[Preflight]
Military:
002 Settlers
147 Workers
068 Slaves
001 Explorers
001 Warrior
004 Archers
002 Spears
005 Swords
004 Horse
063 Cavalry
014 Infantry
007 Frigates
013 Galleons
005 Army
001 Riders
002 Mace
001 Guerillla
000 Trebuchets
002 Trebuchets (captured)
Allowed Units: 231
Current Units: 272
Cost per turn: 082 gpt
Luxuries connected to Beijing
03 Wines
03 Furs
05 Dyes
03 Incense
02 Spices
03 Silks
03 Gems
Resources connected to Beijing
03 Rubber
03 Coal
05 Saltpeter
05 Iron
07 Horse
Wonder Races
- Magellan's Voyage (Astronomy)
- JS Bach's Cathedral (Music Theory)
- Thermopylae (12) (Greece)
International
Greece - peace
Iroquois - war
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[Start of Preflight]
The Coporation in 4
5353 gold, +515 gpt
060% Tax
030% Science
010% Luxury
We are still in our Golden Age, with this turn and next turn to go.
We need Amphibious Warfare to capture the one tile Iroquois island of Caughnawaga. That is 6 techs away from where we are right now.
Cycle through the cities.
Starve
Madrid.
Rush a settler in
Thebes.
Hire two geeks in
Soduku City.
Hire two geeks in
Memphis.
Rush the Artillery in
Seville for 136 of 5265 gold.
Clown -> geek in
Tonawanda.
Hire two geeks in
Philadelphia.
Hire three geeks in
Isandhlwana.
Fire the clowns in
Alexandria.
Rush a market in
Tatung for 160 gold, then hire 1 clown.
Macao hires a geek.
So does
Desert River.
West Coast Point hire one geek and taxman -> geek.
Fire the clown in
Kahnawke.
New Beijing hires a geek.
New Shanghai does also.
We currently have 61% of the world's area.
We currently have 62% of the world's population.
I can't see the reason to prolong this game another 2 or 3 turnsets just to conquer one island. It is just not worth it.
Long Term Goals
Dominate the world.
Mid Range Goals
Dominate the world.
Short Range Goals
Dominate the world.
Oh! nerovats saved at the start of the turn, not the end.
[End of Preflight]
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1 1345 AD
Jungle Clearing is founded in the jungle area between Old Spain and Old America.
Greek Crasher is founded 2NW of Pharsalos.
We rail all the grassland on the west side of Old Zulu.
We evacuate most of the cities overseas and move our units around Greek Crasher.
We'll DoW on Greece next turn. That will give our wounded a chance to heal.
We sell Theory of Gravity to Greece for Music Theory, WM, 12 gpt and 226 of 226 gold.
We'll sell them Metalurgy next turn before we declare war.
[IBT]
Thebes settler -> settler in 15.
Canton vInfantry -> bank in 5.
Murcia worker -> wealth.
Seville artillery -> artillery in 40.
Toledo worker -> wealth.
Tatung market -> coruthouse in 6 (with 4 hard-hats).
Beijing 2 rGalleon -> wealth.
Forestville vInfantry -> bank in 7.
Green Tea artillery -> artillery in 14.
Fifty City worker -> worker in 10.
Tientsin worker -> worker in 5.
Shanghai 2 rGalleon -> wealth.
2 1350 AD
Nothing flips on the IBT.
We sell Silks to Greece for 2 gpt and 30 of 30 gold.
Then we declare war.
It's Clobberin' Time
Battle of Thermopylae (6) Greece
Artillery drops a vHoplite to 2/4.
vCav vs. rHoplite, Hoplite wins (0 of 1).
eCav vs. vHoplite 2/4, Cavalary wins but does not promote (1 of 2).
eCav vs. vKnight 2/4, Cavalry wins but does not promote (2 of 3).
Good Results
eCav vs. rHoplite 1/3, Cavalry wins and promotes to *CavalryOne* and Sun Tzu is born (3 of 4).
Sun Tzu moves to Greek Crasher and builds an Army named Sun Tzu.
eCav vs. vKnight 1/4, Cavalry wins (4 of 5).
Good News
And Thermoplyae is now Chinese.
We rail to Thermopylae.
Interior Cleanup
vInf vs. rKnight (Greece), Knight wins (4 of 6).
vCav vs. rKnight (Greece), Cavalry win (5 of 7).
eMace vs. rKnight 1/3 (Greece), Mace wins (6 of 8).
