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DI3-650AD
Preturn: We are No.1 in score and power, and 2nd in culture. Our military and economy are in a MUCH better shape now.
We are researching at 30%. That's right, we want the tech pace to be slow so samurai can rule longer.
Spain is the tech leader and has Astronomy/Music Theory on us. That's great, we surely can get those techs for free.
Maya doesn't have saltpeter.
Our peace treaty with Korea has ended, so it's time to take it out.
I see a French settler? I guess that's because we built it in an ex-French city?
Korea wants to renew RoP, and I decline.
Paris sam->market. Kyoto sam->sam. P'yongyang sam->sam. Valencia temple->courthouse. Huexotla temple->courthouse and let the clown work. Poeple give us double expansion.
(1)570AD: I declare on Korea. There are several Korea archers inside our territory. At Huexotla 1st archer loses to archer, 2nd archer wins, sam wins and promotes. 6 sam move next to Pusan.
At Matsu sam kills spear, captures settler and promotes.
IBT our GA ended. Net gain dropped almost one half.
(2)580AD: 1st sam retreats, 2nd sam loses but redlines vet spear, 3rd sam kills reg spear, 4th sam kills reg spear and promotes, 5th sam loses to 3-hp elite spear, 6th sam kills 1-hp spear. Still one elite spear inside.
IBT Keep building sam. Izumo sam->Aqueduct,
(3)590AD: Elite sam attacks elite spear and retreats. 2nd sam loses to the elite spear. 3rd kills a vet spear and gets our 2nd leader. I immediately build an army. The elite spear is a trouble. Will take it out next turn with the army.
Found Sapporo to claim the horses.
Two sams take out Teayo from Aztecs and it has iron.
IBT Matsu riots.
(4)600AD: I joined a healthy sam and 2 injured sams into the army and it kills the elite spear with only 1-hp left!
IBT Aztec and Spain sign peace. Greece builds SoZ. We can build Heroic Epic but we are not allowed to.
(5)610AD: Pusan falls. We can drag Spain into Alliance against Aztec, or we can finish Spain first. I decide to do the latter.
Spain now has navigation as we can trade WM. Germany gets Music Theory.
Now the question is do we still want to stay at war with Aztecs? I say yes for now but turn all our military against Spain. I'll take out one more Aztec city. (We are really close to its core and our next war should be much easier)
(6)620AD: We capture Atzcapotzalco and lose one sam. It has iron so we keep.
(7)630AD: Capture Cheju and Kaesong. Freaking Korea has one city in an island in the north, and we dont have a boat. OK, let you live longer.
Aztec has Music Theory.
IBT Metallury due, I set max to Mil Trad due in 7. This is the last tech we need. I don't trade Metallury to anyone.
(8)640AD: Start galley in Satsuma. Will rush it soon.
IBT: several Korean cities riot.
(9) 650AD: I hire 3 scientists in Pusan and MilTrad due in 5 instead of 6.
I'll stop here to fix the turns.
To next leader:
We are ready to take out Spain. We have sams in Atzcaptzalco (including an army), Barcelona and Avignon. There is an army in Pusan that will be fully healed next turn too. We need some defense in Sapporo.
The first city we need to take is Vitoria as it has iron (but once we are at war Spain wouldn't get that iron anyway). Not sure if Spain has any other iron, if so, send an army to pillage it.
We probably will lose Grenoble, but it doesn't matter.
We have 3 sams in Chartres which can be used to take Jaen (in the east).
Yokohama is build a galley to take out Korea. We are not in a hurry though.
WW hasn't shown up yet, but we could always revolt to Monarchy.
Once MilTrad is in (5 turns), we can set one scientist on research and use all the money to rush things.
Enjoy!
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