GOZ-2 (Workers unite-stuff the Emperor)

[conehead234]

If those workers would build us a road to the front we would be able to get our troops up to help faster. Who hired them?

 

[Ankka]

Looking good...

Me back, long time no see.

 

[gozpel]

Eek! My turns and I just sit and wait?

I got it.

Btw, WB Ankka.

 

[Ankka]

Thanks.

 

[gozpel]

The Save

Pre-turn - This looks quite funny, all those workers chopping away jungles in pairs
Most of that jungle will be gone during my turns anyways, which is good.

Scroll through cities - Fix some food and shields in a few towns for faster growth and builds.
Teno is about to riot...and Teoti...

I give Caesar Banking for spices, WM and 16g.

Switch Taco to courthouse
Rush temple in Ravenna for 52g
Switch Teoti to Palace

Find an elite knight sleeping in Poxyx, send him to the front.
Upgrade 4 lazy horsemen in Tula to knights

That was most of our gold, so no deal on Chemistry.

vet horse 3/4 kills reg MI near Ravenna
vet knight kills hurt sword

Ok.

760AD - Vet knight 3/5 defends against reg MI and promotes to elite

Ravenna temple -> spear

Fight around Ravenna:
elite sword 3/5 kills reg spear
vet sword 2/4 makes knight retreat
elite sword 1/5 kills reg spear
vet sword 1/4 kills reg MI
vet sword 1/4 kills reg MI
vet sword 3/4 kills reg MI
Vet horse dies trying to kill 1hp knight

Pisae:
vet sword 1/4 kills reg spear
vet sword kills reg sword, no damage
vet sword 1/4 kills reg sword

Sell WM around for 12g

770AD - IT - We kill 3 units, lose 2

Rikem harbor -> library

Elite sword kills reg sword
elite sword kills reg MI
vet knight retreats from musket, doing 1hp damage
vet knight kills the musket
vqt horse dies against reg spear, doing 1hp damage
vet knight 3/4 kills reg MI
vet knight 1/4 kills vet knight
no more healed troops, will check diplo

Sell WM around for 11g

780AD - Caliente knight -> knight
Taco court -> lib

kill 3 foreign units

790AD - Teno knight -> knight

A few civs knows Democracy

Assault on Dallas:
elite knight 4/5 kills reg spear
vet knight 3/5 kills reg spear, promotes to elite and takes the city
I'm totally out of steam, except a couple of horsemen

Peace with America, a 25-30 gpt discount on Democracy, I'll take it.
Peace - Democracy for 36 gpt, WM and 378 gold.

France doesn't have Democracy, they get Democracy, WM, 3 gpt and 6g for Chemistry and silks.

Research Metallurgy with a scientist.

Sell WM around for 12g
Give Zulu gems and WM for 7 gpt and 17g

Rushbuy explorer in Caliente for 36g and switch to settler in 1.

Switch gov.

800AD - We are a Democracy, we gained 20 gpt, not much, but faster workers will help.

810AD - Caliente settler -> library
Calix court -> aqueduct

Rush worker in Dallas for 36g

Some civs knows Economics

820AD - Loco knight -> library
Zalco library -> knight
Poxyx harbor -> market
Dallas worker -> worker

The people like us and add something to the palace

America and France are building Smiths.

Tanalco founded by poaching American lands -> temple

830AD - Aku Ankka harbor -> market

Ixa founded -> barracks
Rush worker in Dallas for 36g

Sell Astronomy to Romans for 5 gpt and 12g

A few civs knows Metallurgy, switch research to Physics

840AD - Teno knight -> bank
Teayo temple -> library
Hurry worker in Dallas for 32g

Buy Metallurgy from India for saltpeter, ivory, 5 gpt and 224g

850AD - Metallurgy and ivory to Zulu for furs, Economics, 3g and WM

Change Teoti to Smiths, it has no court and is corrupt, so little chance to get that one though.

What do you think of FP in Caliente, it's 5 pop, growth in 6 turns and FP in 25?

 

[Ankka]

Nice turns.

 

[conehead234]

Good job. FP in Caliente. Palace in ex american lands.

 

[Ankka]

Who's up?

 

[conehead234]

Your up.

