Sorry Mutineer, I meant “our capabilities” not “my abilities”, meaning we were actually in better shape than you were thinking we were. I was putting stuff down as quick as I could to get done so it came down wrong.
I respect your insight greatly because you are a very different player than I am and you think of ideas that I do not always see, that will help me improve Which in my opionion is part of the reason to play these types of games. The other is to have fun raid and conqueor, which is the theme of this turnset.
Goals were to
-Get a large force onto the enemy continent ASAP and either start or set up a war with Roosevelt. The strategy forth the war that made sense to me was to take Roosevelt’s westernmost cities Boston and Atlanta. They both had access both from Saladin’s lands and the ocean. Boston would form a choke point in which any Rooservelt counter could be repelled. The key here is that Saladin and Roosevelt do not have open boarders. Meaning I could partially defend the new cities with Saladin’s cultural boarder.
- To give macemen city raider promotions and upgrade them to grenadiers. And produce as many grenadiers as possible and get some frigates in the oceans.
-Get a settler on each of the three islands and settle the island north of Gandhi to use the whales.
1400 inherited turn-
• Set research to 100%
• Gandhi has astronomy now- need to get the settlers out there pronto.
• I found the city Hiercopis on the island north of Gandhi and start courthouse there.
• I start a workboat in Pi Ramsesses to use for the whales.
• MM elephantine, putting scientists to work to get chemistry down to two turns. This is important to coordinate Galley transports later.
• Drop first wave of military at American-Saladin boarder and move galleons back towards Olysomething to pick up next wave of units.
• Switch a lot of the build cues in the Incan lands, putting priority to longbows to liberate our macemen from city garrison duty. Excepgtion to this is courthouses and the market in the holy city. Settler and longbowman sent to island south of us. Over the turnset I do not settle but leave the archer and settler fog busting, not wanting to increase costs. As Gandhi has astronomy now we may need to settle the gut so he can not get on the island.
1406
• Start settler for 3rd island in Novgorod. Whip a longbow in Olysomething. Since it that could only work 3 tiles.
1412
• Chemistry discovered start steel
• Macemen in Olysomething upgraded to grenadiers. Galleons leave ollysomething with all its knights and catapults.
• Time some wood-cutting to produce several grenadiers in our mainland in the next 2-3 turns
• Trade education and gunpowder with Gandhi for printing press and music. We need music for military tradition and printing press helps our economy a bit. Set research to 0%
1418 moving units in place
1424
• Trade monotheism to Roosevelt for 190 gold then declare war on him. We loose a bunch of health resources by doing this but we should get them back soon enough
• Trade spices and corn to Salidin for ivory, later I get a helath for health resource trade from him as well
• Move first wave in next to Boston from the south and land units next to Boston and Atlanta.
1430
• Bombard Boston down to 0% and take it out using knights. First knight was at 30% with a spear and won. The other two knights won easily. Macemen from first wave are moved in to the city and upgraded to Grenadiers. Atlanta is bombarded but not attacked directly this turn. Move wave 2 grenadiers landed outside of Atlanta.
1436
• Roosevelt counters with a knight attacking Boston and loosing to a grenadier. A sack appears just outside the city. I hit it with a sacrificial catapult and take a couple of knights out of it but lose one grenadier attacking a war elephant. I stop attacking the stack not wanting to loose units and it retreats back to America’s capital. Atlanta is taken with grenadiers.
• Set research to 100%
1442
• Reinforcement knights arrive from our mainland.
• A longbowman is dropped off near Atlanta, rest put in Boston.
• One of our caravels is destroyed by an attacking galley.
1448
• Reinforcement grenadiers from mainland arrive.
• Gandhi is free market now.
• Revolt to nationhood to cut down costs and caste system to put a large number of merchants in elephantine as we could use one ASAP.
• Macemen stack approaches Boston but is in woods so I wait a turn
1454
• Take out 4 mace 1 pike and 1 crossbowman outside of Boston. 1 grenadier lost.
• Settler-longbowman sent from Novgorod to 3rd island. This one is on auto route.
1460
• Take a peak at Washington with a Knight and see that America still has a large set of units there.
End summary
• We can revolt again in 3 turns if we need to ship some courthouses out as the American cities come out of revolt.
• There is a maceman near one of the Incan cities that I would move down to the American continent. Promote him to city raider and upgrade him to grenadier.
• I have the workboat from Pi-Rammesses auto routed up to our island city with the whales. I also have a boat with some workers heading there as well.
• I did fair share of chopping once we got chem. To speed up our build up
• Our power is going through the roof and Roosevelt has dropped significantly.
• I guess the question now is whether to attack Washington or go around it to New York. New York seems an easier target but I would wait until Boston is a bit stronger and out of revolt incase Roosevelt attacks with his monster stack in Washington.
• I think that is it, it was a monster of a turn. Took me 3 hours to play only 10 turns. I did not move all the units in the last turn. So make sure to check. I probably forget to tell you something as well as there is a lot going on. Just take a good look at the map before doing anything.
If you have not checked it already read the spoiler from the team that is moving faster than us. We are way ahead of them in the game. Our power is equal to their power now and we are several hundred years earlier. I hope we have shot at winning this, but I think we can be pretty sure we will not be getting the spoon. Though with team Chaos that probably never was a possibility.
Also I am not going to write anymore in the spoiler because in reading the other teams entry it became obvious that they made contact with all the other Civs without knowing where they are, even India. Though I am sure they have progressed since that time another group may come along and be able to use our info to get a little ahead. So I will just write everything else in the final spoiler when the time comes.
