Monarchy
00% Tax
90% Science
10% Luxury
1357 gold, -47 gpt
Banking in 4 turns.
Military
- 008 Settlers
- 009 Workers
- 362 Slaves
- 001 Warriors
- 002 Archer
- 002 Spear
- 020 Pike
- 002 Longbow
- 009 Muskets
- 053 Knights
- 052 Cavalry
- 022 Catapults
- 009 Cannon
- 024 Army
- 039 Legionary
- 022 Mace
- 002 Trebuchet
- 005 Crusader
- 006 Ancient Cavalry
- Current Units: 287
- Allowed Units: 302
- Support Costs: 000 gpt
02 Saltpeter
07 Iron
09 Horse
03 Wines
01 Furs
11 Dyes
05 Incense
02 Ivory
03 Gems
Pre flight stuff:
AI City Count
- 126: Rome
- 23: Ottomans
- 11: Celts
- 10: Japan
- 08: France
- 08: Spain
- 07: Byzantines
- 07: Persia
- 06: America
- 06: China
- 06: Inca
- 06: Korea
- 05: England
- 05: Zululand
- 04: Arabia
- 04: Russia
- 03: Greece
- 03: Portugal
- 02: Aztecs
- 01: Maya
- 00: Hittites
- 00: India
- 00: Netherlands
- 00: Sumeria
We have yet to meet:
Carthage
Babylon
Overview
Looks good. Nobody has a city close to our borders, which means we are taking doom and destruction to our enemies. They are not bringing it to us.
Another luxury would be nice, too.
Cycle through the cities.
Nicomedia vCav in 4 -> market in 7. City is size 9 with 4 unhappy, netting 7 shields per turn.
Avaris wealth -> vCav in 27.
Jerusalem vCav in 2 -> market in 5. City is size 12.
Neapolis wealth -> barracks in 4.
[IBT]
Watch Inca and China fight. China 2; Inca 0.
Aztecs demand attention.
We kill a Greek Knight (1 of 1).
We lose some slaves America, I think (light blue).
Berlin vCav -> vCav.
Coca-Cola settler -> settler.
Tarentum vCav -> vCav.
Tryus settler -> settler.
1 1210 AD
Around the Empire (NW clockwise to SW)
Celt Mace and Jap Sword near Bagacum; French Pike at New Pompeii; lone Sumearian Mace at Camaro; Mace and Enkidu at Erice.
Four Japanese Swords are in the mountains and hill outside our borders at Bagacum; Spanish Mace near Vladivostok.Zulu Archer near Shasta; French Mace near Fanta; isolated Sumerian units around Erice.
Cavalries conquer Celtic Mace and Jap Sword at Bagacum (3 of 3).
eLegionary bests the Sumerain Mace at Camaro (4 of 4).
Spanish and French Maces are mowed down (6 of 6).
Legion-4th and Cavlay-25th slam the Sumerians at Erice (8 of 8).
Now only a French Pike is inside our borders and all it can do it pillage.
Cav-22 fleeces three French Maces (11 of 11).
Cav-24 splashes two English Spear to raze Nottingham, which was built on Iron (13 of 13).
Legion-6th disposes of an Otto Longbow and Knight (15 of 15).
23-Cav fillets another Otto Longbow (16 of 16), and the way is cleared to build on Furs next turn, but I see that Furs are already connected up in the North.
eCav stampedes a Spanish Spear (17 of 17).
Knight-10th tramples 3 Spears to raze Tenochtitlan, the first Aztec capital (20 of 20).
Legion-3rd and an eCav remove two Spears in Chengdu of China, but at least one more remains (22 of 22).
Knight-18th upends 2 Spears to raze Izumo of Japan (24 of 24).
[IBT]
We lose a vCav to a French Mace (24 of 25).
Salamanca settler -> settler.
Trondheim vCav -> vCav.
Veii vCav -> vCav.
Carnuntum walls -> barracks.
Pisae vCav -> vCav.
Colonia walls -> barracks.
Laudanium walls -> barracks.
Brundisium vCav -> vCav.
Verona cannon -> cannon.
Nicopolis settler -> settler.
2 1220 AD
Around the Empire
Two Celt Knights and Jap Spear bother Bologna and its three defenders; an Aztec Spear dreams of attacking Texcoco; the French Pike from last turn moved onto a mountain; and a Sumerain Sword snuck in around Erice.
