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[Paul#42]

The Chamber market -> bank (factory prebuild)
The Gulag, The Igloo, The Bayou worker -> worker

Tuned The Gulag to 1twf. Zyxy: The 11th shield won't be lost to waste, I checked.

Found The New Watchtower. (sorry guys, you had plenty of time for suggestions...)


naval battles
Try to destroy the harbor in The Bangles. Two misses.
Only one MW hit this turn.


Newtons in two.


1351 beakers to go. Hire some scientists and MM a lot: 632+15*3bpt -> shaved a turn and get Ind in two!

our land

F3: BABE, GONG string, FREE, SABER average.
F4: GONG lacks ToG, Magnetism. BABE Education. SABER Nationalism.
F8: GONG 13052 culture.

turn 159 battle log (sent to BABE)
frigate 3/3 misses: The Bangles.
frigate 3/3 misses: The Bangles.
frigate 3/3 hits: MW 2/4

 

[Paul#42]

BABE offers peace - without accept.

Spoiler :

We offer peace and education - without accept.
In the turn tracker I blame this accident for the delay.

The Admirality market -> frigate
The Gulag, The Igloo worker -> worker

naval battles
Five BABEs were hit this turn

Switch The Tresury to Newtons.
Industrialization also due next turn. Just two beakers excess...

our land

Spoiler :

 

[Paul#42]

Industrialization is in.

The Treasury Newton's University -> factory
The Admirality market -> factory
The Gulag, The Bayou worker -> worker
The Igloo worker -> factory
The Ways frigate Sultan Peter-> market
The Marina library -> market

Switch The Silo to factory.

MM to research zero. I learn quite a lot about these police-guys

Spoiler :

trades
Sent Industrialization to FREE without accept. (Kuningas, if you read this one day: It was not my idea )
Sent Nationalism and Industrialization to SABER with accept.

naval battles
Four BABEs were hit this turn
One attempt to destroy a building in The Bangles failed.

our core - land of factories and workers

Spoiler :

F8
GONG culture 13864 (+411 after +401 in 160)

 

[Paul#42]

trades
FREE sends Electricity back for Industrialization - without accept
We send back with accept.
Sent 500g to SABER with accept.

The Gulag worker -> market (can be a 1-turn-worker-factory at size 11! - but needs happiness!)
The Pier harbor -> duct

research still at zero.
8 cops and 3 taxmen squeeze the best out of the people in our unhappy or unproductive towns. :whip:

worker TC 5 uncovers a valuable BG next to The Admirality. Honored as employee of the year.

naval battles
Four BABEs were hit this turn and a temple destroyed
Can one see riots in rival towns?

exploration
GONG and FREE do not block their shores. GONG blocks its towns
Well Feudalism needs units inside the towns, Republic people don't like them...
No need to wait for Marines

F8
GONG culture 13864 -> 14279 (+415 after +411 in 161)

 

[Paul#42]

turn 163, 470 AD

trades
The Bayou worker -> worker
The Phoenix library -> duct

FREE sends Electricity back for Industrialization - with accept
Sent Electricity to SABER with accept.

research on Replacable Parts at 80% (8 turns at -39gpt).

Woon-Jae (MDI) passed away while helping to build the new market in The Gulag. R.I.P.
Two reg horses and a Pikeman share his fate.

naval battles
The Bangles is rioting!

Two BABEs were hit this turn and a citizen killed in The Bangles to restore the civil order

our land

Spoiler :

F8
GONG culture 14279 -> 14710 (+431 after +415 in 162 -> f'' = 16)
our culture 4593 -> 4731 (+138 after +135 in 162 -> f'' = 3 (the lib in Phoenix))
obviously the first two derivations of our culture are not indicating we are catching up

 

[Paul#42]

lost my notes

FREE offered Medicine, we decline.

Draft seven rifles from The Chamber, The Silo, The Marina, Chamsuri's Cove, The Institute, The Igloo and The Aerie. Disband six of them and a reg horse in The Treasury to complete the factory this turn.

Join two workers to The Pier. Bad timing I guess.

Naval fighting
Hit just two BABE units this turn, miss another and miss the harbor in The Bangles twice

our land
sorry, no pic while the upload does not work...
Nothing of interest anyway...

