<The Save>
170AD
The tidy little island is covered with a pall of smoke!! Every city I see is burning!! Six!! Every city with shields in the box is ordered to produce a worker. That will deal with the unhappiness problem right now! Iznik swapped to a marketplace from FP. The doubling of OCN won't help us on this little isle and we can use the gold. Change one taxman to a a scientist and put everybody back to work in the fields to avert starvation.
Our navy consists of three galleys and two curraghs. We have twenty-eight swords and spears and thirteen workers. There are no spears with the force in Scandanivia and the swords are a few turns away from hitting a Viking ville. The supporting galleys are nowhere they can be useful in the evacuation of wounded troops. Fortunately Ragnar is still in the AA and hasn't learned the enabling tech for his fearsome Berserker.
Spend a little time in the diplomatic reception rooms and discover that we control who knows whom, change the research path to Theology in hopes that we can get to Printing Press in time to trade our contact information.
Sell some Wines and Literature to Henry for Dyes.
Looks like Willie is one tech short of the MA. The rest of the gang is at least one, and more often two or three short. The Vikings have the Library in Trondheim and know both us and the Dutch, so are very close to the MA.
Bunch of workers produced and all towns on coast start galleys or harbors. the anarchy ends and we are now a Monarchy. The impact on our economy is negligible as we lacked the infrastructure and terrain improvements to really take advantage of it.
T1 190
Assemble the force to go after ivory source on Scandanvain coast. Move galleys to provide support on N coast of Scandanavia
Now for the tedious Micromanagement report:
Izmit starts a library due in 8.
Iznik starts an acqueduct.
Bursa starts an acqueduct
Erdrine starts an acqueduct
Istanbul at a perfect 10spt starts a swordsman
Aydin starts a courthouse
Uskudar starts a galley
Antalya starts a barracks for producing spears.
Sinop starts a library
Konya stays on its settler
Mugla starts a library
Salonika starts a library
Incense starts a harbor
Kafa starts a library
Our conversion rate of gold to science is only 85%. Leave science at 10% on Theology and turn down lux to 0 as the population drop solved the contentment problem for a while.
This island has a terrible lack of shield production, very few bonus grasslands and the mountain and hill areas are not acessible to the irrigatible areas for the most part. As a result the switch to Monarchy did nothing for us. Population growth is limited by the lack of rivers or other fresh water sources without acqueducts and we have only one town capable of growing past 6 without acqueducts.
Change Uskudar to a settler for landing on the Scandnavian coast.
T2 210
Manage cities to shave a turn or two off builds.
Swords march through mountains towards little Scanda ville with the elephants. High ground is blocked by Scandanavian spear and settler pair, the stupid Vikings move off the high ground.
T3 230
Ignore the Viking spear settler pair and seize the mountain above Birka. Spend 72g on settler out of Uskudar as galley is in place to pick him up.
England is wearing a gorgeous gorget of pearls and a new frock. She is in the MA but has no techs.
Open an embassy with the Dutch just to keep tabs on his friends
T4 250
Attack on Birka
Single spear in garrison kills attacking sword, spear wounded but promotes. Second sword dies dealing hurt to single spear. Third sword finishes off spear, takes the city, keep it for now as it helps with unit support. Remainder of force remains on high ground moving toward Stavanger.
Cruising galley spots Scanda horseman heading north towards battleground.
Spainards land a settler and spear in desert peninsula
T6 260
Sell Monarchy to Byzantines and Polytheism to Carthage for enough gold to rush harbor at Incense.
Willie has a new stock and haircut. He's in the MA.
Sign up Isabella against Ragnar for Polytheism. She throws in 7g.
Two Jute galleys promote SS Lenny to Elite
T7 270
Incense now on sale in Istanbul
Settler and spear land on ivory. healed sword abandons Birka leaving it open to Vikings and they take it.
T8 280
SS Scourge of Scandia sails from Uskudar with two swords.
Move settler/ spear and sword into forest on coast.
Move swords into position at Stavanger
Sign RoP with Spain straight up.
T9 290
Battle of Stavanger
Sword attacks and defeats spear, takes heavy casualties. Sword attacks and takes town.
Found Denizili on Scandia coast
Found Bolu on NE coast of home island
Ragnar has stopped painting his face and now wears a conical helmet
Scandanavians attack Denizli, promote the spear to elite, cripple their two horsemen and lose an archer. Viking horseman kills wounded sword at Stavanger
T10 300
It takes three swords to dispatch Viking horseman at Stavanger. Two swords move into garrison at Denizli. One sword moves into forest ourside Birka.
Science rate now exceeds 1:1. What's hurting now is unit support at 18g per turn.
Alliance and RoP with Isabella have 19 turns to go. Don't do anything to break them.
Alliance against Ragnar runs out in 16 (460AD)
Next objective is Birka, then south to village I can't identify, then I would just go ahead and take out Trondheim. Might want some catapaults for that. As near as I can tell Ragnar doesn't know anybody other than us to help him to Invention. I would not research that tech, though, just in case. Once the Vikings have those Berserkers the island becomes a whole lot less secure.
Apologize for dearth of pictures but camera having problems (too much saltwater in the rucksack)
My comp is currently just beeping at me when I switch it on, and since it was a Bank Holiday Monday yesturday in the UK I haven't been able to get to a computer till today at school.
anyways if do get some new players who going to continue the game?
