Preflight - We are still in despotism at 860AD, thats never a good thing. We urgently need to settle the rest of Egypt. Cities are in solid shape but I change a few builds, we need markets if we are going Republic and we need at least 2 more settlers. I switch Warwick from Library to settler
Turnset Goals
- get into Republic
- Settle the rest of Egypt
- Prepare for war with Iroquois
- Avoid losing
IBT - Germany demands TM and 25 gold. I take a deep breath and refuse and... he was bluffing?
Turn 1 - Get 2 settlers into position to settle cities in the next 2 turns. Switch some swords to markets. I also start up the galley conveyor belt to start taking our armies home for the Iroquois war.
IBT - Germany lands a settler pair in Egypt, Egypt's settler pair is blocked by our blockade but it looks as though they will just settle in their own territory.
Turn 2 - Found Liverpool. Move around settlers and troops. Conveyor belt continues mostly zzz though
IBT - Settler pairs wander around
Turn 3 - Found Dover, conveyor belt continues.
IBT - Germany finishes Copernicus' Observatory and the Iroquois start on Magellans.
Turn 4 - zzzzz
IBT - Iroquois start on Bach's
Turn 5 - Stage a revolution. Have to hire some specialists to prevent riots
IBT - Egypt founds Thebes inside their cultural borders. Germany finishes Bach's
Turn 6 - Upgrade the last warriors to swords. Assembling our forces in London.
IBT - Iroquois complete Leonardo's Workshop. Germans finish Magellans.
Turn 7 - zzzz
IBT - Nuthin
Turn 8 - Found Brighton
IBT - Switch to Republic, we are at +29gpt at 90% tax up from +8gpt at 6.0.4
Turn 9 - Zilch... I must have missed a turn cos iv reached 960AD...
Post Turn - Well that was quick and boring. Nothing of any real interest happened. As for the goals i set out, I achieved them all. We have Egypt settled, we are in Republic and we have our army ready to take on the Iroquois...
I just don't see how we can catch up... we are well behind on tech to Iroquois and Germany. Iroquois have knights and muskets and will be a major threat to us even right next to our core... also our economy is very, very weak for this stage of the game. I would not be suprised to see the Iro and Germans move into the Industrial Age before we get half way through the middle ages. Maybe with a different civ things could be different but we had to take what we were dealt and in hindsight I think this save was vastly harder than the Russian one.