Oceanus had been summoned to the Head Office of Titan Bank for a crisis meeting....
I am afraid we are going to have to withdraw your line of Titan credit as you are seven Titans overdrawn explained Mr Tight-Fit Manager of Titan Bank..
But they were sanctioned by Mr Fox Head of Credit explained Oceanus
Yes, well we are prepared to honour his commitments but no more Replied Mr Tight Fist.
But we have always had such a good relationship with Mr. Fox, and look Titans incorporated has expanded massively with hostile takeovers of HRE Ltd and were just finishing our aggressive Merger with Mayan Enterprises. Its bringing lots of new target markets into play.
Well on the subject of markets a few developments to raise income would be welcomed by the Bank Said Mr Tight-Fist with the sort of raised eyebrow only a financier is trained to deliver.
But we are facing hostile and aggressive incursion from both England Inc and Portugal Megacorp.
Well I am afraid in the short term these will have to be addressed with your current resources Dont you realise there is a titan credit Crunch going on!! Shouted Mr Tight-Fist as he slammed the door.
Report
Finances werent that bad yet
but with Grenadiers coming soon this set focussed on
- Income with the aim of stealing Guilds followed Banking.
- Finishing off the Mayans
- Take the Barb city with spices and ready made towns to the south
- Oxford in our Capital
- Get started on forbidden Palace in Mayan land ready for taking some Portugese cities with Grenadiers next set.
We kick off with the switch to Taoism followed by OR to speed up infrastructure. We have only spread Taoism to key places so next player may want to spawn a few more missionaries.
Settled the GE in our Capital as the AP felt like a diversion we could do without although the Wonders list suggests it hasnt been built which feels strange!!
On the spying front things start out badly with our Spy in Nottingham getting booted out on the IBT. We did steal Guilds alter which prompted a lot of Grocers in our cities which means less troops hvae been produced than normal (light on siege for our next war)
Our Nottingham spy showed he had a severe BO problem by being executed next time so we are a way off from stealing banking.
The Mayan integration went fine.
And The barb city will soon be a useful addition to our Empire
Forbidden Palace started, I picked here so it will benefit any Portuguese cities we acquire
Oxford has been built in our Capital
Toward the end we were facing Cuirassiers . I sacrificed some siege as otherwise we would have lost Titans to this stack but with us having Grenadiers now we should be able to kill them off.
So at the end.
Less Military progress than normal but our economy will improve with Grocers on Line.
Our non smelly spy is returning to steal banking
We have another GE to decide what to do with.
Ralph
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I realize now that the AP is not available ... because diplo victory is turned off. 
