(NOTE: I will format the text in a few hours, if you want an easy read, please wait... I just have to go to a play my sister is in, and am leaving now. I apologize for all these delays.
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Initital observations and adjustments:
Note troop positions and numbers, including the fact that Manp'o is defended entirely by a single Warrior, and is on American border. A likely target for the cowards to try at.
Note that there is a fortified worker in Taejon that could build a road on the coastal Tabacco with no danger, and assign Road-To command.
Note that Sariwon, tucked away in friendly sumerican territory, has a spare Warrior (garrisoned along with the local Spear), which I direct to Manp'o, hoping it will not arrive too late (warrior ends turn on worker stack one tile east of Manp'o, right on a border with neutral territory.)
Finally end turn and actually start my first real turn. ^^
IBT:
American settler pair moves to directly NE of our horseman, which is a hill.
310 AD (1):
Pyongsong Galley -> Swordsman
Galley assigned to autoexplore.
Some wounded swordsmen sent into conquered cities to heal and quell reistance.
Four swords move to forest north of Buffalo. Trusting they don't have a horseman in there, and knowing any workers captured here we can take back, I set worker on border with Buffalo to mine BG.
MM Seoul entertainer to Scientist, now four happy citizens, one content, four unhappy.
Kaesong now has three spears (regular, regular, vet). Fortify vet and send one regular to Boston.
MM boston entertainer to labourer.
Send two swordsmen from Boston to Miami. Will be ready to fight next turn. Fortify four Swords already at Miami. Might as well fight one turn later but with full force.
Send Sword south of Inch'on to Boston.
Firtfy two of the three Swords outside of Seattle, and send a Sword near Wonsan to help them out. This one will be ready for battle next turn, but another is a tile behind, and will only fight turn after that.
Assign some workers and slaves to various jobs in safe areas.
Move horseman to mountain north of Hovd, hoping to cause American settlet pair to move into forest for a slight chance of victory over them.
Check diplomacy, and notice the Mongols aren't available for selling Republic. Whic means they got it too. Argh.
End this amazingly long turn. oO (Gonna try to keep the next one less detailed, I feel I mayh ave exaggurated.)
IBT:
American horse attacks swords near Miami (the ones I moved there last turn) and dies without doing any damage.
See mongol horseman coming out of southwestern end of America.
See American archer from Seattle attack spear headed to Boston, and die, taking one HP down with it.
American settler pair moves to mountain directly NE of our horse.
320 AD (2):
Namp'o: Swordsman -> Swordsman
Note this city is not producing any culture, and decide to let the Temple of Artemis (hopefully) take care of that (due in 22 turns).
Send new sword to Boston, to recieve further orders upon arrival.
Swords outside Buffalo come up on queue, and since this is a relatively trivial city, and there are no reinforcements en route, I decide to attack, taking the city with the first attack, without any losses (not a single HP)!
Buffalo -> Spearman
Send the three now-spare swords to road in NE.
Taking our victory at Buffalo as a sign that the RNG is in a good mood, I attack Seattle. The first defender falls easily to our first attack, causing us no damage. Second defender does 1 point of damage, and dies. SEATTLE IS OURS! Take that Lincoln! (Mo' like Stinkoln! ^^)
Seattle -> Spearman
Send three now-spare swords to forest East of NYC.
Hoping we're on a roll here, I attack Miami! First defender gets redlined, but kills our first attacker, and gets promoted. But then the next attacker kills it and takes the city!!! Miami is now, and forever will be, an integral part of the Korean Empire.
Miami -> Spearman
Send one now-spare sword into Miami as a garrison, send the other two to NYC. In 5 turns we will have five swords outside New York.
Move horse to mountain NE of American settler pair via plains SE of them.
MM some workers and slaves.
Send spare Bostonian sword to NYC.
All friendly nations except for Byzantines now have Republic. I decide to sell it to them for whatever they can give, rather than delay the inevitable. Get 33 gold.
MM Hyangsan so it won't revolt, setting up a scientist.
IBT:
Mongol horse steps into Korean territory.
American settler pair moves to Mountains NW of our horse, on the border with Sumeria.
330 AD (3):
P'yongyang: Swordsman -> Swordsman
Wonsan: Swordsman -> Hanging Gardens (as Sun Tzu prebuild, perhaps a bit late. ><)
Cheju: Swordsman -> Swordsman
Hyangsan: Swordsman -> Swordsman
Kaesong: Spearman -> Spearman
NEWS FLASH: Americans are building Hanging Gardens. Copycats.
Send new spear from Kaesong to Boston.
Fortify 3/4 health sword in Seattle, and move Sword south of Seattle towards NYC.
America would agree to give two cities out of four (plus Washington). Let's see what they'll think after we take NYC.
Send another three swords (from nearby Buffalo) towards NYC. They will be there a turn after the rest, but they've got nothing better to do.
Send one spare spear to buffalo, and place a currently unneeded second spear from Pyongsong in Philly, freeing up a sword, that I send to NYC. I can prolly take the other sword away from there and not suffer any consequences, but rather leave it as is for a while.
Send some Swords to NYC (which was btw the only city they weren't willing to offer for peace at all.)
