MIC2 - Lightning Chinese Riders

Yep, I agree to that. A gold per turn is money well spent to keep the peace until we are done expanding.

But it can have its good sides as well, if our archers are lucky enough to create an elite or two and maybe a leader :)

Still, please give in to demands if they are not outrageous. We need our production to be concentrated to get more settlers, not military.
 
Pre-turn - All is good.

Whip an archer in Canton

975bc - IT - American warrior defeats our spear in Canton without a scratch. Over a river, mind you :( The next warrior dies against our warrior.

Canton archer -> worker

Xinjian founded -> curragh

Archer kills a barb

950bc - Move some troops around

American horse moves next to Canton

925bc - American warrior dies against our warrior in Canton.
The ugly horseman kills a warrior

Beijing settler -> archer

900bc - Shanghai spear -> archer
Nanking settler -> barracks

Archer dispose a barbcamp for 25g

875bc - American warrior dies against our warrior in Canton, who promotes to elite.

Spanish settler-pair near southern iron

850bc - Spain found a city one turn befor my settler reached his spot.

American horse dies attacking Canton.

Found Chengdu ridiculously close to the new spanish town -> temple

Archer lose 3 hp, but kill American horse.
Southern archer moves out of spanish territory and finds a GH and barbcamp.

A few civs knows Construction, no deal possible.

825bc - IT - Greece wants 25g, which they get.

Shanghai archer -> Statue of Zeus

Hangchow founded -> worker

800bc - Beijing archer -> settler

American warrior walks past Canton, possibly on pillage mission.
Attack the warrior with our elite warrior and we get a leader! Send him to Canton and create army. Won't fill it yet though.

775bc - Xinjian curragh -> barracks

America accept peace straight up, deal.

750bc - Nanking barracks -> worker
Tsingtao barracks -> archer

Archer takes out barbcamp and gets 25g

Start connecting horses by Canton.

Spain knows Monarchy.
 
Wow, nice job! A leader? Maybe we can wait for riders.

We still need to settle. I'm not sure if we want to build Zeus now, or switch to settler first. We seem to have monopoly on ivory (if we grab those ivory in the east fast - that's a very nice spot btw), so it should be safe to get.

microbe
gozpel
grahamiam - up
Gogf - on deck
Aggie -
grs -
 
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ok, got it. dot map looks good though we only have 1 source of iron and it's not firmly secured. any thoughts on getting the one SE of Canton secured 1st (also, i would settle next to it, not on it, so we get the extra shields)?
 
The other iron is secured. It's within the town's first ring so we are safe.

We need to settle our first ring cities and get the income/production up. Murcia is going to be captured anyways.

By the way, I think we should start curragh in Xinjian? We still have some guys unmet yet..

Also I would probably switch Canton/Nanking to settler too..
 
We have a curragh out already.

And we can switch SoZ to settler, but beware, Spain got galleys and ship settlers with them.
 
i'd like to stay on building the SoZ as well, we could us the units as we settle more land. the other cities microbe mentioned can build the settlers.

the iron i was refering to is not near Xinjian or Murcia, but 3T SE of Canton, under one of microbe's purple dots. I was thinking Xinjian may be a little tenuous but a town near Canton would be much more stable and productive.

i'll prioritize settling on the red dot then on another sight NE of Beijing so we get another core town on a river. any other priorities? what goverment are we aiming for (i'm guessing monarchy but we should decide)?
 
Preflight check: Tele on. Scroll thru cities/screens to check up on how we’re doing. Interesting in that we could undo our min research gambit and do max research to get lit in 8T @ -16gpt but I hold off on doing that. Nothing to MM.

Nobody willing to sell construction to setup a twofer

Switch Canton to a settler as agreed but leave Nanking as a worker as it’ll be done in 2T and then I can go get the settler.

IBT:

T1: 730BC Move spear from Canton N to protect worker roading the horse.

IBT: Nanking worker -> settler (MM off mined grass onto forrest to shave 2T off settler build and still get growth in 2T)
Spanish are building HG; Spanish border expansion takes 1 of our incense hills near Xinjian

T2: 710BC not much except finding out no one wants to sell us Construction

IBT: Spanish building MoM

T3: 690BC We can get Construction for 229g and 14gpt but then with the settlers coming we won’t be able to pay that debt so I hold off for now.

