1750-1770AD
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First order of business is to pull some settlers out of the farmlands to the far north. They will be added to the core towns to boost output and income. Burn a lot of invested shields but the added population in the core towns will be more than worth it.
Then look around and upgrade a bunch of muskets to infantry, and swap the build of a stcok exchange at Morristown to a harbor, again for the gold and growth and we already have the five exchanges needed for the Wall Street building.
Then I give up flight to Liz for Incense, we can use the sweet smelling sticks and she has no oil....
Then shut off the research and jack the cash flow up to 445gpt before the luxury adjustment and some garrison redistribution for MP duty. At current rates that is 5 turn research as we will accumulate enough cash for a careful steal in about five turns. We are at war with the tech leader anyway and don't want to buy the stuff we want from him anyway.
Inneresting, I dial up Julius just for a little chinwag and he will sell MT as part of a peace deal for 173gpt, or I can wait four turns and do a careful steal for 2013, a 33% discount, I think I'll wait.
At the begininng of 1752 I had 17 settlers in the wings and 500gpt. By adding them into the core and building a new town in the Corrupt Lands Income went up to 569gpt and the I have two core towns building 2 turn bombers and a couple of more town training three turn infantry
The Romans are sailing in from the old Viking island in the south on our western coast and from their northern lands on our eastern coast.
Our bombers need rebasing to be really effective, and also to protect them from naval bombardment (lethal to bombers in a city) but first they have to play whack a Roman ship with a little artillery support. Redlining the covering destroyers but can't touch the transports... but I hope that the admirals get discouraged and lead their flotillas home.....
I used up a bunch of slaves putting airfields in the four corners and at Newark, and that cost me some shields at Newark because pollution hit a shield producing mountain and I was seriously short clean up crews, so the towns in the Corrupt Province that had just built settlers are now building workers....
Well the plinking at Julie's transports did not discourage him much, but his landing is one pathetic tank at Olympia, more cannon fodder.
The boys with the Norden sights sank one destroyer but left another and a transport.
In 1756 sink the Roman flotilla of three destroyers and a transport with combined artillery fire and bomber flights then use the left over artillery to wreck the roads on the old Chinese island.
Then I sell the Chinese ironclads for some pocket change. Of course Mao has no coal
I need to do something about the Viking island in the south as Julie is using it as a bomber base for pillaging the core.
In 1758 there is enough in the kitty for a careful attempt at stealing tanks from Rome.
The Witch of Winchester is buying oil from Caesar.....
In 1760 reset the scientists and the research budget to pull AdvFlight in 10 but keep the kitty growing for another thievery attempt in seven turns.
The year 1762 is quiet at home but the Roman air and naval forces are coming at us from all directions and a tank lands in the north. The bomber fleet was rebased south to deal with a Roman fleet in the western waters.
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