270AD, inherited turn:
take a look around.
Celtic city richborough is really annoyingly placed at south tip on celt/korean island. Because of it all our trade routes HAS to go though celtic waters.
celts also has cities on hourse island and japanese island.
mayans has cities on the islands east of horse island.. how did they get there? ah.. they have lighthouse.. uh,, mayans has lighthouse,pyramids, glib, temple of artemis, MoM, building sun zu, and are agricultural.. they apear to have the 2nd best starting agrea after japan too.. no wonder they are growing fast.
we still dont have enough cities to build FP.. we have 9 cities.. we need one more city to be able to build it.
Despite Doc's reasons for 80% research on feudalism.. I decide to veto it
Reason is because mayans must know several civs by now (they have spread out a lot) and is bound to sell it to another civ or two soonish, and buying at 2nd or 3rd will be close to what we currently spend on the research since we only have 1 library, but 2 markets (and I want some cash on hand to be able to pull off two and 3fers)
Switch the palace in utica to barracks.
Theveste has barracks but is building library, I really dont think we need to research anything yet, so I will use it to build units.. switch to numedian
Change the library in Chartage to barracks as well..
Since we need one more town for FP, I switch lepis minor to settler and will rush it when it reach since 3.
Why are a lot of workers wasting turns building mines on tundra When engineering is right around the corner (can plant forest then for 1 more shield)? I leave them thou since only 1 turn to completion.
280AD, turn 1:
not much
IBT: Korea and summeria sign peace
290AD, turn 2:
rush settler in lepis minor
Mayans sold feudalism to france now..
japan is the most powerful nation atm, and they are growing fast in power, Behind them are mayas and france. Sadly there is nothing I can do about japan atm.
Maya and france on the other hand..
Either Summeria or japan will sell currency to koreans any time now I bet, so may as well pull the trigger now so I can use their free tech in trades in our turn.
Koreans get engineering.
France will give us better price for feudalism than maya, but this doesnt fit my plans for them...
establish embassy with mayans. Looks like mayans is trying for a 20k win... chichen Itza has temple,library,pyramids,great lib, mom and palace.. and 2 turns left on building colosseum.. its currently pulling in 25cpt ;P
France has great wall, iron, no horses and feudalism. France has no way of getting to us before they can travel sea squares.
Maya has no iron, no horses, and is the only ai that can get to some of the islands due to having lighthouse.
Declare war on france, then ally maya vs france for 12gpt and 4 gold.
Maya is now polite and will sell us feudalism for 24gpt and 216gold
france with great wall, pikes and mdi vs maya in golden age with javalin throwers and fueled by out gpt and lots of wonders.. should get bloody
Looking at who has what techs atm.. I dont want japan or korea to get hold of feudalism yet, so trade feudalism to summeria (they dont have iron) for engineering, 1gpt and 15 gold
Japan has republic, korea has engineering.. engineering is not enough to get republic from japan unless I thow in silks.. but that will would mean waiting 20 turns to start war with celts unless we want to ruin rep.. so I sell engineering to japan for all their gold and gpt, that way koreans cant get anything for engineering atleast.
Upgrade the curragh in carthage.
IBT:
Culture expansion, palace expansion
Loose supplies of dyes
300ad, turn 3:
No cities will riot at 0% lux even after loosing dyes, so I dont renew deal (it will prolly break when we declare on celts anyway)
Will spend a few turns building up military before declaring on celts, We still only have 2 numedians on main island.
310ad, turn 4:
Found Hadrumetum, and we can now build FP
upgrade one sword to MDI
320ad, turn 5:
load 2 galleys with 2 numeian, 1 archer and 1 mdi.. will declare and drop them off on mountain next to celt capital after lux deal with japan expire in 2 turns (japan is giving us lux, so delaring now would not ruin rep, but will take 2 turns to get up there anyway)
330ad, turn 6:
build and move troops
Bah, japan picked up feudalism somehow.. they must have researched it themselves.
IBT:
Summeria lands a settler pair on south end of our island..
loose spices
340ad, turn 7:
have to raise lux tax to 10% because of the lost lux.
summeria and maya has invention now.. archers for mayans in war vs france is the only good part about that..
350ad, turn 8:
move our boats out of celtic waters, then declare war
land 2 numedians, 1 mdi and an archer on mountain next to entremont.. capturing a worker in the process.
IBT:
Celts move a lot of troops towards entremont, but dont attack the small stack even if it isnt fortified.. I guess they wont attack numedians on mountains at all... after all the best they have is attack 2 units.
360ad, turn 9:
use the mdi to attack the vet spearman ontop in entremont, MDI takes no damage and kills spear, and promotes to elite.
archer kills archer on mountain next to entremont that was heading towards the capital.. takes one hp damage, One of the numians moves onto of the archer to protect it
IBT:
huh.. japan demands silks.. we have a traderoute to japan? how? I did not check if we could trade with other nations after declaring, I just assumed we could not... I give japan the silks.. we are not ready to fight them
Hmm.. this time celts attack fortified numedian on mountain with an archer.. and loose.. we enter a golden age
The numedian kill another 2 archers, and promote to elite. Archer attacks numedian in the town next to the first horse town, and it promote to vet
palace expansion
370ad, turn 10:
elite mdi flawlessly kills regular spear in entremont
move the archer and numedian back to the original spot, wonder if the archer defensive shot is what stopped them from attaching when archer and numedian is on same tile.
switch utica to palace, due in 16 turns.
I left all the workers unmoved in last turn, since they all have moves atm.
The two workers by sabratha just copped,roaded and replanted the tile they are on. The Worker Hybadrumtum just moved onto the forest and was about to do the same. The forest by utica was just planted.. no point chopping/replaning that atm since utica is building palace.
summeria will give us gold and lux for silks if we want.. however we will get another lux when entremont falls in not too long (I killed a total of 6 troops there the last 2 turns.. they cant have many troops left, since they were weak compared to us when I started war. Galleys just got back home and can send reinforcenemnts over from carthage next turn.
Hippo will take 40 turns to build FP even in golden age, so not sure if that is the best spot to buld it.. growth to size 3 and rushing the courthouse would drop it with many turns thou.
Might be better to build FP in Entremont.
Our army is weak compared to japan and ottomans, strong vs celts, and average to everyone else.
I still have no clue how we are able to trade luxes with japan and summeria..
The save
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