Rat 41 CCM - AW a first attempt

[ThERat]

I am pretty sure the lack of contacts is due to
a. lack of settler pairs running around trying to grab stuff
b. scouts being killed by enslavers/missionaries etc.

I have witnessed many times how weak defenders get killed by some AI invisible unit. Those two items make AW a little easier, but the lack of armies more than compensates for that.

 

[vmxa]

Sounds about right to me.

 

[Elephantium]

I saw quite a bit of activity by invisible units during my sets. It makes sense that they'd snap up AI explorers.

 

[M60A3TTS]

IBT- Lose a musket to a Mongol cannon at Sparta (0-1)

Naval Guns> Exploration in 4

1738AD (1)
Hussar defeats Mongol cannon (1-1)
Hussar defeats Egyptian bombarde at Nykoping (2-1)
Hussar kills Viking zerk near there. (3-1)
Cav kills Arabian spear near Livorno (4-1)
2 Hussars drop 2 Egyptian knights at Nykoping (6-1)

IBT
2 Mongol keshiks perish before a third gets our hussar at Sparta (8-2)
Indochina LB perishes at Vientiane (9-2)

1740AD (2)
Vet Cav loses to Arab war elephant north of Patras. (9-3)
In exchange we take out 2 phants and a LB (12-3)
Firelancer takes out Schneider 75 clean at Vientiane (12-4)
Lose as musket attacking a fire lancer there (12-5)
Koh Ker is taken, costing us a hussar as 3 defenders fall (15-6)
2 hussars drop 2 Egyptian knights at Fustat (17-6)
Lose cannon to firelancer near Athens (17-7)

IBT-
Austria Hungary establishes embassy. Never even saw them say hello.
Arab musket kills a hussar near Baghdad

1742AD (3)
Austria Hungary has 17 cities and we are up Uni, naval guns and clockworks.
Hang their ambassador from the nearest lamp post.
Kill an Arab pike, 2 muskets and Fustat is ours. (20-7)
Trade Carthage knights at Koh Ker (21-8)

IBT- Lose a hussar and a musket near Baghdad. Arabs lose a musket near Nykoping (22-10)

1744AD (4)
Arabs lose 2 muskets and a phant near Baghdad. (25-10)
Trade a cav for 2 fire lancers at Vientiane. City falls and Indochinese are gone. (27-11)
Arab late pike, musket and LB killed at Muscat. City auto-razes. Hussar kills another Arab LB in the vicinity. (31-11)
Drop 3 Mongol cav south of Patras with our own. (34-11)

IBT- Lose hussar and Cav to Arabs near Baghdad. (34-13)
Exploration>colonialism in 4
Launch a bunch of privateers to start annoying the opposition and get a sense of sea lanes for future invasions.


1746AD (5)
Cannons kill 2 Arab Arques. Cav takes a spear out. Baghdad falls. (37-13)
Drop 2 more muskets in the vicinity (39-13)
Lose privateer at Novgorod against Mongol War Galleon (39-14)
Hussars drop 2 Egyptian knights at Fustat (41-14)
Trade bombarde for Egyptian musket (42-15)
Hussar kills Arab LB in Western Tundra (43-15)

1748AD (6)
Expand our culture at Baghdad
Bag Arabian settler after killing musket escort (45-15)
Kill 2 Carthage spears and LB, Gadir falls. (48-15)
Hussar takes out Egyptian arque near Yakutsk (49-15)
Rush uni at Edirne with MGL.

