SGOTM8 - Xteam

[WillowBrook]

Wow! I'm impressed!

On a more serious note, for Gator and Leif in particular, if the game doesn't get to me by early Sunday afternoon, I won't be able to play until next Friday.

 

[leif erikson]

On a more serious note, for Gator and Leif in particular, if the game doesn't get to me by early Sunday afternoon, I won't be able to play until next Friday.

Thanks.

Depending upon Gator's completion time, we can switch if you would like? Let's see what happens and we can figure it out then...

 

[WillowBrook]

Depending upon Gator's completion time, we can switch if you would like? Let's see what happens and we can figure it out then...

That would work for me. We'll see....

 

[DJMGator13]

I'll have it posted today. After the 4am airport trip and a 9 hour work day I fell asleep in my chair last night. But I just finished up at the golf tourney and will be finishing up my set tonight.

 

[leif erikson]

I'll have it posted today. After the 4am airport trip and a 9 hour work day I fell asleep in my chair last night. But I just finished up at the golf tourney and will be finishing up my set tonight.

don't blame you a bit! A good sleep in the chair is a sure sign that you're too tired for Civ?

Hope you didn't break 100? Or hit any holes-in-one......

 

[Capt Buttkick]

Hope you didn't break 100? Or hit any holes-in-one......

Yes, we want you to look to sgotm civ'ing for revenge

 

[leif erikson]

Yes, we want you to look to sgotm civ'ing for revenge

Yes, take it out on the Romans!!

 

[DJMGator13]

The Save

preturn 850AD (turn 200)
dial up ROM offer them peace for Seleucia, 50 gold and their Wmap
then sell them some dyes for 8gpt
Call up JPN sell them saltpeter for 21gpt - might as well a little more gold for a few turns

use Willow's worker rush to buy a harbor in Seleucia costing us 360 gold
Change Sparta to Bank - aqueduct only allows 1 more growth
Change Thermopylae to Bank - aqueduct only allows 2 more growth
everything else looks ok
leave lux @ 40% making 751gpt

IBT - don't like the preferences selected, animate battles was off hard to follow the action but we survived a VIK attack on a city with a wounded cav in defense and our knight near London survived
Beijing bank => Heroic Epic
Athens harbor => settler
Tsingtao courthouse => temple (for expansion)
Seattle bank => wealth
Seleucia Harbor => worker
Dallas bank => temple

Turn 201 - 860AD
WW 50% in some cities - leave lux at 40 making 788gpt
Seleucia rush worker for 80 then barrack for 120
upgrade knight in Oxford & 1 in Viroconium (to allow fewer units to cover the whole island)
switch build in Kalmar to a cav and rush for 280ish
rush 2 settlers in former ENG for about 120 gold total

IBT - no attacks
Shanghai courthouse => marketplace
Vasteras settler => settler
Xinjian temple => bank
St Louis harbor => bank
Kalmar cav => settler
Seleucia barracks => worker
Orlando settler => settler

Turn 202 - 870AD
check for happiness issues - lux at 40% make 794gpt
Seleucia rush worker for 80 then cav for 280

attack an ENG ax with a cav we redline and retreat only inflict 1hp - looks like the Capts. rng luck is still in the system
join 5 native workers to St Louis
join 3 native workers to Xinjian
join 1 native worker to Baltimore after converting mined plain to irrigation
up to 824gpt
VIK still won't talk

IBT - lose our redlined cav to the ENG ax
Athens settler => wealth
resist. in 3 of the 4 former ROM cities ends
Seleucia cav => worker

