Highlight: Started harassing the Chinese and celebrated the meeting of a new Civ (by slaughtering their emissary, ofcourse).
Someone said we are not the most powerful ...
Well, I couldn't care less ... erhm ... actually I could -- I could ignore this and not bothered with the screenie and all that ... but on the off-chance of someone caring this kind of Top-10 list.
Our lone axe in China saw a group of 1 archer and 3 warriors leaving Beijing, decided to ignore them (how much harm can they do anyway) and proceed to do some pillaging. The boys need some fun! After happily pillaging the floodplain cottages along the Yangtze River, caught the Chinese sending out a settling party ... protected by a single warrior? Ha!
Save me the trouble of building a worker in Persepolis. :yesyes:
Our axes reinforcement arrives in China and immediately goes into action:
After the fight, we see where the earlier stack of archer and warriors had gone ... they settled (there must be a settler in the earlier stack that I missed) Shanghai, just to the direct west of our attacking axe in the above screenie (in the fog, but there is a later one you can see it later).
The worker in the above screenie seems oblivious to our axes -- he continued mining happily. Well, hating to see him working so hard, we relief him and send him to our land so that he can work harder
The recently acquired workers reviewed the new Civ:
Ethopia. The scout is later killed. Apparently this caused the Ethopian to revolt ... they sure hate their leader for sending their brother scout to his death. But then, why is the Random Spirit reporting this to me? Why would I care?
Well, Mr Yaqob decided to quench his revolt by sending yet another scout to its death ... heh ... and that gave us a new general.
Note the barb archer near all our four workers in the above picture. I was trying to build the great Silk Road to hasten reinforcement for the taking of China.
I stopped there, since I have just learnt IW as well. Two sources I see on the map, one in the north:
The other one is just outside the border of Aachen (sorry, I accidentally destroyed the screenie).
Having 4 axes in China, I don't think we can take the protective archer defenders in Beijing. So, instead, after pillaging Beijing, I moved the stack to Shanghai. Suggest razing it -- (it will autoraze anyway) -- since we can't take cities without weighing the cost. Beijing is much better city to keep in the long run, though SH will bring Gems to add happiness. So, go debate anyway.
Our highest level axe has 61% chance of killing the archer ... the remaining defenders are laughable.
I am building a granary in Persepolis in preparation for using the whip ... we will hit happy limit at next pop, so time to introduce the art of dominatrix to Persia.
I am researching Maths for construction, but we need monarchy soon to grow beyond the measly happy limit.
Ethopians seems to be coming from the north (so maybe instead of the "Ottoman?" sign, it is Ethopia. Thus, next player may want to add some archers to Persepolis to beef up our defense.
Didn't build any settlers, I don't see how our economy can cope with capturing cities while settling at the same time. Need to plant some cottages.