IBT
Lose a privateer and hussar to Mongols. Arabs lose a musket attacking cav on a hill
(50-17)

1750AD (7)
Lose a cav, but kill Arab musket and pike and Aden is ours (52-18)
Kill Arab arque and late pike and Najran falls to hussars (54-18)
Kill 2 Arab arques with cavalry and Nishapur falls (56-18)
Cav kills Arab musket in the open (57-18)
Lose hussar to Egyptian knight before killing it (58-19)
Sink 2 Carthage Cat ships with a privateer that spawned another (60-19)
Carthage planted their settler and built Cirta, so head fast movers there.
Bring down 2 Mongol cav and Egyptian arque. (62-19)
Lose cannon but kill forted Arab musket. (63-20)

IBT
Mongols lose a war galleon to ours (63-21)
Arab musket finishes off our wounded cannon (63-22)
India completes Ganges Pilgrimage

1752 (8)
Trade Carthage a privateer for cat ship (64-23)
Drop 2 reg Arab arques and Medina goes down (66-23)
Eliminate 2 Mongol fire lancers and cav in the southeast (69-23)
Lose cannon but kill Arab musket (70-24)

IBT
Lost a ship to Viking cat ship, I think. (70-25)
Colonialism>Naval Power in 4

1754AD (9)
War galleon sends Egyptian dow to the bottom (71-25)
Drop Carthage pike with elite hussar and get Titus. (72-25)
Kill a second at Cirta with an elite hussar and Cirta auto-razes. (73-25)
Carthage is destroyed.

IBT
Arabs attack 2 fast movers and lose a LB for their trouble (74-25)

1756AD (10)
Kill Arab LB, then 2 muskets with hussars (77-25)
Set up for an attack on the Arab capital of Medina next turn and done

Post-turn
We have MGL Titus 2 tiles from Rangoon. No great options for him.
We have a settler 2 west of Nykoping.
There is another fast mover stack 2 west of Udine.
There is a newly established Viking town of Vaxjo, the only enemy establishment iin the western territories
Austrian gallelases bombing Delphi every turn
East India Company due in Venice in 22

I deliberately left the Mongol front quiet. There is still a stack of fast movers at Byzantion. There should be an easier go pushing on a broad front against Egypt, Viking and Arabs rather than crawl through Mongol hills. Egypt seems to be the only northern civ with horses.

The boat thing, it seemed like something to do, rather than just turtle and undergo the incessant pinging. They can be recalled to port if you don’t feel like dealing with it. But we can build frigates for which our current enemies have no equal and Ship of the Line will be available in 3 with Naval Power. Three ships in the far west have spotted nothing yet. Again they can be recalled if we want to avoid accidentally running into someone. My intention was to scout for any indication of land and then back off.

Eastern territories

Spoiler :

 

[ThERat]

Great job in getting the northern front all cleared up.

We can get those cities to become really productive too which will help us a lot.

Now, the Austrian story is weird and the landmass we are on, also seem pretty weird too. Btw, there might be an Austrian stack on our way through Mongolia, so we ought to be careful about that. I wonder how many other civilizations are lurking on our landmass.

ThERat-
CommandoBob -
Northern Pike
M60A3TTS
Elephantium- up
vmxa

 

[vmxa]

We can get some coastal batteries up to help slow down the ship bombardment. With War Galleons and Frigates we can start to push back, earlier ships are mostly just dead wieght. They are stuck in non ocean tiles.

 

[Elephantium]

Got it. We're having a massive blizzard in my area today, so I'll have plenty of time to play.

 

[vmxa]

Yeah we are getting some nasty cold 60-70 stuff here too. Wish I was back in southern cal.

 

[Elephantium]

I've toured the empire and done some MM. Where do we want to settle our next city? I'm thinking probably near Delphi and Piraeus.

For the Leader, I'm thinking I'll rush a Uni somewhere nearby.

Beyond that, I'll build some wooden ships (Frigates) and iron men (Cavs), and with them I'll continue the war in the east.

 

[vmxa]

Good enough, you could also go next to the gold hill between the razed town by Fustat. Let us fill that gap.

 

[vmxa]

You probably should start adding Coastal Fortress as they ship at passing ships and they auto produce Coastal Batteries every 15 turns.

 

[Northern Pike]

It's good finally to be rid of the Carthaginians and Siamese.

Where do we want to settle our next city? I'm thinking probably near Delphi and Piraeus.

For the Leader, I'm thinking I'll rush a Uni somewhere nearby.

Sooner or later any settlers we retain will be very useful for tactical tricks in conjunction with culture bombs, so don't feel you have to found mediocre cities just to make immediate use of them. That site south of Piraeus would require a lot of worker service which probably isn't available now.