 

[Paul#42]

SABER offers Medicine. We accept.
(Sorry, the order to decline came too late )

The Treasury factory -> coal plant
The Bayou worker -> worker
The Meeting Room duct -> market

Our people love their government and build a 2nd floor for our main palace. I know some of you guys like that building...

Spoiler :

Draft rifles in The New Yard, The Silo, The Institute, The Admirality and The Ways. Disband six rifles in The Treasury to complete the coal plant this turn.

MM The Gulag and The Bayou to growth this turn.
The Bayou can also build 2-turn-workers from 5.5 to 6.5, gaining more commerce.

The Gulag will get a drafted rifle (from The Silo) to complete market next turn and make +20fpt for 1-turn-growth. Try to get it a university before it returns on worker duty.
Needs some more worker turns to get those +20fpt at 7spt - it's +15fpt right now and we need irrigation for a BG (4), a forest chop, road, irrigation and rail (17) and a rail on a plains (6).


naval battles
three BABEs and a harbor hit this turn.
The Bangles is still rioting - and now they even lack a harbor.

research
3080 beakers to go on RP. I switch the lux slider to 90% (620 bpt @ -78 gpt) to get it in 5 turns. No spare money for emergency rushes but I guess financial problems are solved soon after RP...
Switch our four scientists to taxman because our regular commerce is converted to 682 beakers or 431 gold - 682/431 more than 3/2, so taxmen are more effective now...

F8
GONG culture 14710 -> 15585 in 2 turns - avg 437.5cpt, 431 in #163
The Council: 4731 -> 5007 - avg 138cpt same as #164

F3
we are still weak to GONG and BABE and average to FREE and SABER.

 

[Paul#42]

The Treasury coal plant -> palace
The Institute market -> Hwach'a

Just as Aigburth had scouted: The elevator was used.


Draft rifle in The Igloo. Disband it in The Gulag to finish market this turn.

naval battles
All six frigates hit BABEs this turn.
We spot another GONG galley just 2E-SE of Sultan Peter - 10 north of our The Shallows

our world


I'd love a courthouse in The Treasury to gain another 6bpt but the 4spt won't make up for the lost turn
(and I don't dare to draft another rifle...)



F8
GONG 15585 -> 16026 (+441)
we 5007 -> 5145 (+138)

F3
we are still weak to GONG and BABE and average to FREE and SABER.

 

[Paul#42]

The Chamber factory -> cathedral
The Gulag market -> university
The Bayou worker -> worker
The Nursery aqueduct -> harbor

Pollution near The Treasury - better now than in a finishing turn of a building...
24 worker turns to clear up...
That messed up all my plans for The Gulag...
I don't want to join 2 workers to make it a 1-turn-worker factory but rather let it grow to size 11 and build something useful in the meantime.
Either a Hwatch'a or a university if we want to add a couple of drafted units...

naval battles
five of six frigates missed their targets this turn.

F8
GONG 16026 -> 16466 (+440 - in 166 it waS +441)
we 5145 -> 5283 (+138)
F3
we are still weak to GONG and BABE and average to FREE and SABER.

our world

 

[Paul#42]

The Red Tape library -> market

naval battles
three of four frigates hit their targets this turn. We have to be careful, BABE also sends frigates. We need to stack our forces...

F8
GONG 16466 -> 16916 (+450)
we 5283 -> 5424 (+141)
F3
we are still weak to GONG and BABE and average to FREE and SABER.

our world

 

[Paul#42]

The Bayou worker -> worker
The New Yard harbor -> market

FREE beat SABER to ToE


Looks like they start Hoovers from the scratch in ToE town. Should be without factory and coal plant.
But why do they show?
I bet it's a bluff, they got another prebuild occupying the palace prebuild...


We draft a rifle in The Chamber and disband in The Gulag.
Better now 20 shields than 27 shields (inf) in two turns losing 12 food.
We get the university in The Gulag two turns earlier, easily making up for the scientist needed in The Chamber next turn.

luxury slider to 4.6.0 -> RP in 2 @+55gpt

naval battles
delayed - we have to set up our EWS and show good will to BABE .


