preturn 745BC: Well to repost my thoughts from eariler, attacking barb town with 3 archers in it now is bad news.
Library has one turn left in Washington and it's back to swords at 5 turns.
Newyork had a 0 hammer settler queued (grr) which I recinded and switched to worker in 10. newyork is hammer poor food rich and it's going to get food richer in nine turns???? with farm on corn.. ok well we really need another worker, got some serious roads to build.
Just noticed a worker already in newyork headed for the corn well plans don;t change.. new worker is going to be a combat engineer.
We are 3 turns into mathmatics now so staying the course..
[1]730 BC
Washington finishes library and math goes from what would have been 19 turns to 16. We need swords and now so sword in 5 it is.
Worker2 heads to tag team corn.
What the heck is going on. archer left the barb town and is headind west...
screen shot!!!!
well only one active swordsman there so see what happens next turn.
[2]715 BC
eh ok barb archer circles north east and is now directly north of barb town... why he didn;t just move there to start with no idea............ moron barb alert lets hope he suicides on out archer.
Farm at New York in three turns.
IBT:
[3]700 BC
well barb archer is traveling east such that it's north of our not so killer stack. Have 2 archers at iron now as we cannot afford to lose that and any threat of barbs from the south are gone with this nifty bit of scouting..
IBT:
Saladin asks for open borders and well no point allowing heathens access to our marginal lands!
[4]685 BC
ok I'm confused now... there are now two barb archers in town and 2 more east of killer stack heading for the iron looks like. How they got a second archer there no idea, but well we have a fight incoming looks like. Guess the second archer built and joined as the first archer swung around the north..... sneaky barbs!!!!
[5]670 bc
Farm at New york is gtg, going to road the corn now to get it over with.
[6]655 BC
This is just bizzare. 2x barb archers are passing by iron and going for washington looks like. Swordsman from Washington pops and has 98 point whatever odds on an archer in open ground as is - not promoted or anything. Can you say free exp?
Last thing I want is to break the archers from iron, we must keep iron yet I cannot let archers get to our forest so moving sword to there. Looks like we are going to have a city attack 2 sword incoming...
Oh the next sword in washington is only 4 turns, Math in 10 (keeping 80% research) and newyork has worker in 4.
[7]640 BC
ARRG stupid barbs...
Both attacked the iron after giving new archer one more turn to fortify. We killed them both.
2.3 and 1.4 health on the archers and no exp for the sword... cry. Had they attacked a turn eariler would have prolly lost that second fight.
[8]625 BC
Ok start a cottage on one of New York's grass squares since It'll grow after worker is done... happy limit is 6 so I'll build two cottages before my turnset is over.
[9]610 BC AD
Sword3 is next to stack barb town still has two archers and started on second cottage. 23 gold in bank running -1 gold per turn 80% science..
[10]595 AD
Newyork pops it's worker, washington finished sword4 and stack of barb doom is ready next turn.... let us pray for no more achers. I send the worker on it's merry way to the front lines to start the long road to lizzy.
Washington gets grainery in 3 turns, grows to 6 (of 6 happy) in 2, going to place halt growth on washington to allow granary to finish.. a fast monument is after that.
New York starts on that barracks again and it's down to 11 turns since it has the food to work the plains forest.
WARNING Do NOT chop the plains forest at new york. That city needs all the hammers it can get and it has a food surplus.
[11]580 BC
YES! Time has come to rid the world of Kushy barbs. Still only two archers and we have 3 swords all set to jump and an axe to clean up if rolls go bad. Wish me luck =/
Leadoff sword Gus vs archer...!!!!!!! 75.1% odds
Gus ascends towards bigman status with 1.9 hp left and 5/4 exp go Gus!!
Swordsman Torvald is up next.... and his test is generic archer number two! 75.1% odds.
and Torvald is the bigger man,creating a kushi home from Kushans with 4.0 health left.
We get 66 gold and 3 turns revolt and no infrastructure but a free worker!!!.. Start a monument now
Doing a little archer swapping, taking the city garrison 1 archer on fog duty and swapping him for one of the iron gang. King of the hill will be sleeping with the pigs on the west side of kushy to fend off that new vector of barbs.
[12]565 BC
Moved the entire stack into kushy to relax and heal up, leaving all of them unpromoted. Swordsman Micky is going on west to see if lizzy grabbed that iron to the west. If not we might want to snatch that lot fast.
Lizzy has a tireme prowling north of us btw.
IBT:
Lizzy asks for open borders... nein!
[13]550 BC AD
Washington finishes granary so I turn off avoid growth. size 6 for washington next turn.
Monument in 3 turns.
Have kushys worker roading up the corn. Kushy comes out of revolt next turn.
[14]535 BC
Kushi is online.
[15]520 BC
I spy lizzy camped on top of iron in the west. I'm assuming we are going to war soon.
[16]505 BC
A barb archer I encouraged to spawn in the south attacked our unpromoted archer who was on a wooded hill....... free exp!
Washington finishes monument, happy cap is now 7. Start a sword in 4.
Math came in and on review I go for construction in 24 seeing as we'll need catapults for lizzy. Not going to be able to sustain 80% research too much longer.
[17]490 BC
New York grows a size and the advisor put work on a grass forest, I micro it to work a cottage instead as we need to start growing them now. Cuts a turn off construction lol.
[19]460 BC
Christianity is founded in a far away land. yay.
[20]445 BC
Washington finishes sword, start sword just to start a sword. no hammers are invested feel free to change it..
Newyork is all built up for a while yet such that the workers can move west. My reasoning is do all the worker actions there first and then no reason to shuttle aworks back there again. For some unknown reason I forgot to mine the hills around washington and it needs a mine like last turn =/
Roads almost reaches kushi and there's two workers in the area.
swords doing a bit of scouting and fog busting but pretty much barbs are history. The last bit of an archer swap is on going. A garrison promoted archer is heading to washington while the 1 exp archer is taking over fog duty in south. please let the auto path complete.
Next stage is take a chunk out of lizzy.
Cheers!
-Liq
I should have really switched to slavery at that point and finished my axeman before the battle for the mine just in case...
. I give him guerilla 1 and rename him to King of the Hill 
. Blue dot can wait. I'd switch New York back to a barracks.
