LK65, World map, In wait of Steam Power
Heh, there are elephants everywhere. Although I suspect the Zulu have more troops inside our borders than we have ourselves.
The Chinese SoD is quite impressive.
I up the research so instead of +100 gpt, we go -30 gpt, and get Rails two turns faster.
I make 100 bucks selling maps. Australia looks really tempting to strike, considering they do not even have longbows. Our fleet is one galleon and one galley though, and that may be just a tad bit to few ships.
I spend some time to familiarize myself while fiddling with our cities, and switch many cities to skimming workers in preparation for the great railing.
IBT: Grance signs up most of south America against the Persians. Ouch, someone left the animations on, and the IBT drags out for a long time. A Babylonian city is captured by the Zulu, and game freezes for 20 minutes trying to recalculate traderoutes.
1280 A couple of pages later in my book, and production is finished as well.
I am at somewhat of a loss on what to do with all our Elephants that are littering everywhere. I almost feel for a phoney war, but I will just place them somewhere were next player can use them. Only good targets on the map is China and Zulu, and militarily they are not very good targets at all, considering their troop placements.
IBT: Something happened to our income, and we are at -134 gpt now. I will see if I can sell some outdated techs to fund ourselves. Chinese city of Tsingtao completes Newtons, and wonder cascade will be lessened with only Magellans out there.
1285 I found two new cities to fill in cultural gaps.
I sell Physics to Babylon for 38 gpt. Not sure how long he lasts though. Sell maps around for some 100 gold. Monarchy to a really behind power for 115 gold.
IBT: Hmm, this could be important. France signs up Australia in the war against the Chinese. I wouldnt want the Chinese to snag all those Australian cities. We better keep a close watch on this, as I would rather snag Australia from the pikemen of Menzie rather than the Muskets of China. Australia also signs in Germany against the Chinese. Wonder how they managed that, considering they had nothing during my trading round.
Iroq starts Shakes
1290 Found Delhi 2. I am starting to draw workers toward the core, in preparation for railing. Not much is happening, and I am feeling unfocused.
Just checked the victory screen, and we will need to deal with Paris sooner rather than later, as that city already has 5600 culture. Three heavy duty wonders, probably together with the whole brace of culture buildings will rack them points up fast.
Zulus are the top of nation wide culture with 38.000 culture. We travel along at a measly 12.000. We will get more culture as we get more cities though, so 20K city worriees me somewhat.
IBT: My most boring IBT yet. No dealing, just movement. Lots of movement.
1295 Lots more movement. I fortify a couple of workers outside Bombay, in case we get Steam early. I will continue to move workers towards oru core as their current roading projects finish.
I start a settler on a Caravel on course southwards towards a one tile island just north of Australia.
IBT: China signs up Songhai in the campaign against Australia. I do not think Songhai will commit too many troops to the Australian campaign, as they are also signed up against the Germans. All the Songhai troops in our territory that had almost reached the African continent turn right about and start to march back.
Zulu goes to war against China. Sigh, we will have loads of troops inside our borders likely.
Argentine has 15 gpt, Venezuela can offer 10 gpt for Theory of Gravity, and Songhai 250 gold, in case you feel we are poor. I will leave those deals for next leader to contemplate.
1300 More movement. Most of our Trebs are in New Hyderabad. Move them either north or south depending on what you want to do.
Note that I have specialists in some outlying cities only for getting them into WeLoveTheGandhi Day.
Another large part of our army is in Chittagong near the Chinese border.
Hopefully a save here.
Sorry guys no pictures. My DSL modem lost contact with the internet, and I want to make as few bits as possible crawl through the phonelines of our regular modem.
Grimjack
Heh, there are elephants everywhere. Although I suspect the Zulu have more troops inside our borders than we have ourselves.
The Chinese SoD is quite impressive.
I up the research so instead of +100 gpt, we go -30 gpt, and get Rails two turns faster.
I make 100 bucks selling maps. Australia looks really tempting to strike, considering they do not even have longbows. Our fleet is one galleon and one galley though, and that may be just a tad bit to few ships.
I spend some time to familiarize myself while fiddling with our cities, and switch many cities to skimming workers in preparation for the great railing.
IBT: Grance signs up most of south America against the Persians. Ouch, someone left the animations on, and the IBT drags out for a long time. A Babylonian city is captured by the Zulu, and game freezes for 20 minutes trying to recalculate traderoutes.
1280 A couple of pages later in my book, and production is finished as well.
I am at somewhat of a loss on what to do with all our Elephants that are littering everywhere. I almost feel for a phoney war, but I will just place them somewhere were next player can use them. Only good targets on the map is China and Zulu, and militarily they are not very good targets at all, considering their troop placements.
IBT: Something happened to our income, and we are at -134 gpt now. I will see if I can sell some outdated techs to fund ourselves. Chinese city of Tsingtao completes Newtons, and wonder cascade will be lessened with only Magellans out there.
1285 I found two new cities to fill in cultural gaps.
I sell Physics to Babylon for 38 gpt. Not sure how long he lasts though. Sell maps around for some 100 gold. Monarchy to a really behind power for 115 gold.
IBT: Hmm, this could be important. France signs up Australia in the war against the Chinese. I wouldnt want the Chinese to snag all those Australian cities. We better keep a close watch on this, as I would rather snag Australia from the pikemen of Menzie rather than the Muskets of China. Australia also signs in Germany against the Chinese. Wonder how they managed that, considering they had nothing during my trading round.
Iroq starts Shakes
1290 Found Delhi 2. I am starting to draw workers toward the core, in preparation for railing. Not much is happening, and I am feeling unfocused.
Just checked the victory screen, and we will need to deal with Paris sooner rather than later, as that city already has 5600 culture. Three heavy duty wonders, probably together with the whole brace of culture buildings will rack them points up fast.
Zulus are the top of nation wide culture with 38.000 culture. We travel along at a measly 12.000. We will get more culture as we get more cities though, so 20K city worriees me somewhat.
IBT: My most boring IBT yet. No dealing, just movement. Lots of movement.
1295 Lots more movement. I fortify a couple of workers outside Bombay, in case we get Steam early. I will continue to move workers towards oru core as their current roading projects finish.
I start a settler on a Caravel on course southwards towards a one tile island just north of Australia.
IBT: China signs up Songhai in the campaign against Australia. I do not think Songhai will commit too many troops to the Australian campaign, as they are also signed up against the Germans. All the Songhai troops in our territory that had almost reached the African continent turn right about and start to march back.
Zulu goes to war against China. Sigh, we will have loads of troops inside our borders likely.
Argentine has 15 gpt, Venezuela can offer 10 gpt for Theory of Gravity, and Songhai 250 gold, in case you feel we are poor. I will leave those deals for next leader to contemplate.
1300 More movement. Most of our Trebs are in New Hyderabad. Move them either north or south depending on what you want to do.
Note that I have specialists in some outlying cities only for getting them into WeLoveTheGandhi Day.
Another large part of our army is in Chittagong near the Chinese border.
Hopefully a save here.
Sorry guys no pictures. My DSL modem lost contact with the internet, and I want to make as few bits as possible crawl through the phonelines of our regular modem.
Grimjack
Sell so more maps, and a couple of old techs to laggards. We have heavy trade going on with the Germans and French, so they are out. We even have active deals with the dying Persians and Babylonians. The last choice is the Songhai. We can capture the vital Suez canal area and bottle up Africa. They only have a limited number of units on their way towards Germany through Turkey/Middle East. Wake up most of our forces and have them head West.
We should try to end the war as soon as possible and help them against the Zulus. Steam still due in 2 turns, despite the best I could do to hurry the process. The tech front did not change at all. I think all the Scientific civs are hurting badly and are behind. We have a ton of workers in our core ready to start RR operations. Our gold situation is dismal. Our full run on Steam Power put a hurt on our economy. (besides our units upkeep.)