Turn 203 - 880AD
fix WW issues
Seleucia rush worker for 80 then cav for 280
join a worker to Baltimore
disband a horse in Tacoma
found Spokane set to settler
upgrade last knight in ENG theater

take out the ENG ax just for spite
got 9 cavs outside London

Battle for London
vCav vrs vMusket - we redline and retreat inflict 1hp
vCav vrs vPike - we redline and retreat inflict 1hp
vCav vrs 3/4 vMusket - we die after redlining them
vCav vrs rPike - we win down 1hp and promo to 4/5
eCav vrs 3/4 vPike - we die flawlessly
vCav vrs 3/4 vPike - we win down 2hp
vCav vrs vSpear - we redline and win
vcav vrs vSpear - we win down 1 hp
rCav vrs 1/4 vMusket - we win down 1hp no promo but we capture city & Hanging Gardens and a barrack

rush cav in Oxford for 308 gold
lux down to 30% since WW staying about the same we are making 957gpt vrs 825gpt
decide to buy a 2nd cav in ENG theater

IBT - no attacks but an ENG knight approaches London
Oxford cav => settler
Kalmar cav => settler
Seleucia cav => worker
Cleveland harbor => temple (for expansion)

Turn 204 - 890AD
Seleucia rush worker for 80 then cav for 280
found New Washington & New Boston
disband the pike in Brundisium to complete worker
disband a knight in Lutetia and rush a settler for 36 gold, then upgrade a knight - this leaves us 6 knights and 2 cav there
Kill an ENG bow move a few cavs towards Newcastle / rest of troops healing

IBT - VIK galley approaches New Washington / no counterattack from ENG even with a 2/5 eCav exposed
New York bank => harbor
Nanking temple => marketplace
Lutetia settler => settler
Brundisium worker => settler
Cincy bank => wealth
Seleucia cav => worker

Turn 205 - 900AD
Seleucia rush worker for 80 then cav for 280
rush a cav in Kalmar for 316gold to attend to the VIK galley / I'll keep the cav that was rushed a few turns ago in the area to help

almost held off attacking Newcastle thinking the 4 cavs were not enough to capture it then decide to attack & capture city with 1 cav

disband another knight in Caesarea then rush balance of settler for 40 gold, upgrade another knight to a cav there leaving 4 knights 3 cavs

sell some luxes to ROM & JPN make another 12gpt putting us over 1000gpt while we're in our GA

IBT - VIK galleys turns around no drop-off, another VIK galley near Kalmar
Kalmar cav => settler
Caesarea settler => settler
Seleucia cav => worker
Dallas temple => wealth

Turn 206 - 910AD
Seleucia rush worker for 80 then cav for 280
kill an ENG knight then advance troops
continue MM of home island trying to max out growth in cities on wealth since we no longer the shields
hurry a settler in Oxfors for 116gold
disband on more knight in Caesarea and rush another settler for about 40 gold - this will put all 4 captured ROM cities at size 1

VIK will talk and will give Norrkoping & their Wmap - I make the deal - the citizen is AMR and the city has a harbor and a barrack so I buy a full price worker and rush a cav

IBT - VIK galley's head home
Tsingtao temple => harbor
Corinth aqueduct => harbor
Norrkoping cav =>
Oxford settler => settler
Caesarea settler => settler
Seleucia cav => worker

Turn 207 - 920AD
peace with VIK allowed me to lower lux rate to 20%, cycle cities to adjust for the new setting this puts us at 1155gpt
ENG still won't talk
Seleucia & Norrkoping rush worker for 80 then cav for 280

Hastings
vCav vrs rPike - we redline and retreat
vCav vrs rPike - we win down 2hp
vCav vrs rSpear - we win down 1hp and capture city with 2 workers (taking ENG horses in the process)

Coventry
vCav vrs rMusket - we win down 1 hp
vCav vrs rSpear - we win flawlessly
vCav vrs rLBow - we win down 1 hp and capture city

ENG still won't talk
JPN short of horses so I sell them horses for 11gpt - we are still average to ROM and their front hasn't changed much with JPN
sell ROM gems for 9gpt

found New Philly & New Atlanta
join a worker in Philly
join 2 workers to Cincy
we're up to 1192gpt

position 4 cavs from Selecuia to be able to strike Nicomedia - we'll have 6 cavs there next turn that should be enough to start the offensive on that island

IBT - Beijing completes HE => wealth
Norrkoping cav => worker
Houston harbor => temple
Seleucia cav => worker
Albuquerque courthouse => marketplace