F8
GONG 16916 -> 17371 (+455)
we 5424 -> 5567 (+143)

F3
we are still weak to GONG and BABE and average to FREE and SABER.

our world

 

[Paul#42]

The Aerie market -> worker

MM The Gulag to +20fpt
Improve The Admirailty to factory in 5 @21spt.

lux slider to 50% and hire some scientists (one in excess for insurance) -> RP next @+55gpt

block the coast a view to GONG caravel.
single BABE frigate in sight
I hope they don't mop up our EWS


naval battles
without success, two misses. It really seems more difficult to hit units in the mountains than in the open...

near BABEcolony:
frigate misses: knight
frigate misses: pike


F8
GONG 17371 -> 17834 (+463 / ++8)
we 5567 -> 5710 (+143 / ++0)

F3
we are still weak to GONG and BABE and average to FREE and SABER.

our world
forgot to take any screenshots...

 

[Paul#42]

turn 171, 550 AD

SABER offers Scientific Method - we accept.
Our scientists present Replacable Parts.
Music is next in 4.

The Chamber Cathedral -> Hwach'a
The Bayou worker -> worker
The Ways market -> university

Decide not to gift The Shallows (9 food in bin) but The New Watchtower (empty food bin). Switch build to worker losing 3 shields.

No rubber on our continent
All 11-tilers but "SABER's" have rubber and FREE's continent right in the middle...

short-rush to 90 shields (48g) in The Gulag to complete university next turn and start 1-turn-workers.

Join three workers in slow growing The Admirality to size 10 to get factory in 3.
Railing is fun!!! 3 workers do the job
Railing forests does not provide an extra shield?

The BABE frigates united again and head for our coast

Our frigates remain flawless against BABE's pike on the mount.

Hire some engineers in unproductive towns.

Sent RP to SABER with accept.

naval battles
without success, we miss the knight again.

F8
GONG 17834 -> 19299 (+465 / ++2)
we 5710 -> 5856 (+146 / ++3)

our world


turn 170 battle log
near BABEcolony:
frigate misses: knight

 

[Paul#42]

The Chamber Hwach'a -> Hwach'a
The Gulag university -> worker
The New Watchtower worker -> wealth

Our people build another part of our palace.

Spoiler :

internal stuff
Draft a rifle in The Gulag to get down to size 11.
switch The Bayou to duct, we got a rifle to speed it up and we need to get our uncorrupt cities growing. Disband the rifle there.

The Treasury collected 362 shields so far. 238 to go.
At 62spt that's four more turns to Bach's. Perfect fit.

trades
Send Dyes to FREE with accept. Too nice?
Confirm SABER knows RP.
The New Watchtower I will gift to SABER next turn #173, so they can immediately offer their slaves as chamnix had suggested.

naval action
BABE ships stay out of reach.
Our EWS is still not active, I roll the blockade to the east coast rather than blocking a GONG invasion. Maybe GONG reports to BABE and BABE sends some ships?

Spoiler :

F8
GONG 18299 -> 18768 (+469 / ++4)
we 5856 -> 6006 (+150 / ++4)

 

[Paul#42]

The Chamber Hwach'a -> barracks
The Gulag worker -> worker
The Arboretum university -> factory(?)
The Pier duct -> market

trades
Sent The New Watchtower to SABER with accept to start worker trades.
FREE did not offer their spices...
And they did not accept our Dyes. I send again without accept.
That does not look too well...

internal stuff
Join a worker to The Pier (now size 7) - worth 9gpt.
Do we get happiness problems next turn if we lose FREE's spices?
To be sure, I sacrifice some gld / beakers / food in every town that's at 50% happiness...

naval action
BABE ships stay out of reach, maintain their position. Another frigate in sight south of the stack - right where I moved our 2 loaded caravels.


