Sorry for taking so long to play my turns!
On the inherited turn, I go through all our cities and switch off "avoid growth" in many, and set must of them from "emphasize production" to "emphasize growth", which both might help with CC's plan to grow our cities.
Then I hit "end turn", and out of the blue get an attack on Teo by French units nobody had talked about and I hadn't seen! An artillery bombards city defenses, then another artillery attacks and dies against our defending machine gunner. A cavalry kills the machine gunner, then another cavalry kills a pikeman. Now the city is only defended by a wounded jaguar and Nappy has still a cav left...which decides to pillage instead of taking the city.
Whoa, that totally took me by surprise! Must have been one of these stealth landings which get no animation and will only be shown in the log.
I promote a machine gunner in Tex to Drill II and move it to Teo, as well with two cavs from other cities. One of it kills Nappy's wounded cav.
There's still an artillery and a cav near the city, but it's safe now. On the interturn, the artillery attacks and dies, and the cav pillages. I kill it with a 30xp cav of our own brought in from the south last turn.
The rest of the turns were quiet. I built infrastructure in all cities, and the workers irrigated a lot, especially cottages on plains which are not the best of choices anyway in my view. They also made an irrigation chain to our western tip of the continent, finally! That should have had happened a lot earlier than in the 1970s, but oh well...
Biology was researched, then liberalism (for the civics), then I've set us on physics toward military techs in case Nappy or someone else comes with more advanced and larger landing parties. I've forgotten to switch our civics; the next player should do so.
Nappy talks with us again, but does not want to make peace, so watch out for more landings, and maybe build some infantry as well.
We are leading in score now by about 400 points, gap increasing. Unless something bad (war) happens, it will be a cruise to a glorious time victory.
-Kylearan
RBCiv SGs!