Turn 208 - 930AD
Norrkoping rush worker for 80 then cav for 280

Good News: We are now Strong to ROM

ENG will talk but won't give Norwich or Dover
found New Chicago

IBT - Norrkoping cav => worker
Hangchow temple => harbor
Lutetia deposes to ROM (no problem since I'm about to declare on them) they get a musket (so they don't have rifles yet)

Turn 209 - 940AD
Norrkoping rush worker for 80 then cav for 280
VIK built a new city Bjoergvin off the west coast of our main island

York
vCav vrs rMusket - we redline and win
vCav vrs rMusket - we win down 1 hp
vCav vrs rMusket - we win flawlessly
vCav vrs rPike - we win down 2hp and capture York

ENG still won't part with Dover or Norwich, time to play dirty
Sign up ROM to a MA vrs ENG (hopefully they will take care of Dover for us) giving them incense and 200gpt
trade Wmaps with both JPN & ROM
then issue DOW on ROM

we lose 2 cavs attacking Lutetia but we win with the 3rd and the city autorazes, upgrade 2 knights to cavs on that island

Nicomedia (ROM)
vCav vrs rSpear - we win
vCav vrs rSpear - we redline and retreat
vCav vrs rSpear - we win and capture the city
use another cav to capture 2 ROM workers outside the city

IBT - we have disperse a Bcamp off our SW coast and earned 50 gold
Norrk cav => worker

Turn 210 - 950AD
Norrkoping rush worker for 80 then cav for 280

ENG will give us MTheory, Monarchy & PPress for peace and MT but they won't give Norwich, I guess we'll have to take another city first

Palmyra (ROM size 4)
eCav vrs rMusket - we die they promo to 2/4
vCav vrs rMusket - we die they redline
vCav vrs 2/4 vMusket - we win and promo to 4/5
rCav vrs 1/3 rMusket - we win, capture city and see a strange looking wooden structure sink

move balance of troops to attack Warwick next turn (although it's been building Bach's for a long time now)


Notes to next player
1) There are a few formerly ENG cities with resistence that have no troops in them, once we take Warwick we need to quell the resistence in them
2) Keep up buying Cavs in Korr, you have 4 there now and 1 more next turn. I'd shoot for 8-10 cavs before launching attack. They now have 3 off island cities. When we redeclare on them we need to get them down to 1 mainland city then try to sue for all 3 cities at once.
3) Norwich is looking like it could be a problem. We can't capture both of ENG big cities or their capital will jump to Norwich and it is getting too big for them to give up. We may want to make an embassy with VIK and have them declare on ENG also. Maybe we can get thenm to attack Norwich.
4) Not sure how long our GA will last. WW will be a problem when that ends.
5) Treasury has 4586gold in it and we are pulling in 1181gpt currently
6) I've got a settler near where Lutetia was, we're down to only 4 cavs there so we may need to buy 1 later if ROM gets frisky. Don't leave them inside cities in case of flips.
7) Check for happiness, I forgot to

A quick look at former ENG holdings

 

[leif erikson]

Very nice turn set Gator!!

Looks like we have England on the run, the Vikings scared and Rome and Japan eating away at each others armies!!

Roster:
Leif - UP
Willow - On Deck
Capt.
Nemesis
Bluebox
Gator - Just played!

I am planning to start tomorrow evening, early as I can in order to get it to Willow by Saturday evening, definately before Sunday morning. Of course, I don't want to rush things too much as it looks like things are starting to get complicated. All ideas and comments are welcome.

BTW - Our territory graph is looking really good now. All we need is a Roman or Japanese city on the main island and get Norwich. We'll have to think about that one.

 

[Capt Buttkick]

Excellent turnset, Gato
Thanks for getting Norrk. back

Yes, Norwich will be the test. Capitol will jump to Liverpool after we take Warwick so perhaps then?
If not, I think we should just stay at war with the English for as long as we can. We may get lucky and the Eng will build another city on the Norwich island. I'm a little surprised they haven't done that yet. There's also the possibility that they will tire of the war if we take Dover after getting one of the icy Roman cities in a peace deal.
Once we can get Norwich, we should take the deal and declare imidiately to leave England in the north with nowhere to go until they build harbour + ship + settler

Good luck, leif

 

[WillowBrook]

Good job! The blue is spreading....

