Paranoia!: Part VI
Zara inspects his lands. Yes another day, and cascade of interferance from the gods, and while they think they are being smart and annoying Zara knows for a fact that this is for the best. Sure there are problems with barbarians and so forth, but two major aspects the gods have opened up for the Ethiopian people.
LAND and TRADE!!
Diplomacy is an issue, but while Zara dispises the gods and will never bow to their alter, he has a deep knowledge into the Physhe of the other humans and finds it easy to befreind them.
First of all, Zara looks at the world
Most of the ice has melted, yet we have NOT lost any lands!. In fact we have alot more land and resources, all within the cultural borders of our Legondary capital which was never our capital to start!
On the diplomatic front we find alot of indifference out there and an unfriendly and CLOSE Justinian.
The plan? We simply caved into almost every request except for Willem. Joao eventually crushed Napolean into capitulation eliminated the leader with teh shortest fuse.
Now we did find alot of extra land to the east which we settled three cities in during the segment, using the cultural trait to pressure Justinian.
I particularly liked the extra Jumbos. Sure we are past the war elephant era, but the extra happiness is nice.
We found an assortment of Great Generals
All looking for glorious soldiers to lead into battle. We eventually got a galleon over there for our GG (who we settled). I thought there was a quest associated with the GG, but the hell with it, Zara doesn't do quests.
And since we have astronomy AND no ICE we swapped civics
About 20 turns later it dawned on me that serfdom was the ideal civic here so I swapped to that.
Why serfdom???
Perhaps because the Amazon has spread to Ethiopia causing Zara to produce and excess number of
Yep workers. We also found some more later.....
Now those privateers were not that much of an issue. Out ships beat enough down and apparently the Ai really, really, really hates privateers. Needless to say, no more privateers.
The Ap did show it's ugly head
We voted for Justinian for diplo points!
We also made any lopsided trade we could, just trying to keep it close to eventually let our massive empire take the tech lead
Of course THAT depends on whether the interfering gods will let us live in peace. We opted for nationhood simply to save a few gold coins. Gotta love that Christo Redentor wonder!
Here we started "filling" in some cities
When we finished spamming workers into the world. Dam have I mentioned how much jungle we had!!!! There's even jungle in the desert!~
We finally got arround to taking out that Barb city to the south
Which unlocked a slew of workers, that were put to good use!
By the way, Zara certainly knew what to do with those excess soldier about! Not that Zara sat back on his laurels, the tech path went: Gunpowder/Chemistry/Replaceable Parts.
The remaining fillin wotk to the east
At this time the otehr leaders are really warming up to Zara, as these trade pushed two leaders to friendly
Zara is generous to the other AIs!
At this time we saved
Things are looking up! What to tech next??? Rifling or Corporation or democracy! As you can see in tech
Moving on up there! As most of the jungle is gone we are getting more and more commerce!
AND diplomacy
Joao and Pacal have revolted to FR, better for us. Justinian is pleased between the shared religion and the same civic.
So there you have it! What more do the gods have to offer!!!!