LK170, China, CCM, True Communists

[Jersey Joe]

Continuing 600 AD: We establish an Embassy with the Inca.
Trade 4193 gold and 450 gpt to Maghreb for Naval Power
Trade Naval Power, 1405 gold and 57 gpt to Arabia for Military Tradition.
Trade Naval Power, Military Tradition, to Autralia/Oceania for Economics.
Trade Economics to Arabia for 1429 gold and 52 gpt.
Trade Economics to Austria Hungary for 809 gold.
Trade Medicine to USA for 40 gold and 100 gpt.
Trade Humanism to Japan for 3 gold and 55 gpt.
Trade Fossil Energy to Indo-China for 121 gold and 91 gpt.

IBT: Our Ancient Explorer is sunk off the Maghreb’s north coast (0, 1).

610 AD:
Annexing Antioch: Golden Horde killed by Persian Musketeer (0, 2); Two (2) Riders killed by Musketeers (0, 4); Rider kills Late Pike (1, 4); Rider killed by Musketeer (1, 5); Riders kill 3 Musketeers (4, 5). The town is captured.

Annexing Arbela: Two Riders are killed by Persian Musketeers (4, 7); Riders kill 3 Musketeers (7, 7). The town is capture. Enslaver killed by red-lined Immortal (7, 8). Lawyer signs German Pike to singing contract (8, 8).

IBT: Indo-China stops paying us 13 gpt for Coffee.

620 AD:
Annexing Bactra: Camel Musketeer kills Persian Musketeer (9, 8); Rider killed by Musketeer (9, 9); Riders kill 2 Musketeers (11, 9). The town is captured. However, we have not destroyed the Persians a settler must be on the Dhow I can see.

West of Tabriz, Enslaver captures Inca Worker.

IBT: Persia wants to sign a peace treaty. Unfortunately, there is no option for unconditional surrender. So we will soldier on until we sink the Dhow transporting the Settler.

630 AD:
Rider kills Persian Immortal (12, 9).

Lawyers kill 2 Inca Late Pike (14, 9); Enslaver kills Meso Pike (15, 9).

Trade Coffee to Brazil for 52 gold and 8 gpt.

640 AD:
Trade Bastion Fortifications to Brazil for 4 gold and 77 gpt.
Trade Mercantilism to Nubia for 132 gold and 70 gpt.
Trade Britain Economics for 30 gold and 118 gpt.
Trade Clockworks to Scandinavia for 24 gold and 47 gpt.
Trade Exploration go Egypt for 90 gold and 30 gpt.
Trade Fossil Energy to Greece for 157 gold and 115 gpt.

IBT: Persia is destroyed by the Germans.
We are about to lose our supply of Gems.
We renegotiate with the Aztecs giving them Sacred Art for 3 gold and Gems.

We get a Clan.

We loss our supply of Tobacco.

650 AD:
We celebrate the Great Place by stealing Steam Power from the Germans. I figured if they go mad and declare war, we could pick up the 2 former Korean cities and make peace.

We trade Mercantilism to Canada for Tobacco, 12 gold, and 79 gpt.

660 AD:
We steal knowledge of Enlightenment from German.
Sell Enlightenment to Russia for 7190 gold (which should just about cover the cost upgrading all our troops).
Trade Medicine to Japan for 139 gold and 99 gpt.

By Arbela, Lawyer kills German Landsknecht (16, 9).

670 AD:
Germany just became a Republic. We can no longer steal techs from them.

Near Coal city site, Lawyer signs Inca Late Pike to singing contract (17, 9); Enslaver captures Meso Pike (18, 9).

Near Pasargadae, Lawyer kills German Late Pike (19, 9).


