A day late and a dollar short.
Turn 297
1st things first.
KK immediately stops his WHEOOHRN'ing.
Then this trade.
Used one of our GS's for this.
Then made this trade.
Tell Sury to research Steam Power to open up Railroad & Combustion.
Made these deals.
With all of the trades we made this turn we are now at the top of the leader board. Too bad we can't see anybody's demographics even though we are only focused on Hatty.
Turn 298
Leave five (5) of the lowest experienced troops in our two new cities that are likely to revolt. With the trades last turn, I can afford to move many of our HR warriors from our homeland over to here. Alas, it is about 10 turns of travel time. The remainder of our troops are ordered to arrive just outside of Hatty's recent settled city.
Used our other GS for this.
Which allowed this trade.
I start four (4) Airships here and there in hopes they can damage those LB's on hills to lower our potential losses.
This is the tech situation after the trades and capitulation. Even though Sury was pleased or friendly, some of those b@sterds just won't trade us what we need.
Switch research to Electricity but slider still at zero because we just don't have enough gold to get r' done yet. Still like 10 turns of revolt in Shrine with gold buildings so it will be a while until we get that help.
I avoided trading steel to anybody but Cathy because they are all friendly with her. I suspect she would have demanded it from them and they would have accepted.
GT drafting as well as in many other places because of the added +3 - +6
from Sury trades.
Turn 299-300
Just the usual here. Troop movement, healing, worker action, drafting, etc.
Turn 301
Even with all the trading we get this somewhat good news.
Peri wants to trade Steel for MT & 140 gold. Thought long and hard because of West Point but decided to decline. At the same time our buddy Willem asks us to swap to free religion. Nope, sorry buddy boy.
Turn 302
Sury comes asking for a trade involving Corporation so I accept.
This AP vote comes up. We must be destined to win this game.
That little b!tch Sury. He is farming over all of the towns in his territory that will be in the captured cities BFC. What a dirty trick. Our troops are still making their way up to the land of the living.
Do you actually think I am that stupid. Heck NO I didn't trade for corporation.
Turn 303
Here are the results of the AP.
I wish I had this kind of luck, or call it y'alls skills, in the diplo/religious scene in my SP games. I tell our troops to rally to a new location even closer to Hatty. Move some of our double frontage city defenders forward to the newly "acquired" city.
Turn 304
Our troops from the south arrive and are set to heal. Not for long though since I plan on whipping the last airship in two turns.
Turn 305 Just waiting
Turn 306
Noticed that Cathy has Elec. Darnit. I don't know which direction to head but in any case we don't have enough money to get there so slider still at 0%.
Started by making this trade. It took this long for it to become available. Communism still isn't.
Enough already. I like playing with Meat because I am impatient as well. Pun not intended but once I thought about it for the last day I found it rather amusing so I thought I would say so.
Whip remaining Airship. The other three attack a smallish stack heading for Sury's new city. I move some of the reinforcements still healing to this city as backup.
Turn 307
Troops moving into position. Then I notice this little stunt Sury pulls on us. He tells me it was a present and he got it on sale at Target.
Turn 308
Airships and Combat IV Redcoats do their job. Not a single causality. Decided to keep it for Airship deployment.
Turn 309
Both cities come out of revolt. Hot darn, I think we got a 100+gpt boost to our economy. Just wish we had gold multiplying buildings in our own cities. But I love it when a plan comes together. Capture land from backwards AI's then whip infrastructure while we play it safe for a late UN win.
Made this little trade with Sury. I think almost everyone else already has these so I figured what the heck, all they can do it tell me I am a crappy player, which we already knew.
This is the longest it has ever taken me to play 12 turns. I want to play more but I know Meat is just dying. Figure I can finish the report tonight that way everyone will be happy. End set here.
Holy Crap! I have 19 screen shots to edit, upload, paste URL, then review for accuracy. No Way! I will just post the save and tell them I will get to it tomorrow. Everybody will love that since they can look at the save and play on if they decide that's best.