 

[Ankka]

Sorry, I've got a school project I should do, so please skp me...

 

[conehead234]

Ok that makes Rik up.

 

[Rik Meleet]

I was going to play, but didn't have the save yet. Darn Forum blackout.

I hope to play tomorrow.

 

[Rik Meleet]

GOZ-2 (Workers unite-stuff the Emperor)
Years: 850 AD - 950 AD
Theme: "Population is power"

IHT. Decide to go full builder mode. Make some money out of France by selling Gems for 175 gold + 3 gpt + WM.
Switch Dallas to temple. Smith's is way too important to let Teoti go for it. Switch it to bank (loosing 6 shields). MM the city.
Caliente is supposed to be our FP site, so switch it to granary for growth. FP next.
Switch other cities to granaries, markets and banks. Temples in the north.
Ravenna is (food wise) our only really well irrigated site. Going to turn Ravenna into a worker pump. I just hope I can get the shields.

This will be fast turns.

IBT. Greece talks about a Gem for their gpt deal. I'll wait. Americans have started Shakes.
Teoti Bank -> Knight (nothing else to build really)
Pisae temple -> harbor
Taco Granary -> bank
Tanalco temple -> musket

[1] 860AD. MM cities. No trades possible, expcept Free Artistry is around. Keep it; we don't want it. Rush temple in Dallas.

IBT.

I just rushed a temple there, We loose a lot of military power.

[2] 870AD. MM cities. No trades possible.

IBT. Abe is annoyed by our troops (workers who were improving the Dallas area) in his lands. I am withdrawing them. This is adding insult to injury!
Ottomans start Smith's. French start Shake's.
Xochi aqua -> granary

[3] 880AD. Rush Musket in Ravenna. MM cities. No good trades possible.

IBT. Greek start Shake's.
Caliente Granary -> FP
Ravenna musket -> court
Tamuin temple -> court

[4] 890AD. MM cities. No good trades possible. Can someone tell our workers I want our tiles irrigated as well ?

IBT. Wine deal expires. Resell it for Horses + Gems + 9 gpt. Tradepartner is India. Zulu start Shake's. Indians as well.
Zalco Granary -> bank

[5] 900AD. Rush Court in Ravenna for 316 gold. MM cities. No good trades possible.

IBT.
Ravenna Court -> Granary.

[6] 910AD. America, India, France have Physics. Ottomans have Free Artistry, but not Metallurgy. Let's see what I can do...
France: Phys for Ivory + 43 gpt.
India : Phys for 58 gpt.
America: Phys for 64 gpt.
Nope, I hold out. Greece is Ivory and Gems down on us; they will ask less when they know it.
MM cities, doing no trades.

IBT.
Teno Bank -> Smith's (prebuild for ToE or Factory).
Teoti knight -> knight
Tula court -> aqua

[7] 920AD. Send knight towards the north.
Checking trades: Greece has no Physics yet. France wants Ivory + 37 gpt for it now. Our lone scientist researching Physics earns us 6 gpt. Or is is that Zulu have it now as well ?
MM cities, doing no trades.

IBT. Indians want to talk. They want to trade WM for our WM + 29gold. Do I look like santa Claus ? Have I got a money-tree in my garden ? I tell him: "No deal".

War !!!

Romans, French, Greeks also start Smith's. Zulu city of Bapedi has finished Magellan's. Otto's, Greek, Indians, French start with Shake's. Those 2 guys are popular !

Zulu ally with America.

Rikem Bank -> granary

[8] 930 AD. France, Zulu, America and India are now Physics + Military Tradition up on us. The Greeks are up Mil Trad. France and India asks the lowest for it; 53 gpt. Buy Physics from India for 53 gpt; we already have gpt deals to India and if they back out, we'll get more back than from France.
Trade Physics + Ivory to Greece for Mil Trad + WM.
Trade Metallurgy for Free Artistry with Ottoman's.

We are on tech-equality with everyone, except Otto's are a bit down and Romans are way down. As we can always give Rome a city, I decide to trade Metallurgy to Rome for WM + RoP + 15 gpt. We have to keep an eye on Rome for the next 20 turns.

