Preturn: Minor changes: Ancyra changed to infantry, so we have some for inner cities and attack force. Vidin will can grow and still get its aquaduct in 2.
I don't know if Ted tried planting the spy in the pre-turn. He didn't mention trying it again, but I will wait until next turn to be sure.
IBT: Two modern armors are dropped off in our lands.
Prilep: Aquaduct->Harbor
Caesarea: Hospital->Battlefield Med.
1505 AD: Our spy is caught and angers the greeks.
Looking at our cities, it looks like a win if I allow the inner better cities to have the tiles instead of the coastal ones. I move some citizens out to sea in coastal cities and allow our inner less corrupt cities to use the shields more effectively. Also move Battlefield Medicine to Adrianople in 7. Caesarea is set to Colosseum which it is missing. I also speed growth on some inner cities (where it doesn't make a difference in production times) so they can grow.
Go looking for capitols. Athens is coastal which is good. The Mayan capitol is a good bit inland which is less good if we have to stop them.
I lose 2 cavalry trying to take out 2 1hp modern armor.
IBT: Two stacks of greek boats are seen.
Nicea: Stock Exchange->Coal Plant
Varna: Artillery->Artillery
Heraclea: Colosseum->Factory
Naissus: Artillery->Artillery
Vidin: Aquaduct->Harbor
Teayo: Market->
Ancyra: Infantry->Bank
1510 AD: Plant spy fails again. BTW does trying every turn lower your chances? Bombard boats.
IBT: An invisible boat (submarine) sinks our Dromon. A Modern Armor is dropped off. The bombarded set retreated without landing.
Smyrna: Stock Exchange->Hospital
Dyrrachium: Cathedral->Granary
1515 AD: Use an elite Infantry to take out the MA, but no leader. Bombard boats
Will skip the spy attempt just in case your chance the next turn is lower if you the previous.
IBT: Bombarded boats go away (they were empty anyway after dropping off the MA).
Caesarea: Artillery->Artillery
Varna: Artillery->Colosseum
Septum: Artillery->Harbor
Ancyra: Infantry->Infantry
1520 AD: Clean some pollution. Finally plant spy. The good news is that Greece has 0 space ship parts. Less good news (but not suprising) might be the 136 Mechs, 30 MA, and 32 Destroyers, etc.
Naissus: Artillery->Artillery
Amorium: Colosseum->Bank
IBT: Another MA is dropped off.
1525 AD: Bombard boats and MA.
Elite Infantry loses vs the 1 hp MA.
A second Elite Infantry wins.
The cost of buying steel and stealing steal are very close. I go for the sure thing and buy it from the Mayans.
Notice unit costs are high, that most of our workers have nothing to do, AND the recent towns we took are less than size 7. I merge in workers until we reach size 7 and cannot merge anymore by the variant rules.
Notice Teayo doesn't have a Harbor and really needs one. I switch.
Our lone scientist is on Authoritarianism that has police stations.
IBT: Greek boats leave
Caesarea: Artillery->Artillery
Varna: Colosseum->Granary
Septum: Harbor->Infantry
Ancyra: Infantry->Infantry
Oops forgot to check Pergamon after adding citizens/
1530 AD: Not much to do this turn
IBT: No Greeks.
Prilep: Harbor->Temple
Varna: Granary->Artillery
Sardica: Cathedral->Barracks
Naissus: Artillery->Artillery
Teayo: Harbor->Temple
1535 AD: Thumb twiddling
IBT
Adrianople: Battlefield Medicine->Artillery
Caesarea: Artillery->Artillery
Trebizond: Infantry->Infanty
Vidin: Harbor->Temple
Ancyra: Infantry->Infantry
Pergamon: Temple->Market
We catch the Mayans trying to plant a spy.
1540 AD: I may need to attack the Mayans to be able to do anything. The Greeks are cowering.
IBT:
Nicea:Coal Plant->Granary
Varna: Arillery->Artillery
Naissus: Artillery->Artillery
Dyrrachium: Granary->Factory
1545 AD: I decide to buy Combustion from the Mayans as the 227 gpt price seems reasonable for a sure thing.compared to the 3600 cost of stealing that is iffy. Suprisingly, Mass Production is cheaper! It is only 196 gpt, so I get that as well.
We now have 2062 gold and 121 gpt left - enough for a steal if we so desire. I switch some of our better coastal towns to Commercial docks to get more gold. Not completely sure we have enough good coastal towns to justify the cost, but it will get some money back. Unfortunately, I did make a small miscalculation. I am so used to going for Hoover, that I forgot electronics are required for tanks. I was thinking we were only 1 tech away - we actually need 3.
I upgrade our one Galleon to Transport
IBT:
Adrianople: Artillery->Artillery
Caesarea: Artillery->Artillery
Ancyra: Infantry->Infantry
Brusa: Cathedral->Barracks
1550 AD: Little to do
Notes:
I am not sure if the trades were a good idea or not. They just seemed more reliable for only a bit more. It also depends on how much gpt we get with comercial docks.
I would start on Transports and Destroyers after we get Comercial Docks.
I would also be very tempted to try a middle of the road steal from the Mayans. They are republic which I think is easier than Fascist to steal from. We do risk war, but get a lot of money back if that happens. We do lose out big time on Lux's though. Worst case is to fail, but no war actually.
Another possibility is you can use our coal as a bargaining chip to trade with the Mayans, though it seems pricey from them for some reason.
Greece will now make peace and give us something for it. I left this for the next player. You can actually trade everything for atomic theory in the peace treaty, though that may not be wise.
I irrigated to increase the size of some cities (and this was a good time as we only needed 50 shields of Artillery every 2 turns). We will want to replace by mines again. Depends on how big we want the internal cities. We may also be able to get a significant increase in our gpt if we worked all the coastal tiles. Most cities still have some growing to do. We may want even more irrigation of coastal cities to get them to size.
I got us up to 42 artillery which should be good at capitol busting.
Here is our current empire:
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