State of the Empire - Term X

[Chamnix]

State of the Empire
Turn Update

Turn: 191
Year: 710 AD

Headlines:

Theory of Evolution completes!! We learn Replaceable Parts, Refining, and Steel!!

Dnuts land 40 units near Rhodes!! MIA military essentially ignores them!!

Dnuts completed Sun Tzu’s!!

We have 2 sources of rubber and 2 sources of oil!!



I stuck mostly to my build orders, I think, although I didn’t actually look at them…

I decided to build artillery in Heron instead of cavalry since we sold the barracks.

Sold lots of walls in interior towns in case we need the extra cash – we probably still don’t need it, but we don’t need the walls either.

Draft citizens from Black Hole, Northern Retreat, Virtuoso, EMP City, Meleagerville, The Two Rivers, Antville, Aliakmon Stronghold, Phoenopolis, and Rhodes – 10 is plenty, and I think almost all of those towns will grow back next turn.

Move 10 conscript infantry and 16 hoplites to Rhodes and fortify. The 17th hoplite wasn’t on a road, so he couldn’t get there.

Guess what I just learned? Privateers can bombard with the same strength as frigates.

Domestic Matters:

We are running 0% science, 0% luxury. We have 2,978 gold and are running at +584 gpt.

We have 0 beakers invested toward researching Combustion - due in 13 at 375 bpt.


We have 119 towns:


We have 144 native workers and about 59 slaves.

Compared to Donuts we are average.
Compared to KISS we are strong.

Spoiler Battle Log :

To be sent to admins:

4/4 frigate bombs 4/4 privateer near April Fools to ¾.
3/3 galleon attacks 3/3 privateer near Rhodes -> Galleon 2/3, privateer sinks.

To be sent to Dnuts:

4 Cannons bomb stack near Rhodes:

Infantry 4/4 -> ¾
Miss
Infantry 4/4 -> ¾
Infantry 4/4 -> ¾

 

[General_W]

Thank you Chamnix! Brilliant as always!


Turn sent to KISS
All battle logs sent.

 

[General_W]

State of the Empire:
Turn 192 Update​

Science Update: Combustion – 0/4800 - (3turns left)
Treasury: 3,324 (-368)

Headline News:
* Dnut Invaders Bombed for 32 hit points!
* Ithaca and Ithaca Mountain fortified.
* Science Soars to 100% - Combustion predicted in 3 turns.

City Update:
* Athens completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Virtuoso completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Look Here completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* The Two Rivers completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Gorin completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Aliakmon Stronghold completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Mountain View completes worker, start wealth.

* Draft infantry from Chamnix's Hold
* Draft infantry from EMP City.

* Changed Woodridge from infantry to artillery.
* Changed Rollah Coasta from infantry to artillery.
* Changed Ephebe from infantry to artillery.

* Heron cleaned up, and brought back to over 40spt.
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Economy Update:
* Science UP to 100%
* Lux steady at 0%

* Treasury = 3,324 (-368)
* Combustion = 3 turns
* Spent 240 gold upgrading last 4 cannons to artillery
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Military Update:
* Bombed and Killed the Pirate off the coast of Heron – flawless victory!
* Dealt 32 points of damage to Dnuts Invasion Stack with Artillery
* Galleons gathering at Heron
* Frigate moves from Fe’s Winery to April Fools

Divided defense forces like this:
Ithaca: 15 Artillery, 8 Infantry, 11 Hoplites, 25 Cavalry
Mountain: 16 Artillery, 4 Infantry, 6 Hoplites, 25 Cavalry
I got extra cavalry by empting most towns in the north – there’s a small flip risk, but I left Cavalry in Chamnix’s hold (don’t want to lose Leos) and in the towns closest to the Dnut Channel.

Spoiler 2 Battle Logs :

To Dnuts:
We bombarded your stack with 31 artillery. We did 32 points of damage.
9 double hits, 14 single hits, 8 misses..

