GR18-AWM Genocide Variant vs 30 Civs.

[Mumpulus]

The final rules were to raze every town (rule 3), but it's not really against the spirit of the variant as there are no foreigners there. Because this has been such a crazy game, maybe we can let it slide . I'm ok either way.

 

[markh]

Well, Viki is not a game breaking town, so either way would be fine although wasting a settler on that position might be a little too much.

 

[Tribute]

lurker's comment: Shouldn't you upgrade some spearmen to pikemen? You have no unit building capacity currently and can upgrade 3. (Sword->Mace is not as helpful unless you want free healing). Namwon Part II might like it.

I'm not sure about this, but if you would like to catch up in research (or go faster), you'd probably want a galley for the ocean (or inner sea) to the west to make more contacts. As long as you can hold your defensive position, that's fine, right? Aren't you biding your time until you get enough knights, anyway?

 

[Northern Pike]

Nice work getting us well into our anarchy.

So the Sumerians are three techs at most from cavalry--not great news.

We're a bit light on armies on the Viking front, where we most need to make progress. So even though it's never pleasant to waste army-turns on travel, I think we should swing the mace army in Won Is Not Enough SW to Scandinavia after it heals this IT. It could head either to Bodo or to Reykjavik, as the next player sees fit.

I'd hate to compromise the premise of our game over a very minor city. The people of Viki tolerated alien rule and the town must be burned to the ground.

We have five of our ten settlers in towns on our hard-pressed northern front, and I can't imagine what they're going to do there. We won't be expanding in that direction for a long time, and we're much better off defending front-line towns which already have their roads, their walls, and in some cases their barracks. All our settlers should be sent south at this point, however long the trip may be.

Shouldn't you upgrade some spearmen to pikemen?

Money is always so tight in AW, and so important for deficit research, that resisting the temptation to upgrade units becomes automatic for experienced players. There may be individual exceptions, but on the whole the only good upgrade in AW is knight --> cavalry.

 

[vmxa]

5 turns is great,thanks to the 250x250 or that would have been a large number.

Later you have some cash for a few upgrades, but mostly it is not done. A town under pressure may be a good time though. That is if you have the money and if you have a barracks and the research is not more important.

 

[ThERat]

will raze Viki then...got it. I try and get rid of Scandinavia once and for all

 

[ThERat]

save

Pre-Turn
MM quite a bit, get rid of some clowns where cities can't grow due to pop 6. Engineering now due in 38 due to scientists
MM so that no town will actually shrink any further and set Uslan on revolt to avoid that.
Attack and kill a pike with a sword

Finally seeing NP's wish, abandon Viki

IT We get attacked by 3 knight, retreat 2 and defeating 1 [2-0]

1.1510AD
defeat landed MDI a Chonju
defeat 3 knights + spear around Hamhung
Pyongsong area sees the death of 7 assorted units
Stay conservative in the west and only defeat 3 units threatening empty towns [17-0]

IT defeat 2 knights on defense with pikes, Ulsan shrinks due to anarchy to 7 [19-0]
Arabs finish Cops

2.1515AD
defeat 2 Ottoman units on the way to Bursa, where we see an iron ore
found Won Wans Wheat
In the south, defeat 3 Viking units and march towards Oslo (has iron) and Bergen where we defeat a first pike
East is quiet for a turn and we defeat 1 pike there
The North is under heavy pressure, knight army needs to move northwest to prevent a meltdown
move units tactically around and defeat 14 units there [40-0]

IT westwall could have been under threat but the knight army deterred the enemy from attacking
in fact there are no attacks at all
Ulsan set to riot again

3.1520AD
found Fool on the Hills in ex Ottoman land to grab a second dyes source
mace army attacks Susa and defeats 1 musket
defeat 1 pike and Bursa is burned to the ground for 1 gold
Oslo is burned for 1 gold after defeating 2 pikes
that enables me to found Horse on the Hill

Bergen disappears for 1 gold and 2 pikes
Vikings must be bleeding big time

defeat 2 knights + LB in the east

situation in the north/west is still very tricky, defeat 12 units and shift another army west [61-0]

IT Ulsan shrinks to pop 6 (nothing I could do about it) and we finally become monarchs

4. 1525AD
unit support is 136gpt at the moment
MM and set us to unsustainable 40% science (-34gpt), engineering in 11

In the south, we take out 3 units including 2 muskets at Susa
At Hamhung, take out 3 knights and 1 archer
In the north/west defeat 15 units, but now a sword army and the knigh army are redlined [83-0]

IT scary interturn, Vikings lose a knight at Wheats, then Sumer decides to change path and
attack with 4 knights at Bingo and defeat sword and knight, but loses 2 knights
the town stands though, finally we lose a sacrificial MDI [86-3]
well, we get quite a few new units and the support is even higher now

5.1530AD
reduce to 30% science and even that we can't sustain currently
take out a LB and raze Susa for a mere gold, I had actually hopd we might get more from Sumer
and settler pair next to Susa vanishes as well
defeat 2 pikes in Reykjavik

defeat the 2 remaining knights at Bingo
autoraze Dutch town of Middleburg after defeating 2 spears

In the northwest we need to heal 2 armies, kill 8 units and pull a 3 knight army there as well [104-3]

IT Tokwon gets attacked by 2 knights but retreats both
Ottoman shows up with a few knights not nice

6.1535AD
defeat first pike in Edrine and kill a Ottoman knight near our borders
tricky situation as our settler pair runs into a Ottoman knight that appeared from the tundra
pull units about and redline the knight with cats, his should be fine

defeat 2 units and raze Reykjavik for 20 gold, that is great for us
found Some added cash next to the ruins
move a sword army all the way south to Molde, the end of the continent

defeat knight/pike in the east
with more armies healed, go on the offense again and defeat 13 units in the northwest
lose a hose though [123-4]

IT lose a pike at Namwon against MDI, the wounded Ottoman knight just freezes

7.1540AD
Found Freeze Frame next to the knight
that allows us to form another army

defeat 2 pikes in Molde, but there is an archer left there
move another army next to Aarhus

defeat another 2 pikes in Edrine and 1 on the way there for a second army
defeat knight + LB in the east

in the northwest, kill 11 units and start to attack Zaragosa
lose yet another horse [141-5]

IT no attacks this time round

8.1545AD
defeat last pike in Edrine and capture 3 free catapults and one of our workers
defeat spear/archer and raze Molde for 16 gold
defeat 2 spears in Aarhus, but there is an archer left. Our army is redlined but on a mountain, should be safe
kill an Ottoman pike deep in our territory, we have very few units in the south
fill new army with 2 knights and send it south

defeat 2 landed Spanish units next to Kaesong

defeat impi and autoraze a town in the east
defeat 3 units there as well

in the north/west, defeat intruder spear and get MGL. It will take a bit until we get another 4 towns
decide to rush the aqueduct in Some Song
defeat another 13 units and discover that the Dutch have a swiss merc in Haarlem [167-5]

IT with more armies in the field, the fronts aren't as hot any longer
Vikings try and strike for a last time landing 2 MDI on a mountain

9.1550AD
join a worker in the capital since it would never grow to 10. Income goes up by 3gpt

take out a pike at Bodo, take out Aarhus for 12 gold
take out the 2 landed MDI's with our 2 knight army
a first sword army move towards the Viking capital

in the east, fill army with 4th knight, take out a Spanish + Zulu settler pair and move sword army towards Haarlem

in the northwest, we take out 8 units and lose a MDI [182-6]

IT Mediawon gets attacked by 2 knights, both retreat
Then a Ottoman knight attacks Won for the Books and loses
Vikings send 3 units towards us, good that they empty their capital [183-6]

10. 1555AD
defeat 2 spears in Bodo, unfortunately no more cash from them
I do hope the Viking capital is the last town they have

found Cornerstone just next Bodo's ruins

defeat 2 units in the east and move knight ans sword army next to Haarlem

send army to Urfa and take out a pike
in the northwest take out a mere 3 units


I leave one knight army unmoved for the next player to decide the tactics. Do we move out in the north or stay put.
We do have no settlers and workers there as they all are busy in the south
There are quite a few settlers soon to be planted (we have 10 settlers)

Unit support is now 140gpt and killing our research rate, but I think we just have adequate units now. Vikings gone will surely help us a lot
Engineering is due in 5 now at -16gpt and 42 in the kitty.

 

[ThERat]

The Vikings are struggling and should have a mere capital left. I am sure they are gone within 3 turns or so. We can then settle the land

On the other hand, Ottomans have been pushed back and we have closed off the land access to the south. We should try and expand there as well

 

[Mumpulus]

Got it. Will start this after Own12.

 

[Northern Pike]

Great stuff. It's too bad the Vikings didn't have more fertile land for us to settle, but OTOH disposing of them without further delay is good too.

 

[Tribute]

Ah, but you actually get grassland from the Vikings. (All the rest is plains of FP.)

Good job, your south looks quite clear. Now all you have is a constantly growing northern front, as you push out in all directions. Or would you just probe one direction and defend another?

 

[Greebley]

Excellent progress on the Vikings. If we continue to expand, we will prevail.

It is at this stage of the game and later that the variant will have its biggest effect. No free foreign workers and we won't catch up by capturing the Great Library. We will likely be trailing in tech for much of the game.

After the Vikings, the southeast seems the best to expand to minimize our front lines. I am guessing that the coast to the north is an inland see so I think we will eventually have a front line east and west of it.

Also glad to hear of a second Dye. Dye town was at risk on my turns (did we have a chance to cut roads so it doesn't get suprise attacked?)

 

[Northern Pike]

I've glad we're finally close to getting Engineering. Playing this far into the game with rivers impeding our movement has been a huge PITA.

 

[markh]

Dyes Town was pretty safe during my turns. I could always ping all possible attackers and they retreated in the next IBT. Anyhow as long as there are armies in Westwall and Dyes Town foreign units try to bypass these towns to get through to our undefended cities behind those two cities.

 

[Mumpulus]

I'm just past halfway through my turns and can confirm that. I've been letting the enemy go pretty far to get them on the flat and decimate them uninhibited by any other threatening troops. In that area, the tile occupation isn't even that disastrous.

Expansion in the south has been continuous, and I'm preparing to start pushing in the north and east again. I hope to finish in about 36 hours from now.

 

[Thar]

The Vikings are struggling and should have a mere capital left. I am sure they are gone within 3 turns or so. We can then settle the land
http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/53368/no_more_vikings.jpg

On the other hand, Ottomans have been pushed back and we have closed off the land access to the south. We should try and expand there as well
http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/53368/ottman_prgress.jpg

lurker's comment: Forgive me, but what graphics are you using in those screenshots?

 

[ThERat]

Forgive me, but what graphics are you using in those screenshots?

I think it's a mix of the brilliant snoopy graphics and some added stuff.
I would try snoopy's graphics first (you can find all those graphic changes here: graphic mods ) There are other modification like ruins etc. I can't really remember what I did exactly.

 

[Mumpulus]

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0) 1555AD
Start out with -16gpt at 30%, engineering in 5.
End up with a whopping gain of 2gpt after MM, but with more shields in some places, and more beakers I think.

Rename Namp'o to Rat'o, because there already is a Nampo in our core.
Won Of These Days should be a temp town IMO, switch to settler.

Won In A Million switched to cat to not waste as much of the chop, Sugar Top swithed to settler. Suwon Again and Taejon swithed from knight to aqueduct, Some Song gets more productive tiles because it has the FP. Won For The Road switched from walls to catapult.

I decide to finally do the wall-sale, to support our deficit research. I'm hoping that by the time those extra funds run out, I'll have improved our economic situation a bit. Sell 21 walls in all, some of them in fairly new towns near the Viking front. We should really all keep in mind to change walls builds in time if a town is no longer on the front. I'd rather have an extra cat or treb or worker.

vSword kills Viking archer near Cornerstone. [1-0]

That is one ugly mountain range there past our eastern front...

IT
Everyone runs away in fear. Just one Viking landing (an archer ) near Chonju.

Song of Joy: Pikeman > Settler
P'yongyang: Aqueduct > Knight
Wonsan: Knight > Aqueduct
Won In A Million: Catapult > Settler
Ulsan: Knight > Knight
Namwon: Pikeman > MDI
Won For The Road: Catapult > Worker

1) 1560AD
Looks like the northern front is well under control with the sword armies. So I move the 14th knight army out. It kills a healing Russian musket and then a swiss in Den Helder.

East: eSword kills musket and my first elite victory bags me a leader . He rushes the aqueduct in Wonsan.

West: Army kills 2 pikes in Trondheim at little hp loss, *Sword kills landed archer.

North: Army and vKnight kill knight and MDI.

South: Army kills musket in Tver'. Army kills pike and spear in Urfa and razes it for 8g. Army kills Otto knight near Won Is Not Enough. [13-0]

Change Nampo to aqueduct. Sell barracks in More Armies (2spt desert town)

IT
A Celt vKnight retreats at Medievawon. A bunch of Sumerian Knigths emerge near Hamhung.

Wonsan: Aqueduct > Knight
Pusan: Harbor > Marketplace
Westwall: Settler > Courthouse
Cheju: Knight > Knight
Won Of These Days: Settler > abandoned

2) 1565AD

East: Knight army kills 2 swiss in Haarlem and razes it for 1g and kills 2 slaves. eKnight kills knight at Hamhung. Army kills Otto knight near Lauwersoog.

West: Army kills 2 more pikes in Trondheim. A spear shows up. vKnight kills MDI near Won For The Road.

North: vKnight kills jav and promotes, vKnight kills Russian knight and promotes. *Sword and sword army kill Russian knight and 2 Hittite LBs at Westwall. Army kills Celt MDI at Pyongsong.

South: Army kills pike in TVer' and razes it for 2 gold. Found Tver next to its ruins. [27-0]

IT
A Celt vKnight retreats on our vPike at Haeju, a Sumerian vKnight kills a vPike covering 2 worker roading. [27-1]

Oasis: Worker > Settler
Rat'o: Worker > Worker
Some Song: Library > Knight
Tokwon: Barracks > Pikeman
Haeju: MDI > Knight
Won For The Books: Walls > Catapult
Bingo: Pikeman > Knight
Won Night In Bangkok: Settler > Settler

3) 1570AD
West: Army kills the last spear in Trondheim. The Colossus is destroyed and all that bronze is worth only 9g. Found Greebl'o. Also found More Added Cash.

South: MDI army kills swiss and spear in Lauwersoog and razes it. MDI army kills musket in Anshan. Found Tundra

East: At Haeju eHorse kills retreated knight. At Kumgang, eHorse dies on 2hp knight. At Taejon, attack a stack of 4 Sumerian knights: vMDI and eSword retreat 2, eKnight kills 1, vKnight kills another. The two retreated ones are dealt with by the MP vHorse out of Seoul and the sword army out of Hamhung. I can bring up the horse from Inch'on to take care of Seoul (nice, these mobile MPs).

North: At Pyongsong, army kills Dutch LB and Celt MDI. At Chinje take on some Carthagineans: *Sword and eKnight kill 2 MDIs. Army and eKnight kill 2 MDIs and a merc. *Sword kills a final merc. At Westwall, army kills Zulu knight. Take out 2 more swiss mercs in Den Helder (the second one really took a lot out of it though). At Tokwon, army and vMDI kill Spanish spear and archer. [49-2]

We are in the black now at 30% science.

IT
No attacks. A lot of Sumerian and Celt knigths approaching from the east though...

Sariwon: Settler > Settler
Horse On The Hill: Worker > Worker
Taegwon: Worker > Worker

4) 1575AD
South: Army kills musket in Anshan and razes it. Found Fool In The Valley. Found Edgy.

East: At Haeju eHorse kills Dutch LB. At Taejon, vKnight kills Sumerian knight, but we lack a sufficient number of cats and troops to really damage their forces here. I'm pulling in more, but maybe we'll be defending again here. Upgrade *Sword in Haeju to compensate.

North: At Namwon *Sword kills Mayan MDI. At Tokwon, army takes out 2 Russian knights, MDI takes out another Spanish archer. [56-2]

I suddenly spot 3 fortified workers at Ship Song. I start them towards the Westwall region, we can expand there. I spend 64g in Taejon to make up for my premature selling of the walls and buy some shields towards the aqueduct.

We'll get engineering with 1 beaker overflow

IT
The expected Spanish landing doesn't happen, the 3 galleys they have in the area just keep going in circles. Maybe the units on them couldn't be supported? A Russian musket shows up, not sure if we've seen those before. The Sumerians also have muskets near our borders now.

2 Celt vKnights attack and retreat at Haeju and some other place I forgot to note. An Otto rLB attacks our army outside Salonika. Another lands next to our settler near Tundra. 2 Sumerian 3hp vKnights attack our vPikes in Taejon, 1 dies and 1 retreats. [58-2]

Engineering is in, start on Invention in 16 turns.

Seoul: Knight > Knight
Inch'on: Knight > Knight
Paegam: Pikeman > Worker
Ship Song: Knight > Settler

The Portuguese finish Bach's.

5) 1580AD
South: 1st army kills spear and pike in Salonika and loots 5g. Kill a slave. 10th army doubles back to kill the landed LB. Found Fishy. Near Fool On The Hills: 12th kills Otto knight, vSword kills Sumerian LB, vSword kills Dutch spear and settler and promotes, 13th kills Russian pike and settler and Otto knight. Found New Anshan.

North: At Taegu take on the Hittites, *Sword and eKnight kill 2 MDIs, eKnight and 2nd army kill 2 LBs. At Namwon, vKnight kills Mayan MDI. At Dyes Town, army kills Zulu pike.

East: At Haeju, vMDI and eHorse kill 2 Celt knights. At Kumgang, vMDI kills another, 3hp vHorse dies on one. eKnight kills LB. Take on the Sumerians at Hamhung: vHorse kills knight, 5th army kills 3hp knight. vKnight retreats on healthy LB, 5th army kills it, vMDI kills pike, knight army and 9th army kill 4 vKnights. [84-3]

West: Found Still Crammed

Up research to 40% at -4gpt, 14 turns now.

IT
A single silly Spanish archer dies on our army in Tokwon. [85-3]

Won Wants Wheat: Settler > Settler
Chinje: Settler > Settler
Won Life To Live: Settler > Settler
Some Added Cash: Worker > Worker
Hammer Song: Settler > Settler
AQuickWonWhileHe'sAway: Settler > Trebuchet

6) 1585AD
South: Found Fool By The Mountain. eSword kills Otto knight. Discover another Otto horse source under Sinop.

West: Found NPike'o.

North: at Namwon, vKnight kills Mayan spear that decided to continue while redlined. 3rd army strikes out from Dyes Town to kill a Mayan MDI. At Taegu, 2 eKnights kill 2 Hittite LBs, *Sword kills MDI, knight army kills MDI and pike, then covers roading crew. At Tokwon, sword army kills Spanish archer and final Russian knight. If I could get one more army here, I could really do some damage and advance again. Move settler in anticipation.

East: at Haeju, 2 vMDIs and army kill 3 Celt knights, eHorse kills LB. eKnight kills LB at Kumgang. At Hamhung, vKnight kills Sumerian musket and eSword kills LB. [102-3]

Decide to sell barracks in Chinje, this town won't be able to get many shield tiles without taking them from other, better town. I have been building nothing but settlers here anyway.

IT
Only movement.

P'yongyang: Knight > Knight
Taegwon: Worker > Worker
Paegam: Worker > Knight
Freeze Frame: Worker > Worker
Won-Eyed Jack: Barracks > Knight

7) 1590AD
Knight army kills 2 pikes in Eboracum.

East: Found Poker. eSword kills Sumerian musket at Hamhung. vKnight kills LB at Bingo. Knight army and sword army kill 4 knights near Curovernum. At Heaju, eKnight and eHorse kill 2 Celt knights.

South: 5 cats miss at Glanum, still MDI army kills pike and spear and autorazes it for 12g. eSword kills LB there. MDI army kills pike in Sinop.

