Played my turns.
I did not see LK's and Playshogis comments before playing.
On the matter of the Prophet, I did not do anything with him. He is sitting in the Islamic holy city, awaiting orders.
The reason for not doing anything with the Prophet is that I believe he is best used to start a GA when the war with HC ends.
Financially, we are in no dire straits (50% sci with +10 gpt) and those figures will only get better in a few turns
The report:
I did not change much in the IHT.
I hired merchants only in Adrianople.
I also allowed Nicomedia to grow, since the jail would finish in two turns.
When checking our most recent acqusitions, I noticed that Corihuayrachina came with a shining Sistine Chapel. Nice!! this will help us greatly in the cultural battles before broadcast towers are online.
Turn 1, 1742 AD
My turn set started with an event, giving one of the mines outside Guimaraes two additional hammers due to tin findings.
The next thing that happened was that HC made peace with Saladin and Montezuma. Sal and Monty are still in war with Ragnar though.
I use our spy in Tiwanaku to incite a revolt.
1 suicide trebuchet is followed by the storm.
I loose two cavalries at absurd odds
however, Tiwanaku falls. When opening the city screen, I find that we are the proud owners of the statue of Zeuss as well as the Versailles
The city also had three artists settled.
Turn 2, 1744 AD
Steam power came in and I set research to Steel.
Our empire is quite large, and we will need rails pretty soon to transport troops to the front.
We have coal in three locations, one of the deposits is in a mined hill inside Constantinoples BFC.
Turn 4, 1748 AD
Our water supply in Thessalonica is poisoned
Turn 5, 1750 AD
My spy failed to incite a revolt in Cuzco, so I have to resort to siege engines to do the work.
Turn 6, 1752 AD
A farm outside Lisbon is destroyed.
The assault on Cuzco is launched.
I send in three suicide trebuchets. All three survives
Despite the collateral damage, our initial attacks only have ~70% chance of success.
However, this turn was indeed golden. Not a single loss!
A great general was born. I sent him to Nicaea.
Cuzco is captured.
It comes with (amongst much) a market, a grocer and the Mahabodhi (33 gpt) hence my comment at the beginning.
Cuzco also contains almost every single world wonder as well as a military academy and 4 military instructors.
Turn 8, 1756 AD
The Forbidden palace is built in Guimaraes.
Turn 9, 1758 AD
Saladin adopts Universal suffrage and Emancipation.
Turn 10, 1760 AD
Steel is discovered, I set research to Railroad.
We have one stack sitting in Cuzco and another positioned outside Huamanga.
HC is willing to capitulate, however, I recommend that we take at least Huamanga and maybe Braga, to allow easier spread of culture, before we vassalize him.
We have a great general sitting in Nicaea. I was unsure whether to settle him, build an academy or create a warlord, so I left him sitting for the team to decide.
I whipped Washington every second turn, but unfortunately, I forgot to whip it the last turn
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because we captured the Spiral Minaret. All of our cities have Buddhism. We should probably trade Music to Joao to adopt Org. Rel. and then next turn trade him something to convert to Buddhism as well. Then spread buddhism to Lincoln so we can attempt Diplomatic victory. It's too bad we razed that Incan town because of the negative modifiers should we vassalize Huayna.
