; accepting his demand and selling got me +4
). Also note Biz has SciMeth. And astro. He also circumnavigated (as if it mattered). Hann just finished PP.
I'm currently teching Guilds, not sure if I should trade for it. I don't get good offers and it isn't terribly expensive. I'll be able to sell it to louis.
Overview (cap, empire):
Further notes: I plan on attacking either Ham or Hann. Currently focusing EPs on both. As you can see in the screenie I can see no one's demos
. As there are many cities with few food resources and drama obtained quite late (pretty far away from globe) I don't think I'll be drafting much. I hope to be able to capture a couple of cities though. Probabely switch to caste to run merchants in Aachen after the next GS (for chemistry) pops. I also really need to switch to buero and HR. I didn't dare spend turns in anarchy due to tight lib race. So the next GS would probabely be better used for a GAge.
Comments greatly appreciated
I also don't like backfilling that late, I usually do it earlier.
