(0) Check out the tech situation - we are three techs behind Catharge (Communism, The Corporation, Sanitation) and one tech behind the Iroquois (Communism). We are researching Sanitation, and I wonder why we didn't go the Electricity - Scientific Method route, seeing as this is a low priority research target for the AI's.
I decide against any attempts to steal Communism right now - there is nothing to trade it for.
Begin building libraries in our core - one city at a time.
IBT:
The Iroquois sink a roman galley. I hope it was full of troops.
(1) 1160AD
It takes TWO sipahi to kill a longbow. Unfortunately the first one doesn't retreat.
New Bangalore is taken, killing an elite rifleman with no losses. I'm going to settler-abandon it once it's starved to two citizens, as we can get two excellent cities in there, and there is another settler waiting in Sinop.
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Rebel's reward riots. It's a 1/1 town right now, so I'm not too worried. Taxman hired.
(2) 1170AD
We're workin' on the railroad...
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(3) 1180AD
Ganges is captured from the Romans.
New Delhi is captured from the Romans.
Settler rushed in New Bangalore.
Catharge still have a monopoly on The Corporation, I'm hoping someone else gets it soon.
IBT:
Rome gets lucky with the RNG and takes back New Delhi, killing two sipahi. I have more outside the city though.
New Bangalore is abandoned.
The snivelling Iroquois sign peace with Rome.
(4) 1190AD
New Dehli is taken back with no losses. Nice of them to leave their workers there
Dyes and Ivory to the Iroquois to get them fighting Rome again.
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(5) 1200AD
New Arizonaville founded.
IBT: Kafa riots after growing and we get... FOUR palace expansions.
Catharge signs peace with Rome. Not that it will last for long.
(6) 1210AD
Send some dyes to Hannibal to get him to declare on the Romans again.
Aurelianorum destroyed. Need a settler.
Steveopolis founded. This is a first ring city.
Buy Sanitation for dyes + ivory + 360 gold from the Aztecs. Begin research on Electricity.
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Renew alliances with the Aztecs and Arabs, at no cost.
(7) 1220AD
Syracuse is captured. There was only one rifleman defending. It looks like their only source of coal has been taken. Checking the foreign advisor screen confirms that this is indeed the case.
Find a couple of cities producing around 40 shields/turn and switch them to rifleman production. We are getting short on defence.
Rush a settler in Mugla to repopulate the open land near there, as Roman cities are autorazed.
Upgrade that irritating spearman sitting in Istanbul.
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It looks like Rome is totally out of gas. One rifleman moved. After that, nothing.
(8) 1230AD
Forced to clean up orange goo near Iznik.
Byzantium is captured, one sipahi lost.
IBT:
One puny attempt to pillage with a catapault.
(9) 1240AD
The aforementioned catapault is captured.
Brundisium is captured.
IBT:
Catharge completes Universal Sufferage.
(10) 1250AD
I get a bit ambitious, and attempt to take Palmyra. I turn out to be one unit short, and would've taken the city had it not been for a longbow that had forced a sipahi to retreat on the previous interturn.
I made some significant gains, and have shifted a few 40 shield/turn cities to Rifle production to consolidate our new holdings.
Built a few libraries in our core.
We do have one problem. Catharge STILL have a monopoly on The Corporation, which is bad in two ways. Firstly it allows them to buils Stock Exchanges and Wall Street, and secondly, it's a gateway to a whole slew of techs. For all we know they may have Steel and Refining, and are on their way to tanks. I did buy Sanitation, so that I could head down the Electricity line, but we only have 19 turns left on the palace in Sinop.
I kept all alliances in place, I think it will take more than 20 turns to destroy Rome.
New Ottoman Territory
And of course, the save
With factories in place we don't have much to fear. I notice that our army is already described as strong relative to Rome's.
