T1 1250
Can make another steal attempt on steel from Smoke and still leave 1170 in the treasury and China still needs it So here goes, and, once more we fail without "attracting undue attention"
Arab raider escapes and lone rifleman probes defenses near mountain
Move settler from Akwesasne to Bukhara and on to landbridge to settle north of mountain
Abu wants peace but won't offer anything of value
Cavalry scouts uncover two more rifles heading north from Mecca. Cavalry seizes high ground between Mecca and Khurasan
Settler on mountain moves to settle in rubble SW of mountain
Cav scouts on mountain are assaulted by rifle and longbow and eliminate both. Riflemen and settlers move out of Mecca towards former Arab city sites
T2 1255
Artillery cripples advancing riflemen and cavalry charges eliminate them
Theo will talk peace but wants money and besides we're not finished with her accomplice Abu yet anyway. Abu will talk peace but won't offer anything of value, like Baghdad or Najran
Theo pays a return call but still wants money for peace. Sorry dearie (she does look a little like a Victorian "lady of uncertain virtue"
Abu advances his riflemen and settler into the killing zone
Maya starts Hoover Dam having completed ToE in Copan
Theo has sent a lonely guerilla towards Niagra Falls
T3 1260
Freshly built artillery cripple Theo's guerilla and a cavalryman from the west crosses the continent and eliminates him, coincidentally revealing a Byz guerilla/rifle pair in the Mayan mountains to the east of the border. Cannon at Niagra Falls gets upgraded to artillery
Found Ganogeh at Arab rubber plantation in north and Gayagaahe on landbridge
Artillery shell advancing riflemen at Ganogeh and cavalry kills settler escort and captures two more Arab slaves Slaves immediately start work on rail connection across mountain
Elite cavalry charges remaining rifleman and dies valiantly. Veteran cavalry wins promotion with the death of that last rifle
Cavalry recon from Ganogeh reveal advancing Arab forces (3 longbows and 3 riflemen).
An Arab cavalry raider is spotted on the road to Tonawanda, but still in Abe's territory. Abe wants 45g for an RoP and I pay it as I don't want to violate his border with military without permission. During the negotiation I notice Abe is broke? The cavalryman takes cannon fire and two infantry attacks before dying. We lose one regular infantryman seeking promotion
Theo's rifle/guerilla pair advance on Niagra Falls and Theo sails a Galleon and destroyer out of the fog and drops another pair east of Allegheny
Abu's advancing longbows and rifle kill exposed cavalry on mountain and take the heights. His forces divide and half head west and then north to flank Ganogeh
T4 1265
Artillery at Ganogeh shell Abu's advancing forces, crippling both halves
The vet cavalrymen at Ganogeh win promotion with the elimination of two riflemen and supporting infantry eliminate the bows. The units fortified on the mountain can wait.
Attention now turns to Theo's invaders. Artillery cripple the force at Allegheny and a new cavalryman kills the guerilla. Supporting infantry eliminate the rifleman. The same script is less successful at Niagra Falls and we lose an infantryman but eliminate the invaders with one infantry promotion
Theo signs an embargo against us with China
Abe calls to re-up the Peace Treaty. Consult the advisors and agree. He'll trade Ivory and 12gpt for Furs. It's a deal! He will let us pay 650g or 35gpt for silks. I'll wait until after I deal with Theo's latest advance (Galleon and guerillas/rifles again)
Maya also calls to re-up the Peace Treaty. Agreed. There are still 6 turns to go on the Incense deal
Salamanca riots as war weariness appears. Call Manpower for a clown and cycle through the rest of the towns. Call Manpower back and hire a lot of clowns
T5 1270
Found Gewauga on Arabian bridgehead. The bridgehead is complete. There are now three interlocking towns covering the landbridge.
Artillery and cavalry eliminate Abus's advancing riflemen at Ganogeh. Artillery start a pillaging effort against Mecca and an infantry cavalry pair move out to cripple Abu's infrastructure
In a revolting development Maya lands troops in our territory and moves cavalry in from the east
T6 1275
First order of business is to deal with the advancing Maya
Smoke will buy rubber from us at 15gpt and doesn't have anything for us to buy from him other than technology which he won't sell at decent prices. Hoping the ability to build infantry for twenty turns will keep him off our back sell him the rubber and hope he goes away quietly.
Abe will sell us steel for 3048g, leaving us 1000g in the treasury It's not worth it as I can steal it for less (2 more tries at that price)
Abu has landed a single rifle on the north coast and two rifles and a longbow are moving towards Ganogeh The rifle on the coast is toast to artillery and an infantry attack
Theo's rifle in the east takes artillery fire and kills an elite infantryman seeking promotion. He's finished by a waiting cavalryman
Combined forces at Ganogeh eliminate the riflemen and lay waste to the roads around Mecca. Call up Abu to ask about ceding Bahgdad and Najran. Sill no deal.
