LK135 - Dutch, monarchy, Hemispheres map

[LKendter]

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We can get the knight in Ulundi up there in two turns. Let get him there. In fact, I would most of the nearby cities to no units.
I really can't offer much more advice. We need to get plenty of infantry, so I would switch plenty of nearby cities to mace planning to rush them after we get infantry.


Roster
LKendter
Yena
Meiz (on deck)
Njorls (currently playing)
Tatran

Remember 15 peace (including phony wars) / 10 heavy war turns per round. STRICT 24 hours got it, total 48 hours to complete.

Win target: open

Planned wars - none.

 

[njorls]

Turn 2 continued...

I made a trade

Funny how I couldn't make the trade until the oil well was finished. This let me turn Science down to 0 for upgrades.

I moved up the frigate and East Indaman like Yena suggested to block a direct naval assault on 's-Grave without landing
I upgraded as much in 's-Grave as I could
I move units to the battle from all points

IBT:
Churchill declares war along with Mansa

Kublai declares war on Churchill and Mansa... odd, I didn't bribe him into it

Maybe the 'declare war on our friend (us) pushed him over the edge.

We have us a real battle royale going

Turn 3: This is where Churchill moved to

He didn't try and unload his stack.
With oil online I upgraded a frigate to destroyer and 2 East Indiaman to Transports, along with units in cities he could attack from the sea

Turn 4: Churchill moves to a very strange spot again without unloading
I counterattack with the 3 oil ships to get his frigates, then 2 of our frigates sink galleons. Those frigates get upgraded to destroyers after attacking.
I end the turn with his galleons surrounded by oil ships
I upgrade cities he could get to with infantry/machine gun

Turn 5: Churchill's other frigates, and Mansa had 2 frigates here as well, gang up on a wounded transport and sink it. But the galleons stayed where they were instead of trying to escape to land units. 4 more galleons get sunk

We get a great general, I use to make a level 6 medic 3 knight

Turn 6: Churchill suicides everything in his 3 remaining galleons on 's-Hertogenbush, an island city with CR2 infantry and a machine gun. His invasion threat's pretty much over so I raise the science bar. 2 galleons and 4 frigates sunk. Churchill's down to 1 galleon which a destroyer will take next turn. Units that were moved to the land fight which never really happened are moved back where they originated.

Turn 7: Churchill has 2 frigates off the coast near Hun so I rush a transport there, which takes both out

I moved some navy out to scout Mansa and Churchill, I haven't seen any signs of another attack.

Fascism's discovered, the great general is in 's-Gravenhange to either be settled or make a military academy if we tech military science.

The war between Churchill/Mansa and Kublai seems active, all 3 got great generals and Churchill captured a city Ning-hsia which I couldn't find on the map. Kublai capitulating to Churchill could cause us problems if there's a diplomatic vote.

Churchill wants Liberalism from us for peace. I finally figured out how to see what they want/will give for peace.

 

[Meiz]

Nicely managed Seems like AI still has it's flaws in naval combat.

Got it.

 

[Meiz]

1800 AD
Reneogate all of our deals. Sid's Sushi provides now +16 food instead of +8.

1802 AD
Start researching Military Tradition for West Point. Merge Great General in HE city.

1804 AD
Great Merchant born and settled in our Wall Street city. Great Spy builds Scotland Yard in Ulundi.

1806 AD
As we feared, Kublai Khan becomes Churchill's vassal and declares war against us . Make peace for 60 gold. Start researching Physics.

1812 AD
Ironworks finished in Nomamba. Start building The Kremlin.

1814 AD
Physics comes in, continue to Electricity. Oxford University built.

1822 AD
Start researching Industrialism just to see Aluminium.

1824 AD
Not bad

West Point built. Great Merchant borns from our National Park city. We could settle him in Wall Street city or start Golden Age with help of Great Prophet.


De Gaulle and Gilgamesh are both massing up troops near each others borders and both of them have enough on their hands.

Here's a look at the corporation screen. One excetutive is on his way to Amsterdam.

 

[yena]

Wow, we were very lucky to survive without major damage.

 

[LKendter]

West Point built. Great Merchant borns from our National Park city. We could settle him in Wall Street city or start Golden Age with help of Great Prophet.

Start a GA is my vote on quick look.

I won't get a chance to look at the game in detail until tonigth. Did even get a chance to look at 1800 AD.