You may be past this point already, but switching Saigon's cav build to an academy to complete immediately, and then Leader-rushing a university there, would make good use of Titus.

This may not be relevant during your round, but in choosing techs we should bear in mind that we want to take Medicine and Enlightenment as late as possible, since they do us more harm than good by killing off granaries and slavery, respectively.

 

[ThERat]

I did have a look at the save. We should not overdo building infrastructure, we need to fight enemies as well. I would start to build more units again Mongols still have a big tech lead over us and plenty of money which would be good in our hands. They also got some nice wonders which we would like to have including the Hanseatic League, a fine wonder that would add a kontor to all our cities.

I agree with NP and the tech path, take those 2 techs as late as possible. If we still have the chance, after taking those 10 techs, we should got for scientific methods to grab Arm's Race for 2 free techs.

 

[Elephantium]

I'm on turn 4 so far. I have been building a lot of infrastructure, but that's largely because it takes so long to get Cavs from, say, Old Carthage to the Mongol front. It doesn't seem worth it to build lots of units there.

We nearly met a civ with light green borders, but I pulled away the Privateer who exposed those borders. We'll probably meet them sometime in the next 20 turns. They look like they're at the southern tip of our landmass.

Where should we build the Marine Academy? I just got a Leader from the Arabs.

Edit: Nishapur, near Mecca, can get it rushed next turn. Any other city will take 3 or more turns for the Leader to arrive.

 

[ThERat]

rush it where it is fastest as location does not matter

 

[GamezRule]

lurker's comment: Elephantium, that Blizzard is due to hit northern MI any minute.

 

[Elephantium]

Good point, ThERat. I was trying to figure out how to rush it in a southern city, but we'll be laying rails within a few more turnsets, anyway.

I just finished Turn 7. We've taken a couple more cities, including one in Egypt and an old Greek city from the Mongols. I tried to take Sparta from Byzantion, but I didn't quite have enough Hussars.

I've started facing Rifles. Those guys aren't much fun, but fortunately we have enough troops to power through them.

 

[Elephantium]

I'm done with my set.

Spoiler :

Pre-turn:

Tour the empire, MMing cities for science.
* Also change from a Frigate to a Wat in Novgorod; we'll hit a better Frigate-building breakpoint that way.
* Change Bangkok from Wat to Town Clock; it's tundra-ridden and will max out at size 6.
* Change Patras to Christian Community from Royal Barracks; it'll never make enough shields to make a rax worth it.
* Change Najran from building rCav to Christian Community. Again, lack of shields.
* Change Yakutsk to Town Clock. It's a decent unit-building city, so I think we'll benefit in the long run from more shields starting at the end of my set.
* Change Phnom Penh from Cav to Wat -- it has no rax, and it'll need the happiness shortly.
* Change Aden from Cav (no rax) to Privateer.
* Change Koh Ker to Harbor.
* Switch Livorno from Town Clock to Harbor. It's stuck at size 2 and 3 spt until we get a worker gang dedicated to improving it, so building a couple of Privateers or Frigates sounds more helpful than building a Town Clock.
* Rush the Library in Angkor.

Drop Science to 50%, Naval Power still due in 3. Now THAT is what I call MM

IBT:

Lots of bombardments. Little else.
Rome: Muskets
Angkor: Lib->Wat
Moscow: Cavs
Milan: Cavs
Edirne: Cav -> Town Center
Saigon: Cav -> Wat
Bursa: Uni -> Cav
Naples: Frigates
Genoa: Frigates
Patras: Christian Community -> Coastal Fortress
Hippo Regius: Lib -> Uni
Izmit: Uni -> Musket
Cheju: Uni -> Cav
Pisa: Cavs
Fustat: Roman Symbol -> Temple

Turn 1 (1758 AD, turn 248 in-game):

Privateer sinks Viking Longship 1-0
Mecca:
Cav kills supporting garrison manned by Arq 2-0
eHussar retreats
vHussar retreats, no damage
At this point, I think I'll need both stacks on this attack. Simply move troops into position for next turn.
Short-rush Academy in Da Nang in anticipation of Leader-rushing a Uni there next turn.
Switch Iznik to Musketman; there's a slave stack nearby that needs cover.

