scrubkai
Chieftain
Theme for this turn - In the immortal words of the Bard:
Cry Havoc and let slip the dogs of war!!!!
So after much delay due to debate in the Senate, Kai finally assumes the throne last in the night.
Of course before he is even comfortable sitting down a messenger comes in from the far north. It appears some barbarian galleys have teamed up to destroy our Caravel north of Periclese's land.
So Kai is forced to take some time from war prep to craft a appropriate note to the families of the brave Roman explorers who were lost.
That accomplished, He signs orders for a few more Trebuchet only to be interrupted again by the ambassador for Will the Orange.
While trying very hard to restrain himself from making snide comments (Who really wants to be Orange anyway?) he sent the ambassador packing with vague promises of talking someday down the line.
Next in line was the the commander of the armies of the north... Together he and Kai were just about to pull out the map of Pericles's land when in walks said victim (I mean ruler's) lackey. He was offering a trade.
Seeing the flexibility this tech gave us in his coming campaign, Kai accepted the deal, and immediately called forth the ambassador to Hammy. To prevent Pericles from making the trade, the same tech was offered and another 60 gold plus his world map was received in return.
Trades completed, another messenger appeared at the gate. It seems some barbarians had come to call in the south.
Axemen from Rome were quickly summoned and effectively dispatched the threat.
War planning was just resuming again when Yet another ambassador interrupted. (Kai thought it was beginning to feel like he was standing in the public baths not trying to have a secret war counsel but he heard yet another interruption)
Again the ambassador was sent on his way with only vague promises of talking later.
When Kai returned to his war counsel he found a note waiting for him. The wise men had figured out how to train the populace.
It was with joy that Kai directed his sages to create a proposal on how to liberate his fellow citizens thinking (Liberalism)
Some time later, Kai was informed that a great Merchant had arrived in the empire.
After getting over his initial shock at not getting another great scientist, Kai directed the merchant to go to Hadrametum as he would compliment existing forum and cottages there.
Kai also received bad news from a very wet and exhausted messenger. Our explorer had hit an ice block north of Will the Orange's land.
Luckily He had foreseen this possibility and a new Caravel (to replace the one lost to barbarians) had already set out to circle the world in the other direction. However this gave our Caravel on the other side of the world no choice but to begin the long trip back south so see if there is a southern passage around Gandhi's land.
That done Kai reviewed his notes and saw that the merchant and last of the the legions had all arrived in Hadrametum. He ordered the merchant to settle and the legions to march. It was time for war.
Summoning the worthless excuse of humanity that serves as Pericles's ambassador, Kai informed him of our intention and proceeded to launch the attack, netting a new worker in the process. Pericles responded by sending spies to destroy some stone and granary(I think???) in Carthage.
The next morning reports came in from the front: Eretia had been taken and razed without losing a single legion.
Hammy hearing of our great success came looking to bask in our glory.
Kai kindly told him to return to his capital as I was too busy to assemble the documents at this time. (Plus the fool did not realize Kai had just gotten his maps a few turns earlier.
)
As our legions pressed on north into the poor fools territory,our Ally Gandhi sent his ambassador over for a chat. The two visited a great food vendor on the forum and Kai listened to his pitch.
In the interest of improving relations, Kai sent him back to his master with the knowledge he requested.
Returning to the palace Kai received another message from the front. The battle for Epherus had started.
As he waited for the results of the battle, he perused the daily intelligence reports. Two items were of note:
Kai also noted that Pericles is very close to getting Guilds. So he called his commanders to review the military plan.
The commanders arrived with great news:
The battle had only cost one Trebuchet. Kai chose to keep the city seeing that it is well placed for future moneymaking.
As the army consolidated it's hold on Epherus, Kai reviewed the state of the campaign.
The units in the field look like this:
Also Pericles's resources look like this:
Kai noted the only Iron and Bronze for the empire is almost within striking distance of his army. Taking or Razing those two cities would prevent Periclese from producing most of his strongest units and make the possible appearance of knights a non issue.
Anyway that is the turn. I went a couple turns over but got us to 1 turn away from Liberalism. A few more thoughts...
1) Free tech from Liberalism should probably be Astronomy.
2) Antium really needs a Forum for the GP bonus.
3) I realized as I was typing this up that I never reset the artist from the Stone, Horse, Deer city to something else. That should probably be done soon.
4) Horses will be connected soon. So we could go for guilds as our next tech if we wanted knights, that would also get us markets. Of course Gunpowder is also good too....
Anyway here's the save let me know if anyone sees something I missed...
Cry Havoc and let slip the dogs of war!!!!