Send a sword towards Manp'o, to take care of it till we can get a spear in it.
Fortify the new sword in Hyangsan to keep them happy, since they have very good terrain (for production).
Send horseman into hills in Sumerian territory (directly east of american settler pair), to avoid having this chase continue into allied territory (in case they decide to change their mind about our RoP), and see Byzantine Warrior in the jungles to the north.
Spear arrives at Boston, and fortifies. Send a Bostonian sword towards Atlanta, in case taking NY won't make all US base belong to us. ^^
IBT:
American settler pair moves to mountains SW of our horseman.
Another settler, defended by - get this - a horseman, appears near hovd.
Mongolian horse rides across our lands and stops in neutral territory near Seattle.
Byzantine warrior moves to grass west of Umma, NE of our horseman.
340 AD (4):
Daily news: Byzantines are building Hanging Gardens.
Send some more swords towards Atlanta (including the one formerly defending Philly, decided to prioritize a bit).
Move horse to hills in neutral territory, SE of american settler pair. I hope to take the other, badly defended settelr pair.
Several swords arrive at NY, some more right behind them. Check America's diplomacy, and they still won't give more than two cities, but iirc, their position on giving us NYC has slightly improved (now doubtful).
MM some workers.
My, that was a short turn. =O
IBT:
American settler pairs move around a bit, Mongol horseman move northwards.
350 AD (5):
Paegam: Spearman -> Aqueduct
Americans are building the Hanging gardens again. That Lincoln and his damn flowers... We'll never hear the end of it, I think.
Some spears fortify in some cities, some swords head for Atlanta, some other swords fortify outside of New York, some more arrive at the place, too exhausted to fortify.
Our horse moves so it is now on a mountain, in range of attacking the American pair. (Well, actually, two pairs, there is another one in the forests near the Mongolian Ta-Tu, but that one has a spear, so I won't bother. These will have to be hunted later perhaps.)
MM some workers.
IBT:
American settler parties shuffle around (but still will not escape our clever horsie), mongolian horse moves northwest, american archer comes out of New York and places itself on a mountain near our stack.
360 AD (6):
Cheju: Swordsman -> Colosseum (It's a river town, and it's about to become a city.)
Hyangsan: Swordsman -> Aqueduct
Taejon: Swordsman -> Swordsman
American Archer is killed, but causes two points of damage on its way down.
Some swords move around towards New York and Atlanta. Some others fortify outside the same cities.
Some workers are micromanaged.
Our horse attacks the American horse that's frolicking in the forest along with a settler... AND IS SUCCESSFUL! Two new slaves. Yay. The horse will escort them back to safety, then fest some, and then chase some more settelr pairs.
IBT:
Mongol horse moves a bit south, American settler pair moves east.
370 AD (7):
P'yongyang: Swordsman -> Aqueduct
Inch'on: Barracks -> Swordsman
Hovd goes into disorder (how did I miss this?! ><), I switch a laborer to scientist.
Notice that America has founded the city of St. Louis, which I cannot locate on the map. =S
Some swords move, and some ATTACK NEW YORK CITY! First sword gets redlined but kills a spear, second takes down one point for the remaining enemy spear, and dies. Next one takes one point of damage, and takes NYC along with it. Whoot!
New York -> Spearman
MM all three New Yorkers to Scientists.
Get this: America will trade any city other than St. Louis and Washington for peace. I also just noticed St. Louis is located at the northern tip of the continent, right near some furs. We're probably best off taking their entire homeland and leaving them with this city. This will probably be a descision made by the next player.
Some swords are moved towards Washington and Atlanta.
Some northern garrisons are MMed.
IBT:
American settler pair moves to the east.
380 AD (8):
Namp'o: Swordsman -> Aqueduct
Our cave gets some nice trees and bushes and stuff.
Some swords move towards Atlanta and Washington, some are fortified here, there, and everywhere.
Notice the Byzantine Warrior (Elite!) now in the forests at the eastern tip of Mongolia.
Four workers set to Build Trade.
IBT:
Archer comes out of Atlanta and heads south, Byz Warrior moves.
390 AD (9):
Pyongsong riots (silly me, forgot to check for unhappiness in the Domestic Advisor at the end of last turn. ><) Turn a laborer into a scientist.
Swords move towards the two objectives, and some others fortify.
Our two slaves an horseman arrive at Hovd safely. Horse fortifies, slaves are too exhausted to be slavedriven.
Some workers are micromanaged.
Adjust science slider to get some extra gold for the two remaining turns of research on Feudalism.
IBT:
Silly american archer attacks swords heading for Atlanta - AND WINS. =O
American horse appears from the north and heads south.
400 AD (10):
Philadelphia: Spearman -> Swordsman
Sword that witnessed it's partners death, takes vegeance on American Archer (taking its remaining point of health with ease).
Swords move around as usual.
Set the two new slaves to Build Trade, so Hovd have a korean road to the capital. Some other workers and slaves set to Build Trade, some micromanaged.
That's all, folks.
I gotta run for a few hours, so I'll give some extra commentary when I get back.
Don't play before that, please.
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