The English did have another settlement on Norwich Island many, many turns ago. The Vikings destroyed it.

And, yes, we need to be VERY sure the capital doesn't jump there, or our victory date would entirely be luck.

Note that Hippo Regius would also give us a foothold on Dover Island, should Rome be in the mood.

Nothing else I can think of at the moment to comment on...

Good luck, Leif!

 

[Capt Buttkick]

And now... Introducing women

You happy, leif?

 

[leif erikson]

A quick update for those who may be interested.

I've completed 4 turns thus far.

Selsucia flipped back to Rome on the first interturn! But we took it back 2 turns later. Warwick is ours but no Norwich thus far. I have made a temporary peace with Rome and got Hippo Reglus for it. I've rushed a Harbor and a Barracks and next turn its Cavs and the march to Dover.

We nearly got Kagoshima for peace with Rome instead of Hippo, but couldn't find the one little tidbit Rome needed to give it up. :shakehead After we get Artaxata, perhaps he'll give it up.

Next turn will be a declaration on Japan as all Roman cities are gone from the Seleucia island, unless they start flipping again.

Oh, the Golden Age is ending this turn as well. More to come!

 

[leif erikson]

And now... Introducing women

You happy, leif?

Not if they are bigger and stronger than I am! :shakehead



A nice break from concentrating!!

 

[leif erikson]

It was an interesting turn set, full of little decisions. I hope I made the right ones.

The good news is that we now control everything off the main continents except a small Japanese island to the south, a small Japanese/Roman island near Seleucia, Bjoergvin, near Chicago and Norwich. England is at war with The Vikings and The Vikings have three Vet Swords sitting next to Norwich. I am anxious to see what happens? Rome was nearly ready to give us Kagoshima, but I couldn't find anything to seal the deal. As I say later, I think we need to try to push Ceasar hard and he might give it up.

The bad news is that Tokugawa won't even consider giving us anything for peace, atm. Although Rome has taken another of his cities.

Here is the SAVE.

The turn log follows:
Pre-Flight – Turn 210 – 950 AD
Happiness is in check, barely! Tried to turn the lux slider down but would have to starve some cities to keep from rioting.
Hmmm, we need more Lux, let’s see where they are? There are spices on the small island we are conquering now and Silks, Ivory, Wool and Furs on the Rome/Japan continent. So one of our goals should be to hook up those spices as soon as we can.
There are 4 turns left in our GA.
We are at peace with The Vikings and Japan. We are receiving 37 GPT from Japan.
Build an embassy with The Vikings for 33 Gold. Nidaros has 5 citizen, two are clowns and the other three are content. It ios building a temple and has 3 Regular Pikes for defenders. They are building a Temple with 11 turns to completion!
Visit the Vikings and ask about a Military Alliance. They want Wines, Horses, Engineering, Monotheism, World Map and 1390 Gold. Nothing shy about these guys!
We settle on Wines, Engineering, Monotheism, World Map and 74 GPT. The Vikings declare on the English.
Press enter.

IBT
Norrkoping Cavalry => Worker.
Seleucia flips back to Rome!
Cleveland Temple => Marketplace.

Turn 211 – 960 AD
Send 4 cavs towards Aurelianorum and 1 back towardsa Seleucia.
Join a worker to Shanghai and Denver.
Found New Seattle and start wealth.

Battle for Warwick.
3/3 Cav attacks a 5/5 English Musket and dies, Musket now 3/5.
3/4 Cav attacks 3/5 Musket and kills him, 2/4.
¾ Cav attacks a 3/3 Spear and kills him, redlining and we capture Warwick with 5 resisters and 2 Workers. Start a settler and MM for starvation.
Disperse some of the cavs to provide military to quell resisters in former England.

Rush Worker (80 gold) in Norrkoping and then a Cav (260 Gold).