Change musket in Tanalco to rax and rush it for 52 gold. We have knights to upgrade ! Rush Granary in Ravenna for 228 gold.
Funds: America has 186 gold, India has 136 gold, Ottoman's are bankrupt, So are Greece, Zulu and Rome. France has 208 gold.

Keep research confined to sole Scientist in Teno.

MM cities. no interesting trades.

IBT. Romans want to talk. Do I want to ally against the Americans. Uhm... no.
Calix Aqua -> harbor
Ravenna Granary -> worker
Tanalco rax -> musket

[9] 940AD. Rome still has all it's cities. Upgarde 7 vet knights in Tanalco to Cavs. Sending more vets to there for money-spending. I don't upgrade elite knight. Rename him "Leader hope"

Funds: America 362 gold, India 2 gold, France 31 gold. Rest have little funds, no new techs.

IBT. We lost our supply of Spices.
Loco bank -> granary
No unhappyness.

[10] I'm going to take the most out of Rome, before they die. They haven't lost any cities yet. Trade them Democracy for Spices + WM + 10 gold. He must slowly realise we are helping him survive; he turns from furious to annoyed.
Funds: America has 47gold. India: 215. Greece: 0. Ottoman's 14. France 241. Zulu 24. Rome 0.
No new techs. Upgrade 2 knights to cavs. Send some cavs to other norhtern cities.

MM Loco and Rikem to grow in 1.

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And that's it for my turns. I lifted our Economy from 79 gold, 85gpt to 178 gold, 130gpt. Pop grew from 3.811.000 to 4.704.000. Our Productivity rose from 408 to 497. Not bad, considering we lost a city through a flip.

America's peace treaty will end in 4 turns. We are currently paying him 36 gpt. And he is furious. We have 9 cavs and 1 more vet knight to upgrade. We also have a fortified elite knight in Tanalco. America should be a walk in the park, seeing all terrain is flat, ideal for cavs.

Ravenna is up to 5 fpt and 2 spt. With a little assistance of the workers (mines in the hills) this city can churn out a worker in 3 or 4 turns. It needs 9 shields to get 3 uncorrupted shields.

Teno is building a wonder, as prebuild for Theory of Evolution; it has 21 uncorrupted spt.

Don't move the scientist from Teno, the city is perfectly balanced at 0 fpt, size 12 and a full granary.

And do pay attention to Rome, we have some important deals with them; don't let them die. As a last option, gift them a city; for instance Ixa or Tamuin.

Good luck !

For the lurkers

Next Better duck. Ankka.

 

[conehead234]

Bad luck on Dallas. I think that it might do us good to invade india. Then take out Rome after that. Does the team have any ideas on this?

 

[Bede]

Rik the builder.

As for the future, I think America should be our target until Abe is down to a hamlet in the north. He's the bully in this one, and it will keep Rome alive. Abe's is going to come after us soon, anyway. We are in his way to some very important resource, I'll bet.

In other business:

Originally posted by Ankka
Sorry, I've got a school project I should do, so please skp me...

And from post in other threads I think RL has overtaken Ankka 'til Friday. So, with concurrence of team I can pick it up tomorow and put it in Ankka's hands on Friday.

Let me know.

 

[conehead234]

Originally posted by Bede
As for the future, I think America should be our target until Abe is down to a hamlet in the north. He's the bully in this one, and it will keep Rome alive. Abe's is going to come after us soon, anyway. We are in his way to some very important resource, I'll bet.

Well I don't see us having oil. Maybe we have rubber or coal.

 

[Rik Meleet]

Bede: go ahead with playing.

About America: we are too weak to stand a chance yet. But I wouldn't be surprised to get in an Aztec-American war during your turns. If that would've happened while I was playing your turns I'd get the cavs out and race to his cities; razing them all. America's culture is too strong for ours to hold cities.

 

[Ankka]

Raze the cities, whip the slaves!

 

[gozpel]

It's looking good.

Who the heck is up, I lost track?

 

[Rik Meleet]

Official Batting Order
1 - Ankka - skipped till friday
2 - Rik Meleet - Played
3 - Bede - Ready, willing and able
4 - conehead
5 - gozpel

I propose To let Bede go, after that Ankka and then to coneheade and continue the normal batting order.

Thus: B -> A -> C -> G -> A -> R -> B -> C -> G