Notes and Suggestions:

• The road to the coal deposit is complete and a Settler is on the marh to there.
  • The roading crew is now improving the coal site.
• Beijing, Shanghai, Xinjain, and Earth Horse Ranch are the 4 towns I would definitely build Steam Engines in.
• The 2 German cities have many German troops in them.
• I am continuing to protect the road to the coal site from having Inca or other foreign troops standing on it.
• I started to move Cavalry into our towns sharing a border with the Inca.
• I left a good number of Cavalry in old Persia. Given that Russia is now on our border there I am happy I left them there.
• Screenshots are in my next post.

 

[Jersey Joe]

Here is the coal site and showing the Inca's on the move. I wonder where they are going.

Here is our front with the Inca:

And here is out eastern front with Russia. Unfortunately, Russia got Bangalore before we did.

 

[LKendter]

ROSTER:
LKendter
Jersey Joe
Elephantium (up)
Greebley (on deck)

 

[Elephantium]

I will need a swap - not available to take the save until Tuesday.

 

[LKendter]

ROSTER:
LKendter
Jersey Joe
Elephantium (on deck)
Greebley (up)

 

[LKendter]

ROSTER:
LKendter
Jersey Joe
Elephantium (on deck)
Greebley (up)

 

[Greebley]

Ok I got it

 

[Greebley]

Preturn:
Move some units to prepare war vs Korea.

680 AD: Declare war on Korea. Move into Country

IBT: Delhi Falls to Russia.

690 AD: Capture Wonsan with 2 losses.

700 AD: Move toward Seoul but will take some turns to get to.

IBT: Austria and Poland complete their unique wonders.

710 AD: Balloon helps find Pusan and so we capture it.

720 AD: Capture Seoul with one loss. Korea has only Pikes so not very tough.

730 AD: Capture Chartres - I think that is a French City, but owned by Korea.
Planted some spies and embassies.

IBT: Pusan (size 27) deposes us.

740 AD: Capture Pusan back. Also capture Taejon and P'yongyang
Attempt to steal Democracy from Russia. This succeeds.

IBT: Germany and South America are now at war.
Scandanavia declares war but fails to take a city.
India has been destroyed by the Russians.

750 AD: Capture Pyongsong (1 loss), Capture Paegem, Capture Ulsan

Build Burning Mountain near the Coal. Use the Artist to expand borders.

Killed off Viking units.

Notes
Here is the Southern area near the Inca.

Here is the Northern area Russia.

The Germans are everywhere as they were moving toward the Inca.

 

[Jersey Joe]

Nice move capturing the remaining Korean towns. Also, nice pick up of Democracy.

Did you see the Germans move any of their troops out of the 2 former Korean cities they have?

In the previous games in the LK series I am reasonable certain that we could build Steam Engines in any town that had access to Coal (i.e all towns connected to the capital). It appears that in this game only towns with Coal in their Fat Cross can build Steam Engines.

 

[Civinator]

In the previous games in the LK series I am reasonable certain that we could build Steam Engines in any town that had access to Coal (i.e all towns connected to the capital). It appears that in this game only towns with Coal in their Fat Cross can build Steam Engines.

Since the patch of 13th December 2019 Steam Engines can be built in every city with access to coal. The main download of CCM was patched by this date, too (topic 10).

 

[Elephantium]

Great progress! I didn't expect Korea to be gone so soon.

I've got it. I'd like to go after Russia next. Thoughts?

 

[LKendter]

In the previous games in the LK series I am reasonable certain that we could build Steam Engines in any town that had access to Coal (i.e all towns connected to the capital). It appears that in this game only towns with Coal in their Fat Cross can build Steam Engines.

I'll run a test of my current .BIQ to see if that is fixed before the next game. That civ glitch really found an old, borked version.

 

[LKendter]

ROSTER:
LKendter (on deck)
Jersey Joe
Elephantium (up, already got it)
Greebley (swapped)

 

[Greebley]

Russia was who I was thinking. They have burned their units taking India and we were strong vs them.
Inca are also being attacked on two fronts so we could go for them as well, but our troops are not in position for that. Once we get rails we can go for them.