Two vCavs move to Bologna and deal with the Celtic Knights (26 of 27).
Sculla, an eCav, stomps the Sumerian Sword near Erice (27 of 28).
eKnight manhandles Zulu Archer (28 of 29).
eCav avenges our loss (29 of 30).
We pick off a Zulu Longbow and Yank Sword near Shasta (31 of 32).
Legion-2nd stuffs a Persian Longbow (32 of 33).
Knight-16th slaughters the only spear in Dijion before burning it (33 of 34).
Knight-13th strikes out 3 Spears in Novgorod before demolishing the city (36 of 37).
eCav and Legion-3rd double up on the last two Spears in Chengdu (38 of 39).
Arabs build a city between two Armies, Knight-21st and Knight-20th, Yamama, which is destroyed (39 of 40).
Moonlight Serenade is founded west of Caramro and Erice, on a hill.
Little Brown Jug is founded near the Furs found in Ottomania.
Legion-4th removes a Sumerian Mace on a mountain (40 of 41).
eCav annihilates Aztec Spear at Texcoco (41 of 42).
Knight-16th jumps a Jap Spear (42 of 43).
23rd-Cav captures an Ottoman settler trying to rebuild a city.
Knight-9th sanitizes two Spanish Maces (44 of 45).
Knight-11th moves to Hlobane and defeats one Impi in the city (45 of 46).
Cav-22nd buries a French Mace (46 of 47).
Texcoco worker in 3 -> walls in 3 (city grows in 8 turns).
Centralia wealth -> worker (slave) in 10.
Hire two taxmen in Pepsi (grows in 9999).
[IBT]
Lose a Musket at St. Peter's Basicalla, kill a zulu Longbow and runaway from a Yank Sword (47 of 50).
Rome vCav -> vCav.
Kazan settler -> settler.
Medillanum cannon -> cannon.
Bagacum settler -> settler.
Asyut settler -> settler.
Colonia barracks -> vMusket.
Selucia vCav -> vCav.
Pepsi settler -> settler.
3 1230 AD
Around the Empire
Wounded Celt Knight outside Saint Peters Basilica; Jap Sword and Spear 1S of Bologna; Zulu Longbow, American Sword, another Zulu Longbow and Spanish Mace outside of Shasta; French Pike changes mountains, moving North; Byzantine Archer outside of Moonlight Serenade.
At Shasta, we ding the Sword in the forest, clear out the other three units and silence a Yankee Sword (51 of 54).
eCav clobbers the Celtic Knight (52 of 55).
At Bologna, Crusader and eCav bludgeon the Japanese Spear and Sword (54 of 57).
Pennsylvaina 6-5000 is built between Orenburg, Frankfurt, New Lutetia and Firenze.
Knight-11th plows through two Impis to raze Hlobane (56 of 59).
Knight-9th yanks down a Yankee Sword (57 of 60).
This allows Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree to be built on a hill 3S of Shatsa.
Legion-6th tramples on an Otto Pike and Longbow in the boonies (59 of 62).
23rd-Cav does the same to an Otto Pike and Knight (61 of 64).
MDI-8th targets a Russian Longbow (62 of 65).
Sunrise Serenade is built in the jungles SW of Red Bull, connecting Silks to Rome.
Knight-15th knocks off a Byzanine Longbow (63 of 66).
Legion-2nd meets and destroys another Byzanine Longbow (64 of 67).
vCavs spot a Portuguesse settler pair and claim two workers (65 of 68).
rCav from Bagacum tries to reduce a Japanese Sword stack, but has to retreat (65 of 69).
We make an Indian spear invisible (66 of 70).
Drop science to 70%, Banking in 1, +167 gpt.
[IBT]
Arabs want to cry on our shoulder. Go away.
Spain feels weepy also. Ignore.
We lose a Cav, kill an Incan Archer and lose two slaves (unescorted in the willderness) on the IBT (66 of 72).
We learn Banking and start on Physics, 7 turns at 70%.
Milano walls -> barracks.
Caesaraugusta vCav -> vCav.
Anjar settler -> settler.
New Pompeii barracks -> vMusket.
Neapolis barracks -> vCav.
Castelnovum walls -> barracks.
Augustorum walls -> barracks.
New Lugdunum barracks -> vMusket.
Erice walls -> barracks.
4 1240 AD
Around the Empire
Japan has an Archer outside of Bologna; Shasta has a Spanish Mace to worry with; three French Maces desire Fanta; Persian Longbow wants to die at Canada Dry; and the French Pike moved 1S, mountain to mountain.