F8
GONG 18768 -> 19237 (+469 / ++0)
we 6006 -> 6160 (+154 / ++4)

 

[Paul#42]

SABER sends 25(?) workers without accept. I accept.
FREE accepts our offer of Dyes - without offering their lux. I decline

The Admirality, The Treasury and The Gulag riot

The Silo factory -> cathedral
Chamsuri's Cove market -> university
The Dislodged library -> duct

trades
Sent 25 workers to SABER with accept.

internal stuff
short-rush duct in The Bayou for 168g.

naval action
BABE ships stay out of reach, maintain their position. I move our navy in striking range.


our core in flames


F8
GONG 19237 -> 19714 (+477 / ++8)
we 6160 -> 6317 (+157 / ++3)

 

[Paul#42]

SABER sent 25 workers and The New Watchtower. We accept.

FREE sent Spices, we offer Dyes and accept.

Music Theory is in. Sanitation next.
The Chamber horseman -> horseman
The Admirality factory -> frigate
The Gulag worker -> worker
The Bayou duct -> worker
The Squeeze library -> market

Switch Chamsuri's Cove to harbor.
Sqeeze another worker out of The Bayou. It can start a university next turn if we want it to grow or a harbor if we want it to be another one-turn-worker factory at size 6.

We don't need more workers I hear you saying?
We could use a lot more workers to join to slower growing towns, even in the core - especially after hospitals!
I estimate at least 50-80 workers we could join to our core towns!
And another 50 workers to our other towns. Every worker in the core gives us 4bpt on average. The other towns will get a benefit of 2bpt per worker I'd guess. That's an increase of 300bpt in 20-30 turns.
Let's discuss that in the preturn or strategic threats.

Draft a rifle in The Chamber (growing to 12 next turn), disband it in The Phoenix to speed up the duct.

The SABER slaves are spread all over the unroaded tiles.

our land

 

[Paul#42]

The Chamber horseman -> horseman
The Gulag worker -> worker
The Aerie barracks -> horseman
The Meeting Room, The Marina market -> university

Our Palace gets another (unnecessary) extension...


internal stuff
The Bayou was one shield short of completing the worker.
We go on building a harbor there instead.
Realize that The Admirality would waste half its production (40spt) if we stick with the frigate and switch to a coal plant to make 1-turn-frigates then (along with another tile from The Ways).
Almost forgot to adjust the luxury slider to the new trade with FREE.
At (2.8.0) it is now, 639bpt at +1gpt
Switch The Treasury to Bach's. F7 shows no wonder builds so we should get it uncontested


research
I stick at 80% some more time because I plan some worker joins in the next two turns, maybe we get sanitation without raising the slider...

naval action
I resist the temptation to sink BABE ships and start to set up the EWS again.
F3
We are still average to FREE and SABER and weak to BABE and GONG.

F8
GONG 20686
we 6637

 

[Paul#42]

The Chamber horseman -> bank (hospital prebuild)
The Treasury Johann Sebastian Bach's Cathedral -> bank (hospital prebuild)

The Gulag worker -> worker
The Nursery harbor -> market

Our Palace gets another extension...


internal stuff
Bach's works! Happiness all around
Our advisor tells us we should build MoM and a Colosseum...
MM The Chamber, The Treasury and The Silo to hospital (160 = bank) in 3.

research
Two turns left on Sanitation. Either at 90% each wasting 9 beakers while doing -48gpt (=96g) or at 80% and 100% wasting 3 beakers at +11gpt and -97gpt (=86g). I stick with 80% for another turn and switch to 100% next turn.

F3
We are still average to FREE and SABER and weak to BABE and GONG.
We just have to pay 6gpt for our units - we got 66 and 63 are for free.
27 native workers. 8 each will be joined to The Chamber and The Treasury on turn 180. At least 3 to The Silo and The Admirality on turn 182. We need population!! We are lucky SABER did not want to trade more workers...

F8
GONG 20686 -> 21178 (+492)
we 6637 -> 6803 (+166)

map

 

[Paul#42]

The Gulag worker -> worker
The Phoenix duct -> granary (worker pump)

internal stuff
Short rush harbor in The Bayou.
Join 6 workers to The Institute (9 -> 11), The Silo (9 -> 12), The Red Tape (6 -> 7).

research
Sanitation next turn at 100% doing -94gpt. None of those for unit upkeep.

F3
We are still average to FREE and SABER and weak to BABE and GONG.

F8
GONG 21178 -> 21672 (+494 ++2)
we 6803 --> 6969 (+166 ++0)
culture chart


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