GreyFox
Make it so ...
That someone else would be moi. 
I was a bit dismayed with our stack in the Chinese border. There is only one pike. All maces and sieges. Granted we can overwhelm the Chinese, CKNs or not, but we could have easily reduce the casualties by adding one pike, one cross, and one horse archer.
Anyway, I tried my best to jungle our troops from the entire empire. I delayed a few christian monasteries builds for some needed pikes, cross and mounted units. (BTW,
for all the christian buildings ... they add +2 
due to our take ove rof the Apo Palace).
Press enter and we got Liberalism.
We got Steel, and welcome to the Industrial Age. Time for some trading as well.
As it turns out, we only trade with Kublai Khan. Pericles is unwilling to trade reasonably, while Sally and Ragnar totally refuses to trade.
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You must be kidding!? Didn't you realize a war is going on??? Anyway, "rightfully"??? Heliopolis doesn't sound Chinese to me.
---- Joke Interlude ----
Powered by newly upgraded knights, and we reached Xian:
Easily captured. And by the time we reached Shanghai, the Spy is ready.
Love the portrait (the female figure)
... wonder why the some icon looks like a moustached man 
I remember in Warlords/Vanilla, the unit on the screen also looked like a female, and would do sommersault when performing sabotage. Missed those.
Anyway, back to the attack, we captured Shanghai (losing a few siege in the process), and marched straight for Beijing.
As seen, the spy there is eligible for a 50% discount revolt as well. Since I forced march the troops, the first stack that reach there may be a little small. But I think it shouldn't have a problem taking the city. The units behind that stack can then immediately enter Beijing toloot/rape defend.
Annoyingly, QSH has an offshore city Chengdu. Hence I sent some ships over. They are currently bombarding the defense of Guangzhou.
There are a cannon and a cat on its way to Guangzhou, suggest taking the ride on the galleon, it will be faster than the land route. A very small stack is there waiting, but it should be more than enough since QSH just emptied the city (apparently to reinforce Beijing), plus the mini satck already features a cannon.
Other non-war matters is of-course the triggering of our Golden Age:
I revolted to vassalage, theocracy and Mercantilism. There is 6 turns of GA left, so if next player feel like it, you can still change the civics twice. So for example, you may want to switch to Free Speech for a temporary boost in commerce before pressing enter, and then switch back to Vassalage on the last turn of GAge.
We also got a quest:
I have ignored it thus far
QSH should be dead in the next turnset, so we have to prepare for our next war. I suggest Pericles. This is because he has no friends.
If this is agreeable, then we can prepare for a two pronged attack:
First, we amass troops in New York, filling ~5 galleons full of cannons/maces/knights/muskets for a westward attack. Second, once the troops in the east finishes China, they can be shipped to Mongolia for a rally, and then attack at the same time as the seabound troops reached the east shore of Greece.
By the way, the Shanghai Spy is on a caravel ... idea is to head to wards Greece first for some recce and posisbly revolt when war is declared.
The victory screen shows that we are slightly more than halfway in land domination.
We would probably reach close to 40% after completely assimilating China. We probably need to attack one more opponent after Pericles to hit domination.
Research wise, I got printing press. Suggest going for Replaceable Parts heading to Rifling. We could also go Military Science for Grenies. Both are fine, really.
Good luck.
Thy Spellcraft is UP
I was a bit dismayed with our stack in the Chinese border. There is only one pike. All maces and sieges. Granted we can overwhelm the Chinese, CKNs or not, but we could have easily reduce the casualties by adding one pike, one cross, and one horse archer.
Anyway, I tried my best to jungle our troops from the entire empire. I delayed a few christian monasteries builds for some needed pikes, cross and mounted units. (BTW,
for all the christian buildings ... they add +2 due to our take ove rof the Apo Palace).Press enter and we got Liberalism.
We got Steel, and welcome to the Industrial Age. Time for some trading as well.
As it turns out, we only trade with Kublai Khan. Pericles is unwilling to trade reasonably, while Sally and Ragnar totally refuses to trade.
---- Joke Interlude ----
You must be kidding!? Didn't you realize a war is going on??? Anyway, "rightfully"??? Heliopolis doesn't sound Chinese to me.
---- Joke Interlude ----
Powered by newly upgraded knights, and we reached Xian:
Easily captured. And by the time we reached Shanghai, the Spy is ready.
Love the portrait (the female figure)
... wonder why the some icon looks like a moustached man I remember in Warlords/Vanilla, the unit on the screen also looked like a female, and would do sommersault when performing sabotage. Missed those.Anyway, back to the attack, we captured Shanghai (losing a few siege in the process), and marched straight for Beijing.
As seen, the spy there is eligible for a 50% discount revolt as well. Since I forced march the troops, the first stack that reach there may be a little small. But I think it shouldn't have a problem taking the city. The units behind that stack can then immediately enter Beijing to
Annoyingly, QSH has an offshore city Chengdu. Hence I sent some ships over. They are currently bombarding the defense of Guangzhou.
There are a cannon and a cat on its way to Guangzhou, suggest taking the ride on the galleon, it will be faster than the land route. A very small stack is there waiting, but it should be more than enough since QSH just emptied the city (apparently to reinforce Beijing), plus the mini satck already features a cannon.
Other non-war matters is of-course the triggering of our Golden Age:
I revolted to vassalage, theocracy and Mercantilism. There is 6 turns of GA left, so if next player feel like it, you can still change the civics twice. So for example, you may want to switch to Free Speech for a temporary boost in commerce before pressing enter, and then switch back to Vassalage on the last turn of GAge.
We also got a quest:
I have ignored it thus far
QSH should be dead in the next turnset, so we have to prepare for our next war. I suggest Pericles. This is because he has no friends.
If this is agreeable, then we can prepare for a two pronged attack:
First, we amass troops in New York, filling ~5 galleons full of cannons/maces/knights/muskets for a westward attack. Second, once the troops in the east finishes China, they can be shipped to Mongolia for a rally, and then attack at the same time as the seabound troops reached the east shore of Greece.
By the way, the Shanghai Spy is on a caravel ... idea is to head to wards Greece first for some recce and posisbly revolt when war is declared.
The victory screen shows that we are slightly more than halfway in land domination.
We would probably reach close to 40% after completely assimilating China. We probably need to attack one more opponent after Pericles to hit domination.
Research wise, I got printing press. Suggest going for Replaceable Parts heading to Rifling. We could also go Military Science for Grenies. Both are fine, really.
Good luck.
Thy Spellcraft is UP
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But as tradeoff we born a GE in NY.
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