Things are really looking up! The important stuff:
1. CoL will be researched in 2 turns. I've set the islands to max growth so they have pop to whip courthouses.
2. We captured Santiago and Barcelona. Barcelona is not online yet. Santiago wasn't nearly as bad as I thought, since it can work the gems tile for Osaka, freeing it work a cottage.
3. Izzy will give us 280 gold for peace. I don't think it's a bad deal, as we don't have the forces to grab Madrid yet. However, her cities seem very lightly defended, we could probably take another non-capital, though we're down to 2 swords. Her response was tepid (4 archers and 1 horse to pillage, no stack.)
4. We met Bismarck via a cultural bridge from the islands! Opening trade routes got us 6 commerce/turn, and our galley is being sent to explore the new land. He's hindu (not the founder) and much stronger than us. Neither of us can reach each other except through OB pre-Astronomy.
5. I played 19 turns. That's the turn after capturing Barcelona, when Izzy would talk to us and when we met Bismarck. It seemed like a good place to stop and discuss. Codeman played 20, I wasn't sure if I was supposed to drop down or not, but I got bloodthirsty anyway.
6. I think we should convert to Judaism. Barcelona will probably need the culture to fight Madrid on the north, and it would let us get OB with Izzy again (she's such a religious nut!) while we build up to finish her off.
7. We got a great scientist. He can either get us Philosophy (might be good trade bait, since we know there's at least one other Hindu nation out there) or retire as a specialist.
The actual report:
Pre Turn
Whip Aqueduct in Edo (and just in the nick of time! One more turn and we'd get no spillover.) Why are we building
two aqueducts? Hmm. Switch to a coliseum instead in capital for +happy.
Whip library in Tokyo. Why haven't these cities been whipped? Seriously, the next person who forgets to
our island cities is getting
themselves with a wet noodle.
Move some troops around. I can't figure out the reasoning behind most of 'em. Isabella is busting up most the fog. Move the gold hills archer to defend Osaka. Send the medic warrior to join our main stack.
We have a sword fog busting? Send an axe to relieve him so he can bust some Izzy instead.
Turn 1
Um, the Hanging Gardens were already built last turnset... just some more unit shuffling.
Turn 2
Barcelona only has two archers (one CD2 though) - I'll declare pretty soon. Santiago also only has two archers and minimal culture - it overlaps two food tiles and gems with Osaka - not bad as it'd free Osaka up to work some of it's other great tiles.
Turn 3
Realize we're going to need some spears to defend against Izzy's horses.
Turn 4
Holding off attack until we have spears.
Turn 5
Izzy cancels OB with us... because we're buddhist
Turn 6
Turn 7
Spear in. Declaration next turn.
Turn 8
Currency comes in, research set to CoL.
Izzy left us a present:
Turn 9
Down to 22 gpt at 0% research due to unit/supply costs.
Santiago captured with no losses:
Turn 10
Save a gpt by disbanding worker at the island cow, he's no use to us anymore.
Barcelona has a spear and two archers. Going to push on ahead I think, but wait for units to heal and see how badly Santiago hurts the economy.
Turn 11
Izzy sends an archer out of Barcelona... down to 1 archer 1 spear.
Turn 12
I pin up Izzy's forces in Toledo, two workers are trapped.
Turn 13
Santiago online. Looks like I made a mountain out of a molehill. We can still run at 23 gpt @ 0%.
Send out the forces. Izzy has a chariot out, and we're short a spear.
Turn 14
Izzy's chariot disappeared, but I think I know where it is. Move a spear out to protect us from it. Workers move to the coast so they don't get nabbed.
Turn 15
Kill Izzy's chariot with spearman. She has an archer, but it can't do anything since I have a sword nearby. She's sending a number of archers out to attack our capital - 3 this turn, but we have a Cover sword who's make short work of them.
Turn 16
Great Scientist is born in the islands. He can either discover Philosophy for us after CoL comes in (with Meditation, if we don't have it) or retire him.
Pull a fog burner back to protect mines from Izzy's archers.
Turn 17 485
Bombard Barcelona, wait a turn.
TUrn 18, 500 AD
Izzy sends out another chariot, should be incoming to our lands next turn. Watch the workers in Santiago!
Izzy has a CD2 archer in Barcelona, so need to attack at 72% odds (not bad, really, but we barely wound it!
) The other two swords win, city is taken. The shrine is worth 5 gpt when it comes online.
Turn 19, 515 AD
Well, HELLO! We meet the leader of the Hindu Germans, Bismarck. He's connected via a cultural bridge to the islands:
Sign open borders with him, our economy loves the 6 gpt from the trade routes!
Izzy will offer this for peace:
... reading on, I think need to apply a
I edited it, we captured Santiago & Barcelona.![[pissed]](/images/smilies/pissed.gif "Pissed [pissed]")
And, a holy city guarded by a single archer and spear? 
Izzy. I don't know if it's her expansive trait kicking in, but she doesn't have anything in the way of a military... too bad we need to move the palace to take much more.
on taking it to Izzy. That's a good start to the war. 
(4=d) regards, .
while the palace does cost 240 
. And the culture will be more likely needed in Osaka than in Kyoto.
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to 80% changing our "outcome" from-31 gpt to -24 gpt. CoL still due in 2.
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in Edo.
... however, as we need Drama, and 6 more theatres befor ephase 1 (building the Globe) can be accompished, I don't see how it will happen before the first millenium has pass. But meanwhile, let's start preparatory work for that ... get the remaining seafood online.
