"Will the Real Suryavarman Please Stand Up?": Part II continued
Wow, I feel completely our of water and lost here! Where oh where to start.
OK
Techpath: Archery/fishing/sailing/IW (because I realized late you cannot build a pasture for horses in a jungle without it!)/HBR (because I teched damned IW for the horses)/Math
So I stayed at war with Sury, retreating for a bit as the new capital was on a hill and we were not prepared to take it. Still, I did not want a second diplomatic penalty from Sury, No not the Sury we are at war with, the other Sury. In fact Sury, Sury and Sury are a little ticked at us for declaring War on Sury. But fear not, looks like we may have a friend in Sury!
So enough of this idiosy, onto concrete matters.
Yes I meant concrete, literally. I could have built more axes faster and killed Sury but I really needed something stable and long standing to stabilize my sanity. The Great wall benefits last all game, I'll take it!
So I brought a new stack of units to attack Sury
Only to find a well defended hilled capital, so we proceded to march past it and pillaged a bit.
We then found
Sury's second city!!!! We razed it, stole a few workers, and
Sued for peace! Alot of the Sury's have alphabet which leads me to be concerned about our tech rate. Then I remembered Sury, Sury, Sury, Sury, Sury, and Sury are creative and thus likely built a fast library and bulbed alphabet. OK, no problem.
So we settled city #3 between the cities
We then rebuilt our army to take this Barbarian city.
Because it's the easiest source of Iron arround!
It was a nice city, too bad the city autorazed. Damn, well we start on a settler.
I should say we actually have been building somewhat intelligently and I think I am playing the game fairly well. Unfortunately I feel as if I am free falling into a bottomless pit that ends at satan's doorstep. I'll tell you, I am heading to the local winseshop tomorrow before I attempt the next segment.
As we wait for the settler, Buddhism has spread to us.
We convert, and open borders with Sury Inc. Of course we are getting some diplo penalties as some Sury's are other Sury's worse enemies, but no demands yet.
The tech situation shows
So we can trade HBR for a few religious techs. Bah, we need no religious techs. Sure we need to adopt OR, but if we don't tech Monotheism we cannot adopt it right!
And after settling the city on the exact spot the BArb city was, another Babr city pops up.
We are also using a chariot to determine exactly where the assorted Sury's are.
We mercifully ssaved here,
Our lands so far
Still a good amount of land to settle.
And a look at the capital
Not a bad city. Not sure how much more we can work, but nice 5 size city!
So there we are.
I may attack the Sury we previously attacked to eliminate them, but otherwise I wait until they start ripping into each other. For now I say we tech towards teh standard Currency/CoL, settle a little more, and build up the military a little more.
Whether this is because there is an exception to the random personality rule to make it harder for you to guess their real identity or whether this is a bug in the Foreign Advisor, I don't know.
