STR-03 Viking Traders

[angeleyes]

0 1750 AD 270 turns left! City's look fine, mm a bit to my liking. Representation and Free religion are clear better for our research-ratrace, maybe at the last stages of our spacerace we should go back to organized religion. Revolt, 2 turns of anarchie.
Open borders with Shaka, sell him cow for 7gold/turn.

3 We research 100% and equal balance!

4 Medicine > Assembly line

5 Forgot, build hospitals in few city's. Ask and get 180 gold from Asoka.

9 Huayna asks in vain us to covert to his favorite civic. Gift Shaka constitution. His power is boosting, not his techs. Sell Qin (he's Friendly!!) ivory for 7gold/turn.

10 Euclid, the great scientist, born in Bjorkvin, only want to research Fission for us. We don't need that you skirider! I place him in Nidaros, with all the multipliers he brings in 30 beakers/turn, not bad.

11 According to Thucydides we are the most advanced civ, Huayna second, Asoka third. Assembly line > Industrialism (to reveal for us as soon as possible alluminium, which doubles production of the Elevator).

13 Upgrade a cat and a treb to get some extra power.

15 1780 AD 255 turns left! Ask and get 220 gold from Huayna (!). New deal with Shaka, now we get corn from him for our cow, nice for our health situation. Huayna and Shaka are growing in power. It's still 6 1/2 tech to the Elevator. Getting UN means research one tech more, maybe we should do that to at least save the UN for us. Asoka nor Mansa did research a tech for us, lazy guy's..
EDIT: there's a whale in the south still waiting on a fishingboat

Qin is willing to have a defensive pact with us. I've hardly any experience with those pacts, should we do it?. I vote yes. He has no enemies, everybody is pleased or friendly with him
Don't understand that it's possible we have a defensive pact with a vassall, but not with the master himself. If we get attacked, Mansa should declare war, but he can't because vassal's can't do such things....

Space Elevator

 

[angeleyes]

Who wants to live in Tadmekka?

 

[Strauss]

Turn 5 (1790): Industrialism comes in. I trade Physics and Biology to Asoka for Railroad, and start on Combustion. We lose two trades due to Ivory obsoleting, bringing some cities into unhappiness. I renegotiate with Mansa, Dyes for Aluminium. We don’t need Aluminium until we get to the Apollo Program.

Turn 10 (1800): Combustion comes in, start on Plastics.

Turn 15 (1810): We have approximately 39 turns to go until we can start on the Space Elevator, perhaps less if we get a Great Scientist. We are in the lead in tech, Huayna only has Communism over us.

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Roster:
1) Strauss --> just played
2) karr1255 --> UP!
3) Bede --> on deck
4) Asperger

Pvblivs --> skipped until 15th October

 

[karr1255]

Got it and will play tomorrow. But I guess the space race will make for some rather boring turnsets.

 

[Strauss]

Got it and will play tomorrow. But I guess the space race will make for some rather boring turnsets.

Be careful what you wish for. It won't be so boring once Huayna or Shaka go berserk

 

[angeleyes]

Why not get into a defensive pact with Qin?

 

[karr1255]

pre turn - I sell Divine Right to Toku for 250 and sign the def pact with Qin. We may be able to get a perm alliance at the end of the game with him.

T2 - Great Artist born in Nidaros and Timbuktu will produce a great person in 21 turns (25% of an artist though). I let him rest for a golden age in the space race which is always very powerful.

T3 - Plastics in and I start Radio.

T9 - Shaka cancels open bordes which is bad but nothing compared to this:

Our defensive pact with Qin/Huayna still holds up. I guess now both would declare war? Never had this happen before. They have Facism and Communism on us but lack some techs on the space parts.

T12 - Radio done next is Computers.

T13 - I build some naval units in case Shaka makes a move.

T14 - Nidaros has power now thanks to a hydro plant. I start Rock N' Roll (14 turns) we could use the happiness.

T15 - On my last turn I beg for some gold. Asoka gives us 200 and Mansa 300. We are running at 100% with only a -20 deficit and have more than 700 in the treasury now.

 

[Strauss]

A permanent alliance between Qin and Huayna? Things just got very interesting

This means they can do everything twice as fast as we can. However, we still have a (small) tech lead, and with the Space Elevator we have a chance. It will be close though!

