Our military advisor deems us strong compared to Greece, Korea, and France, average to the Dutch and Indians, and weak to the Persians. The Koreans have lost units to the Persians. The Indians have two Iroquois workers, which probably indicates war too.
French culture isn't much better than ours, so we can indeed keep their cities. I am a bit worried about flips to the Greeks though. They have our culture times five.
Persia is clearly the top dog and Korea is in trouble. They are down to 5 cities. Greece has 7 and France 9. India is at 10, Netherlands at 14 and Persia at a staggering 18. We have 12 cities currently.
After taking Tours, I'll try to send one army south to meet with the third army and get to work on the closest Greeks cities. On defense, I'm hoping we'll see larger numbers of units from the Dutch only, and not too many from the Indians and Persians. I spot a Dutch border next to the Korean one in the south, not sure it was there before.
0) 150BC
I put Berlin back to 15spt. I move a cat to the vicinity of Berlin in anticipation of a Greek landing. Hire an extra scientist in Leipzig and shave a turn of literature.
IT
No landing at Konigsberg, could be heading for empty München. Greek archers seem to be headed in the Frankfurt/Corinth direction. The Dutch take a Greek city; we can just see the new borders southeast of HorseAttempt. Tours and Rouen have lost 1 pop each.
Leipzig: Settler > Spearman
Grenoble: Walls > Catapult
1) 130BC
We have contact with the Iroquois.
eSword kills French archer.
[1-0]
We have a few swords on defense, so I switch Frankfurt and Nürnberg to spears. Settler in place.
IT
3 jumbos (reg, vet, elite) move onto the forest between Nürnberg and Glass Palace. A French archer and horse die on our vSword and eSword covering the settler. Greeks and Dutch exchange some units as expected. An LB moves out of Knossos and lots of archers move in. If they continue towards the Dutch next turn, Knossos will be a ripe target. The galley turns around without dropping anything. A (fresh?) Dutch galley appears from the south, and a French one from the north.
[3-0]
Berlin: Swordsman > Swordsman
Konigsberg: Catapult > Swordsman
HorseAttempt: Walls > Catapult
Nürnberg: Spearman > Spearman
2) 110BC
Found Bremen, start on walls.
Ping one of the elephants, and put 4 units in the two towns that they can attack.
Armies kill pike, spear and redlined knight, and
Start walls there as well. All three citizens are resisting. I move the army out and leave Tours empty for now. Maybe the French will kill some of their unruly citizens for us.
[6-0]
IT
One of our vSpears actually kills an elephant and promotes, we loose a spear and sword against the other two, but they are both redlined.
[7-2]
Hamburg: Spearman > Spearman
3) 90BC
Rouen has shrunk yet again and is only size 1 now, without visible culture. I therefore postpone action against it, and move the healthier army in that area towards the Greeks now, picking up its fourth unit along the way. The roads towards Glass Palace are only accessible from the French side now.
I decide not to attack the elephants because I don't have two attackers ready anyway. There are cats in place to bombard next turn. Kill a hoplite in Knossos, ending up with an army that's insufficiently healthy to continue the attack.
[8-2]
IT
A French archer kills our rSpear covering a roading crew; our workers are moved. The injured jumbos move away unfortunately, and 3 substitutes are on their way. The Greeks seem to be going for us again, and some Dutch pillagers show up as well. I hope their war isn't over.
[8-3]
Literature is in, start on Philosophy in 4.
Berlin: Swordsman > Library
Leipzig: Spearman > Settler
Frankfurt: Spearman > Spearman
Glass Palace: Walls > Barracks
4) 70BC
Army kills the French archer and we recuperate our workers.
[9-3]
IT
The Indians capture empty Tours, but only after their elephants moved in that direction too. A French horse dies on our vSword covering our roading crew. The Dutch and Greeks are coming straight at us now.
[10-3]
Hamburg: Spearman > Library
Heidelburg: Catapult > Catapult
The Indians are building Shakespeare's Theater. The Koreans seem to have lost another city to the Persians.
5) 50BC
Army kills an elephant in Tours. I decide to go for Rouen with some swords, to speed up progress there and hopefully free up the army for defense against those elephants.
[11-3]
IT
Our eSpear in Glass Palace retreats an elephant.
München: Catapult > Catapult
6) 30BC
2 eSwords kill 2 spears in Rouen. At Tours, I have to pillage a road that is valuable to us, to make sure Grenoble can't be reached by too many elephants. I then move the army into Bremen to defend. At least 3 elephants and 1 French knight and 1 French horse are in range to attack it.
At Glass Palace, 2 vSwords kill redlined elephant and LB, one promotes. Cats take out a road to reduce exposure of our troops.
Army kills 2 hoplites in Knossos, but an LB remains. I don't let the second army attack because there are 3 LBs and 5 archers around Knossos. I do commit cats and swords for next turn.
[17-3]
IT
We loose 3 eSwords and 1 eSpear to elephants, all outside cities. The Persians land a musket at München, the Greeks an archer and a warrior.
[17-7]
Berlin: Library > Swordsman
Nürnberg: Spearman > Spearman
7) 10BC
Kill LB and archer and
3 vSwords kill 3 LBs, 1 promotion; army kills 2 archers.
At Bremen, army kills 2 WEs. I try to cover towns as much as possible, but we may loose the game during the next IT. Grenoble, Bremen, München and Glass Palace are seriously threatened.
[26-7]
IT
At Bremen, a spear retreats a WE, then dies to the next one. Our remaining sword then kills a French knight but finally succumbs to a second one, and
Bremen is razed. A catapult is captured. At Glass Palace, our vSpear kills an elephant. The French and Dutch are at war. A Greek LB dies on an eSword, and the archer at München dies on our *Archer.
[30-9]
Philo is in, start on CoL in 8.
Hamburg: Library > Swordsman
Konigsberg: Swordsman > Swordsman
8) 10AD
Army kills 2 French knights and recaptures our catapult.
At Knossos, vSword kills archer. At Glass Palace, vSword kills LB.
[34-9]
IT
In and near Glass Palace we loose a spear and sword to elephants. A French knight barely kills an eSpear in Grenoble. Korea has lost another city and we can no longer see their borders. They have only 2 left, so the Persians will be arriving soon.
[34-12]
Berlin: Swordsman > Swordsman
Leipzig: Settler > Spearman
Frankfurt: Spearman > Spearman
Grenoble: Catapult > Catapult
Heidelburg: Catapult > Catapult
9) 30AD
vSword kills landed Greek warrior. vSword kills French spear that was wandering around aimlessly (didn't even capture workers it could have). Army kills hoplite and moves into Nürnberg to defend. Near Knossos, eSword kills LB.
[38-12]
IT
We loose 1 sword and 2 spear to WEs (one of them generates a leader), our warrior defends against a redlined French knight in Grenoble. The French are at war with the Persians too.
[39-15]
And then it's game over:
Hamburg riots.
10) 50AD
Loose a 3hp vSword on a 1hp WE. Army finishes him off.
[40-16]
> Save <
[2-2].
Lose an elite spear in walled Leipzig to a vet archer, then lose an elite sword in the same town to a reg archer. Then another 5 or so french archers die on that city. An Indian sword dies on Corinth [18-5].
