Igor1, Team I.A.A.

Lil update: LB's slowed us but better safe than sorry; we've got Sun Tzu, Iro declared but Zulu declared on them, so both will be busy. We've got a nice opportunity on Astro/Bank/Chem twofers. Be done soon, busy day, work keeps coming on my hands here :hmm:
 
Pre-Turns: Negociations with Persia won't go far. 13 gold will not quench the Keshiks' thirst for man flesh.
Raze their desert/mountain town, takes 3 keshiks (1 retreat). Elite horse retreats to a vet archer :confused: but the 2 other elite attacks lose 1 hp each to LB and archer.[4-0]
Troops closed up on Parsagade and Tyre.

GA triggered. MM, change a LB to a courthouse in an aztec border city. Move a vet pike to lake shore drive.

IT: :eek: Iroquois declared on us, the vet pike loses 1 HP before the MW retreats.
2 LB's attack us from Tyre, both die :D [6-0]

T 1.
Idiot Academy keshik - FP.

Tyre is down to 1 LB [8-0]
1 random MW down, 1 spotted; 2 random Persian archers down.[9-0]

Parsagadae Falls[12-0]

Now I won't overstretch it, Persian LB's could kick ass on us. I'll let them march in and pick 'em out.

GA increased production focus on Keshiks, Markets and Temples (where needed, it's not like Libs will do that much good to us anyways)

Our OWNED luxes are a potential 9 happy's, so I'll kick down on spear+warrior MP.

T 2.
Pick off several random units, take 7 slaves, take Tyre. Lose 1 keshik to a settler pair in the woods.[16-1]

A quick look at Civassist tells the flip chances are awful, in our "child" border towns. The ones with good flip probabilities are all on a temple.

IT: The Iroquois offensive looks like it has been preparing for a while: we get archers. Iroquoisny (make that a word) is a far away land. They are motivated :lol:

T 3.
Not much, they send more longbows over mountains

T 4.
Still more LB's coming, gonna wait one more turn before going in. Easy going with the ones already in [18-1]

IT: We lose control over the iron mountain, but Zulu declares on Iros.[19-2]

T 5.
SoD moves in, LB's were in the way [21-2]

IT: Banking and Navgation are out in the field.

T 6.
Dariush gives little resistance [23-2]
Everyone that attacks at Persepolis is either elite or becomes so. [27-3]

We now have Sun Tzu's. I will not yet sell the barracks, but we might want to soon after.

Nice trade opportunity:
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Gives us THA World Map

Which makes it clear on where to go for babs and japs. You can also clearly see that England is getting totally :smoke:'d by the americans. Babs have a few cities from Egypt, too.

Change Sardis to Caravel, who will go straight to meet Hammu and Toku.

T 7.
Embassy Egypt for a faster Bab/Jap contact, hopefully. Get RoP and 1 gold from them.

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And this will be most interesting, for the IT's to follow:

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IT: They move together, one single attack (Zulu on Iro).
Persian LB's are 1-1-1 this IT (retreat counted as tie) [28-4]

T 8.
Arbela ends up being quite tough to breach, hill town (but with Colossus, for what it's worth) [31-7]
Take down 3 iroquois troops but 2 remain on the mountain to disconnect the iron.

T 9.
After taking down the last iroquois remainder, they sign peace for 14+6gpt (all) [34-7]
Gordium falls, Sidon resists [38-9]

Persia agrees to sign peace for all he has: WM, Music Theory, 11g, all 4 cities. I find this even.
Right after, he is willing to give us his 2 workers remaining for a RoP. This is also acceptable to my standards.

T 10.

Nothing to do with Iron fist, no shields to pop out, so might as well tax it.
Flip chances are minimal, even in Arbela and Tyre where there are 100% resistors still. Arbela is garrissoned to quell, but the keshiks can be moved.

India and Zulu are up Mag and ToG on us, gotta wait for a twofer to buy though.

Not too late to make a few of the builds into libs; the next turnset will also be full GA + FP. Time enough to pump em.