MM Tientsin and York to prevent riots.
Set London to starve.
Dial up England and she is insulted to give up Norwich and doubts she’ll give up Dover. (I tried giving London and York back to obtain Norwich and she refused.) So, we remain at war.
Rush a settler in Oakland for 108 Gold.

IBT
Tokugawa is upset with our cavs in his (for now) territory as we approach Aurelianorum. We apologize.
An English LB attacks our Cav near Warwick and dies, Cav now 2/4.
We quell some resisters and grow some culture.
Norr Cav => Worker.
Oakland Settler => Settler.

We are notified that The Vikings are building J.S. Bach’s Cathedral. (Good!)

Turn 212 – 970 AD
Join native worker to New Orleans.

Battle for Seleucia.
4/4 Cav attacks a 3/3 Roman Musket and kills him flawlessly and we retake the city and 1 Gold. Set production to Worker, rush for 80 Gold and then set to Cav and rush for 260 Gold.
Do the same in Norr.

Move Cavs into attack positions at Aurelianorum and find a 4/4 Spear guarding the city against a 2/3 Japanese LB!

Rush a settler in Brighton for 56 Gold as there is a source of Wool near York we can claim.
Checked with England and she isn’t giving up Norwich. I even offered her Military Tradition, no way!

IBT
Vikinigs request an audience. They want to give us Prnting Press for Invention, pardon me while I fall down laughing!
An English Axe is landed near Viroconium.
Norr Cavalry => Worker.
Buffalo Courthouse => Harbor.
New Orleans Bank => Wealth.
Brighton Settler => Cavalry.
Seleucia Cavalry => Worker.
Las Vegas Temple => Harbor.

Turn 213 – 980 AD
Join a Worker to Buffalo and to Dallas.
Rush a Worker and then a Cav in Seleucia and in Norr.

Battle for Aurelianorum
4/4 Cav attacks a 4/4 Roman Spear and kills him, redlining!
5/5 Cav attacks a 3/3 Spear and kills him, destroying a Gator’s wooden whatchamacallit? And capturing 1 slave and 3 Gold. The town self razes.
Prepare to attack Japan.

4/4 Cav attacks 4/4 English Axe near Viroconium and retreats, Axe is 2/4?
4/4 Cav attacks 2/4 Axe and kills him flawlessly.

Set Warwick, Hastings and York to starve. Rush a Settler in London for 88 Gold.

Dial up Lizzie and she is being obstinante!
Dial up Caesar. I ask for Kagoshima and he says we are getting close to a deal but he won’t take anything else I offer. So, I have to settle for Hippo Regius and 10 Gold. At least we can get his other city and, more importantly, the English city up north!

Unfortunately, Hippo has nothing in it so we rush a Worker for 80 Gold and a Harbor for 280 Gold.

IBT
The English request an audience. They refuse to give Norwich so I throw them out! :shakehead
London Settler => Settler.
Sparta Bank => Temple.
Xinjian Bank => Wealth
Norr Cavalry => Worker.
The resistance at Micomedia ends, finally!
Seleucia Cavalry => Worker.
Hippo Reglus Harbor => Worker.

The Japanese city of Satsuma completes Magellan’s Voyage.

Turn 214 – 990 AD
Found the town of New San Francisco and start wealth.
Rush Worker in Norr and Seleucia and then Cav.
In Hippo, rush a Worker and then a Barracks.
We overlook Liverpool and see a Reg Pike guarding it. As we sharpen our sabres, we simply cannot understand who is keeping us from our prize?
Make a clown in Baltimore and a taxman in New Washington to prevent rioting.
Move Cavs to begin campaign against Japan near Seleucia.
Set Warwick and Hastings to starve.

Dial up Lizzie and she is still being thick over Norwich.

IBT
Three Viking Galleys are headed north up the straight for Norwich.
We are informed our Golden Age has come to an end.
Civil disorder breaks out all over as our income drops, prolly should have added some to it.
Norr Cavalry => Worker.
Houston Temple => Bank.
Seleucia Cavalry => Worker.
Hippo Reglus Barracks => Worker.