To Admins:
4/4 MIA Frigate bombs 3/3 Pirate – hit for 2 hps.
MIA Frigate attacks a Pirate. Pirate Sunk, MIA Frigate still 4/4

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Workers Update:
Workers = 145
Slaves = 59
* Laying a bunch of rails
* Focused on improving food in the North… ignoring hills and mountains
* Clearing jungle and swamp on tiles with roads… roading jungle tiles without roads.
* 1 Tile of Pollution cleaned this turn.
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From the Desk of the President:
* Sorry about missing the latest defense update. I’ve come down with the flu, so I played the save in stages – with a nap in-between playing and posting – so it took quite a while. When I was done and looked again. Still I think we’re looking pretty good defense wise. I was happy with how the bombing went, and with the extra units I pulled from up north, I can’t imagine we won’t be safe next turn.

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[General_W]

State of the Empire:
Turn 193 Update​

Science Update: Combustion – ?/4800 - (2 turns left)
Treasury: 3,324 (-368)

Headline News:
* Dnut Invaders beat severely – only a few bloodied units remain
* Luxury rate soars to 20% - anti-war riots narrowly avoided.

City Update:
* Athens completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Black Hole completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Heron completes artillery, start infantry.
* EMP City completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Meleagerville completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Antville completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Woodridge completes artillery, start infantry.
* Ephebe completes artillery, start infantry.
* Phoenopolis completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Tarkingrad completes galleon, start infantry.
* Rollah Coasta completes artillery, start infantry.
* Prison Colony completes worker, start wealth.
* Cellblock 24601 completes worker, start wealth

* Phi Betta Kappa – Switched from Infantry to Artillery
* Sparta – Switched from Infantry to Artillery

* No Draft this turn
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Economy Update:
* Science Down to 80%
* Lux up to 20%

* Treasury = 2,566 (-322)
* Combustion = 2 turns
* Spent 420 gold upgrading 4 Hoplites to Infantry
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Military Update:
* See Turn 193 thread for full military update.

Divided defense forces like this:
(Not counting Arty)
Hindus River = 17 (mostly heavily wounded units and 4 upgraded Hoplites)
Rhodes = 15
Ithaca = 16
Antville = 2
Ephebe = 2
Chamnix's Hold = 1
Mountain = 13

Spoiler 2 Battle Logs :

To Dnuts:
We bombarded your stack with 39 artillery. We did 33 points of damage.

By attacking with Cavalry, we killed:
Nut Infantry = 21
Nut Guerrillas = 1
Nut Cavalry = 13
(It’s possible I may have confused a Cavalry or Infantry in there – but I’m pretty sure that’s correct)

We lost 19 Cavalry and had 4 Cavalry retreat.

To KISS:
4/4 MIA Frigate bombs 3/3 KISS Frigate – hit for 2 hps.
4/4 MIA Frigate attacks 1/3 KISS Frigate. Frigate Sunk, MIA Frigate now 3/4

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Workers Update:
Workers = 145
Slaves = 59
* Laying a bunch of rails
* Focused on improving food in the North… ignoring hills and mountains
* Clearing jungle and swamp on tiles with roads… roading jungle tiles without roads.
* 0 Pollution cleaned this turn.
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From the Desk of the President:
* For a full rundown on this turn, see the 193 turn thread!

* Thanks to all that participated as I played! Took a while - but I think it made for a much better turn play!

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[General_W]

State of the Empire:
Turn 194 Update​

Science Update: Combustion – 3,422/4,800 - (1 turn left)
Treasury: 2,246 (-262)

Headline News:
* 3 Pirates sent to the bottom of the Sea
* 3 More pirates redlined by artillery, out of range of justice… for now…
* No More Swamp! Workers drain the last swamp on the Green Island. President estimates only 50% or less of the jungle remains

City Update:
* Athens completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Virtuoso completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Look Here completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Aliakmon Stronghold completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Sparta completes artillery, start infantry.
* Phi Beta Kappa completes artillery, start infantry.

* Changed Heron from infantry to galleon
* Changed Ephebe from infantry to galleon.
* Changed Ceasaria from infantry to artillery.
* Changed Pale Dove from infantry to artillery.