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For the record, we have a strong military compared to Russia. Time to use it methinks.

Roster:
Daghdha
M60 - Left me with all the pleasure
BeF - just concluded a kindof one-sided deal for Persia, but hey, they can't all die
Soul - up, Will just have to run north.
romeo - On deck
AK
 
preturn
get rid of a clown.
see some strange troop placements, a warrior hiking in south america and some such.
also find we have a town in north america. groovy :D

IBT- zulu want to exchange world maps. nope.

1- workers work. keshiks keshik towards Dyesterleg.

IBT- nada

2- Choybalsan worker > worker, Desert retreat aqua > market,
Indians are building Newtons.
upgrade 4 horses.

IBT- Aztecs and Zulu gang up on poor defenceless Iroquis.
then India joins in.

3- Japan wants to trade maps. why?
Igorpolis keshik > keshik, sniffin library > keshik,
movement can be so boring.

IBT- Aztecs want to trade maps. no.

4- THE FP comes online. academy to keshik, Shiny hill lib > keshik, Calix... worker > settler, Ereen court > aqua, Tzintsuntsen > market, Dyesterleg temple > court,
we are now making 134gpt.
printing press arrived, but russia has it aswell, will get it soon.

IBT- metalurgy comes online.

5- get metals from ghandi for 510g + 65gpt.
metals, wines and 9gpt to england for Magnets.

IBT- :sleep: make a cup o' tea. watch the news. still moving :D

6- Igorpolis keshik > keshik, Almarikh court > market, Tabriz court> keshik,
were back to 131gpt now. goody.
most troops arrive at Dyesomethig. will have 14 keshiks there next turn. boogie time.

IBT- Egypt signs an alliance with Zulu. feather boy is about to tarred and rolled in his own feathers.

7- Academy keshik > keshik,
i was wrong. we have 17 keshiks ready to pounce.
declaring early next turn.

IBT- England gets in on the fun with the Zulu.
Rome and India sign an anti feather alliance.
America joins the indians against the indians :confused:

8- ShinyHill keshik > keshik, Sniffin keshik > keshik, Mandalagovi court > keshik, Hamadan's rep market > keshik, Tosontsengl harbour > court,
declare - she wouldnt give me PP, so im gonna take it.
wanted to move in, but a dastadly indian settler pair is blocking my way.
grab a slave.

IBT- the only counter cathy is sending is a lone archer? we dont even rate a LB? :cry:

9- Igorpolis keshik > keshik, Sardis galleon > harbour, Istakhr warrior > settler,
Kazan is ours for 1 keshik 1-2
Novgorod is ours for a few drops of blood but no body bags 1-7
the rest move on towards Moscow.

IBT- spot a russian horse [party]

10- Academy and Tabriz keshik > keshik, Tyre temple > settler, Color! me bad! court > cannon,Dalandzagand court > cannon, Desert retreat market > bank, Iron fist harbour > galleon,
was wrong about the horse. its a knight.
pillage russian spices.
the going is slow (russian winter and all that)

there are 4 keshiks near Yekatrinaburg (pillage party?). our main force (16 keshiks) is advancing on Moscow. there is a bit of traffic towards Orenburg (eastern gems)
oops about that 1hp keshik in our SoD. make that 15 keshiks.

there is just ToG and PP out there.

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Barbaric - We just can't build any culture at all, with the exception of small wonders. IIRC, captured GW's don't produce any culture, correct? Well, with the notable exception of ToA.

Opium Barons - dictates the number of wars we fight as a function of the luxuries we control at the beginning of a certain age. If we are maxed out on luxuries (native, not imported), then we may not fight a war. Does this mean we must cave to all demands? What about defensive wars? I imagine we would have to take the first peace offer we get? Can it at least be the first peace offer that we don't have to make concessions?

Crackhead research - we will apply this concept to self-research as well. So the absolute maximum number of techs we can self research would be 32 throughout the game. In reality, the number will probably be closer to 20 or 25, including the 8 in the AA. And we will probably be buying/stealing/whatever most of the techs in the Modern Age.