The Persian is punched out; two of the three Maces are mauled; cannon and catapults miss the Spanish Mace, the Japanese Archer is history (70 of 76).
Knight-14th and a vCav pummel 2 Spears and an Archer on their way to razing Tlatelolco (73 of 79).
Aztecs are destroyed.
Legion-3rd, eCav, vCav and vCav retreat only once taking down Maachu Picchu of Inca (76 of 83).
We lose an eCav to a redlined Celt Knight on a mountain, but a 2nd eCav finishes the job (77 of 85).
Three Ottoman Knights can capture RC Cola on the IBT. We kill two of them and then offer up other targets; a vCav, an Ottoman worker and a stack of three workers. The way to RC Cola is blocked (79 of 87).
Legion-5th manhandles two more Hoplites in Pharsalos, one Hoplite (at least) remains (81 of 89).
Knight-20th contends briefly with two Spears in Kufah and then burns the city (83 of 91).
Knight-11th impales an Indian Horse and moves next to Zimbabwe (84 of 92).
Legion-1st smashes two Spears to despoil Seattle (86 of 94).
vCav picks off wounded Jap Sword and becomes Elite (87 of 95).
23rd-Cav picks off the Musket in Izmit, but is too weak (6/17) to try to Pike that defends the city on a hill (88 of 96).
Knight-16th powers by two Pikes and a Spear in Paris, but one Spear remains (91 of 99).
Paris has Pyramids, so we'll keep it.
eCav steps on a Mace at Shatsa (92 of 100).
Chattanooga Choo-Choo is built 3NE of Torino.
Drop luxuries to 0% (since we have 7 luxury resources connected). Need to hire a taxman in Jerusalem for one turn, until the market completes this IBT.
Raise science to 90%, Physics in 5, -13 gpt. At 100%, Physics is still 5 turns but -53 gpt.
[IBT]
Win one and lose one on the IBT; lose a worker and a lone catapult (93 of 102).
Ottoman Knight captures a worker and then is able to capture RC Cola. I didn't think that could happen.
Lose another Cav (93 of 103).
Gain a Crusader.
Texcoco walls -> barracks.
Seven-Up settler -> settler.
Bologna walls -> barracks.
Ravenna vCav -> vCav.
Byzantium vCav -> vCav.
Jerusalem market -> vMusket.
Mountain Dew settler -> settler.
5 1250 AD
Around the Empire
English Sword at Sunrise Serenade; Yankee Sword at Vladivostok; Yank Sword, Zulu Longbow and Spanish Spear at Shasta; French Mace at Fanta (again); wandering French Pike desires Copan (but forgets he is now on flat land). No other incursions.
Plenty of movement outside our borders.
Two cannons redline the greedy French Pike and an eLegionary rubs him out (94 of 104).
vCav liberates RC Cola (95 of 105).
Somehow RC Cola, built by us, captured at size 1 by the Ottomans, and now liberted, has one Mayan resister. The city was connected to Rome on the IBT.
Legion-6th whacks two Ottoman Longbow and becomes planted in the path of two Ottoman stacks of foot soliders (97 of 107).
Sculla, an eCav, pounds a redlined Ottoman Knight (98 of 108).
Knight-16th takes out 3 French Spears but fails to capture Paris (101 of 111).
vCav stomps the last Hoplite in Pharsalos (102 of 112). Pharsalos is razed.
Legion-7th decimates 2 Spears in Ollantaytambo (Inca).
French Mace that fancied Fanta is finsihed off (103 of 113).
eCav routs the Zulu Longbow at Shatsa (104 of 114).
Knight-9th and Knight-11th take out 4 Impi and a Longbow before they raze Zimbabwe (109 of 119).
Knight-15th cleaves 2 Enkidu Warriors in Ur (111 of 121).
Knight-12th takes down 3 Spears and a vCav silences an Archer at Nagasaki, leaving one Archer defending (115 of 125).
vCav rides over Portuguese Archer (116 of 126).
rCav from Bagacum promotes on a Jap Sword (117 of 127).
English Sword perishes in the jungles near Sunrise Serenade (118 of 128).
Knight-18th slam dunks a Jap Archer (119 of 129).
Cav-22 bashes two French Spears at Lyons (121 of 131).
[IBT]
And the save is attached.