IBT:

Enemy LB kills wounded Hussar 2-1
Vikings sink our War Galley NE of Venice 2-2
Rome: Muskets
Pyongyang: Cavs
Medina starves
Novgorod: Wat -> Cav
Baghdad riots. On the bright side, there are no resisters.
Pusan: Town Center -> Cav
Iznik: Muskets
Najran: Christian Community -> Roman Symbol
Florence: Cavs
Da Nang: Academy -> Uni
Aydin: Cav -> Town Center
Antalya: Lib -> Town Clock
Nykoping: Roman Symbol -> Royal Barracks

Turn 2 (1760 AD):

Frigate sinks Viking Longship 3-2
Titus rushes Uni in Da Nang
Privateer takes redlined Catapult ship as a prize! 4-2
New Privateer sinks Catapult ship 5-2

Near Vladivostok:
Cav kills Mongol cav, promotes 6-2
Cav suicides vs. 2nd Mongol cav 6-3
Cav kills 3rd Mongol cav, promotes 7-3
eCav finishes off 2nd Mongol cav 8-3

Mecca:
Cav finishes off pesky LB 9-3
Cav kills defending Musket 10-3
eCav kills Musket 11-3
eCav retreats
Cav kills Musket 12-3
Cav kills last Musket 13-3


Lose Enslaver vs. LB next to Medina 13-4
Padivas finishes off the LB 14-4

While I'm at it, I notice that Medina has no rax. Switch Cav to Christian Community.

Science to 30%, Naval Power due in 1.

IBT:

Zerk suicides vs. hussar at vaxjo 15-4
Naval Power -> Imperialism
Rome: Muskets
Mecca riots. Gee, that was unexpected. Resistance is over, though.
Our people want to build the Marine Academy.
Hanoi: Academy -> Town Center
Utica: Lib -> Wat
Medina: Christian Community -> Roman Symbol
Bangkok: Town Clock -> Royal Barracks
Izmit: Muskets
Da Nang: Uni -> Town Clock
Phnom Penh: Wat -> Academy
Vladivostok: Cavs
Turin: Cavs
Rusicade: Privateer -> Coastal Fortress
Nishapur: Christian Community -> Coastal Fortress
Orenburg: Cav -> Coastal Fortress
Livorno: Harbor -> Coastal Fortress

Turn 3 (1762 AD):

Wandering Privateer sees green borders at what looks like the southern end of our landmass. The captain backs off instead of risking contact with a new enemy ... for now.

Kill a stray LB near Mecca 16-4
Change Frigate builds to Ships of the Line. I'm not going to start a Marine Academy build; that will make a good use of a Leader. I'm thinking something in the vicinity of Smolensk or Delphi.
Speaking of which, switch Delphi to Royal Barracks; we'll build a Coastal Fortress next turn.
Switch Oea to Town Clock (enabling Coastal Fortress sooner).
Short-rush a Cav in Old Russia.

I also notice that the Mongols have entered the Industrial Ages. That puts them ... 32 turns ahead of us in tech.

IBT

A pirate ship comes out of the fog near one of our exploring privateers!
Rome: Muskets
Angkor riots, despite my MM to stop it just before the IBT Scroll ahead and change Saigon (other city that had impending riots) to a clown just in case.
Moscow: Cavs
Istanbul: Cavs
Milan: Cavs
Pyongyang: Cavs
Edirne: Town Center -> Cav
Novgorod: Cav -> Coastal Fortress
Bursa: Cavs
Pusan: Cavs
Delphi: Royal Barracks -> Coastal Fortress
Pisa: Cavs
Smolensk: Ship of the Line (SOTL) -> Coastal Fortress
Bien Hoa: Cav -> Wat
Orenburg: Coastal Fortress -> Town Center
Ubon Ratchathani: Lib -> Town Clock
Modena: Uni -> Town Center

Turn 4 (1764 AD):

Cav kills Arq on a Garrison supporting the Arabic city of Jaa Al-Yamamah (W of Medina). 17-4
eHussar kills Arq 18-4
eHussar kills Pike 19-4


Hussar kills Pike 20-4


Cav kills stray Arab Musket near Yakutsk 21-4
Change Vladivostok to Musketman (more near the front will be helpful).

