600 AD (Pre-turn)
I pay the French 743g for Invention. Strange but they won't even take 170gpt for gunpowder! When did our rep get trashed? I don't recall reading anything that would be that bad. Did we begin a war with Spain or America the correct way? The reason I bought Invention was to get gunpowder for free from the Indians
(I) Nada
610 AD (1)
Negotiations with India break down and things turn ugly. They refuse to help our tech sector and war is declared. The settler/spear pair is attacked by two elite swords, one of whom we lose. We now have two more workers building trade routes. Units advance on Indus which is guarded by a spear. Valencia is swapped from a worker to a settler and rushed as Indus will most likely auto-raze and we want to replace it to get the furs. Swap New York and Phillie to galleys, due in one, and rush the galley at Buffalo for 40g. The goodie hut on the island gets us three mad barbs.
(I) Berlin completes a library and starts a Cathedral. The galleys complete and more are started. One barb dies on our pike.
620 AD (2)
An elite knight takes the first spear at Indus without a scratch. More units arrive. 6 knights are loaded into the new galleys and 2 more are coming.
(I) Nothing but building.
630 AD (3)
We take Indus and move in.
(I)
640 AD (4)
Loading another knight.
(I) The Zulu want us to leave, I ask for an RoP, it seems they know what we did to America! I would assume then that our last declaration of war against them was dastardly.
650 AD (5) continued
The march to Dacca and the silks continues. It might be faster by ship. We now have 5 loaded galleys and need one with pikes to go with it.
(I) An Indian longbow appears out of the fog.
660 AD (6)
No more Indian longbow. We now have a galley with one pike and the second will load next turn.
(I) The trouble spot of Atlanta riots.
670 AD (7)
The second pike loads and the fleet is gathered. It heads for India proper next turn. Unfortunately, I won't be at hand to guide its assualt of those vile shores. Production in Atlanta is swapped to a temple. Purchase Education from Joan for 723g. We are still down gunpowder, banking and astronomy at least.
(I) Not much.
680 AD (8)
Lots of movement.
(I) The French begin Magellans.
690 AD (9)
France will now take a teo for one deal on luxes with 210g kicked in. I take it to try and repair our rep some.
(I)
700 AD (10)
Still lots of movement. The fleet is about 3 turns from the Indian coast. The land troops are 1 turn out of Dacca. There is a settler right beside Valladolid.
If you do not understand the standard methods of keeping a reputation intact, please take some time it read up on it. It limits a lot of our choices now that we have a rep to repair. I did check into starting our own research and we could get gunpowder in 7 at our max sustainable rate. It would be cheaper to save the money and buy it from France. We should be able to get at least two techs from India, if not three, depending on how much hurt we can put on their core cities. The next target should then be France if we plan on pulling ToE for ourselves.
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