* No Draft this turn
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Economy Update:
* Science steady at 80%
* Lux steady at 20%

* Treasury = 2,246 (-262)
* Combustion = 2 turns
* forgot to sell the granary - next turn!
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Military Update:
* Defensive forces rearranged to spread across our Northern town, to guard against any flips.
* Units stationed on Forests by Ithaca Mt – to prevent another landing in the woods.
* All wounded units ordered to stay put and heal
* 3 Pirates sent to the bottom of the Sea
* 3 More pirates redlined by artillery, out of range of justice… for now…
* KISS Frigate redlined with Artillery

Spoiler 2 Battle Logs :

To Admins:
We redlined 5 pirates with our artillery. Then we sunk 2 of those pirates with our Frigates.
We also attacked a ¾ pirate with a 4/4 frigate. Pirate was sunk, our Frigate was reduced to 2/4

To KISS:
4/4 KISS frigate redlined by MIA Artillery.

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Workers Update:
Workers = 147
Slaves = 59
* Laying a bunch of rails
* Focused on improving food in the North… ignoring hills and mountains
* Clearing jungle – Swamp now all cleared!
* 1 Pollution cleaned this turn.
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From the Desk of the President:
* Everything is looking pretty good! I got a bunch of extra taxmen to reduce our deficit, but I left 4 extra scientists, to be sure there won’t be a hiccup in getting Combustion next turn.

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Domestic:


Defense:


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[General_W]

State of the Empire:
Turn 195 Update​

Science Update: Flight – 0/5,400 - (4 turns left)
Treasury: 2,246 (-262)

Headline News:
* We discover Combustion!
* Most enemy ships run away. Except a KISS frigate the bombed our Rubber… out of range of justice… till next turn!
* President ignores chop suggestion – obsessive/compulsively continues to clear jungle.

City Update:
* Athens completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Black Hole completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* EMP City completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Meleagerville completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Antville completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Phoenopolis completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Ceasaria completes artillery, start infantry.
* Pale Dove completes artillery, start infantry.

* The stuffy-headed President missed switching infantry to transports… I hope that wasn’t critical this turn… it was a long first day back at work…

* Disbanded all hoplites and conscript Infantry
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Economy Update:
* Science steady at 80%
* Lux steady at 20%

* Treasury = 1,254 (-324)
* Flight = 4 turns
* Upgraded 10 Galleons to Transports for 750 gold
* Sold Remaining 4 city walls for 20 gold
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Military Update:
* Defensive forces newly healed spread across our Northern town, to guard against any flips.
* 41 Artillery units stationed in ChuckNorrisville
* Redlined KISS Frigate with 2 Artillery

Spoiler 1 Battle Log :

To KISS:
4/4 KISS frigate redlined by MIA Artillery.

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Workers Update:
Workers = 147
Slaves = 59
* Laying a bunch of rails
* Focused on improving food in the North… ignoring hills and mountains
* Clearing jungle
* 0 Pollution cleaned this turn.
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From the Desk of the President:
* I agree with the principle of starting to chop instead of clearing the jungle – but our land is just starting to look so pretty! I had a few more tiles I just couldn’t resist clearing.
Next turn we can start chopping, but I realized I need some further instruction on how to do it properly. I thought the restriction was only 1 chop per turn to a city. I didn’t realize it applied to each tile for the WHOLE game!! So how do I keep a pattern to remember, and furthermore, how can I control where the chop goes? Playing these turns is already totally stretching the amount of time I have to devote to this game, so I hope the solution isn’t too time consuming.

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Defense:

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[Chamnix]

Turn 196 Update:

Builds

Heron completes transport, start infantry.
Virtuoso comletes cavalry, start cavalry.
Look Here completes cavalry, start cavalry.
Ephebe completes transport, start infantry.
Aliakmon Stronghold completes cavalry, start cavalry.
Parga comletes infantry, start infantry.
Olympia completes cavalry, start cavalry.
Hindus River completes cavalry, start cavalry.
Agrili completes infantry, start infantry.

Change Abdera from infantry to destroyer.
Change Phi Beta Kappa from infantry to transport.


Sell granary in Polecat.
Sell granary in Sword of General_W.

Sliders

Luxuries at 20%.
Science down to 60% (I found enough new specialists that 60% will complete Flight in 3).

Forestry operations started. I started in the northwest corner of the continent - General_W should have no trouble figuring out which tiles were chopped... the ones with the workers on them.

Boats start moving into position.

MM Athens for extra wealth - should be moved back to 80 spt next turn (Two citizens in Heron from mined plains to coast, Athens takes the mined plains back).

