HANDY16
1250AD - 1300AD
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117+9 tiles needed for domination (Anjar abandoned). If we settle 6 new citys in neutral territory and get some cultural expansions we have 78 more tiles, so we still need 48 more tiles. This means some foreign land is needed, Arabia seems like the only possible candidate.
The plan is to wipe out Arabia and poof the stacks, keep the last Arab city and settle 3 or 4 citys in former Arabia.
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Arabs move a lot of units into Fustat and the rest towards Anjar
Aztec move a stack from Russian territory
1. 1255AD
Const drom->drom, Edessa lib->wealth,
Found Prilep->lib
Rush settler in Trebizond
Move army and healed AC from Anjar towards Fustat, move two wounded AC to dromon, abandon Anjar
Since a lot of units moved into Fustat I decide to hold off the attack for a turn, I keep one wounded AC out of reach outside Anjar to attract Arabs and if I dont bombard Fustat this turn they will hopefully move the extra troops out to try to get to our wounded AC. Use second Army to pillage some tiles and return back to forest outside Fustat. Bombard Arab settler stack, they have two settlers in this stack.
Bombard russian citys, no ships, move dromons to block coastal tiles.
113 tiles to domination
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Lots of Arabs trying to catch our AC outside former Varna, they move 6 spears and 6 archers out of Fustat.
We catch russia trying to plant a spy
2. 1260AD
Trebizond settler->dromon
Bombard Russian citys, one brave warrior captures a worker outside Moscow, if he survives he plans to take Moscow next turn.
Bombard and pillage a road outside Damascus
Bombard Fustat, attack with armies, kill four spears still a spear on top, stop attack. Move in two healed AC to help next turn. Land an AC outside Damascus out of reach, evacuate AC from the beach outside former Varna
Bombard settler stack.
105 tiles to domination
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Arabs move to try to kill our AC outside Damascus
Aztecs move troops to try to get our warrior outside Moscow
Russia kills our warrior.
3. 1265AD
Adrianople aqueduct->dromon, found Ohrid
Bombard Russian citys
Bombard Fustat, attack, kill 6 defenders loose 1 regular AC and burn it collecting 1 slave.
Move troops towards Khurasan
Bombard and redline settler stack, a very neat trick, they are still staying put outside Mecka.
99 tiles to domination
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Arabs move to try to kill our AC outside Damascus
We learn Feudalism
4. 1270AD
Const dromon->horse, Septum lib->settler, Raticonium lib->wealth, Taormina lib->wealth, Found Vidin
Bombard Russian citys, they are all busy building wonders so no ships to sink
Move troops toward Khurasan, bombard settler stack they are still staying put.
Evacuate AC outside Damascus, land an AC on furry beach.
I thought quite some time if we should continue to reasearch and on what if we do. We can probably take out Arabia with ACs supported by dromons if we manoever their stacks wisely, but if we have some bad RNG we might loose to many troops. I decided to play it safe and to reaserch chivalry in 14 turns with our scientist, we are still making around 40 gpt and that
will be enough to rush needed settlers and culture, I have started to build horsemen for upgrade in Constantinople and Ceasarea.
89 tiles to domination
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Troop movement
One of the Arab settlers moved towards furry beach.
5. 1275AD
Dyrrachium settler->settler, Ceasarea horse->horse
Evacuate AC on furry beach, land AC outside Basra
Redline and kill a spear on hill outside Khurasan, drop healed ACs on this hill for attack on Khurasan next turn.
Bombard settler stacks, fail to hurt all spears in the stack on the hill
Move army towards Arab settlers to see if we can fix the problem permanently.
89 tiles to domination, or 54/48.
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Troop movement
6. 1280AD
Found Ani
Bombard Russia
Bombard Khurasan and start attack, kill five spears no losses and burn it, we get two slaves.
Bombard settler stack, move armies to handle runaway settler
Move AC by Basra out of reach.
80 tiles to domination, or 55/51.
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Troop movement
7. 1285AD
Constantinople horse->horse, Chalcedon lib->wealth
Bombard Russia
Evacuate Bursa Ac, land an AC in northern Arabia, move troops towards Bursa since that or Damascus will be next
Move armies towards settlers, no point in bombarding the settler by Mecka since he is cowered by one of the giant stacks.
62 tiles to domination, or 57/51
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Troop movement
8. 1290AD
Bombard Russia, move troops towards Bursa/Damascus, kill one of the settlers with armies
60 tiles to domination, or 58/51
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St
etersburg completes US, so there will probably be some workers or boats built
9. 1295AD
Bombard Russia
Land 6 ACs outside Damascus
A the remaining russian settler is 1 NE of Mecka covered by three spears, move army to hunt him down, Mecka has shrinked to size 11.
60 tiles to domination, or 58/51
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Troop movement
10. 1300AD
Constantinople horse->horse, Adrianople dromon->dromon, Amorium settler-settler
Bombard Russia, St
etersburg shrunk to 11 so probably a worker built. Pollution outside Novorod.
Bombard and redline 5 spears in Damascus, attack with ACs and raze it without losses, we gain 3 slaves.
Evacuate all troops and slaves from Bursa area to get rid of the arabs in this area, land an AC on furry beach to try to draw the arabs away from Bursa area and from the settler.
Move healed army north to try to capture settler, other army heals.
Move dromons and troops in dromons towards Bursa.
Mecka has shrinked again to size 10, are they building workers?
48 tiles to domination, or 59/53
Future plans:
I think we should raze Bursa next, catch the Arab settler and any more they tries to build, move the armies and all troops besides from two dromons and an AC or a warrior in each (theese can be used to manoever the remaning Arab stacks and keep them away from Mecka) to Mecka. When this is done bombard and capture Mecka.
I have one settler in place that will claim 6 more tiles. There is a warrior in Samosata that could follow the dromon back to capture any new russian workers.
It might be useful to sell off the libraries that wont expand any more in the near future.