Turn 215 – 1000 AD
Change lux slider to 30%. The Treasury is 6,539 Gold with an income of 665 GPT. When we have that Wool hooked up, we’ll go back over 700 GPT.
Rush Workers and then Cavs in Norr, Seleucia and Hippo. Shoiuldn’t need too many more in Seleucia.
While we have 9 Cavs near Norr, I think it best to allow the three Galleys headed for Norwich to get there before I declare on The Vikings. That is 3 to 4 turns away.
Move Cavs to attack position against Japan.

IBT
Rome requests an audience. They want us to take some of their moth ridden Furs in exchange for our fine Wines plus 98 GPT. Sorry Ceasar, not today.
Hastings flips to England.
Order is restpored throught our empire, more or less.
Pharsalos Courthouse => Marketplace. Change clown to taxman.
Norr Cavalry => Worker.
Seleucia Cavalry => Worker.
Hippo Cavalry => Worker.

Turn 216 – 1010 AD

Found the town of New Miami and bring Wool to the empire! Start Wealth.
Found the town of New Houston and start Wealth.
Rush Workers and then Cavs in Norr, Seleucia and Hippo.

Battle for Hastings
Wake an Elite Cavalry and attack an English 3/3 Spear and we kill him flawlessly and retake Hastings. Set to Settler.

Dial up Tokugawa. His text box says, “All right, I listen. But mind you don’t try any of your swinging American merchants’ tricks on me”. OK, how about WAR!

Battle for Shimonoseki (size 6)
3/4 Cav attacks 3/3 LB and kills him flawlessly.
4/4 Cav attacks 3/3 Spear and kills him, now 3/4.
4/4 Cav attacks 3/3 Spear and kills him flawlessly, capturing Shimonoseki and 1 Gold. There are 5 resisters. Start a settler.

Battle for Matsuyama (size 2)
4/4 Cav attacks 3/3 Spear and kills him flawlessly.
4/4 Cav attacks 3/3 Spear and kills him, redlining. We capture the town and burn one of those large ooden things that frighten us so much. We get 1 Gold and 1 resister. Start a Settler.

Kalmar is about to riot, hire a second taxman.
Set Warwick, Palmyra and York to starve.
Set lux slider to 20%, +772 GPT

IBT
A fourth Viking Galley is heading for Norwich.
Shanghai Marketplace => Temple.
Thermopylae Bank => Temple.
Tsingtao Harbor => Marketplace. Norr Cavalry => Worker.
We love the President day in Washington?
Seleucia Cavalry => Temple.
Hippo Cavalry => Worker.

Turn 217 – 1020 AD

Battle for Sapporo
4/4 Cav attacks 4/4 Spear and kills him, 2/4, promotes, 3/5.
5/5 Cav attacks 3/3 Spear and kills him flawlessly.
4/4 Cav attacks 3/3 LB and kills him flawlessly, capturing the city and 1 gold. We capture 1 Worker and there is one resister. Set production to Settler.

Rush a Worker and a Cav in Norr and Hippo.
Set York, Palmyra and Warwick to starve.
Japan won’t talk yet and Lizzie is a stubborn as ever.
Hire a taxman in Cleveland and Tatung.

IBT
A Japanese LB lands beside Norr.
A Roman Galley sinks an English Galley.
Corinth Harbor => Temple.
Norr Cav => Worker.
Hippo Cav => Worker.

Turn 218 – 1030 AD
4/4 Cav attacks a Japanese 3/3 Archer near Norr and kills him flawlessly.

Battle for Dover
4/4 Cav attacks 4/4 Spear and kills him, 2/4.
4/4 Cav attacks 3/3 Spear and kills him, 2/4. We take Dover and 1 Worker. There is 1 resister. Set production to Worker.

Rush Workers and Cavs in Hippo.
Dial up Lizzie and she still refuses to give up Norwich. Go Vikings!!
Tokugawa refuses to break bread with us.
Hire a taxman in Tsingtao.
Set Warwick, Palmyra and York to starve.

