Playing in a starbucks, with no internet (why does it cost money to use the internet here
). I took notes on my phone, which is by the way how I am getting this to you
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Anyway, without further ado, I start! pillage road. goodbye TV. decide not to attack archer S of washington, odds not good enough (59.9)
IT - math finished. masonry started (not that it matters) 0% ho! we net 12 gpt. for some reason, TV doesnt die? I fortify him, awaiting.
1 I chop the forest on both the hills. A few axes are on their way. I whip the library in NY, pop goes to 3. Axe stack moves 1E of oporto. we meet hatty.
IT - goodbye TV. destroyed by an axe, no less. NY library > axe (we need as many as we can spare.) 5 turns till gold is available.
2 I begin mining both hills beside washington. if we need more axes, I can chop some more in 4 turns. Send worker #3 to the gold to road, reaches there in next turn. (the commerce will massively help us.) Continue the stalemate in the south with the portuguese archer. 2 axes break off S to pillage the pigs next turn (which I promote with combat I), stack moves 1 NE to hill near lisbon. Axe completed in washington, heads E to portugese lands.
IT - Portuguese axe attacks from oporto! ack. I watch, cross fingers, and our axe wins! I name him "mmm....bacon" in honour of his victory, and give him cover (good for city attack!).
3 We get a measly 2g for pillaging his pigs, but the hit to his production will be worth it. axe #2 is completed, start another axe in washington. Pillage joaos mine on the hill our stack is on, get 9g. Send two units E to gold, two units N for corn. Splitting up our stack may not be the hottest idea, but I want to pillage as much as possible as soon as possible to cripple joao as much as I can. Keep sending axes east.
IT not much happens
4 Only now I notice that the road is 1 turn from completion! doh. well may as well finish it now... attack portuguese archer at P. I win!! destroy farm near lisbon. nets us 5g.
IT joao moves two archers from oporto probably to reinforce lisbon.
5 send mmmm....bacon 1 NE towards lisbon. got to block those bastards from lisbon! put my axes in blocking positions. make him move to open ground... I keep moving those new axes towards oporto, find that joao's built a mine on his copper. well, you know what comes soon! Move axes towards guimares.
IT joao finally gets annoyed. he attacks our axe with cover on the grassland, with archers. mmm...bacon runs one archer down, then is killed by the other. REVENGE!!
6 ok this archer S of us is really annoying me. thats it. 60% odds, I attack! the RNG has been kind so far...and it continues to do so. I win!
I'm confronted with a choice:
I decide to attack the worker. yoink! I move another axe near the damaged archer. I take out the road between oporto and lisbon, depriving the bastard of his trade route.
IT joao moves that damaged archer 1 NE to grassland. DIE!!! BWHAHAHAHHA.
7 attack that bloody archer! with 99.8 percent odds, I have to win, right? Well I do.
Pillage that mine outside of oporto. I move the axe near guimares. We have our first target. guimares has only 2 units. soon... soon... I start the marching, leaving a token force of one axe between lisbon and oporto, to prevent moving of troops. the mine finishes, our gpt shoots up to 17.
I move that worker back, slowly, home.
IT washington completes a library. not much use now, but we can get scientists now. by hiring 3 scientists, at 0% science, we can get masonry in 8 (for mids and construction). starts an axe to be whipped next turn. what a bastard! joao moves another archer to oporto, but an axe as well. I decide to save my axe.
8 Continue moving axes to guimares. next turn
Stop 2 axes at border of portugal, to heal. send one worker to extend road nearer to portugal, send one to connect pig near new york, send one to chop the forest near washington. (tho we can whip as well.)
IT nothin.
9 hm. 5v3 in guimares. I may as well try. first axe killed by an archer, but is 1/3HP. second axe killed by an axe, but is now 3.2/5. third axe attacks. WIN!!!!111oneoneeleven. sword is dead. 4th axe attacks, wins again. axe dead. 5th axe attacks, and obviously, wins. Guimares is dead! 53 gold is pillaged from the ruins of the city. success!! Winning axe is renamed to hatchet harry. (if you've seen lock stock and two smoking barrels, you'll know this character is vicious).
I'm ending it here to make sure that the turns are equal. It is turn 85, 750 BC. As it stands, portugal has lost a city, and is 2nd in score, while we are still dead last. oporto has only 2 units in it, and I think it should be our next target (unless it gets reinforced). We should start our SE now, and continue to accrue massive amounts of cash. What do you all think? I most probably made a few mistakes during my turnset, but the RNG was kind. I guess sometimes its better to be lucky than good
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Thoughts: well, we're a little short on axes (again), but as long as we keep pillaging the crap out of joao, we can slowly take his ass down. Oporto looks tasty. I've sent a few workers to extend the road to oporto. Watch out, I might have given them go-to orders (yes, I know thats not cool, but I don't think of these things until it's too late
) Otherwise, we are researching masonry with scientists, and are still at 0%. (we have a bit of gold though, so this should change)
Save:
, another in Washington (labeled forest).
Free exp will belong to us if Portuguese won't retreat, as well as a free worker.
. Or maybe wait 2 turns, and whip it then with the surplus going into another Axe, to replace TV and the units we'll surely lose in Portuguese territory ...
... but I could swear that yesterday evening, the button for whipping was active 