Bede is UP, with Asperger on deck

 

[Bede]

Yah, I expected the Permanent Alliance between those two as soon as I saw the Defense Pact. The possibility of war doesn't worry me. combined research rate and shared space projects do.

Got it for tomorrow's feast.

 

[angeleyes]

.......,combined research rate and shared space projects do.

Got it for tomorrow's feast.

No experience with a permanent allience, but i understand both are building for one space project ?

 

[Bede]

Yep, they get to share the wealth. Fortunately the AI do a not so good job of coordinating the big expensive ones, but the cheaper multiple piece parts fall into place a little faster. That's where the Labs and the Space Elevator help us out.

 

[angeleyes]

Let's hope i was not wrong with my assumption we that we are able to build the space elevator.... (in Haithabu)

 

[angeleyes]

At least this game is tense till the end, that's what i like...

 

[Strauss]

Bede, any news?

 

[Bede]

posting tonight, sorry for the delay but it has been a marathon week in the book business and it's not over yet

 

[Bede]

Lots of drifting on the trade front, requests to break deaks from all sides. Ignored them. And made some new ones with Qin and Huyana. Sent Huyana cash for pigs (health is an issue in our bigger towns, and we may want to research Refrigeration next, we will need it for Genetics eventually anyway and the supermarkets would be nice to have) and then shipped cows to Qin (much as I hated to do it) for Hit Musicals. That will keep everybody happy except the bozos in Timbuktu, and keeping them at productive is going to take the culture tax up a little. When the RocknRoll comes in we can kill the deal with Qin for the musicals if we want to spend the money to keep the whiners at Timbuktu happy. Maybe a broadcast tower would shut them up.

Sent a Merchant to China and now have over 4k in the kitty, so deficit sepnding on research is not an issue. Robotics due in about six or so. If we can do it picking off the expensive techs while we have the money is the way to go. I have no problem starting Apollo later than anybody else if we can nail the Space Elevator, or even if we don't. Tried to adjust the specialists to get an engineer as our next GP, not sure if it is going to work or not.

Nidaros is working Three Gorges for nationwide power and since we still have the lock on the enabling tech I think it is a done deal. Very little progress by the coalition of Inca/China towards anything other than the two government techs (Red and Black). Not sure what they are up to over there.

 

[angeleyes]

Got it. We spend 200 bucks/turn to keep 3 citizens happy? allthough we have the money, a bit expensive.. Think i start the elevator after Rock&roll.

 

[angeleyes]

0 1840 AD (210 turns left)

I'll let the whiners in Timbuktu do their whining, they may whine me a river to the ice-sea (they did), and put research back to 100%. Let Bjorkvin whine a little bit with them.
Pablo Picasso wants to give us 2000 bucks to research mass media, but i let him sit on hir golden ***hole.

IB "We are the wealthiest"

1 bit of MM-shaving

3 Robotics > Fiber Optics (Internet, if you run a race against a team, than the internet is golden imo)

SURPRISE! surprise! Did you guys think off it? For the Space Elevator you need also Sattelites...

4 Asoka has bananas > gives us two health extra.

5 Whiningcity gets a collosseum

7 Finally the Capac-Qin combination has researched a new tech, what are they doing??

8 100 bucks from Asoka

9 Ahh, Whiningcity drags about their motherland, so i change its name.

10 OUR LIVE WAS SAVED BY ROCK&ROLL

Huayna completes the Pentagon.

12 Fiber Optics > Rocketery (got artillery from Mansa for plastics, a tech the CQ-combi already has). Gift Toku Physics. Doesn't change his opinion about us..

14 CQ-combi researched Rocketry. Slow they go.

15 1855 AD (195 turns left) I'm sorry, but we get again a Great Merchant. Save him for a final golden age at the very end?

I started the Internet in Nidaros (24 turns) but maybe we don't need it since CQ research so slow.. I would let Haithabu (HE)make mechs untill Rocketery and Sattelites come in > space elevator. Things are looking good.

Internet?

 

[Strauss]

Got it, will play tomorrow afternoon

 

[Strauss]

I was halfway through my set when my pc crashed.... I don't have the motivation or the time to start the game back up right now. I'll finish up tomorrow.