Pre-turn (265 left):
Wow, thanks for the Great Scientist, heh. I join him, of course.
Interesting, Cyrus has actually overtaken Mao in score, but Mao is somewhat more powerful (presumably due to production necessary for his war with Vicky:
Our bud Capac is lagging quite badly. The upshot is that we shouldn't be worried about Mao running away with the game - yet. If he absorbs Vicky completely then we have trouble though.
Can we stop this? I see that Mao would be willing to make peace with Vicky for essentially Printing Press. I need to know more before doing this... I'll scout near London. If it looks like it will fall, then maybe.
Capac is willing to war with Cyrus now... but we want to gain Cyrus as an ally to deploy against Mao, so no go.
No decent trades to make.
City looks real good... 486 beakers in 1350 AD - +72 from specialists already! We may win this after all! I switch techs to Scientific Method.
Turn 1 (265 left):
Confucianism autospreads in Vilca-whatever.
I realize the scout can't even go in Vicky's lands because no OB. So I have no way to tell what's going on in London. Annoying.
Our workers have jack to do. I put them all on road spam.
Still no trades I want to do. The AIs seems to be surprisingly far behind us in tech. Cyrus doesn't even bloody have Paper. I don't want to get Printing Press out there yet and have have it traded around the world in 2 turns unless I can make a huge profit (which I can't).
Turn 2 (264 left):
Berlin is growing like a freaking weed. I revolt to Slavery and pop-rush the Observatory (just kidding).
Turn 3 (263 left):
Stupid Mao... he won't trade jack because we're too advanced. Well, we are, but still.
Some thoughts here. Mao and Cyrus continue to hate each other. If I can just get Cyrus to be a little more friendly, I can hire him to stab Mao in the back. I'd rather not do that with gifting yet, as that would injure us with Mao. Instead I'll try to do it with missionaries.
Turn 4 (262 left):
Zzz.
Turn 5 (261 left):
The power graph shows that Vicky and Mao's units are levelling off... perhaps there's a stalemate?
Turn 6 (260 left):
Observatory -> missionary. These are 1-turn missionaries - I hope I can have Cyrus converted soon!
I trade Cyrus our useless silk for 8 gpt.
I also trade Capac our horse for 8 gpt. We have no need for mounted units yet.
We're now running a 16 gpt surplus - at 100% science. (Forgive me now Liq!)
Turn 7 (259 left):
Scientific Method -> Physics.
Turn 8 (258 left):
I figure it's safe to trade PP now. I get Engineering + HB + map + 470 gold for it from Mao. We do need the gold for possible emergency upgrade situations. He doesn't even have Education yet.
Turn 9 (257 left):
Confuse Pasargardae.
Cyrus boasts of his grens. Yeah, bite me.
Turn 10 (256 left):
Mao is the first to circumnavigate the globe. You go girl.
Turn 11 (255 left):
Confuse both Arbala and Persopolis. Cyrus won't convert yet because he doesn't like us enough... but I hope that he'll do it automatically once we turn all his cities.
Mao has made peace with Vicky and London still stands. Good boy!
Interesting... Mao is willing to declare on Cyrus for Education. Maybe later after I convert his cities.
Turn 12 (254 left):
Izzy demands 100 gold. Go suck an egg.
BOW TO THE MASTER:
He's still cautious but it's a start. Only +1 siblings bonus but this will improve greatly over time. I'll still convert the last of his large cities.
Turn 13 (253 left):
Turn 14 (252 left):
OK all our missionaries are en-route to Cyrus' last three large cities. Working on a bank now. I consider trying to convert Mao but decide that it would be futile - he's the founder of Xianity and all his cities are Xian.
In a riveting display of awesome military strength, I upgrade a handful of units to macemen. Immediately 5 AIs dial us up and offer tribute.
Turn 15 (251 left):
Bah, Tarsus fails to confuse. Queue another missionary to fire after the bank finishes. I also notice we'll need another missionary for Sidon.
To next player:
Confuse Cyrus' remaining cities.
Build a grocer, we're almost at our healthly limit.
Mao is still willing to declare on Cyrus for Education. Unfortunately I'd rather have Cyrus declare on Mao instead because because we want to spread the minus modifiers between these two, but Cyrus doesn't like us enough yet. Keep an eye on the power and score graphs. If somebody is about to pull away, then consider starting the war.
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I tried my best. I figured although a large amount of cash would have been nice the extra food was really good as well as the extra beakers. I suppose if we would have got 1000 gold from a trade route that would have been nice too. I just looked at the food and made my decision. Another Great Merchant will equal another specialist. I thought that was stellar. I did think about it for about 5 minutes and that was my reasoning.
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. I'll go back over everyones posts but would still like some suggestions/advice before I continue. I'll wait until at least this afternoon before I play if no one states anything. Sorry for the slowdown.
Great job Liq! Due to your hiring of priests we got a great prophet! I merge him as a super specialist. Just kidding. A shrine is built.