Disband 3 regular and 1 conscript infantry.

 

[General_W]

Thanks for doing that Chamnix!


I could have turned Sci down to 70% last turn - but I thought you wanted to bank some beakers?

Anyway, hopefully that'll be the last turn I have to skip... this term.

 

[General_W]

State of the Empire:
Turn 197 Update​

Science Update: Flight – 2,844/5,400 - (2 turns left)
Treasury: 829 (-133)

Headline News:
* Mass Chopping Continues

City Update:
* Athens completes cavalry, start cavalry
* Black Hole completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* EMP City completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Meleagerville completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Antville completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Phoenopolis completes cavalry, start cavalry.

* Changed Heron from infantry to transport.
* Changed Rhodes from infantry to destroyer.
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Economy Update:
* Science steady at 60%
* Lux steady at 20%

* Treasury = 829 (-133)
* Flight = 2 turns
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Military Update:
* Nothing to shoot at
* Transports moving towards their destinations. (Suggest getting transport from Far West Port – Infantry will complete before we get flight.)

Spoiler 0 Battle Log :

To No One:

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Workers Update:
Workers = 147
Slaves = 59
* Planting Forests, Chopping Forests, Replacing Irrigation.
* 1 Pollution cleaned this turn.
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From the Desk of the President:
* I had to play this turn late at night – got done watching movies with visiting family and found the turn. Fortunately, I think my first time trying the massive moving wall of chopping workers went really well. Used 4 workers and a slave for each planting of a forest, and I don’t think I wasted many worker turns – if any. I didn’t do anything fancy to redirect where the chops went – everything up there needs shields.

I picked up a few more scientists – but not enough to shave a turn off flight… but next turn we should be able to throttle back a bit. Then it should be smooth sailing to Mass Production and Amphibious Warfare.

Images:
I forgot- sorry!
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[General_W]

State of the Empire:
Turn 198 Update​

Science Update: Flight – 4,155/5,400 - (1 turn left)
Treasury: 696 (-143)

Headline News:
* Mass Chopping Continues
* Riots Break Out – President blames Congress!

City Update:
* Athens completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Heron completes transport, start infantry.
* Virtuoso completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Look Here completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* The Two Rivers completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Gorin completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Aliakmon Stronghold completes cavalry, start cavalry.
* Phi Beta Kappa completes transport, start infantry.

* Changed Ephebe from infantry to transport.
* Changed Abdera from destroyer to transport.
* Changed Rhodes from destroyer to transport.
* Changed Far West Port to Transport (Not sure 3 other transports will arrive in time)

* Stopped Riots in 7 towns. Prevented riots in several others.
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Economy Update:
* Science steady at 60%
* Lux steady at 20%

* Treasury = 696 (-143)
* Flight = 1 turn
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Military Update:
* Nothing to shoot at
* Transports moving towards their destinations. Most towards Ithaca – 3 towards Far West Port
* All Artillery fortified in ChuckNorrisvile
* Cavalry and Infantry spread out across the Northern towns
* Frigates checking for enemy ships and ending in port – nothing sighted.

Spoiler 0 Battle Log :

To No One:

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Workers Update:
Workers = 147
Slaves = 59
* Planting Forests, Chopping Forests, Replacing Irrigation.
* 0 Pollution cleaned this turn.
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From the Desk of the President:
* I feel really bad about the rioting towns – when I did my sweep last night, it was late, and I must have just missed checking on the happy vs angry people. In the sweep I did this turn, I paid extra close attention. Sorry about that.
* We couldn’t really pick up any taxmen and still have as big of a cushion as Chamnix wanted. So one more turn of steep losses to make sure we get flight with no hiccups.
* I intentionally made Regent Mansion Riot this turn – I’m hoping that will stop the Infantry from completing, so that we can use that full box of shields on a bomber on turn 200. This seemed better to me than ending up with the useless non-veteran Infantry and having to disband it for fractional value shields from it. I hope that works and was the right call.

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Domestic:


Defense:


F-11:

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[Chamnix]

I intentionally made Regent Mansion Riot this turn – I’m hoping that will stop the Infantry from completing, so that we can use that full box of shields on a bomber on turn 200. This seemed better to me than ending up with the useless non-veteran Infantry and having to disband it for fractional value shields from it. I hope that works and was the right call.

