IBT - England has landed cavalry in Germany, a lone rider pass us headed north.
Delhi: aqueduct->knight
Bombay: berserk->knight
Alesia: pikeman->temple
Stockholm: berserk->pikeman
Leptis Minor, Svolvaer: temple->pikeman
The resistance in Heidelburg end, riots follow.
(6) 1400AD - Keflavik founded, start harbor.
We attack Nuremberg. They lose 2 spearmen, we lose 1 berserk.
Switch Vadso from berserk to pikeman, since the berserk would take forever to build.
Some signs of war weariness is beginning to show.
IBT - Our wine deal with England ends. Cartaghe riots.
Karachi, Birka: galleon->pikeman.
(7) 1405AD -
Nuremberg: They lose 1 spearman, we lose nothing, the city falls. 4 resisisters.
We attack Bremen as well. They lose 2 spearmen, we lose nothing, the city falls. 3 resisters, but there is a barracks in the city.
The Germans are beaten, they are ready to offer us Stuttgart for peace, but we'll continue.
Upgrade a spearman.
England has sold their wines to somebody else, we could buy ToG from them for all our lux but I decide to wait until we get banking in two turns to see what we can get then...
IBT - The germans beg for peace, we decline. They attack Konigsberg and kill an MDI.
We watch as more than a dozen English Man-O-Wars bombard Hamburg back to stoneage.
Reykjavik: berserk->knight
Oslo: berserk->aqueduct
Richborough: pikeman->harbor
Stavanger: settler->pikeman
(8) 1410AD - We attack Hamburg, kill the redlined spearman, capture the city and a worker. 3 resisters.
We attack Stuttgart, kill 2 spearmen and take the city. 1 resister.
Kill some strolling units, 1 spearman, 3 archers and 1 horseman. A great leader, Leif Erikson, appears! He crates a berserk army.
IBT - A horseman attacks, but dies. We learn Banking->Economics (8 turns). Munich riots. Some resisters are quelled.
Aarhus: berserk->knight
Hareid: marketplace->knight
Verulamium: pikeman->harbor
(9) 1415AD - Kill a strolling arcer. Capture a worker. I decide to gamble a little to be able to kill off the germans fast. Our captured cities get an extremely low defense since all units move in to attack the cities.
IBT - An archer attacks one of our berserks and dies.
Trondheim: army->army
Bergen: berserk->knight
Hamburg, Nuremberg riots.
(10) 1420AD -
Hannover: Our army easily kill 2 spearmen and take the city. 2 resisters. And there is saltpeter in Hannover! Now we can build cavalry!
Berlin: They lose 3 spearmen, we lose nothing, the city falls. Capture a worker. 3 resisters. Another source of saltpeter nearby.
Leipzig: They lose 2 spearmen, we lose 2 berserks.
Start The Pentagon in Copenhagen, could also be used as a prebuild.
OK, the germans are still (barely) alive. That will be easily fixed.
I'll leave to the next player to decide what to do with Russia. As I saw them as our next target I didn't enter any deals with them, so now we're free to decide if we should:
a) invade them
b) trade with them (they have dyes, which we desperately need, and they are behind in tech so they are willing to trade.
Keep an eye on England when Germany is destroyed. They will probably not be as nice to us when the alliance ends. We could buy ToG from them to enter the Industrial ages.
7 turns left to economics, aiming for Smiths.
This is what's left of Germany.
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