Thank you for your patience. Turned out I didn't play too many turns due to the tech choice
The delay is not due to pigswill's play, but I have some personal matter to attend to last few days. However, I did made a few changes to the build order to whip away angry citizens, and of-course implementing my poet-plan of producing nothing but maces in the capitol.
Anyway, wealthiest civs, and we are not on top.
Doesn't matter, we would soon correct this once we adopt state property.
Pigswill has also nicely signed out a huge celtic stack ...
I wasn't too sure which of the cities they are aiming for ... so I shadowed it with our cavs. Turns out they are heading for the city in revolt -- Aachen. Attack they did, killing quite a few of our defenders esp due to the massive number of trebs the William brought along with that stack. But then he did not managed to capture Aachen:
And unfortunately for him, it's now my turn.
The stack was wiped out, and the battles gave us a Great General, which I merged in our HE city.
Our forces then healed a bit, and moved our for the Huayna's city in southwest. Due to the lack of sieges, I did not capture it.
Well, save some fun for the next player. We definitely have more than enough forces to take it. In fact, if next player feel like it, it should be possible to take the city (with remaining 16% defense) before you press enter, but we might a lose a few units this way though.
Meanwhile, in the west, after repelling a substantial Greek force along the south coast, we marshalled a sufficiently big stack up north and moved out. When we reach the city of Knossos, Cyrus hit us with quite a few cannons.
But that did not stopped us. Here is the reason for bringing along Knights (which is seemingly obsolete).
The knights are immune to the cannons' collateral, and they clean up the lone injured cavs which withdrew from a previous battle easily.
Then it was my turn
I have to conserve a bit to recover from the cannon fire. The next turn, the city of Knossos is ours:
This costs Cyrus his second placing, and Fredderick of Spain is now our closest rival in score (and apparently our superior in power, according to the computer
).
We should next regroup a bit, bring an even larger force (which I am happy to say that quite a few maces are heading there ... so next player can choose to promote them to CR rifles or wait a bit more and promote them to CR grenies) and try our best to capture Athens, now that it is within reach. Cyrus has been quite kind in adding all sort of gifts for us in that city, among them, Statute of Liberty and Kremlin Palace are the latest additions.
Research wise, we got a scientist on the same turn we got Liberalism.
He can bulb part of Biology, or he can build the academy in Turfan. Speaking of Turfan, it is building the Oxford. This city is the third highest beaker produce (43, against 44 in capitol and 54 in Old Sarai) but it has no academy. So, it will easily become the highest beaker city once the academy is installed.
This is what I suggest, but I have no problem with bulbing part of Biology nor waiting for 2 more GPs to trigger another Golden Age.
Following Liberalism, I of course pursued Communism.
I see no reason not to revolt immediately, but perhaps other players have a different opinion. Hence, I stopped here, and selected Military Science tentatively. Alternatively, we can go for Railroad (require Steam), as what is limiting our war effort is now the long turns needed to bring units to the front.
And, I must stress: Please, if next player choose Military Science, keep building MACES. These are our final 3 turns to get those nice CR gunpowder units.
close at hand.
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that can allow you to set rally point for each city where produced units would automatically go to (ala RTS-style)? But, I have no problem with either 
