550 AD - 775 AD
Had Napoleon start researching HBR as discussed
Set some cities to wealth until CS comes in
Successfully begged 60 gold from Pacal to help with deficit research
We get John Dalton, a great scientist in Carthage. I don't recall any mention of plans for our next great person.
Civil Service comes in and I set Construction at 0%
Since gifting calendar to Napoleon had been mentioned, I actually sell it to him for 50 gold to help our finances.
After putting a few beakers into Machinery (212) I trade Philosophy to Joao II for Machinery and 20 gold. He would not make a trade before I invested beakers into the tech.
As soon as our peace treaty ended with Mansa Musa, I checked to see if there was any way to extend it. I found that I could demand Construction in tribute, and he agreed. It gave an additional -1 diplo hit for arrogant demand, but also provided the tech immediately and forced peace for an additional 10 turns.
I converted to Judaism after getting Machinery from Joao. Now we can acutally benefit from the religious civic we were running.
Since I was able to bully Mansa Musa into giving us Construction, and I don't recall other tech priorities, I set Paper at 0% as a placeholder in case we were interested in Liberalism. Perhaps that great scientist lounging around in Carthage could be used as a partial Edu bulb?
I did renegotiate the 4 gold for our cow deal with Joao to increase the gpt he was giving us to 6.
I was also able to increase the gpt we were getting from Hammurabi for our corn from 4 to 5 and the gpt we were getting from Pacal for our rice from 1 to 3.
We completed the Mausoleum of Maussollos in Carthage.
Once we got Civil Service, nearly all of our grains were already irrigated. I only had to tear down one cottage by Chinook to irrigate its wheat. There is a rice by Zhou for which an irrigation path was not obvious to me without making a huge circle around through part of Ethiopian territory. Maybe one of you guys can see a way to irrigate that rice?
Apostalic Palace vote came up - since I converted, we are in the running. It's between us and Pacal. I vote for us but we lose.
Zara Yaqob is whipping his population away into longbowmen. It seems like he has an unlimited supply, but his capital has only 2 pop, and the other cities are really low in population as well. Hopefully he will exhaust his whippable population soon and when we pick off these longbowmen he will be more inclined to capitulate.
Zara finally suicided his SOD on the stack I had shadowing him. He kept approaching Utica then withdrawing, then approaching Carthage and withdrawing. He's probably mustering a new stack though, he has 5 LBs and one swordsman in Addis Ababa alone. He did manage to take out some of our units, though, including the axeman that had Sun Tzu attached
We do have another great general though so a new uber unit could be set up.
Hammurabi built Chichen Itza. I begged 70 gold from him and he was happy to help. He did have 7 units in Dur-Kurigalzu, including 2 catapults. I don't know if that is a stack he was preparing to assualt us with or not, but now we have forced peace with him for a few turns.
We did end up losing control of the iron by Hippo, but the one in the northwest was already hooked up.
I did not revolt to Bureaucracy yet, so if we want to run that civic the next player may wish to do so. Also, I never did get to building the settler. I meant to in Carthage, but there was some unhealthiness going on so I picked an aqueduct instead.
We've got Pacal up to friendly, and Hammurabi to pleased so far. Our peace deal with Mansa Musa is about to expire. We may want to look at extending it again since I think he actually has a higher power rating than us and it would probably be bad if Zara Yaqob vassaled to him again dragging him back into war with us. We could probably sell him our extra wheat for 5 gpt, but that won't force peace for us.
Here's a few info pics
And the save ~
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Sorry about the excessive cottaging.
