Preturn: Wow, we are short of military. We have one defender per city and practically no offensive units. Neilania and Uruk switched from ICBM to mass transit. Eridu switched from solar plant (we already have Hoover's, this won't do us any good) to infantry. Ashur switched from Tactical Nuke to mass transit. Akkad switched from wealth to infantry. Leipzig switched from courthouse, it won't do any good, to marketplace that at least can help with happiness. St Petersburg switched from hospital to marketplace, it needs more happiness before it can grow. Hamburg, Grenoble, Dijon, Berlin, Tours and Cologne switched from tank to temple, they have no culture and therefore are susceptible to flipping back. Novgorod switched from cavalry (no barracks) to harbor to help with growth. Shantung switched from barracks to temple as there is no culture yet. Paris switched to temple, no culture yet. Tblisi is switched from bank to airport, having an airport on the other continent will allow us to quicly airlift troops from our main continent if necessary.
To help our financial position I try to renegotiate some trade deals. Liz is only paying 1gpt for dyes, but won't offer anything to extend the deal, she loses. We get 2 more gpt for our incense from Greece and we get 4gpt for our dyes and 5gpt for our furs.
I hurry temples in Dijon, Cologne, Hamburg and Berlin to help prevent flips.
(1) 1826AD - ICBM completes in Babylon, start infantry. Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Dijon and Grenoble finish temples, start marketplaces. Neilania completes mass transit, starts tank. Ulundi completes ICBM, starts mass transit. Kevinicus completes police station, starts infantry. Uruk completes mass transit, starts tank. Temples rushed in Paris and Tours.
(2) 1828AD - Paris starts a worker to help clean up the pollution from the bomb. Moscow completes marketplace, starts hospital. Zimbabwe completes army, starts tank. Tours completes temple, starts marketplace. Munith completes ICBM, starts mass transit. Ashur completes mass transit, starts infantry. Akkad completes infantry, starts tank. Eridu completes infantry, starts artillery. Shantung completes temple, starts marketplace.
(3) 1830AD - England and France sign a peace treaty. Babylon completes infantry and starts mass transit. Neilania completes tank and starts bomber. Uruk completes tank and starts jet fighter. Riga completes barracks and starts marketplace.
(4) 1832AD - China wants to trade wm's, I don't see any benefit to us so I politely decline. Zimbabwe completes tank, starts mass transit. SS Engine completed in Ur, start mass transit. Kevinicus completes infantry, starts another. Akkad completes tank, starts another.
(5) 1834AD - Neilania completes bomber, starts another. Unlundi completes mass transit, starts tank. Ashur completes infantry, starts another. Ellipi completes mass transit, starts courthouse. Uruk completes jet fighter starts another. Eridu completes artillery, starts another. Lagash completes barracks, starts marketplace. I decline to hold UN elections as I am doubtful we would have a chance and very well may lose due to the bombing.
(6) 1836AD - Munith completes mass transit, starts infantry. Akkad completes tank, starts another. Tblisi completes airport, starts police station. Now we can airlift troops to the other continent, much quicker and easier than transports.
(7) 1838AD - Greece wants an embargo against France, I don't see any advantage to this so I politely decline. Bablyon completes mass transit, starts battleship. Zimbabwe completes mass transit, starts infantry. Neilania completes bomber, starts another. Ulundi completes tank, starts another. Kevinicus completes infantry, starts another. Uruk completes jet fighter, starts another.
(8) 1840AD - Complete research of Synthetic Fibers, start Computers. Zimbabwe completes infantry, starts another. Ashur completes infantry starts modern armor. Ellipi completes courthouse, starts modern armor. Eridu completes artillery, starts modern armor. Nuremberg completes infantry, starts marketplace. Samarra completes mass transit, starts modern armor. Switch production of Neilania to SS Exterior Casing. Switch Uruk to SS Stasis Chamber. Switch Munith to SS Storage/Supply. I decide we need more help financially to support our research rate. England pays us 4gpt more to extend our ivory deal. With our significant tech lead I decide it is worth it to sell off one of our techs. Our most benign tech is The Corporation. Greece pays us silks, wm, 33gpt and 180 gold. China pays us 4gpt and 90 gold. England pays us 130 gold. France gives us 20 gold. Due to the extra luxury I drop our entertainment tax to zero. This allows me to bump up our science rate by 20% and cuts 2 turns off our research time.
(9) 1842AD - Zimbabwe completes infantry, starts another. Ur completes mass transit, starts modern armor. Akkad completes modern armor, starts another. Hammurabitown completes courthouse, starts factory. Heidelburg completes factory, starts aqueduct. Upgrade all vet tanks to modern armor.
(10) 1844AD - Zimbabwe completes infantry, starts another. Ulundi completes modern armor, starts another. Kevinicus completes infantry, starts another. Yakutsk completes barracks, starts aqueduct.
We are on our way to a space race victory. I have been running the science rate as high as possible without losing too much gpt.
We still need to beef up our military. Many of our cities on our borders with other civs still only have one infantry defending them. Troops from our main continent can be airlifted into Tblisi on the other continent.
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