Finished. Greece is gassed and it's mop-up duty. Persian units starting to arrive but not in enough numbers to be big trouble.
Post-handoff notes:
1. I may have a very few units on automove. If so, sorry--they'll finish just next turn. Should be very non-critical units from behind the front.
2. The ships around our core are hunting any galleys we may send into the sea. They carry no units. Feel free to toy with them.
3. The one Viking ship near Herakleia is not in this category. He's heading somewhere, but where I don't know. May have units. I suggest shadowing it with the units nearby plus a newly constructed cav or two.
4. We have a big worker stack near Marathon. It's in position to complete a road that connects Greece to Panama. With this road we can move all our trebuchets around through Greece and into the Persian core via the road marked on the attached picture.
5. There's a lone Persian musket near Panama. Should be able to bomb and destroy it next turn if it moves closer (and it should, I left room for it). After that's dead I suggest building a wall of spears around Panama to divert all Persian units to the east and into the waiting maw of our armies. (This also frees up the trebuchets to join the armies. We'll need them.)
6. We complete Music Theory this turn. Amsterdam is building a warrior (for MP duties or just to disband for shields... whatever), and should do Bach's next. The SGL is in place to do this.
7. Rock Am Ring should probably swap to a galley.
8. Next turn, after we have Bach's, swap forest from Hamburg to mountain (will be mined next turn), and put scientist from Berlin on forest.
9. I have a few random/silly builds in place, like Eindhoven (don't ask)--feel free to change them.
10. Once Ephesus is captured, that'll help slow down the Persian units (and that should become the focal point of any and all battles).
11. The cav army has only 3 units, I felt it necessary to go kill stuff with it quickly. A cavalry made it to Thermopylae (needed it to kill a Persian last turn), that can join the cav army next turn for maximum destruction.
12. Our other army is EMPTY. It is outside Herakleia. The reason it's there is that I was not sure if I needed it for Greece (answer: no). I STRONGLY RECOMMEND YOU DO NOT FILL THIS ARMY. We should use that army as part of an invasion force against the Vikings. We can transport the army with only one unit in it (two after Astronomy). Should take army over, then fill with cavs on Viking land.
13. Greece is completely and utterly gassed and it's strictly mop up duty. I suggest sending random longbows with spear cover to take out their jungle cities. Let the armies focus totally on Persia.
14. After Music Theory is in, I would suggest shutting off research totally for a few turns to accumulate cash, then resume. Other civs may get Astronomy soon which will lower the cost. We could use the cash for short-rushing MORE SETTLERS from our south to fill the Greek lands.
One picture for the lurkers:
Spoiler :
Post-handoff notes:
1. I may have a very few units on automove. If so, sorry--they'll finish just next turn. Should be very non-critical units from behind the front.
2. The ships around our core are hunting any galleys we may send into the sea. They carry no units. Feel free to toy with them.
3. The one Viking ship near Herakleia is not in this category. He's heading somewhere, but where I don't know. May have units. I suggest shadowing it with the units nearby plus a newly constructed cav or two.
4. We have a big worker stack near Marathon. It's in position to complete a road that connects Greece to Panama. With this road we can move all our trebuchets around through Greece and into the Persian core via the road marked on the attached picture.
5. There's a lone Persian musket near Panama. Should be able to bomb and destroy it next turn if it moves closer (and it should, I left room for it). After that's dead I suggest building a wall of spears around Panama to divert all Persian units to the east and into the waiting maw of our armies. (This also frees up the trebuchets to join the armies. We'll need them.)
6. We complete Music Theory this turn. Amsterdam is building a warrior (for MP duties or just to disband for shields... whatever), and should do Bach's next. The SGL is in place to do this.
7. Rock Am Ring should probably swap to a galley.
8. Next turn, after we have Bach's, swap forest from Hamburg to mountain (will be mined next turn), and put scientist from Berlin on forest.
9. I have a few random/silly builds in place, like Eindhoven (don't ask)--feel free to change them.
10. Once Ephesus is captured, that'll help slow down the Persian units (and that should become the focal point of any and all battles).
11. The cav army has only 3 units, I felt it necessary to go kill stuff with it quickly. A cavalry made it to Thermopylae (needed it to kill a Persian last turn), that can join the cav army next turn for maximum destruction.
12. Our other army is EMPTY. It is outside Herakleia. The reason it's there is that I was not sure if I needed it for Greece (answer: no). I STRONGLY RECOMMEND YOU DO NOT FILL THIS ARMY. We should use that army as part of an invasion force against the Vikings. We can transport the army with only one unit in it (two after Astronomy). Should take army over, then fill with cavs on Viking land.
13. Greece is completely and utterly gassed and it's strictly mop up duty. I suggest sending random longbows with spear cover to take out their jungle cities. Let the armies focus totally on Persia.
14. After Music Theory is in, I would suggest shutting off research totally for a few turns to accumulate cash, then resume. Other civs may get Astronomy soon which will lower the cost. We could use the cash for short-rushing MORE SETTLERS from our south to fill the Greek lands.
One picture for the lurkers:
