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Pre-Turn
MM extensively for more growth...will abandon Paegam as it just takes up tiles for other towns.
IT watching all th ships sail by ain't fun. Byz land a musket/settler and a mace
Byz land 3 units including a templar, Celts land a Cav
Sumer lose 2 knights against pike/spear in the hills that cover the MGL [2-0]
abandon Paegam via a worker
1.1792AD
defeat 3 muskets and raze Smolensk for 9 gold
defeat LB, defeat 2 cossacks and then lose cav on flat against mace without scratching it...
kill 2 Celt cavs and a first pike in Chichen Itza, kill a musket covering a settler via hwachas
in the hills defeat knight/LB
redline all 5 landings, defeat them but lose a knight
kill the Byz settler pair
found city nearby, found city in the west and raze Leeds nearby and defeat a second mace close by
pillage Sumer horses [24-2]
MM then reduce science a notch to 20% and we make 311gpt
IT I am sailing...
this time no attacks, we get education, banking at 50% in 4 turns
2.1794AD
defeat a random knight and found 2 new cities
kill LB and destroy lone settler
take out 3 muskets and Yaroslav is history
deal with 3 landings at Busy Byzzies, manage to sink a Sumer galley with hwachas [33-2]
IT Celt cavs are on he move, at least 6 are seen, they are in the IA seen from their workers
abandon Ship Song via a settler
3.1796AD
defeat 3 muskets and raze Bad-tibira
found city towards Celts, then defeat 3 cavs around the city
defeat a LB and then a pike in
found another city in the west, defeat potential trouble making knight and cossack and 2 maces
take out 2 muskets in Bapedi
take out 2 muskets on he crawl to Lazapa in the mountain range
settle another town near the landing spot, defeat all 6 landed units
nearby our hwachas sink a Russian caravel [55-2]
science can be reduced to 40%
IT this round we get plenty of landings next to Busy Byzzies
lose a pike covering an exposed cav, defeat another cav though
mountain patrolling pike/cav defeat 2 knights and 1 LB [59-3]
4.1798AD
mark Weeping song as a temp town as we should have more space in our land to improve productivity
there are all together 14 landings next to Busy Byzzies
this could get really tight as we do not have that many attackers in the vicinity
luckily our newly arrived hwachas help to defeat all units, close call though
found 2 more cities and all land is claimed there
raze Coba, but lose a Cav during the attack, take out 3 units in total there
In the northwest, found a new city, defeat 3 units
take out 1 musket and raze Ulundi including a settler in there
2 muskets go and newly founded Umfolozi is gone as well [82-3]
IT Landings are next to Busy Byzzies, but also a little east of it due to lack of space
Greece attacks and sinks a pink galley
5.1800AD
need to deal with 8 landings, but 3 of them on mountains
4 are taken out by hwachas that also sink a galleon
defeat 3 units around, but no real action as armies are all wounded
we would like to get more cav armies also, don't we, but no leader luck so far [94-3]
IT we get banking, next is astro at 40% science in 4 (we currently have already 1370gold)
1802AD
3 landings this time only, redline them and finally get a MGL
manage to sink one of those bloody Greek frigates
defeat 2 pikes and raze Lazapa in the Alps, move armies further and found a city in the hills
found a city near Mayan land to advance towards their capital
take out 3 pikes there and move in another 2 armies
finish disconnecting Sumer capital from the rest of the world
defeat 2 muskets and raze freshly founded Irkutsk. It is annoying to armies doing this again and again [104-4]
IT nothing really worth noting, though Greek bombardment is less, maybe their additional war has distracted them
abandon Weeping Song via settler
7. 1804AD
2 muskets are down and Apisala is razed
found city near Chichen Itza, 3 spears (!!!) are killed and Chichen Itza razed to the ground, that should hurt
defeat 3 units in Gergovia, city still stands
3 muskets taken out at Augustodorum and city razed
in the west kill a cossack and found a new city
lose a cav against cav
at Busy Byzzies 4 landings and 1 caravel fall victim to our hwachas [117-5]
IT go 2:1 on defense defeating cav/knight losing a pike [118-7]
8.1806AD
found city in the hills slowly creeping forward
defeat 2 cavs and raze Gergovia gaining 6 gold
defeat 2 pikes in Palenque but lose a cav there, kill a cav nearby and get another MGL
defeat a musket in Vladivostok and a drafted rifle shows up
defeat it and the northern corner is free of enemies
kill 2 muskets and raze Krasnoyarsk, found a city in the northwest
deal with 9 landings easily, sink an Arab caravel nearby [138-8]
defeat 2 assorted units
IT a Byz cav comes out of the fog and defeat a defender, kill 2 units but lose another pike [140-9]
Carthage is fighting someone in deep waters (can't see the other unit though)
9.1806AD
raze new Byz town Vdin after defeating a musket there
2 pikes go down and Palenque is razed
defeat the redlined Byz cav and get a MGL, kill 1 pike and autoraze Uxmal
at the eastern coast defeat 3 units and raze Ratae Coritanorum
in the west defeat 2 more units and found a new city
at our landing spot, no units this time, take out a loaded 3 frigate 1 galleon convoy with hwachas...nice [154-9]
our GA will be over in the IT..prepare for that as best as I can
IT lose 2 units on defense, 11 units land nex to Busy Byzzies [154-11]
our GA ends, we get astro
Wosan riots and I scroll forward to prevent more of them
10.1808AD
set research to 50%, we can get physics in 5 at -97gpt (we have 2000gold in the kitty)
found city in the hills, we need more of them to reduce unit support which is still very high at 130gpt
raze Lagash after defeating 2 muskets, take out offending knight
raze Alesia taking out 2 muskets and 1 cav
take out 1 pike in Tikal
defeat 3 units in Hlobane
take out 9 units at the frontlines, redline a knight army against knight in the process
take out all 11 landings and get another MGL [183-11]
I have built quite a few universities in the core, next player can check now that the GA is over where else to build a few more
I think Russia might have been exiled from our continent, they are not dead but I can't see any of their borders any longer
That is the reason I said that the cities will be lost, but I am still not really convinced to put that much effort in holding some outposts. After some sleep I agree to your points 2, 3, 5 and 6, though. I hope I do not have to work late again, so I can start my turns this evening.
I will play 3 more turns until 1800AD and post the save this night, so the next player can have some fun over the weekend.