This still on :hmm:
 
i guess it is, but forgot bout it.
sell off those temples?
switch the rest, as i think there are a few more being built.

the russian war... discussed so much, i think its within the variant rules.

crackhead... well, i didnt research anything.

2 out of 3 aint too bad, is it?
 
Roster:
Daghdha -
M60 -
BeF -
Soul -
romeo - :bump: ?
AK - Up ?
 
If I am up I will need a swap/skip. I can't play until Saturday.
 
BTW, how many wars have we had? I count 2 on X-man, and 1 on Cathy. How many more can we have?
 
There's been a lot of empty wars early, against civs that never reached us with any troops, but as for serious wars, there's also been one with the aztecs in which we conquered some and an Indy-Iroq alliance against us lately, that led to nothing but a few mountain skirmishes.

Don't know what the variant says though. I'd actually like to know that for a fact :mischief:
 
IHT: Sell all our illegal buildings. Get WM and gold and PP from America for banking. A round of map trading nets us 50 gold and a much better map.
IBT: Greece and India ally against Iro. Babs and India ally against Iro. Lose a keshik to a knight, kill a knight. (1-1).
Turn 1: OUr G.A. ends, really screwing our economy. Keshik loses to archer, then another one retreats to same archer. (1-2). Keshik kills knight, Keshiks kill 3 spears and I put the barbaric back in the horde by burning moscow. (5-2).Build some embassies. Check out the Iro saltpeter monopoly.
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IBT: Lose a keshik to a knight. (5-3).
Turn 2: Kill 2 spears and vladistock burns. Kill the offending knight (8-3).
IBT: No counters.
Turn 3: Lose elite keshik to reg spear at orenburg, kill both spears but a LB remains. (10-4). Kill a settler pair, a pike and a spear and capture yakentinkeberg. (13-4). Whack random archer.
IBT: Keshik kills LB, LB kills keshik. (15-5).
Turn 4: Kill LB. Kill LB and a spear and capture orenburg. (18-5). Kill 2 spears and capture Rostov (20-5).
IBT: Russia and England Ally on Iro. Rome and Russia Ally against us. Dang.
Turn 5: Kill 2 guys in St. Pete, lots of retreates. (22-5). We will lose bactra.
IBT: We lose bactra
Turn 6: Capture St Pete. (23-5). Destroy Chita (24-5). Kill 4 random units losing a keshik. (28-6). Trade Iron and salt and 38 gpt and some luxes to the english for ToG. Get ivory from Egypt for metallurgy.
IBT: SEe a huge stack of russian archers.
Turn 7: Capture Krasnorysk. (30-6). Capture Kaborask (31-6). Kill 4 romans by Bactra (35-6). Kill a pike at city off the top screen, kill spear at Hispalis. (37-6). Capture Yaroslav. (38-6).
IBT: Kill LB get MGL. Kill 5 more LB's no losses. (44-6). St Pete's flipped costing us 3 keshiks. Yekantineberg flips no loss. (44-9)
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Turn 8: Raze Yaktusk (45-9). Get another MGL razing Hispalis. (46-9). Abandon Zohak.
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IBT: Khabarosk is sacraficied.
Turn 9: Trade for Demo from the Aztecs, paying out 33 gpt and magnetism. Launch Babs and Greec to the industrial, and as a result we get medicine for Demo and naivgation. X-man gets medicine too. dang it. Get some gold from India and Aztecs. 7 Romans die near Samaria. (53-9). Kill Roman settler pair. (54-9). Capture St Pete again. (55-9).
IBT: Arbela flips. Lose reg galleon. (55-10)
Turn 10: Kill 2 spears. capture YAkentinberg. (57-10). Kill russian settler pair. Kill russian LB. (59-10). Kill 2 roman spears and capture Bactra. (61-10). Lose keshik to roman settler pair. (61-11).
We should use one of our wars to exterminate X-man really soon. like in 3 turns.
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Roster:
Daghdha- On Deck
M60
BeF
Soul
romeo- Got a nasty shot at Russia
AK- Up to pick some Russian and Persian spare parts
 
:bump:
It looks like AK needs to be skipped in his own game. :cry: :shakehead
 
Been a while since he's been heard of: 3 weeks ago (or about) in a PM he told me he's got a mighty nice promotion at his job but it trimmed his leisure time of late. I say we put him on autoskip until he tells us otherwise, as he might be MIA for a while...