Very clever! I think whether it works or not will depend on how many shields are accumulated already. If it had 89 shields then the riot will prevent the 90th shield from completing. If we already chopped 90 shields in the bin, then I think the infantry will complete regardless, but I'm not certain. It's definitely worth a try in any case since there is pretty much nothing to lose.

 

[General_W]

State of the Empire:
Turn 199 Update​

Science Update: Mass Production – 0/4,200 - (4 turns left)
Treasury: 568 (+55)

Headline News:
* MIA Takes to the skies! Flight is learned
* Bombers… coming right up!
* Budget is back in the black! Science falls to 40%, and we’re turning a profit!

City Update:
* Athens completes cavalry, start infantry.
* Black Hole completes cavalry, start infantry.
* EMP City completes cavalry, start infantry.
* Meleagerville completes cavalry, start infantry.
* Antville completes cavalry, start infantry.
* Ephebe completes transport, start infantry.
* Phoenopolis completes cavalry, start infantry.
* Regent Mansion completes infantry, start wealth.
* Abdera completes transport, start infantry.
* Rhodes completes transport, start infantry.

* Changed Heron from infantry to Fighter (want to try one out!)
* Changed Virtuoso from cavalry to bomber.
* Changed Look Here from cavalry to infantry.
* Changed Aliakmon Stronghold from cavalry to infantry.
* Changed Tarkingrad from infantry to bomber.
* Changed Filiatra from infantry to bomber.
* Changed Far West Port from transport to destroyer.

* Sold granary in Classical's Chamber.
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Economy Update:
* Science DOWN to 40%
* Lux steady at 20%

* Treasury = 568 (+55)
* Mass Production = 4 turn
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Military Update:
* Nothing to shoot at
* Transports moving towards their destinations. Most towards Ithaca – 3 towards Far West Port
* All Artillery fortified in ChuckNorrisvile
* Cavalry and Infantry spread out across the Northern towns
* Frigates checking for enemy ships and ending in port – nothing sighted.

Spoiler 0 Battle Log :

To No One:

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Workers Update:
Workers = 147
Slaves = 59
* Planting Forests, Chopping Forests, Replacing Irrigation.
* 1 Pollution cleaned this turn.
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From the Desk of the President:
* I decided to go with the fighter from Heron – I don’t remember that Bombers can’t do recon – but Classical Hero is probably right… besides, the fighter would complete in just 1 turn (2 for the bomber) so we can test it out right away!
* I again didn’t disband any infantry. I don’t have orders from the Defense Minister – and at this point, I thought it might be worth the handful of gold to let Chamnix find the best places to disband the units to help us get bombers. I can disband them next turn if I get orders in that vein.
* Also – maybe our Frigates have outlived their usefulness? No one seems to be coming close to our shores anymore.

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Domestic:


Defense:

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[classical_hero]

From a few turns ago, the Defence minister said to disband all conscript Infs and all hops.

 

[General_W]

And all conscript infantry and Hoplites were disbanded.
I'm talking about our other infantry. Not sure we really need more than 1 or 2 anymore... if that.

 

[lost_civantares]

I think that a margin of safety though is a good thing.

 

[Chamnix]

Turn 200 Update:

Builds

Heron completes fighter, start infantry.

Changed Athens from infantry to bomber (gave some shields from Athens to Heron).
Changed Black Hole from infantry to bomber.
Changed April Fools from infantry to bomber.
Changed Ceasaria from infantry to bomber.
Changed Olympia from cavalry to infantry.
Changed Hindus River from cavalry to infantry.
Changed Pale Dove from infantry to destroyer.
Changed Phi Beta Kappa from infantry to bomber.
Changed Tower of Azzaman to bomber.


Sliders

Luxuries at 20%.
Science down to 30%.

We have 1 fighter - rebased to Ithaca.

I put many towns on starvation diets - as long as they won't lose a citizen in 8 turn, who cares if they have enough food? Even towns with good food tiles to work, I hired scientists - everything is short-term now. No citizens will actually be lost.

I disband one worker in Aliakmon Stronghold because it was going to be 2 shields short on a bomber.

And of course I just generally tinker with everything to see what I can do. I think we ended with 272 scientists. We should have our first 7 bombers next turn.