(continued log)
Rest of IT: Declare war on England. England building Magellan's Voyage. English complete Magellan's Voyage in London. Lots of boat movements along the shores. Lose one loose knight to an Iroquois knight.
790 AD: Gain Theology, Invention, Printing Press, Education, Gunpowder, Banking, Astronomy, Navigation, and Economics from the Great Library. Would have been nice to get Chemistry too, but no luck. Start research on Chemistry @ 50 percent: Chemistry in 15 turns @ +23gpt. 60 percent would only cut a turn off Chemistry but cut gpt to +7gpt. As for some other good news...we have a source of saltpeter! Declare war on Egypt. Use catapults to bombard a pikeman-settler pair to redline. Destroy it with an elite knight. Random MM. Start the march towards Salamanca. (Combat: 13-4)
IT: zz
800 AD: zzz
IT: Some barbarians appear in the north. I'll need to get a few troops up there to prevent that while waiting for the settlers,
810 AD: Lose an elite pikeman trying to beat a longbow (for a leader), too bad it didn't work. Raze Niagra Falls. (Combat: 18-6)
IT: Barbs suicide against a Knight, and promote him. English caravel passes to the west. Egypt caravel passes to the east.
820 AD: Dispere barbarian camp and get 25 gold for it. Capture Salamanca, losing only one knight. Bombardment made it easy for elites to attack. Get another leader and make him into an army at Salamanca. Load in all the troops I can, and try to squash the resistance. Start on some infrastructure. (Combat: 21-7)
IT: Various galley moves, including the annoying Arabic galley which I'm certain contains a settler. It seems all of them are just exploring, as there are no landings. We can build the Pentagon. Horsietown riots, missed that. No Iroquois counter attack at all, seems like they are just exhausted. Only 1 resister rid of in Salamanca.
830 AD: Manage a few builds, then start in on the war front. I decide to keep one army empty in our core, and the other (which is in Salamanca), I fill with Knights. This seems like a fairly obvious course of action, as it will help immensely in the speed of finishing the Iroquois. Rush a pikemen towards Salamanca, empty the city of troops, and leave a veteran Knight outside the city. Start to starve Salamanca. Bombard the last known Iroquois horses with catapults. (Combat: 21-7)
IT: More boat moves, an Iroquois longbow moves to attack one of the Knights, but is out of range. An Iroquois pikemen makes a beeline towards some workers.
840 AD: Ready some forces for an assault on the new capital to the north: Tonawanda. Move forces towards Allegheny. Move a pikeman into Salamanca. Raze Grand River. Find the Iroquois have still more horses!! (Combat: 26-7)
IT: More boat moves, a few random Iroquois troops move, and Babylon calls up. I declare war.
850 AD: Capture Kahnawake. Bombard Allegheny and Tonawanda. Capture Allegheny. (Combat: 34-8)
Post-turn: Pretty straightforward set. Got through most of the Iroquois core, and popped 2 leaders. Both leaders made into armies; one is filled with Knights, the other is just sitting safely in our core. Should be trivial to finish off the Iroquois mainland cities.
Biggest concerns are landings on either coast, although the AI is inept at them. East coast is probably a more dangerous coast. Barbs may pop up in the north if you aren't careful while waiting for settlers. Working on several caravels, and one is already complete. Research on Chemistry going well; Salamanca with Leo's hasn't flipped. Have started making some infrastructure (Banks, Markets, Libraries) so we can keep researching technologies. I don't know what we plan to do invasion-wise, but I'm guessing that is where cavalry comes in. It would be nice to pop another leader or two from the Iroquois.
Oh, and there is a random Iroquois pikeman chasing our workers. He'll have to be destroyed somehow.
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-Elear
this is actually great news.
