1846 (0): I make some minor changes to our builds and MM, mostly to let towns with fresh water which can quickly reach size seven do so.
Also, building harbours in completely corrupt fishing villages without fresh water is pointless, because increasing the number of two-food tiles these places can work doesnt allow them to support any more scientists. I change a few harbour builds for this reason.
Fifteen enemy units land next to Busy Byzzies, and three on the east coast of our continent.
One of our cav units rebuffs the attack of a Celtic LB (1-0).
Seoul MILITARY ACADEMY --> army.
1848 (1): We raze Carthaginian Nora, held by a remaining garrison of one musketman, but dont eliminate Hannibal, who must have a city or a settler offshore (2-0),
We raze Celtic Tolosa, held by two musketmen (4-0). We capture a treb.
We raze Burdigala, held by a remaining garrison of a musketman and a spearman, eliminate the Glorious Celts, and clear our continent of enemy cities (6-0). We capture a treb.
We complete our strategic railroad to Busy Byzzies, and easily overwhelm the enemy unitsnine French, three Byz, and three Chineselanded in the area (21-0). We gain a GL and so our twenty-eighth army.
We pick off an Aztec pikeman on the east coast, but have to let its accompanying MDI and settler live for the moment (22-0).
We found Harpo, Chico, and Groucho in fertile locations.
We sink an Arabian frigate off Pusan (23-0).
The Byzantines are building Universal Suffrage.
1850 (2): We raze Aztec Tepetlaoxtoc, founded by the settler we couldnt reach last turn and held by an MDI. We sink an Aztec vessel when we enter the town (25-0).
On the mountainous northwestern peninsula we bag two landed Jumbos escorting a settler (27-0).
Around Busy Byzzies we account for just three landed cav, two Bab and one Byz (30-0).
Off Pusan we sink one Eg frigate and enslave another (32-0).
We found Zeppo.
Off Busy Byzzies we sink a Bab and a Chinese caravel with Hwacha (34-0).
US is being generally built.
1852 (3): We found Gummo, Duck Soup, and Animal Crackers.
We dispose of six units landed next to BB, three Eg and three Aztec (40-0).
We sink an Arabian and an Eg frigate off Pusan (42-0).
We disband eighteen catapults in our shipbuilding towns.
We sink an Aztec caravel off BB (43-0).
1854 (4): We strike down three Bab units, including a Crusader, landed next to BB. We then sink the caravel that landed them (47-0).
We found Horse Feathers, Monkey Business, The Cocoanuts, and A Night At The Opera.
We disband another twenty-six cats in shipbuilding towns, for a total of forty-four.
1856 (5): We found A Day At The Races, Room Service, Go West, The Big Store, A Night In Casablanca, Love Happy, and You Bet Your Life.
We account for a Byz stack of a rifleman, a cav, an MDI, and a settler, landed in the NE ten tiles E of A Night At The Opera (50-0).
We sink an Eg frigate off Pusan (51-0).
We trample eight enemiesfour Eg, three English, and a Jaguar Warriorlanded near BB (59-0).
We sink five enemy ships around BBthree Byz, one Aztec, and one American (64-0).
We disband seventeen cats in shipbuilding towns, for a total of sixty-one.
1858 (6): We found At The Circus, Humor Risk, Ill Say She Is, and Driftwood.
A livelier turn around BB, as we smite fifteen landed units, including eight Eg cav (79-0). We gain a GL and so our twenty-ninth army.
We disband another five cats in shipbuilding towns, for a total of sixty-six.
We sink an Eg frigate off Pusan (80-0).
Off BB we sink six enemy ships, including a presumably loaded American galleon (86-0). We let two other vessels survive, because I dont want to block too many of the landing beaches with Hwacha.
We disbanded fourteen enemy workers this round to conform to our variant.
We enslaved one enemy ship from five privateer victories.
Thirty-two elite victories generated two Great Leaders this round.