It seems possible to go for a golden age afterall ...
Yes, Cahokia is starving, but it need not starve if we forgo the Gems+Tin mine. That's what we should do, me think.
We got a visit soon after I pressed enter twice:
We took out one galleon, and the rest of his ships decided to suicide against our pirate ships. Nah, you are no match for the Flying Dutchman. This also gives us a GG pop in Cahokia.
But ofcourse that is after he landed his remaining galleons full of phants and trebs
I took them out, losing a musket at high odds. Well, it happens. The GG was shipped to Aksum, and settled there. It is far more productive military wise than Cahokia.
I ordered a few more privateers, and went pirating fishing nets. I think we don't have the time to amass another land-base troops, plus we curaisers around, we can't really be effective in land razing/pillaging anymore. So instead I concentrated on ships production, adding a drydock to Aksum.
Mount Helena erupted again ...
"Be thankful that the city itself was not struck."
Pardon me? That is so wrong! It should instead be:
Be thankful that the COTTAGES were not struck!
If the volcano erupts again and destroy either cottages, I think there is no time to regrow them. It might be better to simply farm over the tiles and add artists instead.
Some turns later, we got guilds.
Unfortunately guilds is not the only thing we got. We also got trouble. Big one.
FRIGATES!
Our net-pillaging pirate ships fled, and two of them were caught and sunk. One however, manage to slip off (afterall, our Flying Dutchman indeed flies -- with 1 speed higher than Freddy's frigates) and noticed this stack from Alex.
They were promptly sunk.
I stopped when Cahokia reached legendary:
Can Firaxis tell me why the hell our culture managed to extend to another island that is 6 tiles away across ocean, while not being able to cover the freaking iron 5 tiles away separated only by coastal and sea tiles?
Anyway, here is where we stand:
If all goes well, we should win this in abt 22 turns. In 18 turns, we will get a GP. (It currently shows 17, but that is not sustainable since Cahokia is starving). No matter how this person is so great about, he will be burnt to trigger a golden age -- that should cut the current 24 or 25 turns to legendary by 2 or 3 turns.
However, we have the frigates to deal with now. We can't possibly sink any invasion (seeing how AIs always bring 4 galleons escorted by 8 frigates), hence we have to build up land defenses. However, since we rely on our seafood to sustain the artists, we have to put out enough privateers to protect the nets as well. I suggest we get 2 or 3 more privateers, and then add knigts/muskets.
And pray hard for 22 turns or so.
Ozzy, bring the baby home and do the late pholk proud!