Declaring war on Greece cuts our supply line for Coal. No, my bad. I thought we needed to rail a hill, but it was already done. Our Coal is connected via the harbor in Madrid. I just wasted a slave on a Coal Colony.
Load three Cavalries into Sun Tzu.
Battle of Argos (12) Greece
Sun Tzu vs. rHoplite, Sun Tzu wins (7 of 9).
Sun Tzu (11/12) vs. rHoplite, Sun Tzu wins and has an interior promotion (8 of 10).
Good News
And Argos becomes Chinese. We rail to it and through it.
Clearing the Path to Corinth
Hero of Philadelphia (vGuerilla) vs. vKnight, Knight wins (8 of 11).
vInf vs. vKnight 3/4, Knight retreats (9 of 12).
Battle of Corinth (12) Greece
vCav vs. rHoplite, Cavalry wins (10 of 13).
vCav vs. rHoplite, Cavalry retreats (10 of 14).
vCav vs. rHoplite, Cavalry wins (11 of 15).
Good News
And Corinth is now Pink and railed.
Moping up Around Corinth
eHorse vs. vKnight 1/4, Horse wins but does not promote (12 of 16).
Battle of Sparta (4) Greece
vCav vs. rHoplite, Hoplite wins (12 of 17).
vCav vs. rHoplite, Cavalry wins and promotes to Elite (13 of 18).
eHorse vs. rHoplite 1/3, Horse wins (14 of 19).
Good News
Sparta is now ours and railed. We have 64% of the land, 96% of the population.
Battle of Delphi (6) Greece
vCav vs. rHoplite, Hoplite wins and promotes (14 of 20).
vCav vs. rHoplite, Cavalry wins (15 of 21).
vCav vs. vHoplite 3/4, Cavalry wins (14 of 22).
Good News
And Delphi has joined the Pink Domination.
Land: 65%
Population: 96%
Battle of Athens (11) Capital of Greece
vCav vs. rHoplite, Cavalry wins and promotes to Elite (15 of 23).
Unnamed Army vs. rHoplite, Unnamed wins (16 of 24).
Unnamed Army (11/13) vs. rHoplite, Unnamed wins (17 of 25).
Good News
And Athens has been overcome by the Pink Pansies.
We now control the Sistine Chapel, and maybe some other things; I didn't check.
Land: 65%
Popluation: 98%.
Battle of Ephesus (1) Greece
vCav vs. rHoplite, Cavalry wins (18 of 26).
Good News
We destroy this little green city instead of capturing it. That doesn't help us any.
We build
Limit Breaker north of Niagara Falls, claiming 9 tiles.
Land: 66%
Population: 98%
Just in case:
We load 4 Cavalry into the new Galleon in Shanghai 2 and sail across to the Iroquois capital of Herakleia. This Galleon then sails into Argos.
We build
Limit Surpasser 3NE of Limit Breaker, which can almost claim the full FatX tiles, for a total of 17 tiles.
Land: 67%
Population: 98%
We rail to Delphi and Athens.
We raid an Aidu camp for 25 gold.
All the grass is railed in Old Zulu, along with all the plains. Just a few chops to clear out.
Begin to finish railing in Old India.
Cycle through the cities.
Rush a settler in Philadelphia for 88 gold.
Heliopolis vCav -> settler in 1.
Santiago worker -> settler, rush for 96 gold.
Valencia vInf -> settler, rush for 104 gold.
Purple Pretender worker -> settler, rush for 100 gold.
Save game.
Map Stat shows we are 20 tiles over the limit. We'll see.
[IBT]
Iroquois Mace kills a Cavalry (18 of 27).
Beijing vInf -> Bank in 4.
Madrid worker -> worker in 10.
Watery vInf -> courthouse in 3.
Barcelona worker -> worker in 10.
Philadelphia settler -> settler in 30.
Isandhlwana worker -> wealth.
Heliopolis settler -> settler in 30.
Irony vCav -> Bank in 7.
Santiago settler -> settler in 30.
Old Zulu City worker -> wealth.
Valencia settler -> settler in 30.
Tugeal worker -> wealth.
Anyang vInf -> bank in 8.
Desert Marsh vInf -> market in 5.
Black Oak vInf -> vInf in 5.
Chengdu worker -> wealth.
Purple Pretender settler -> settler in 30.
Very Good News!
I've attached the last save at 1350 AD so that anyone can view the replays, if they so desire.
