Inherited Turn: renewed/updated RoP agreements with all civs except Babylon. Deal with Babylon, two lux and 4gpt for Spices. Deal with India, Lux and some gpt for another Lux. Entertainers fired. York and Nottingham redirected to build harbors, some other cities set to build aqueducts.
Since we are committed to 20 turns of peace with the only target of short term interest, I gear up for infrastructure push and settle in to peaceful era.
660AD: Babylon demands we move our troops. Thanks for the free movement! RoP with Babylon arranged to allow our ships passage. New Norwich founded. Ivory Coast swapped to walls, as it surely will come under attack some day, and probably before it can be improved/grown to size 7.
670AD: Theology discovered, start Education. (Joanie's "little library thingie" shall be put out of action). Science pumped to 50% and we are running a deficit. City southwest of London swapped to Sistine Chapel. That may not be what it eventually builds (Magellan may be a higher priority), but it will build something. I notice that London has no granary? How did that happen?
At least is has an aqueduct.
680AD: the seven pikes and one catapult on their way to Babylonian lands, or already there, are scattered in four directions. Two pikes and catapult head to Ireland, two pikes to Leeds island, two to Dover island, and one via "exploit the game mechanics" galley relay to the goody hut down on the uninhabited island. Trained one archer, who can be ugraded to longbow. Rivals beware! We have deadly forces now! :crazyeyes
690AD: rushed the courthouse in Dover. Workers trained in Leeds and on the mainland.
700AD: Babylon sends forth many galleys. I do the galley shuffle, moving galley from north down two squares, galley from south up two squares, wake pike in north galley, have him walk across much water to board south galley, then retreat each galley to safe waters. Ha! Who says you can't travel across five ocean tiles without navigation!
710AD: Babylon galley passes Ireland, will make contact with India next turn. I broker contact with Babs to all but Rome, and Joanie doesn't like what Hammurabi tells her about us, as she drops from Gracious to Polite.
720-730: Reinforcements arrive at all our colonies. Pikemen search minor village, find it abandoned, everyone dead or something. Nothing useful to be found there. Bah.
740AD: Education. I go to sell to Joan and she already has it??
Start Astronomy and queue up Navigation as second tech. Rushed the courthouse on our southwest coast, at the oasis city. Decide to swap reading from harbor to aqueduct. It can grow to size 7, where it will get an extra shield inside the city square, and the food lost from delayed harbor will be made up by not sitting around doing nothing waiting on the aqueduct. York and Nottingham finish harbors, start cathedrals. Worker trained in Leeds. Forests being chopped down to speed courthouse construction.
750AD: China and France both have Feudalism, and India can pay full market value for it (albeit mostly in gpt). I decide to sell, which allows science now to continue at 50% with negligible deficit. Oasis City set to build granary at 2 per turn. Then it will need an aqueduct. It's got a long long way to go.
At least ten more turns of peace coming, and all the deals I made will last through at least the next player's turn, including all luxuries, etc. SunTzu due in 15 turns, and we should stick with it, if for no other reason than to deprive the AI's of it and end the cascade for India/China. They will not be able to get to Theology or Invention in time to cascade. France, on the other hand, will probably get Astronomy by then, and grab Cop as cascade from their attempt at SunTzu. So it goes. Magellan is the one we want to be sure to get, so either swap off Sistine to it, or swap one of those cathedrals to it later. Forget Cop. Sistine, Bach or Leo would ALL be more valuable to this infantry scenerio, and we don't have the production to build everything.
Once Ireland has its temples, two should crank workers while the other builds a harbor. One harbor and roads can get everyone happier.
I learned that Hanging Gardens is NOT landmass dependent. I thought it was (like Pyramid/Bach). Wow, that really increases its value on archipelago maps! I checked the civilopedia and sure enough, it says "all cities" not "cities on same continent". Learn something new every day.
- Sirian
