President George: American Growth
President George sit's back and reflects on what has occurred. American Independence at a price, and lot's of valuable land at his disposal. Yes, he played the revolutionary spirit, but time now for some serious rebuilding if he is to get this country on it's feet. Complex choices await, and he begins bu researching Biology and sending a few redcoats towards the Barbarric Incan region
Another valuable Pacific coast city with us providing the only easy access between the oceans with control of the Canal!
Nothing too interesting occurred as we built infrastructure in order to compete with the world. A daunting and long task with only Moderate help from the homeland.
Eventually we manage to research
Which feed America weel, allowing their people to reflect on other matters. The number of scientists across the land increases while city growth continues! In addition America now has some value for trade in the world
Leading to
The ability to nab Steam Power is a pleasent surprize and open up the ability to construct levees along our mighty river systems. Communism allows us more production via the state property civics, yet we hold off a little for the proper moment.
Ah, the first purely American Great person has emerged. We start a Golden Age here and adopt State Property while staying in caste system for the moment.
We also find someone willing to trade Physics
Also starting a strong friendship here. Saladin stays ar pleased the rest of the segment, something perhaps very important later on. For now, important matters are our country while we idlely sit back and watch Catherine slowly destroy Egypt.
In fact we continue to help Sal
America does not have horses, but the Arab friendship is more important here. America adopting State Property and forming a strong bond the Arab people, it certainly is a MAD world we live in.
We begin to settle more cities such as MArtha Vinyard on the outlet of the St. Lawrence river and the city of Boulder
As you see America is flooded with alot of coal reserves.
As America continues to rise, the homeland fairs rather poorly as you see here
London has culture flipped to Louis.
An example of American production can be seen here
Witht eh Heroic epic we have a strong military production site!
One last time we are forced to dodge the Russian Queen's rath.
THAT was the last time.
After Biology the next tech we went after was Assembly line to further improve our production base, as well as provide better defense.
We could not find any buyers for AL, and taking military science is not a good trade. So next we research electricity.
A view of our cities at this point
Shows we are doing very well in both science and production, but there is still much work to do.
Soon we have
providing a 3 commerce boost to each watermill. we actually start watermilling over any remaining cottages we can.
Washington has finally researched Steel that we instructed him to earlier
And he is instructed to research medicine next, hopefully he can manage that before an easier trade offers itself. Meanwhile we start research Industrialism hoping perhaps we can nab railroad in a later trade.
At this point Saladin has become a vassal of Cyrus, forming a pretty solid block between Russia and the captured Egyptian lands. I would think this is unlikely to become a big target of Catherine as Persia and Arabia are fairly strong in tech and military, and to add icing on the cake
Let the Redheaded Russian Queen now think twice about attacking us and firing of a massive world war. We are still weak but increasing everyturn and will soon be a military force to reconned with. But for now we are content to mind our business and allow Catherine to look eslwhere to satisfy her bloodlust.
We finish off a few more cities building the city called "The Hill" in the resource right Rocky Mountains while taking the last strong Barbarian city giving us most of California
The horns of war are sounded and CAtherine indeed has gone elsewhere for satisfaction.
Qin is in vert band shape using muskets to defend against infantry. We despise the Chinese but in order to keep Russia down
We finish the last tech of the segment
And saved here. I think Railroad/Combustion are next for a serious American Navy plus access to tanks. A Gentleman in the American Congress named James Monroe offered a suggested proclaimation stating this hemisphere is exclusively American. President George is strongly considering this matter.
The tech situation
Considerable work to be done and Sal's tech offerings have dried up. Still I think we are catching up and hopefully will have a superior navy to repulse the landlocked Russian army.
The map of the Americas show our growth and there are still some northern and Amazon regions to settle once we have time
Our cities
The next Great Person should give us a golden Age (we have a saved Great Spy). We have also built up our national wonders
The Bayou = Heroic Epic
MArtha Vineyard = building the Moari
Jamestown = National epic
Jute = National Park (with several forrests for preserves).
IronWorks/Oxford/Wall Street still await. Oh, byt the way we still do not have a single Stock Exchange which is our UB by the way.
Finally, demographics
Which is not bad but still a big dose of reality. We definitely need a bigger army.
So how is America going???