Mao still lacks steel but with Mayan cavalry boogeying across the land hesitate on pilferage
T7 1680
Mayan forces (cavalry) head southeast across our territory, Newly built infantry get shifted to Salamanca and orders are issued to train more.
Forces at Ganogeh move forward after eliminating the advancing Arab rifles and bows.
Battle orders are to continue to lay waste the Arab infrastructure around Mecca
He who hesitates is lost as Mao picked up Steel, so I guess I'll just steal Nationalism from him instead. That didn't work as Mao declares war...
Maya will take on the Chinese for 390g. Go get 'em Smoke, just get out of our territory you're making me nervous
The pickpocket and pointy stick approach to research isn't working. Crank up the research pace on Nationalism. Raise the luxury tax and exchange clowns for taxmen or put 'em to work in the mines.
Shift forces from the mainland to Gewauga and open a diversion thrust against Khurasan
Abu calls and wants to sign a Peace Treaty with nothing in it for us
Waiting for the Maya to attack...someone, and it turns out ot be us!!
Smoke's cavalry spreads across the territory and takes all of our labor force and buries them in mass graves. He pounds on Mauch Chunk with a battleship and destroyers but loses a cavalryman in a fruitless attack on Oka
T8 1685
Batteries in the west are shifted to Oka and shell the advancing Mayans. All but two of Smoke's cavalry are first crippled, then destroyed.
The force in the west continues the pressure on Abu but the tempo is reduced
TIme to pay a call on Abe and see if he'll join the fun. He wants 550g. Pay him as we need the counterweight and he has forces on our southern border anyway.
Abe cooperates by bombing the Mayan fleet, then sinking it with his destroyers.
He then marches his cavalry across our territory towards the Mayan outpost in the tundra. As a result many Mayan naval vessels sortie from there to escape the advancing Americans. In passing he eliminates one of two remaining Maya cavalry.
Maya responds by bombing the American ships and counterattacking with his destroyers to no avail. His ships are sunk
Mayan marauding rifles and guerillas destroy roads east of Niagra Falls
The vigilant Iroquois capture a Mayan spy
Oh, and Abu and Theo move force (1 each) toward Ganogeh and Niagra Falls respectively
T9 1690
Attacks in east and west are beaten back by combined arms. Several elite units strive for promotion but fail
Call Theo and offer a straight up Peace Treaty. That's agreed. Her protection pact with Abu has expired
Call Abu and see what I can extort. He'll give us Peace and Nationalism for 20gpt and 500g . I'm tempted to sign but will leave it for Ted to decide
And then Abu and Theo re-up their protection pact
Maya drops riflemen and cavalry on the NW coast and sends another mixed force of rifles, cavs, and guerillas against Niagra Falls.
America finishes Hoovers Dam
Theo declares on us again as we have troops in Arab territory
American Shermans move toward Mayas outpost in the NW
T10 1295
Mayan threats are eliminated with the loss of one cavalry and two infantry
The western team is moving counter-clockwise around Mecca pillaging as it goes
The Mayan colony on the tundra is putting up a fight. American Shermans are retreating.
More Mayans, including one regular infantryman show up on the eastern border and an Arab infantryman wanders down the west coast of Arabia
T11 1300
Mayan threats are eliminated in the east. Three elite cavalrymen are victorious but no promotions are granted
SitRep
Abu will now settle for a Peace Treaty and Nationalism for 200g, roughly equivalent to our self research cost
Byzantines and Chinese won't talk and the alliance with Abe has several turns to go yet
There is an Arab Galleon off the NW coast. Abu has at least one infantryman wandering around on his SE coast so he's buying rubber from someone as the site of Ganogeh was his only native source, IIRC. The Arab salient is easily defended and Abu isn't sending anything heavy at it anyway. Haven't seen any cavalry, recently, just longbows, rifles and one infantryman a long ways away.
We have settler waiting in Gaygaahe. Rail net reaches to the new towns in Arabia. The remaining workers (all Arabian slaves) are clearing pollution near St Regis. There are still some mountain mining camps needing rails.
Sorry, the Golden Age was wasted building military, though we did get some factories and banks out ot it, and I blew the Treasury in upgrades, the alliance with Abe and the push on Nationalism.
Now we get to choose: settle with Abu and pound on Smoke or try to fight a two front war. The two westernmost Mayan cities would make nice additions to our territory. The settler in the west can claim the peninsula north of Baghdad, settle between Ganogeh and the coast to cut Baghdad off from the rest of Arabia, or move deeper into Arab grasslands. The peninsula is vulnerable to Mayan or Byzantine amphib landings and will be ours anyway with a couple of border expansions.
Many elites failed to win promotion to MGL this round, maybe Ted will have better luck.
Roster:
Ben
Bede played
TedJackson (up next!)
T_McC
Toastedzergling
The Tortoise cracks its shell
A privateer sinks a Spanish something-or-other, but not before it can drop its payload onto our shores. No threat thanks to the rail net! Gringos start the Theory.
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Maybe we can stay in a Republic after we roll China and get up to 6 native lux.