IBT:

Scandinavians want to talk. I BET they do...
Rome: Muskets
Carthage: Lib -> Coastal Fortress
St. Petersburg: Lib -> Town Clock
Utica: Wat -> Town Clock
Saigon: Wat -> Cav
Novgorod: Coastal Fortress -> Cav
Leptis Magna: Town Clock -> Town Center
Naples: SOTL -> Coastal Fort
Wonsan: Uni -> Cav
Rostov: SOTL -> Coastal Fort
Genoa: SOTL -> Coastal Fort
Patras: Coastal Fort -> Royal Barracks
Namp'o: Uni -> Cav
Leptis Minor: Town Clock -> Town Center
Izmit: Muskets
Florence: Cavs
Cheju: Cavs
Aydin: Town Center -> Musket (4 vs. 7 turns for a cav; either way, it's building in a backwater).
Sabratha: Academy -> Coastal Fortress
Rusicade: Coastal Fort -> Town Clock
Nishapur: Coastal Fort -> Marine Academy
Oea: Town Clock -> Coastal Fort
Hadrumetum: Privateer -> Coastal Fort
Udong: Academy -> Coastal Fort

Turn 5 (1766 AD):

Trajan oversees the construction of the Marine Academy in Nishapur.
eHussar puts paid to a Garrison next to Sparta 22-4
A patrolling Privateer spots black borders W-SW of Orenburg. Again, the captain changes course to avoid contact.
eHussar kills stray Egyptian Knight near Najran 23-4
Privateer attacks the Pirate, gets sunk doing no damage 23-5
Second Privateer hopes to do better. He doesn't 23-6

Kariskrona (NE of Aden):
eHussar dies vs. Arque 23-7
vHussar kills arque 24-7
vHussar kills wounded Arque 25-7


War Galleon sinks Austria-Hungary's Galleass 26-7

IBT:

Patras - Coastal Fortress destroyed by ship bombardment
Sparta - Cav retreats vs. Musket
Rome: Muskets
Carthage: Coastal Fortress -> Town Center
Naples: Coastal Fortress -> Cav
Genoa: Coastal Fort -> Cav
Bangkok: Royal Barracks -> Cav
Yakutsk: Town Clock -> Town Center
Delhi: Coastal Fort -> Town Center
Vladivostok riots Sorry, I should have picked up on that.
Sabratha: Coastal Fort -> Cav
Turin: Cavs
Nishapur: Marine Academy -> Roman Symbol
Smolensk: Coastal Fort -> SOTL
Bologna: Uni -> Coastal Fort
Gadir: Coastal Fort -> Christian Community
Krasnoyarsk: Windmill -> Cav
Koh Ker: Harbor -> Coastal Fort

Turn 6 (1768 AD):

Rush a new Coastal Fort in Patras.
War Galleon sinks another Galleass near Delphi 27-7
Privateer sinks Viking Catapult ship 28-7
Privateer sinks Viking Longship 29-7
Athens:

Kill Fire Lancer to clear Garrison 30-7
One Cav retreats before we kill the first Rifle 31-7
Two more retreats, doing 2 damage
eCav dies, promotes redlined Rifle 31-8
Cav kills wounded Rifle 32-8
Next two cavs retreat and kill Rifle 33-8
Hussar kills Cav 34-8


Sparta (defended by Asian Muskets):
Cav retreats; Hussar dies 34-9
Two Hussars retreat, the third wins 35-9
Hussar dies 35-10
Hussar retreats vs. Conscript Rifle
Hussar kills Conscript Rifle 36-10
Hussar retreats
eHussar dies while redlining Asian Musket 36-11
Musketman kills Asian Musket 37-10
There's still a redlined cav here! If I'd had ONE MORE attacker, I would have been able to take the city!

