Turnset Report, t80-?
t80
We revolt to OrgRel+Representation.
Gandhi is 5 players' worst enemy. I think I have to hold off on the gifts. Too much bad blood with AIs we're not about to fight.
We do give Currency to Alex and sell Polytheism around.
Currency to Mehmed as well.
IBT:
One German worker appears on the sheep. Pasture (4)
One barb worker is in stealable range at the barb city.
Hatty's workers are both capturable. Hatty will talk.
t81
Change of plans. I'll research Aesthetics this turn, because I think we can trade for Meditation (and priesthood) from Hatty next turn when I CF (after worker #2 is captured). Never mind, they're monopoly techs. Duhh.
CoL-> Alex
IBT:
Alex adopts Caste System
No GPs are born.
t82
We scout Jerusalem (Screenshots to come). 4 pop..
It has river wheat, lake fish and plains cows.
150% Defence - Castle+Citadel+Walls. Also a Totem Pole and a Jewish Temple.
Christian+Jewish holy city; no shrines.
It's defended by a CG2 Archer, and unpromoted Archer, and a worker.
We CF Hatty and DoW Alex.
We kill one of the warriors amphibiously. If I'd set up better on t80 we could have got both of them, but my galleys were out of position.
So it'll be one archer, one unfortified warrior, plus anything he builds IBT.
IBT:
Nada
t83
We capture Athens without loss.
It has two settled prophets and no buildings (apart from the Oracle).
Istanbul has C1 Axe, C1 Sword, Galley, Work boat, 2x unpromoted Archer.
We'll either need them to move away from the city (he's been preparing against us for a long time now) or to add a couple of catapults to the mix.
I'll upload here and pause for the night.
I plan to give Fred CoL this turn and then steal his worker (and hopefully kill his spearman with our axe) next turn.
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Continuing after a short 48h break and post 1280
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IBT:
Fred adopts Caste System
Fred will open borders.
t84
OB with Fred. We're totally not just casing the joint. Berlin still has GuerI Archer + C1 Axe.
However, there's a C1 Spearman 2N of Berlin, in the wrong place for worker-stealing.
New Munich's worker is guarded by a spear+axe pair.
We cancel Mehmed's trades with Darius for the steep steep price of Meditation + 15 gold. I didn't want to give him the option to revolt just yet.
Fish<->Silver with Darius.
IBT:
We're Fred's worst enemy again
Hatty's borders expand, disrupting our worker-stealing plans.
However, Fred starts building a cottage next to our border.
t85
Gandhi has Ivory for trade. We have to give him Fish+Fur for it.
We give CEB to Hatty, steal Construction for 180EP, and retake the city. Our borders are a bit screwy. They'll reset next turn...
IBT:
You know what else reset? Those trades we just set up.
Trades with Darius and Gandhi cancelled.
t86
Churchill has gems available.
We DoW Fred, killing his spear with our axe and stealing his worker. It might face some convenient retaliation from the city.
Gandhi's trades are available again, but the price has gone up
Ivory for Fur, Fish and Deer this time. In 10t we'll be able to give him copper instead.
IBT:
Fred's axe from Berlin kills our axe, and deletes the stolen worker.
t87
We kill Fred's axe.
CF Hatshepsut. Darius has already traded his silver away, this time to Stalin.
100% EPs for the next steals.
CEB finally gets its borders back. Churchill's culture forced it to be unowned for a couple turns when we recaptured it, even though he's on another continent.
IBT:
The axe/spear pair that were guarding Fred's other worker moves into Berlin.
t88
We land 5 HAs outside New Munich, stealing a worker. This one's for keeps. It's guarded by an axe and an archer.
We play some more cat and mouse with spearmen. I expect those two units to march out towards, so a sacrificial chariot guides them onto a 0% defences tile.
Berlin is not working very many hammers by the looks of it. If the two melee units vacate, we could actually capture it soonish.
We trade Priesthood for Meditation from Kublai, for our next round of 30g trade bait.
IBT:
The axe takes the bait. The spear camps out on the forest near Fredburg.
t89
Finally, our scout finds a Bridge to the Far East sign in China. Mehmed-Darius-Gandhi-Mao will form a contiguous route.
We capture Munich, for the loss of one HA.
7 HAs move into range of Berlin, plus one HA and one Chariot block the road to Fredburg.
Plato is born in Alexandria. He decides Thebes is a better home, because there's a barb warrior near Alexa.
IBT:
Fred's spear loses to our shock HA. However, he's built another one in Berlin.
t90
No action - time to upload. Berlin will live for one more turn.
Back to 100% research.