IBT: horse road done; we are kicked out of Mongol land; Beijing settler -> horseman; Massive barb uprising near Beijing (guess someone went MA)

T4: 670BC move settler towards the dist 4 point NE of Beijing so we don’t run too close to the barbs; Send the reg archer down from Canton to take a look. Change Beijing to spearman. Looks like America went to the MA as well as India (both got currency). Spain has 1281 gold and is down techs!
Well, with all that gold, time to make some trades :)
Trades: India: Currency for 244g and 10gpt
Mongols: CoL and 72g for Currency
Spain: 491g for CoL and Currency
Greece: Constr, MM, Phil for CoL, Currency, and 358g. Greece gains Mono as their free tech.
We are in the MA and have 205g in the bank make +1gpt

T5: 650BC A deal expired and we now make +11gpt. Greece sold Mono to Spain for Monarchy but I can’t buy either right now. Archer from Canton spots the barb menace. There are 8 on a hill 4T SE of Canton

IBT: a barb galley sinks the dingy. Shanghai riots (damn) so I up the lux slider to 10%. Barb Horses move out towards Canton

T6: 630BC Rotate troops up to Canton

IBT: Barb horses split into groups of 4 around Canton; Hangchow: worker -> temple

T7: 610BC Tientsin founded -> barracks; 2 of the archers in Canton kill 2 BH’s, 1 promotes to elite. Move the third into town. Worker continues to run away. MM Shanghai of grass and onto river forest to cut 3T off SoZ build (17vs20).
Canton has 5 units inside vs 6BH in range; Tientsin has 2 BH in range and 1 archer inside. Hope this is enough.

IBT: Lincoln demands 30g, sure buddy boy; Greeks building HG; Spanish warrior kills 1 BH near Canton and the other 3 move N towards Greece; Greece begins HG and MoM

T8: 590BC reg Archer kills frozen BH near Canton (2/3); vet archer kills the last BH in that stack and promotes (2/5); Switch Tsingtao to a temple to help alleviate the cultural pressure.
Everyone has Lit now (damn); buy from India for 99g. Unfortunately we can’t research Republic very fast right now (45T, -2gpt @ 50%) so I set it to Min. It may be possible to grow into this research by changing some builds to Libraries but I’ll leave that for discussion.

IBT: Spanish warrior kills another BH and I watch the last 2 ride of towards the Greek town N of Hangchow (Knossos); Beijing spear -> settler; Nanking settler ->settler; Mongols and Greeks are building the Glib.

T9: 570BC Spear moves into Shanghai and I drop the Lux tax to 0%; Settler moves S to get to the Whale location

IBT: Canton settler -> Library (next player may want to change); Xinjian barracks -> horse; Spanish are building GLib

T10: 550BC Settler/Bubba move S from Canton; Hangchow connected to empire; the other settler moves from Shanghai to Beijing
 
Good job!

After Zeus is completed, time for some wars against Spain maybe. It has the same size of military as we do.

We should start moving the army to our capital. AC army is OK if we can't wait for riders.

Gogf, check the previous dotmap. Found those nice spots in the east (red dot being the highest priority, then the iron).

microbe
gozpel
grahamiam - just played
Gogf - up
Aggie - on deck
grs -
 
thanks, but do we want to settle directly on the iron? (recommend NE of the iron to preserve the other purple dot in the area) imho, we'd be better off with the extra shield. btw, beware since that is the area that the 8 horseman came from so expect a barb village.

also, what do we want to do about our pathetic research rate?
 
grahamiam said:
also, what do we want to do about our pathetic research rate?
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If we can continue doing trades like you did I wouldn't worry too much :)
 
gozpel said:
If we can continue doing trades like you did I wouldn't worry too much :)
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well, that's fine. researching with markets i presume? in that case, we might as well change that library build to marketplace. However, I don't see the AI getting around to Republic right away as they seem perfectly happy in Monarchy atm :king: :queen:

Tsingtoa should finish it's cultural building though as it's seeing some tough pressure.
 
Aggie said:
So that means that we should swap from libasry to something else in Canton. Has it got a temple? If so, then a market is the best choice imvho.
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no, it doesn't have any culture atm. it was busy with building a settler during my turns.
 
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