Wow. We are hurting. Only two cities.
Arabs: 8 cities, up math.
Chinese: 7 cities, even in tech.
Russia: 7 cities, even in tech.
Ottomans: 4 cities, even in tech.
England: 5 cities, even in tech.
Luxures - none at the moment. Spices to our east. Silks far south, will likely be taken by Arabs.
We have No settlers on line and we are not growing fast at all. We need settlers or we are toast.
Either that, or build for very limited war and grow by aquisition. If we last that long...
Both of our workers are on the iron. I'm unsure if this is the right move as we need growth and commerce, but I'll let it slide to attach the iron. It may be our only shot.
[0] 1750BC
We have three curraghs and are building another? I think not. Switch Trondheim to spearman. Will start settler afterwards.
Bergen switches to rax.
Okay. Have to ask. What upgrades to beserks? Archers or warriors? Beserks are longbow replacements, are they not? Maybe we should be pursuing an archer rush on the arabs, knowing the troops can be upgraded in the future?
There's a mine next to Trondheim with no road?
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Pirate ship comes in view of a curragh.
[1] 1725BC
Moving around. Curraghs exploring. Iron will be connected in two.
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Spear completes in Trondheim. Settler due in 8, growth in 6. Not the best timing, but we need another settler ASAP.
[2] 1700BC
Explore more...
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Iron comes online. But its not connected to the capital. Sword rush?
Arab settler pair comes our way. England has math now.
[3] 1675BC
Moving around some more.
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Arab troops are milling around. Settler pair heads south.
Pirate boat chases us around 1 tile island off English coast.
[4] 1650BC
Our curragh, being pursued by the pirate, flees back to English coast and spots Spain to the English north. Isabella is up Math as well, has 6 cities and iron and wines hooked up.
Another exploring curragh, heads north and on last turn spots another pirate ship. Arrr.
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Hmmm. Abu would like a gift of 29 gold. Why, sure Abu. In the spirit of peace, afterall.
Two of our curraghs come under siege. One meets Davy Jone's locker. The other lives, barely to continue its explorations off the Ottoman mega island.
[5] 1625BC
Spain knows horseback riding now. Russia knows math.
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[6] 1600BC
Curragh off Ottoman super island spots a yellow border. We may hang around to hopefully make contact. Chinese have city on chokepoint separating themselves from us and the Arabs on the other side of the tundra expanse.
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If I didn't know any better, I'd think the Arab settler pair is heading for the spices to our east.
[7] 1575BC
Curragh continued on and spotted a Mongol city to the north. Nice. We can work with this.
Temujin is up Horseback, but lacks Masonry, alphabet, and Mysticism.
Masonry to the Mongols for Horseback riding and 93 gold.
Arabs have the most money, but they'll likely demand some back...
Trade Horseback to Russia for Mathematics and 87 gold.
Mysticism to Mongols for 147 gold.
We are even up in tech, and have lots of gold for sword upgrades.
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[8] 1550BC
MM Trondheim to get settler 1 sooner.
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Trondheim produces settler (and there was much rejoicing!), starts rax.
Bergen rax -> sword
English start SoZ
Arab city of Fustad appears to our immediate south.
[9] 1525BC
Arabs have Polytheism and 10(!) cities. Ahem. We have... 2.
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Mongols would like us to move our Curragh along. Okay. See some arab archers moving east.
[10] 1500BC
Settler moves into position on coast to the east of Trondheim. Curraghs move along.
Switch Berger to settler, due in 9 with growth timed the same. We need to think about how to get settlers out more quickly. We may be forced to expand overseas as the Arabs are going to make things tough to do much here. We need a lux which is available to our east so that should be a priority. But with our cities pop 1 and 2 right now, no lux is needed.
We are far, far behind. But who knows. Maybe we can still dig out of this. Diplo win? Small, small wars maybe and grow out? But we NEED settlers asap.
Our empire. Heh.
So. SC, you are up.
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Whoa. Make three separate posts and they merge? How cool (unless we get a max pic limit error...)!
Since I hadn't been saving, I was forced to play the set over again, relying on my notes for what I did. This time I decided to avoid having to make that decision (if Russia decided to demand again) by making nice with them. You decide: out of war with Russia, the loss of Writing, or the loss of 52 gold, which would you prefer?
