850 (0): Building universities before factories looks odd, but I suppose it's the right call here.
We bring the Mongols into the war with India, as suggested by Klarius, for three luxuries.
860 (1): That heroic Numidian accounts for another of our cav units, but we then take Carthage (1-1). We capture three workers.
We found Hooverville between Stockholm and Odense.
Our Berserkers go 4-0 against swordsmen in Delhi (5-1). A swordsman is still on top for Gandhi.
We found New Odense. This is the only city I'm going to found around Spanish New York, since the other possible sites are within New York's 21 tiles.
We begin ferrying slaves from Celtland to our homeland.
By flooding Carthage with units for the safe interturn, after building rails as necessary, we end the resistance immediately.
Entremont factory --> coal plant.
870 (2): The Indians have Map Making.
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Steel due in one turn with research down to 20%.
We found New Hareid on Vitoria's island.
We repel the attacks of two Carth longbowmen outside Utica (7-1).
Steel --> Refining, due in four turns at 90% with a modest surplus.
880 (3): We take Utica from its garrison of a musketman and three Numidians, without loss (11-1). We capture two workers, and a moment later two more outside the city.
We end Utica's resistance immediately, by the same methods used at Carthage.
Entremont coal plant --> Military Academy.
Bergen factory --> coal plant.
890 (4): Hmm, Isabella is actually doing something about our anti-Carthaginian alliance, and has three units around Hippo. So I abandon the idea of waiting a turn to make our last attacks on Hannibal with elite Berserkers, and we take Hippo from its garrison of three Numidians with mobile units, eliminating the "Fragile Carthaginians" (14-1).
Hareid university --> galleon.
900 (5): Gems from Isabella (renewal) for 73 gpt, then Industrialization to Isabella for 167 gpt, 11 gold, and WM.
We take Uskudar from the Ottomans, getting there just before the Mongol cavalry, since the garrison was down to one spearman (15-1). We capture a trebuchet.
Aarhus courthouse --> library.
Our GA ends, but we're still on schedule for Refining.
All resistance in Uskudar ends.
910 (6): The Ottomans having managed a one-unit landing in Celtland, we overrun their longbowman (16-1) and generate the Great Leader Hubba.
OK, I'll wait to attack the Mongols without RoP-raping them. Preserving that option for Spain makes sense.
We found New Molde, the first ICS city on our continent.
Trondheim coal plant --> worker (food box full).
Refining --> Combustion, due in four turns at 100%, 40 gpt after some more fiddling with our specialists.
920 (7): We declare war on the Mongols, with extreme treachery but no RoP-rape.
Hubba rushes a factory in Hooverville.
We take Mongol Almarikh, held by a musketman, a cav, and a spearman (19-1). We capture two workers.
We take Mongol Kazan without loss from two musketmen and a pikeman, with the RNG being kind, since these are unsupported cav attacks (22-1).
We found the tactical town of New Alesund, capturing three Mongol workers in the area.
The Mongols take Iznik and Aydin (on the island) from the Ottomans, though they fail to take Bursa. They don't attack us.
Molde marketplace -->university.
Trondheim coal plant --> cav.
930 (8): We take Mongol Ta-tu, defeating the garrison of a musketman, a pikeman, and a longbowman and losing a cav (25-2). We capture four workers.
We found New Bodo and New Karasjok, two ICS towns on our continent.
I merge three workers into Vadso to bring it up to size twelve. We should have done this some time ago.
Isabella demands our spare incense, which we grant. She could only have given 4 spt for it.
Entemont MILITARY ACADEMY --> marketplace.
Tromso factory --> coal plant.
940 (9): We take Karakorum, held by three musketmen and a pikeman, for the loss of two Berserkers (29-4).
We found the tactical town of New Tromso, then take Mongol Tabriz, held by a musketman and two pikemen, without loss (32-4). We capture a cannon and three workers.
We found the tactical town of New Vadso and take Ulaanbaatar from its garrison of two musketmen and an LB, without loss (35-4). We capture a worker.
We ride down a Mongol cav outside Ta-tu (36-4).
The Ottomans are down to one city--Izmit, rather oddly, which at least we're in a good position to protect--so we grant them peace (on strictly even terms, Klarius
).
I merge a worker into Stockholm and two into Hooverville.
We found the ICS cities of New Farsund and New Risor.
Entremont marketplace --> Heroic Epic, Bergen coal plant --> worker (full food box), Birka factory --> coal plant, Odense library --> courthouse, Bodo university --> factory.
950 (10): Research down to 80%, Combustion still due in one.
We auto-raze Dalandzadgad, but the garrison of one musketman costs us a cav (37-5).
We take Mongol Istanbul, held by a pikeman (38-5), and capture Leonardo.
We take Mongol Bursa, held by a Keshik and a cav (40-5).
After some heroic combat railing, we take Iznik, the last Mongol city on our continent, from its garrison of an LB and an MDI (42-5). We gain control of Magellan, and capture a trebuchet. Our first victory produces the GL Erik Bloodaxe, who rushes Molde's university.
We found the ICS cities of New Fauske and New Karistad.
We carve up the last two Mongol pikemen on our continent (44-5).
Eighteen elite victories this round, one of them defensive, produced two Great Leaders.
, and some more questions for the team. We've reached (910 AD) the point at which it might be simpler to fight the Mongols than to go through them to what's left of the Ottomans (the Mongols having taken Istanbul). To do so, though, we'd have to break our anti-Ottoman alliance with Genghis, and the anti-Indian alliance for which we gave him three luxuries at the start of my round. We'd also have a choice of whether to RoP-rape the Mongols or not (doing it would certainly help us get our Berserks into the action), since that agreement is about to expire. So, does any of this matter now?
alternative, speak up.
So for some time to come we're going to have many more workers than we need over there, and tedious though it is, we should use them to lumberjack up some useful items. I'd suggest galleons first, which could then carry some workers to our nearby island cities. I didn't want to disrupt the ship chain for this purpose.
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for a monarchy, aren't we). So giving them the chance to leave out communism (or fascism which they might do alternatively) may be needed.
Anyway, we need to MM Vadso to use the whales.
