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1700AD
New Leipzig is razed for $0 and 2 workers.
Cardasia, Betazed, Romulus, and Breen are formed.
This army is loaded up to head to Arabia.
This army is sitting by Salamanca with 3 cavalry. This can be the start of the pillaging armies for the main continent.
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Summary:
My intent is to get rid of the short-term cities (ST1 to ST8). They have been on pure settler duty during my round. I have already gotten rid of some of them.
I can't wait for infantry. The biggest thing slowing me down was the lack of ability to protect workers building rails to the new cities. 2 infantry in a barricade will free up all of the armies manning the forts. 2 infantry will be sufficient to protect a worker stack, and we can concentrate the armies on city razing.
I found several cities with a few shields, and high food. I renamed them to settler source. I think that is all they should do for the rest of the game. Hopefully this will satisfy Greebley's insatiable need for them.
I got a few factories built, and more are in progress. The coastal cities should build additional naval groups. I don't feel ready to hit the monster continent with India. However, I feel we can work toward some side trips such as the Aztec island, Celtic island, or some of the 2 or 3 city islands. We can raze all of those, and then build more cities on our continent. At some point we will want a frigate SoD to start destroying AI shipping. Salamanca is already on every other turn frigate duty.
I am trying to squeeze in banks, stock exchanges (coming soon) and universities after the factories.
Once we get RP we will want to temporarily fire our scientist in favor of civil engineers to complete the aqueducts. Size 12 it much better for unit support and that is the best size for a ton of scientists. Temples aren't worth sacrifices scientists for.
I realize we can build armies in Mauch Chunk. However, we are generating plenty of leaders. We are having problems with enough cavalry to fill the armies.
Signed up:
Greebley
ThERat
LKendter
Matt_G (currently playing)
Markh (on deck)
Sir Bugsy