IBT
Not only do the Vikings not drop off troops, they sign a Peace Treaty with England.
Hippo Cav => Worker.

Turn 219 – 1040 AD
Near Hastings, a 4/4 Cav attacks an English 2/3 Spear and kills hm flawlessly.
Rush Cavalry in Hippo and Norr.
Time to try some dirty work.
Dial up The Vikings (Oh, my own people). Make an alliance against England for Wines, World Map plus 100 Gold per turn. The Vikings declare on England.
Set York, Warwick, Palmyra and Hastings to starve.

I decide to wait a turn to declare on The Vikings as we don’t have enough units to repel and attack of 6 to 8 units along our west coast!

Lizzie still won’t budge!
Tokugawa won’t talk either.

IBT
The Vikings drop off 3 Swords near Norwich.
England move a 3/3 LB onto hill near Hastings.
New York Harbor => Wealth, set up several taxmen to open food source for inland cities.
Nanking Marketplace => Bank.
Norr Cav => Worker.
Hippo Cav => Settler.

Turn 220 – 1050 AD
Change Seleucia to Settler to be used to claim the Spices near Nicomedia.
4/4 Cav attacks an English 3/3 LB near Hastings and kills him flawlessly, promoting to Elite.

Willow, please note that the units near Norrkoping have NOT been moved, so if you decide to declare on The Vikings, all those Cavs are free for you to move and attack with!

After Action Report
The Vikings, just last inter-turn, traded for Invention. Berserks are now in play. I decided to leave the decision to go to war with the Vikings to Willow. You have plenty of Cavs for some fun in Viking land and I recommend you take advantage soonest.
Tokugawa will talk but he is no mood to give us anything.

Militarily, we are strong compared to everyone. While I hope it wasn’t a mistake, I held off attacking The Vikings because I was hoping they would take Norwich, and they might. I recommend that once we see what happens there, we should immediately take down the Vikings. I hope they get Norwich. That also means that taking out England would be a great idea so Norwich cannot flip back to England.

We are also ready to re-declare on Rome. I think that we should consider gifting a city or two to Rome in addition to taking out Artaxata. Ceasar was almost ready to give us Kagoshima and if we push him, he might. I have to say that I am optomistic about our chances, especially if Norwich falls to The Vikings.

Please remember that Japan has 2 cities off of their continent; Hakodate and Ise, located just east of Philadelphia, and a third, Tarentum, located with the Roman city of Jerusalem located just east of Seleucia. The Vikings have one off island city, Bjoergvin, just west of Chicago. We all know about Norwich, which may become a Viking city soon.

We are out of our Golden Age and are making 753 GPT with a Treasury of 6,467 Gold. Our sliders are set at zero research and 20% Lux.

Willow, please feel free to change any city build. Good luck!!

 

[WillowBrook]

Got it! Looking good!

I will play either tomorrow or Sunday - more likely Sunday. But I'll at least look at the game tomorrow to see if I have any questions.

 

[leif erikson]

@Willow - If you have any questions, please ask away!

Roster:
Willow - UP
Capt. - On Deck
Nemesis
Gator
Bluebox
Leif - Just Played

BTW - I'm liking the way the territory graph is looking. Good luck Willow!

 

[DJMGator13]

The Vikings have one off island city, Bjoergvin, just west of Chicago. We all know about Norwich, which may become a Viking city soon.

And 2 more cities just off the coast of their main island.

BTW, good turnset leif. I think you did the right thing in waiting for the VIK to go after Norwich. There has to be a future resource there which is why they won't give it to us.

Keep up the pressure Willow. Lie cheat steal bribe threaten or what ever it takes to get us a city on the JPN/ROM mainland.

 

[DJMGator13]

Territory graph does look good.

This is going to be a fun rotation. We have a very good chance for an award. Whether it's a laurel or a spoon is yet to be determined. If we can get to the main island quickly and clean up this small islands we can finish in first. If we can't cleanup the small islands we could be looking at a spoon.

 

[Capt Buttkick]

Lizzie might be holding on to Norwich due to the horses, which will be inside city borders on cultural expansion?