 

[Jersey Joe]

I'll run a test of my current .BIQ to see if that is fixed before the next game. That civ glitch really found an old, borked version.

I did more looking/comparing BIQs and see that the BIQ for Steam Engines should not have the "Require Goods Must Be Within City Radius" box checked.
At least Steam Engines have a short "life span".

 

[Jersey Joe]

I've got it. I'd like to go after Russia next. Thoughts?

I have no problem with going after Russia.
We have not started to build the Capital (reduces corruption) yet. A good spot (first mentioned by Greebley) would be in Persepolis, and not having Russia nearby makes it safer to build there.

 

[Elephantium]

Turn log:

Pre-turn, everything looks good.

IBT:

Scandinavian cav unit dies on our Asian Cavalry.
A large stack of siege units threatens Arbela.

T1:

Defending Arbela:
Heavy arty kills Treb
Cav kills Treb
Cav kills catapult
Cav kills catapult
Cav kills beefier looking catapult
Cav dies
Horse arty kills treb
Cav kills Ballista
Cav kills Ballista
Asian Musket Infantry kills Ballista

This isn't all the attackers, but they're down to one wounded Treb.

Lawyer captures German Treb

IBT:

Scandinavia doesn't attack

Maghreb start Code Civil

T2:

Cav kills Treb

IBT:

Scandinavia declares war on Egypt!
South America starts Code Civil
They also get caught planting a spy with us.
Germans are also building Code Civil



T3:

Pirate Frigate captures German Corvette
Lawyer kills German Treb near Tabriz
Lawyer dies to German Treb near Pusan

We steal Napoleonic Age from Russia. They don't suspect a thing.

IBT:

We see a lot of Incan units moving out.
We also watch Brazil kill something in the fog with our exploring guy in the north.

T4:

OK, it's time. I dial up Russia and declare.

Battle of Bangalore:
2 Horse Arty take out 2 Russian Musket Infantry...and the city falls? That was almost too easy.

IBT: Germany cancels our Coffee deal. We renew it for 12gpt instead.

A small Russian stack comes out of the fog at Chartres. It's a little more than I was expecting from French territory, but it should be manageable.

Germany completes Code Civil

T5:

Defense of Chartres:
Cavs kill 2 Hussars
Cav kills Russian Dragoon

IBT:

We lose 1 scouting Cav in Russian territory.
The German-Inca war is heating up. I see a lot of movement and several battles along our SW border where their troops are meeting.

T6:

Battle of Hyderabad:
2 Cavs kill Russian Musket Infantry, easily taking the city. 26 gold.

Lawyer kills German xbow

Defending Chartres:
Cav kills Russian Hussar
Cav dies, giving the Russians a Leader
Cav dies attacking Russian Cannon or Bombard (not quite sure which)
Cav kills Russian Bombard
... terrible RNG overall, we might lose the city on the IBT
We have 5 defenders, they have 8 attackers

Cav kills Russian Musket Infantry to clear...

Battle of Delhi:
Cav retreats
Cav kills Russian Musketeer
Cav kills Russian Musketeer
Cav kills Russian Late Pikeman
Cav kills Pike
Cav kills camel

We kill a few more stray Russian units around Delhi - 2-3 each of Dragoons and Musketeers/Musket Infantry.

IBT:

We see some archery duels and full-on charges between German and Incan units. It's kinda fun to see the AI fighting

Swedish Treb murders one of our Cavs near Delhi
Russians go 2:2 vs. our Cavs near Delhi, plus forcing one retreat.
They completely overrun Chartres and capture our Balloon there

...They're not done. They kill another Musket and 2 Cavs just to rub salt in our wounds.

T7:

Industrialization is available to buy!

Strange bug -- we still see the area near Chartres where the balloon scouted last turn.

We can talk to Scandinavia now; they're willing to pony up 133 gold for peace. I make the deal.