So after much delay due to debate in the Senate, Kai finally assumes the throne last in the night.
Of course before he is even comfortable sitting down a messenger comes in from the far north. It appears some barbarian galleys have teamed up to destroy our Caravel north of Periclese's land.
So Kai is forced to take some time from war prep to craft a appropriate note to the families of the brave Roman explorers who were lost.
That accomplished, He signs orders for a few more Trebuchet only to be interrupted again by the ambassador for Will the Orange.
While trying very hard to restrain himself from making snide comments (Who really wants to be Orange anyway?) he sent the ambassador packing with vague promises of talking someday down the line.
Next in line was the the commander of the armies of the north... Together he and Kai were just about to pull out the map of Pericles's land when in walks said victim (I mean ruler's) lackey. He was offering a trade.
Seeing the flexibility this tech gave us in his coming campaign, Kai accepted the deal, and immediately called forth the ambassador to Hammy. To prevent Pericles from making the trade, the same tech was offered and another 60 gold plus his world map was received in return.
Trades completed, another messenger appeared at the gate. It seems some barbarians had come to call in the south.
Axemen from Rome were quickly summoned and effectively dispatched the threat.
War planning was just resuming again when Yet another ambassador interrupted. (Kai thought it was beginning to feel like he was standing in the public baths not trying to have a secret war counsel but he heard yet another interruption)
Again the ambassador was sent on his way with only vague promises of talking later.
When Kai returned to his war counsel he found a note waiting for him. The wise men had figured out how to train the populace.
It was with joy that Kai directed his sages to create a proposal on how to liberate his fellow citizens thinking (Liberalism)
Some time later, Kai was informed that a great Merchant had arrived in the empire.
After getting over his initial shock at not getting another great scientist, Kai directed the merchant to go to Hadrametum as he would compliment existing forum and cottages there.
Kai also received bad news from a very wet and exhausted messenger. Our explorer had hit an ice block north of Will the Orange's land.
Luckily He had foreseen this possibility and a new Caravel (to replace the one lost to barbarians) had already set out to circle the world in the other direction. However this gave our Caravel on the other side of the world no choice but to begin the long trip back south so see if there is a southern passage around Gandhi's land.
That done Kai reviewed his notes and saw that the merchant and last of the the legions had all arrived in Hadrametum. He ordered the merchant to settle and the legions to march. It was time for war.
Summoning the worthless excuse of humanity that serves as Pericles's ambassador, Kai informed him of our intention and proceeded to launch the attack, netting a new worker in the process. Pericles responded by sending spies to destroy some stone and granary(I think???) in Carthage.
The next morning reports came in from the front: Eretia had been taken and razed without losing a single legion.
Hammy hearing of our great success came looking to bask in our glory.
Kai kindly told him to return to his capital as I was too busy to assemble the documents at this time. (Plus the fool did not realize Kai had just gotten his maps a few turns earlier.
)As our legions pressed on north into the poor fools territory,our Ally Gandhi sent his ambassador over for a chat. The two visited a great food vendor on the forum and Kai listened to his pitch.
In the interest of improving relations, Kai sent him back to his master with the knowledge he requested.
Returning to the palace Kai received another message from the front. The battle for Epherus had started.
As he waited for the results of the battle, he perused the daily intelligence reports. Two items were of note:
Kai also noted that Pericles is very close to getting Guilds. So he called his commanders to review the military plan.
The commanders arrived with great news:
The battle had only cost one Trebuchet. Kai chose to keep the city seeing that it is well placed for future moneymaking.
As the army consolidated it's hold on Epherus, Kai reviewed the state of the campaign.
The units in the field look like this:
Also Pericles's resources look like this:
Kai noted the only Iron and Bronze for the empire is almost within striking distance of his army. Taking or Razing those two cities would prevent Periclese from producing most of his strongest units and make the possible appearance of knights a non issue.
Anyway that is the turn. I went a couple turns over but got us to 1 turn away from Liberalism. A few more thoughts...
1) Free tech from Liberalism should probably be Astronomy.
2) Antium really needs a Forum for the GP bonus.
3) I realized as I was typing this up that I never reset the artist from the Stone, Horse, Deer city to something else. That should probably be done soon.
4) Horses will be connected soon. So we could go for guilds as our next tech if we wanted knights, that would also get us markets. Of course Gunpowder is also good too....
Anyway here's the save let me know if anyone sees something I missed...
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) (Although Willem maybe pursuing this path, certain if he has banking when we extort Guilds)
from the Academy. Of course in the long term with Wall street, for example, in Hadru it was for from bad choice...
Maybe it won't be a complete waste if we build a city on those ruins someday and name it frankcor's Folly?