Basra:
eCav retreats
eCav kills Arque 38-10
eCav kills Arque 39-10

Cav kills LB 40-10

Nampotables kills Arab spear just outside the city 41-10

Rush an Academy in Baghdad in advance of Leader-rushing a Uni there next turn.

IBT:

We lose Coastal Forts in Delphi and Nishapur
Imperialism > Economics
Rome: Muskets
Angkor: Wat -> Cav
Moscow: Cavs
Istanbul: Cavs
Hanoi: Town Center -> Cav
Milan: Cavs
Pyongyang: Cavs
Edirne: Cavs
Bursa: Cavs
Rostov: Coastal Fort -> Town Clock
Baghdad: Academy -> Uni
Pusan: Cavs
Iznik: Muskets
Patras: Coastal Fortress -> Academy
Izmit: Musket -> Cav
Da Nang: Town Clock -> Royal Barracks
Vladivostok: Muskets
Pisa: Cavs
Kampong Cham: Lib -> Cav
Bologna: Coastal Fort -> Cav
Sara Buri: Town Clock -> Coastal Fort
Oea: Coastal Fort -> Cav
Karlskrona: Roman Symbol -> Christian Community
Battambang: Windmill -> Town Clock
Livorno: Coastal Fort -> Musketman
The Germans complete Brandenburg Gate.

Turn 7 (1770 AD):

The northern stack reveals Byblos, SE of Karlskrona:
3 cavs retreat
1 cav dies vs. Arque 41-11
Cav kills Arque 42-11
Cav kills Arque 43-11
Yogi Bear retreats from LB
eCav kills LB 44-11


Landing near Patras:
eCav dies vs. Rifle 44-12

NE of Mecca, we see Damascus.
eCav kills Garrison Arque 45-12

Cav dies vs. stray Arab Musket in our territory 45-13
Second cav kills it 46-13
Science to 40%; Econ still due in 4.

IBT:

The Mongols want to chat. We decline.
enemy cav kills musket at patras 46-14
egyptian knight kills hussar in byblos 46-15
Hmm, looks like Egypt is at war with Scandinavia. Excellent
Arabs want to talk. What do I look like, the Psychic Friends Hotline?
Rome: Muskets
Athens riots. I deal with it.
Mecca: Roman Symbol -> Christian Community
St. Petersburg: Town Clock -> Cav
Novgorod: Cavs
Wonsan: Cavs
Baghdad culture-flips. Ah, that feature IS enabled. We lose three troops from the garrison there.
Rangoon: Lib -> Town Clock
Theveste: Cav -> Town Clock
Piraeus: Academy -> Town Center
Namp'o: Cavs
Florence: Cavs
Delphi: Coastal Fort -> Musket
Da Nang: Royal Barracks -> Cav
Nishapur: Coastal Fort -> Walls
Sara Buri: Coastal Fort -> SOTL
Champasak: Cavs
Padova: Uni -> Cavs
Byblos riots. I deal with it.
Modena: Town Center -> Cav
Prey Nokor: Christian Community -> Royal Barracks

Turn 8 (1772 AD):

Near Patras -
Cav kills Rifle 47-15
Cav kills cav 48-18

Byblos:
Cav kills knight 49-18
Cav retreats
Cav kills Arque in Garrison 50-18
Enslaver kills redlined LB 51-18

Baghdad:
eHussar kills Pike 52-18

eHussar kills Pike 53-18


Maximus rushes a Uni in Piraeus.

Damascus:
eCav kills Arque 54-18
vCav kills Arque 55-18


I notice that Athens has a high flip risk, so I largely evacuate the city.