 

[Meiz]

I'm thinking we should settle GM. We have another Great Person in no time and that can be used to GA.

 

[njorls]

Some quick suggestions:

-Only hire scientists in Utrecht
-Build a security bureau and hire 2 more spies in Ulundi
-Wake up the workers, all lumbermills need rails at least and I'm not sure if all cities are connected by rails yet

 

[LKendter]

-Wake up the workers, all lumbermills need rails at least and I'm not sure if all cities are connected by rails yet

Why in the world were the workers sleeping in the first place?

IMHO the workers shouldn't stop until every tile have railroads.

 

[Meiz]

Just to ease little of your pain, workers where set to "Skip turn" on my last turn as I was writing report. Of course I forgot to move them afterwards.

Still I'm feeling really noob as I didn't realize that railroads give extra hammers on lumbermills aswell

 

[Tatran]

Guess I was the only one who wasn't surprised by Churchill's DoW.
It was either Kublai Khan or us. @ Njorls .
Now, let's see what will happen the next turns with 3 leaders enough on their hands.

Playing...

 

[LKendter]

Guess I was the only one who wasn't surprised by Churchill's DoW.

The DoW wasn't a surprise for me. I've been pushing more military for awhile.

It was the number of galleons. I've not seen that many ships in a landing before.

 

[Talamane]

/lurker comment

Now that you have physics, i think you can build some airships to patrol. You should get a 1 turn view advantage of big naval stacks like Churchill's. Those give me a heart attack. With certain civics, naval vessels outside cultural boundaries start to mount up in cost as their numbers increase. Airships give you recon without the huge cost until bombers.

Not surprised though--in nearly every game i have played on similar maps since Warlords 2.08+, i have found out that you cannot wait for destroyers to fend off naval landings.

/end lurker comment

 

[Tatran]

1830 AD (0)
Start a Golden Age.

1832 AD (1)
Research : Industrialism is known -> Refrigeration
We've got only 1 source of aluminium, but that's enough.
Nomamba has completed the Kremlin.

1838 AD (4)

1840 AD (5)
Research : Refrigeration is known -> Radio

1843 AD (8)
Frank Kafka (GA) has been born in Enkhuizen.

1845 AD (10)
Research : Radio is known -> Plastics

1846 AD (11)
Amsterdam has completed Broadway.

1847 AD (12)
Ibn Battuta (GM) has been born in Ulundi.

1848 AD (13)
De Gaulle offers a DP, not a good idea. I expect soon DoW against him.

 

[LKendter]

We have 2 more great people.

 

[Meiz]

And so we wait for third and start another golden age

 

[LKendter]

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Roster
LKendter (currently playing)
Yena (on deck)
Meiz
Njorls
Tatran

Remember 15 peace (including phony wars) / 10 heavy war turns per round. STRICT 24 hours got it, total 48 hours to complete.

Win target: open

Planned wars - none.

 

[LKendter]

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1850 AD
This is the first time I built Sid's Sushi, and the food affects are insane. The Hague has 11 specialists, and is still growing.
The big challenge is how in the world to we keep this many people happy? We need Rock and Roll and Eiffel tower this game.
(IT) There are a lot of war declarations against De Gaulle.


1854 AD
(IT) We get even more money, when a random event makes gives courts $1.
We get another merchant. I merge him into our Wall Street city.


1856 AD
(IT) We get a random event for public transportation giving $5 in just Amsterdam. This late in the game this is meaningless.


1859 AD
(IT) We complete Rock and Roll. We can use more happy faces.


1861 AD
(IT) A random event gives us a great spy at the cost of $549.


1862 AD
We are so far in the lead we don't need the bonuses from the great spy, so I start yet another GA.


1863 AD
(IT) We complete the Pentagon.
We have another merchant.


1864 AD
I put the merchant to sleep, just in case we can get enough GP for a fourth GA.


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Roster
LKendter
Yena (currently playing)
Meiz (on deck)
Njorls
Tatran

Remember 15 peace (including phony wars) / 10 heavy war turns per round. STRICT 24 hours got it, total 48 hours to complete.

Win target: space victory that is pretty much a lock.

Planned wars - none.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Lurkers comment: This may seem unimportant now, but you can always ask gilgamesh for techs like monotheism and theology for a good friend.

 

[Meiz]

Nice progress I vote again for settling the GM.