That would put Daghda up
 
750
ibt
X-man and Liz ally against featherhead
760
ibt
Abe and Gandhi sign MPP
Julius begs for peace, no.
770
liberate Smolensk
ditch barbie camp for 25 g's
found Atlay at tundra dyes, between rivers
but I guess it will not be a metro anyway.
ibt
India and cathy sign trade embargo vs. us. Didn't I tell you...
Iro and Greece make peace
Iro and Rome smoke too
Delhi completes Newton's
780
ibt
790
Liberate Khabarovsk
ibt
Abe and Feather smoke pipe
Gandhi joins singing an old eek-a-mouse song
800
destroy another barb camp = 25 g's
Advance in Russian territory
Assamble troops at X-mans borders
Liberate Magadan. There will be a new Commie regime soon enough.
ibt
Zulu and India sign MPP
810
Kill stray ruskie arch
Roman spear pill one iron
ibt
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820
Liberate Bryansk
Our northern army bags Murmansk, killing 2 spears+LB
Sell Demo for WM + 60 g’s from Persia
We declare on X-man
ibt
Aztecs and Russia sign embargo
830
Conquer Sidon and get:
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We take Arbela and with it the big guy
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Move some troops S to visit Julius
Up north we capture the Russian so called Capital T’ver.
Irkutsk gets the same treatment and Cath is down to
Novisibirsk + two satellites far, far away.
ibt
Aztecs sign embargo with Persia
India does some aggressive settling S Antioch
Liz land troops on Russian peninsula
840
Unload 3 kesh outside Persian Jinjan
I’m a bit concerned with Aztec troop in Our Kingdom
so I move some Kesh W
We have enough power to floor Julius if we want to.
Found Ultima Thule on tundra far N
One automove left on Settler…sorry.
Killing a roman spear and enrolling 3 workers to the
Mongolian cause this happens
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ibt
We’re intrested in building the Pentagon, yes?
Start Pent in Igoropolis
Magadan riots
850
Trade iron to Alex for:
Eco+contact with Germans (he is Aussie!)+TM+2 gpt
Can get Nat for all gold + 146gpt, but think our
armies can negotiate for a better prize soon enough.
Attacking Novosibirsk a little something comes
our way:
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Liberate N-sibirsk
Kiss and make up with Cath for tsingtao, WM + 40 g.
She’s OCC somewhere in Norway.
Jinjan is ours and X-man is (possibly) OCC on 1 tile island,
so I guess he have to live until marines. He won’t call it a day
so maybe we have a persian “sea settler” somewhere.
Send Galleon S to help out in our Roman party
We shadow aztec troops up N
Found Ice M on tundra and hopefully the AI
settler activity will wane up there.

An overall glorious mongolian era with very few losses (about 3-4) and
lots of gains. Have started on some infra to boost eco. With our armies we can do desired damage and there's some elites out there waiting for the final promo. The economy deal seemed nice but I didn't see any reason to pay a lot for nationalism. I say we wait til prize goes down or beat it out of aztecs or india, then we can go for commie and steal our way to stardom.
Tundra was attractive to AI but most settlers have turned back when we popped a few cities there. I've tried to cover for an aztec sneak so that's why the Kesh is up N/NW. Keep eye on Liz knights in former russia.
I would like to see us roll over Julius (2 armies waiting) and then expand W on behalf of either india or aztecs. They could do some research for us before we strike. :)

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