Role Play Challenge: Cold, Drunken, Viking, Scum

Well played. Optics should be a focus at this point, as well as calender (which i think is a prerequisitie anyway). Happiness for the drunks shouldn't be an issue and neither is health. Big happy cities. Big cities mean more benificial trade routes. Mecca looks to be a production beast. I would consider that for HE/later WP city. Mocha statues on the pennisula in Avra I think it is called.
There is fish to the east of Birka. Whip a monument there to get the 2nd border pop so you can settle whatever island has those fishies. You're in slavery...get to whipping boy. You threw brave warriors off a cliff, don't be squeamish about a few citizens.
Run a prophet in Nidaros, You might as well shrine mecca. With no libraries, you need the slider jacked up as much as possible.
Build more workers. You have 4 workers and EIGHT cities.
 
Are you working your capital fish? And with colossus, just granary, maybe forge, then grow as fast as possible. I'm sure you can get almost 100 ocean tiles for a ridiculous number of beakers.
 
Yeah! Work those sea tiles, get to astronomy asap, ship you berserkers to wherever there's some booze and have fun pillaging, raping the sheep and slaughtering the women!!
 
Cold Drunken Viking Scum: Part III

The inginuity of Vikings in searhc of new sources of drink!!!! Time to ramp this baby up. Scientists, libraries, universities, BAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Techpath on this segment went Calender (for the rum)/CoL (to install some civility to Vikings, and protect alcohol rights!)/machinery (for a better still)/Optics (to find new sources of drink)/Civil service (for Beserkers to take more alcohol)/Paper (don't know)/Education (still don't know)/Liberalism (for a free tech! one to definitely TAKE what we want).

After a bit here is our city screen



Courthouses aplenty.

We popped a GE in Nidros



Which we saved for a later wonder.

After optics and the sight bonus we meet two Ais real fast





ABE is a colony of Will. We open borders and start on caravels.

We are behind in some techs but unload pretty fast here





Then we target liberalism because we WANT astronomy real fast. The hell with the Colossus, we want rampaging Viking Beserkers.

We readjust civics



We meet another AI



So far no zealots or war-mongers

Abe offers a great trade



Another Ai who is pretty far behind in tech



Another "toughie"



We crusie the oceans getting the circumnavigation bonus, thus +2 movement to VIKING ships!!!



SAKE!!!! Yes, we need to plunder that land real fast!

We meet one of the tougher AIs



Who has no metals and is limited to 2 cities!

And on a landmass NW of Viking land we find



Three wine sources! Ragnar cries tears of joy and frustration. FASTER FASTER we must tech FASTER!!!!

Backfilling techs



And if you notice the world diplomatic situation



NOONE really like each other too much, but tolerate us. No state religion pays off. Too bad quite a few will hate us real soon!

To be continued!!!!!!!!!
 
Cold Drunken Viking Scum: PArt III continued

Regardless of the diplomatic situation, we still make trades



We use the GE to get this wonder



Not immediately but hopefully we can force a Prophet out of Nidros for the Hindu shrine.

A few more fillin trades





We popped a great Merchant which we used in Dutchland



Good thing for Willem, he has alcohol raw materials. Ragnar quickly loses interest and uses a trade mission for 5700 gold.



Finally we hit liberalism first (note we settled those two ice-bound cities.



We took astronomy for free. Sure it obsoletes the colossus but with the foreign trade routes it doesn't matter much.

And start teching nationalism for first crack at the Taj.

We saved here.

Our lands and Will/ABE



Shows a complete lack of alcohol resources over there. OK, the Dutch and Americans are our friends!

To the west of us is different



Our cities which have just begun galleons



And techs



OK, Guilds is really useful to get, so we may detour there. The grocer, knights, and access to chemistry (VIKING PRIVATEERS!!!!!!!!) is probably well worth it!

we already have an army of Berserkers doing nothing but getting drunk. Time to build some Galleons and sail off to Ottoman lands, and try some of that Turkish wine!
 
willem is willing to trade guilds, and a number of other AI's already have it, so see what he wants for it, as long as it dosnt give up your astro advantage you can probably come out on top, especially considering the diplo situation means that whatever you give up for it isnt likely to go anywhere quickly.

other than that, rape, pillage and plunder, not necessarily in that order and all will be well for the drunken vikings... so long as the booze holds out at any rate.
 
"Paper (don't know)/Education (still don't know)/Liberalism (for a free tech)"

Paper: Hey you have to write down the good recipies

Education: How on earth are you ever going to discover double blended whiskey. You need some education for that

Liberalism: Liberty to drink as much as you can. Free speech should change to Free drinks and free religion to happy hour.

Great game.
 
I'd be very surprsed if the sake (rice) in Inca lands flipped to Holland its right next to a holy city and miles from the border
 
Cold Drunk Viking Scum: Part IV

Well the Vikings got rip roaring smashed and cornered the entire world's supply of wine. A little fancy for Ragnar's tast, but Booze is Booze even if a little high society! Sake is another case.

We start by looking to Willem for a trade for Guilds



Fantastic! Grocers to sell our Hootch!

Next a colony is spun off, who more likely to have the world's wine market



We make a decent trade with Julius who has an incredibly small empire for a Roman. Rome appears to be a dry state, not interest from Ragnar there.



We load up our Galleons with plenty of Drunk Beserkers, tell them there is a new type of Drink but it's protected by the French, and send them on their way!

Raised one, captured another



On the southern half we take the last city and a barb city



Sorry Lou, hardly knew you. Off course his parent Ai Suliman is ticked at us. He's ticked at Peter too who is attacking him also.

To cool off and retool we declare peace



Gotta get those wineries up a going, and a good old beer distillery. A fine island it is!

Techpath here sent: Gunpowder/chemistry/nationhood/military tradition and start steel. Yeah Ragnar has 1 thing on his mind, methods to collect more drink!

We bring in a fe wmore troop and quickly



We make a map trade with Peter.



OK., the entire continent for ONE lone rice resource. Well, booze is booze and Ragnar has to have his fill. So we attack the Turkish northern city and raze it



We take the capital



And Suliman vassals to Peter ending the war.

Still no Sake and Peter is rather large and #2 in power. we decide to wait a little bit and bring ALOT more drunken Vikings to the Turkish capital, with the promise of Sake to follow.

We popped a Great Prophet which we used for



That GE to speed up Ankor wat and allow us to run all priests worked well. Especially since we cannot build the National Epic without a library!

After nationhood we adjust civics, for the discount and a draftable army mostly for the homeland.

A nice trade with Will to get us economics and FR to him which is his favorite civic.

And Lincoln offers us a bomb of a trade



Hell after steel, we can go for democracy.

And just as we get out entire army ready to attack Peter.



This happened



OK, alot of colonies, but Peter attacked Will. This means Peter likely sent a force at Will which means less of that largte power number army is defending the homefront.

We saved here and



Still doing well in tech but not as well. Those libraries/universities/observatories are catching up.

So the only queestion I have is this

1) Do we force the Viking Scum to attack Peter/Suliman right now and let them get roaring drunk AFTER capturing the Sake

or

2) Spend 10-20 turns getting loaded first, tech steel and upgrade to cannons first!
 
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