IBT:

Mongol cav kills cav in Athens 53-19
Nishapur coastal fortress destroyed by heavy bombardment
Rome: Muskets
Saigon: Cavs
Damascus riots. What a surprise! Resistance is over, anyway.
Piraeus: Uni -> Wat
Uskadar: Uni -> Royal Barracks
Cheju: Cavs
Aydin: Muskets
Turin: Cavs
Antalya: Town Clock -> Cav
Orenburg: Town Center -> Cav
Hadrumetum: Coastal Fortress -> Harbor
Karlskrona: Christian Community -> Royal Barracks
Udine: Uni -> rax

Turn 9 (1774 AD):

By Athens:
Hussar kills Cav 54-19
Schneider75 kills Mongol Hussar 55-19
Lose a cav before killing conscript Rifle 56-20

2 SOTLs kill 2 Galleass 58-20

Near Byblos:
Cav kills zerk 59-20
Lawyer contracts with zerk, giving us a Great Artist 60-20

N of Damascus:
2 Cavs kill Knights in the open (while scouting for our next target ) 62-20

Rush Musket in Delphi.
Short-rush Cavs in several cities.
Rush Royal Barracks in Patras

IBT:

Near Athens -
Mongol Cav retreats
cav kills musket 62-21
East of Byblos
Egyptian LB kills musket 62-22
Egyptian Knight kills Hussar 62-23

Rome: Muskets
Moscow: Cavs
Carthage: Town Center -> Artillery School
Istanbul: Cavs
Hanoi: Cavs
St. Petersburg: Cavs
Milan: Cavs
Pyongyang: Cavs
Edirne: Cavs
Novgorod: Cavs
Leptis Magna: Town Center -> Cav
Bursa: Cavs
Naples: Cavs
Wonsan: Cavs
Pusan: Cavs
Genoa: Cavs
Patras: Royal Barracks -> Musketman
Namp'o: Cavs
Najran: Roman Symbol -> Royal Barracks
Izmit: Cavs
Yakutsk: Town Center -> Cavs
Delphi: Muskets
Phnom Penh: Academy -> Royal Barracks
Vladivostok: Muskets
Pisa: Cavs
Bien Hoa: Wat -> Cav
Bologna: Cavs
Krasnoyarsk: Cavs
Modena: Cavs
Udine: Royal Barracks -> Cav

Turn 10 (1776 AD):

Near Athens, two Hussars kill enemy Cavs 64-23
eCav kills a stray zerk near Byblos 65-23

Notes:

Padivas (in the east near Byblos) and the Schneider75 (in the west near Uskadar) need to return to Rome -- they're escorting supply shipments.

Sparta can probably be taken next turn; stacks have approached from Athens and Byzantion.

Delphi has two Ships of the Line that need to heal; they'll be helpful for dealing with the Austria-Hungarian Galleass ships that keep bombarding Delphi.

There's kind of a lull in the fighting against Egypt and Scandinavia, but we have two stacks that can resume operations. One, near Damascus, is already on the move. The second, near Byblos, could use some reinforcements before pressing east. It's probably worth making a third stack from scratch to keep pressing the Scandinavians.

Oh, I should also note that the game is on Turn 257. Someone should play a couple of extra turns to even that off -- someone who plays faster than me.

Edit: Hey, this was Post #1800 for me

 

[ThERat]

Excellent progress and thanks for all the sreenshots

Great MM job as well, it was needed. In CCM a lot more cities are valuable than in C3C and this makes MM even more important.

I get a little scared reading that Mongols are so far ahead of us. We still have at least 25 turns before entering the IA. I doubt we can get Arm's Race. All the more I am happy to see us advance versus them. We need to keep them at bay in my mind.

And that continent is seemingly endless.

I should also note that the game is on Turn 257. Someone should play a couple of extra turns to even that off -- someone who plays faster than me.

Good one I don't think anyone can play faster than you did.
I think some people will play less than 10 turns and they eventually even out. So, I think we continue with the regular 5 or 10 turns unless someone cannot finish them.

ThERat-
CommandoBob -
Northern Pike
M60A3TTS
Elephantium
vmxa - up

 

[Northern Pike]

Fine work.

We have a modest stack next to Vaxjo, the one remaining enemy city in the north, but the units are all fortified, implying they've been there a while. Were you planning to make the attack, or waiting for reinforcements?

Saigon is behind our other major cities in research infrastructure, and should build at least an academy.

Arabs want to talk. What do I look like, the Psychic Friends Hotline?