We culture-bomb Delhi.

Battle of Karachi:
Cavs kill two Musket Infantry. City falls easily.

Incan harassment:
Lawyer kills Late Pikeman
Enslaver captures xbow

Back north:
Cav dies attacking Russian Camel Corps
Second cav finishes the job
Cav kills Russian Musketeer
Two cavs die; the third kills a hero Russian Musket Infantry

Cav retreats

IBT:

Very little action from Russia. We see a lot of troops move, but they only attack once -- and that Dragoon dies in the assault.

T8:

We steal Industrialization from Russia.

Lawyer picks off another Incan Pike.
The Enslaver retreats from the Xbow below, no damage

Battle of Bombay:
Cav kills Musket Infantry
Cav retreats from the first Russian Line Infantry we've seen
Cav dies
Cav kills Line Inf
Cav dies
Cav retreats
Cav kills Line Inf
Cav kills Line Inf
Cav kills Line Inf, Leader!

Arbela gets a Factory

Cav picks off a stray Russian Musket Infantry
Napoleonic Camel Corps kills off Russian Grenadier

IBT:

Austria-Hungary declares war on Maghreb!
Germany and Inca sign peace.

T9:

Cavs ride down two Musket Infantry near Bombay
Napoleonic Camel Corps retreats...
A 3/4 cav finishes the job on the third Musket Infantry

We send Horses and Wine to Brazil for 35gpt + 73 gold
We send Bastion Fortifications to Nubia for 123gpt + 464 gold
We send Gold to Britain for 12gpt + 17 gold
We send Spices to USA for 10gpt + 5 gold
We send Medicine to Egypt for 109gpt + 164 gold
We send Saltpeter to Turkey for 10gpt + 160 gold
We send Incense to Lowlands for 12gpt + 39 gold
We send Camels to Australia for 4gpt + 6 gold
We send Iron to Indo-China for 252 gold
We send Printing Press to Mexico for Gems

Harassing a Russian stack near Karachi...we lose 1 Cav but kill a Grenadier

IBT:

No action? Huh, I'll take it.

T10:

Defense of Karachi:
Horse arty retreats
Horse arty kills Musket Infantry
Cav kills Grenadier
Cav dies
Cav kills Pike
Cav kills rGrenadier
Horse arty wins a duel with Russian Horse Artillery
Heavy Arty dies attacking Russian Dragoon
Cav kills Pike
Enslaver kills xbow
Camel corps kills Xbow
Enslaver kills xbow
Cav kills xbow
Lawyer kills wounded Dragoon
Cav narrowly dies to Horse arty
Cav kills Treb
Cav finishes off Horse arty

Handoff notes:

The war with Russia has gone well except for the loss of Chartres.

They still have a lot of troops in the Madras area. It looks like they want to retake Karachi.

I suggest waiting 2-3 turns, then taking the stack from Pusan to retake Chartres. That gives time to make sure the Russian armies near Madras get reduced *en route* to Karachi.

Once the threat to Karachi is dealt with, we can take Madras and Lahore, then start moving towards Moscow.

Railroads are almost here! Unfortunately, our Worker stacks are rather scattered. We have a couple of stacks near Wonsan, another SW of Gordium, a few over in Old Korea, and one near Tabriz.

Also unfortunately, we only have a handful of cities size 20+, so we can't rush a *lot* of Steamrollers to help with rails.

 

[LKendter]

ROSTER:
LKendter (up, already got it)
Jersey Joe (on deck)
Elephantium
Greebley (swapped)

 

[Jersey Joe]

Nice steal of Industrialization. Too bad Russian might not be around to steal Railroads from.
To have a good chance at building the Crystal Palace we need to construct a Gas Holder and Factory in Beijing (rushing a gas holder first means we can build them both in the next 3 turns or 2 turns if we also rush the factory).

 

[LKendter]

Mid-set teaser