Pharaoh

[mice]

Great minds. I'll laugh if Gilly grabs it.

 

[r_rolo1]

Why? It would spare us a settler and give some more xp to our troops

 

[50_dollar_bag]

Moscow doesn't happen to have a military academy does it? We played half the game so far in vanilla BtS. But 4 MI's is a good catch plus an Great engineer

 

[mice]

Moscow doesn't happen to have a military academy does it? We played half the game so far in vanilla BtS. But 4 MI's is a good catch plus an Great engineer

no , no milt academy.

 

[pawelo]

I remind there are two cities available to claim : Rostov and Phoenician. Especially the first one is a tasty piece

Anyway, here are my city orders for the next governor in charge of the country destiny:

Spoiler :

Pawelograd is to become a monster eco/science city.
Therefore, build queue is :
Courthouse, FP, Library, University, Market, Bank, Grocer ( when latter are available of course )

Here is the city screen:



Only one improvement is required - cottage the plain on the dark pink tile.

Tiles to be worked (in this order):
Three sugar(or is it silk?) - two mines - a mix between river cottages and two grassland cottages - workshops - all other cottages

The city should grow without GP up to 20 and be left to generate very high beakers/commerce. Academy required later on, candidate for Oxford
Btw, please do not put any specialist in this city, not yet at least.
Later on, when all eco builds are done, cottage the workshops.

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Yekaterina is more complicated. No real specialization, can support the army sending some troops when necessary or religion if no new troops required.

Builds are :
Forge - Theatre -
1) army path : Stable - Cuirass ( if available )
2) religious path : Confu Monastery - Missionaries

Here is the screen for improvements and tile working:



Initial config as on screen.
As for the improvements:
Farm two grasslands to the south - we need food. Chop/farm the red one first.
After pic edit thought - please watermill the cottage 1E to the city.
Chop/farm the plain grassland next (another red spot).
Chop/mine the light blue grassland hill.
Set all green plains to workshops.
Preserve the dark blue forest.

It will grow to 18 without specialists.
We may turn it to max specialist use by using only farm tiles.
I would work farms first to let it grow (of course using the horses tile too), that the mine, then the watermill, then all the workshops.

Glory to the next (temporary) ruler, shall he reconstruct the greatness in a century and provide us with an army full of modern mounted units and siege engines!

Side remark: I think we should take advantage of the hindu shrine in Moscow and spread Hindu in the whole empire. You can use Yekaterina for Missionaries spam.

 

[Arlborn]

Does anybody have a personal wish to finish the Russian off?

If not, I can do that(or not if the group decides, and so I seek peace) for the glory of the Holy Egypt and blablabla! But only tomorrow(yes, you guessed it! My girlfriend is free today but is working tomorrow).

 

[pawelo]

For WW purposes (very nasty at the end of previous russian war) I would advise to wait for great cuirass army.

This way, we could sweep Gilgi & Cathy within the same turn set, sending an invasion force from both sides at the same time ( what a great war will it be ). I would advise General Wen Amon or General Haki II to lead troops once this time arrives.

Until then, I think we should orientate our efforts into getting the best of the CS and generating several GM for mass upgrades. We could send two or three to Frederic btw. Also, Universities should spread up as well as the confu buildings, to get the best out of our Spiral / Apostolic.

 

[mice]

Cross post with Pawelo ... not sure . maybe Pawelo is right.

 

[50_dollar_bag]

Considering we're going to take the whole continent over and nobody likes us we should just alternate who we fight to help with war weariness.

Any WW that we had with Gil would have expired by now i'd imagine,.

My choice however would be to take on Cyrus and killed his stack of immortals before he gets the chance to upgrade to Knights. That's my $50.

 

[mice]

Has anyone seen Slobahotep? He seems to have a low profile at the moment.

For this decision we need some votes I think. Cathy,Gilly or Cyrus.

If Metahu can play it would be good to get the cities in order as ordered, and in the meantime we vote on our next victim.

After milt trad, maybe Astonomy for a couple of Galleons to settle the big island. That will mean our continent will certainly be enough for dom.

After that war wariness might not be an issue as we could steamroll with cavalry with tech turned down and culture turned up.

My vote on victim. I will go with 50's experience and vote Cyrus. I want to see the tactic of waiting for his stack on our border, and I think cathy even with Cossacks is dead meat.

BTW 50_dollar, nice avatar for a kiwi to see.

 

[Arlborn]

Why cavalry rush and not riflemen?

Ah forget, I am no warmonger!

So, I will play today, and deliver the save when we have military tradition, and then the next player build up our mighty troops and go conquer!

 

[pawelo]

I go along with 50$ and vote Cyrus.
Still, we have no border with Cyrus, so it might be nice to get 1-2 more Gigli cities - Uruk seems so nice

 

[50_dollar_bag]

BTW 50_dollar, nice avatar for a kiwi to see.

Thanks Mice, are you from NZ?

 

[mice]

Thanks Mice, are you from NZ?

Yes. Kiwi through and through. Off topic; but the AB's played bad , just bad.

 

[r_rolo1]

Wow, two kiwis..... and another guy almost exacly on the other side of the world (me, of course ) Not at all common around here ( all american-British people )

P.S Offtopic: DO NOT talk about what the All Black did to the All Amateur Portuguese team

 

[slobberinbear]

I am here, Pharaoh.

The Russian should be conquered next. She cannot be trusted.

 

[Cabledawg]

Weve got WW from russia and her back is broken...shes no threat. We have no WW from gilly and hes on the way to Cyrus. Gilly would provide us with free XP's on the way to Cyrus. My vote is to take take gilly's 4 cities in a quick war.

 

[r_rolo1]

I'm for Gilly -> Cyrus -> Cathy -> Dom win

 

[mice]

Votes at the moment look like this;

Cabledawg - Gillgamesh

Slobahotep - Cathy

Pawelo - Gillgamesh to Cyrus

rolo- Gillgamesh to Cyrus

Hakmanizbag - Cyrus

Ramicess - Gillgamesh to Cyrus

Metahu - no vote as yet.

With Metahu's vote the result will still be Gilgamesh to Cyrus.

We need Metahu's choice of a general and some city configuring.

We attack with curriaseurs and trebs right?

 

[50_dollar_bag]

Hakmanizbag - Cyrus

I believe it's Hakimania...Hakibagjob...Hakouzemaker...
forget it call me 40_oz_bottle the 2nd.

Sounds like Gilgamesh is our next target, I hate protective civs.

So who's up?