Cold Drunken Viking Scum: Part V
everyone must forgive me if I am a little chaotic on this segment description. My youngest graduated grammer school yesterday and the household has been a flurry of activity.
Still, plenty of time for celebration and consumption of mush drink, er for Ragnar that is not the child! Nevertheless, Ragnar decided to turn the drunken Beserkers lose and worry about getting cannons to the front later. We did get ALOT of cannons (and cavalry) to the front, but the Viking UU still was the base of capturing cities even with the advent of rifles! Upgrade costs too much gold and Ragnar needs that gold to purchase more booze!
So let's start
First a trade with JC, who seams to be a decent trading partner but is little danger (and has no interesting resources)
And soon before we tech steel we get this request.
How can we rufuse!
Ragna rsends the Vikings off to clear some Turkish lans first.
As you cna see I am always NOT a single stock of Doom guy. We have overwhelming forces, I split it in half sending them NW and SW. The idea is to circle back to clear behind and above us. Ragnar see's bananas has some insane idea that he can also make some alcohol beverage from them. When he fails he is pretty damed IRATE!!
The NE coastal city was razed.
We them recombined the undamaged units and
Vikings can now drown themselves in plenty of SAKE!!!!
We should state our techpath here though: Steel/democracy/rifling/communism (A BIG tech in this game)/physics
We make another trade with JC
Spreading the trades between JC/ABE/Will as much as possible to avoid one getting a tech edge. We are actually doing amazingly well considering teh lack of any beaker producing buildings or scientist specialists.
We popped a GP
Which we used to start a GA
We took peace (Will did so several turns before)
And teched off democracy during teh AG allowing us to change civics without anarchy.
Note nationhood we are running essentially for the gold savings allowing us to keep the slider higher.
ABE has always been a very generous trader.
The good thing is that we have natural oil reserves and are NOT in a position to have to chose between Viking drink and converting it to oil (Not that it's really a choice anyway!).
So Ragnar liquers up the Viking troops again and
Time to completeely cripple the Russian empire
Note we did build the Forbidden Palace in the former Ottoman capital, greatly reducing costs.
The Vikigns are a rather simple people, they essentially rushed the entire stack to the first city they find, reduice, defenses with cannons, clobber the troops with any remaining cannons, and send Beserkers in to capture the city. Crussairs/cavalry were used to pickoff Russian troops in the open and Muskets used to defend newly captured cities. Worked very well
Notice that this city had the Confiscian shrine and kept the market/grocer/bank after capture. An immediate 44gold from the shrine once we come out of revolt.
We come at the Russian core cities
Which we kept. We also revolted to State Property which cut costs even more so!
And here you can see the power graph numbers, showing Viking supremacy!
To be continued...........