North: At Tokwon, vMDI kills Hittite MDI. At Pyongsong, *Sword kills Merc, 2 vKnights kill 2 MDIs. At Westwall, *Sword kills Zulu MDI, vKnight kills Hittite pike, sword army kills 2 MDIs, knight army kills 2 MDIs but looses about 6hp. At Dyes Town, eKnight kills Russian knight, sword army kills MDI. 7th kills 2 spears in Zaragoza. [130-3]

We may get some attacks now...

IT
A Celt vKnight kills a vPike in Medievawon. An Otto vKnight dies on our eSword. A tile gets pillaged NW of Pyongsong. [131-4]

Won For The Road: Worker > Worker
Iron City: Knight > Knight
Dyes Town: Pikeman > Pikeman
Ship Song: Worker > Knight

8) 1595AD
I decide to check F3 to see how many knight we have (only 23), and find that we know two new civs... Declare on Portugal and Byzantines. I can't see any unit and haven't seen any different colors, so probably PP contact.

West: Found Markh'o

East: Attack Curovernum: Knight army kills pike and knight, sword army kills spear, second sword army kills knight, an LB remains... At Haeju, eKnight kills MDI.

South: Found Fool By The Sea

North: At Pyongsong, vSword kills Dutch LB and vKnight kills MDI. Army kills another spear and archer in Zaragoza. At Westwall, MDI kills knight, vKnight kills MDI, *Sword kills MDI, eKnight kills pike and eKnight kills MDI. Knight army strikes out and kills pike and MDI, then covers roading crew again. Sword army can also move out and kills knight and merc. At Namwon, 2 vKnights and *Sword kill jav and 2 MDIs. At Dyes Town, army kills MDI. [153-4]

IT
A Mayan MDI dies on a vPike at Namwon. The Sumerians have more than expected, and 2 knights kill a vPike and vKnight in Poker, autoraze it and capture 9 cats. [154-6]

Weeping Song: Trebuchet > Trebuchet
Cheju: Knight > Knight
Suwon: Settler > Settler
Ulsan: Knight > Knight
Taejon: Aqueduct > Knight
Namwon: MDI > Knight
Feudals: Settler > Settler
Chonju: Settler > Settler
More Armies: Settler > Settler

9) 1600AD
Invention has dropped an extra turn (9 left).

East: start with bombing one of those Sumerian knights, then vKnight kills him to recapture our cats. Our economy is in the red again . Armies then kill pike and LB in Curovernum and raze it for 4g. Cut a road there with wounded army and take cover. MDI kills jav at Hamhung. Knight army kills pike in Eboracum and needs to heal again .

South: an Ottoman settler somehow got past me and founded Karabuk. One MDI army attack later and one pike less and the new town is razed, no gold. Other MDI army kills 2 more pikes in Sinop. There's at least a healing LB in there too.

North: army kills a spear in Zaragoza but goes way down in hp. I'm planning to retreat it into Tokwon, but it turns out that spear was the last one, so no deal. Zaragoza razed for a meager 2g. I start an audacious operation near Westwall: MDI kills Zulu knight NE-NE of Tokwon, pull 5 cats from Westwall to redline another Zulu knight NW-W of Westwall, knight army kills that one and the Spanish archer N-NE of Tokwon, then moves into settling position. At Westwall, eKnight takes on Hittite pike. I was switching between writing these notes and the hand-off notes below, and wondered if anyone would actually dare to found that new town, but I think this will tip the balance:

At Namwon, *Sword kills pike, vSword kills jav, vMDI kills MDI, eKnight kills MDI, vKnight kills pike. [172-6]

Hand-off notes:

• The workers by Cheju are on automove to the mountain where the single worker is already building a mine, to help out.
• I've been moving the horse on the southwest tip of the continent back and forth to make sure there are no landings.
• Nampo can be kept on starvation for this IT and then another, then pick up the wheat for growth to 2 short of a full box just as the aqueduct will finish, then grow without waste the next turn (but you'll need 2 MPs to swap the single wheat worker for 2 workers on shield producing tiles).
• The army by Lagash has been exploring and cutting some roads. I think we're near the other side of the mountain range here. I think attacking with it won't be effective on hill town. Try to get across that range and move towards the Celts, who only have pikes for now.
• There is a Celt galley with unknown contents 3E of Fool By The Sea.
• I've just switched Taegon to a granary, because it is clear now that it can be a 2-turn worker factory at size 5, rather than a 3-turner at size 3-4.
• Let Dyes Town build up some food reserve before hiring additional scientists, because its tiles are often occupied.
• The "exposed" workers and cats near Westwall, covered by a single pike to deter the Spanish spear, are not exposed at all: Hittites have no fast movers, and will block everyone except the Carthaginians, but they don't have fast movers either. Found a new town under the knight army, then move the roading crew north of Tokwon.
• I've just sent the army by Some Song north to help with defense, so that the 2 knight armies can be used to their fullest extent on offense.
• There are 4 healthy Celt knights directly south of Enschede, and 1 more SE of there. The three exposed cats will probably attract them, but will be safe. The Sumerians will capture those cats and hopefully take them towards Kutallu.
• One scientist in Wonsan should be put back to work next turn to get the knight in 5 turns instead of the 6 that are shown now. I've given a grassland tile to Kumgang this turn. Fire this scientist and you'll have to find another to get invention in 9. I know this will not be an issue in the end (to still get the 9 turns), but there's no use for that tile in Wonsan this turn anyway.
• Pusan can grow and use another water tile to gain another happy face from lux, along with 2 more beakers. On growth to size 11, that won't be the case, so better give the wheat away at size 10.
• I've left a settler near the Ottomans with 1/3 movement. I'd leave it right there for now, then found on the hills 3N of the Fool By The Mountain next turn. I'd use the next settler (on its way) to found 3NE of Fool By The Mountain.
• The 2 workers in Hyangsan are meant to complete a roading crew to settle the eastern desert.
• The Tokwon-Westwall-Taegu triangle has some commerce, so I'd develop those towns when possible. Building a courthouse in Westwall right now to that end.
• I've started mining some mountains in or near our core for towns that can't grow much more. When those workers are done, it may also be a good idea to irrigate 2 grasslands at Seoul or Ulsan to bring an extra gem mountain into play.
• The galleys near Kaesong have been sailing around forever, were just pinged and have never dropped anything.
• Sumeriwon should probably be abandoned soonish, to free up 2 hills (6 turn knights instead of 7 turns in Inch'on, Weeping Song gets 5spt instead of 3spt).
• I would not be opposed to ICSing the tundra, but I wouldn't do it myself.
• I've been building workers in the southwest. After the current round, we should probably switch to mass building artillery in anticipation of metallurgy, the occasional settler and lots of scientists.
• P'yongyang's 14th shield is corrupted.

 

[Mumpulus]

Knights: lost 1, built 2+1+0+0+3+0+1+1+2 = 10 (9 added)

Elite victories: 1+1+4+1+4+6+5+3+2 = 27
Leaders: 2

Towns razed: 1+2+2+1+1+1+0+3 = 11
Towns lost: 2 (1 settler abandoned, 1 stupidly lost to attacks)
Towns founded: 0+1+3+2+3+1+2+0 = 12

If I had known my leader luck on the first elite victory would not be representative for the rest of my set, I would obviously not have rushed that aqueduct. Oh well... I upgraded a single *Sword, but maybe we should some more of those, to increase leader chances. We may be able to afford an upgrade now and then, and are a long way from being able to run 50% science anyway.

Sorry I don't have more pictures, but I didn't have time for that.

 

[Mumpulus]

We need a lot more troops. Some are still on their way back from the Viking campaign, but still.

I'd keep exploring a bit with the 2 armies in the mountains. The knight army can raze Eboracum, then continue north to see if there's a way around that sea (probably), and if so go around it to help out against the Dutch. I think we are ready to start pushing north again, towards the good lands. We'll need a few more workers there, and push out settlers on a regular beat.

The south is very easy to handle now. The Ottos are probably gassed, and the Sumerians focus more on our eastern front for now. That could change at any moment though, but we have a few more armies on the way in the south to defend, so no problem.

In the east I'd settle the desert, and then hold short of the mountains. It'll be some time before we can take it to the Sumerians (they have muskets on hills).

It shouldn't be long before our science starts to pick up with new settlements in the southwest.