Pre-turn Increase Science to 50% -30 gpt, Gunpowder due in 8 turns.
IBT Darhan riots.
760 (1) Kill a barb camp in the SE. Add another Samurai to Shinsengumi. Wait for a LOT of Goto orders
IBT Darhan is back under control. A Mongol galley appears off the coast of Khabarovsk. Indians start Knights Templar.
770 (2) Izumi settler->worker. New Kyoto settler->treb. New Osaka treb->worker. Rush galley in Khabarovsk for 92 gold.
Battle for Karakorum: I only have Pancho Villa (13/13 MDI Army) and Ancient Glory (17/17 AC army) to attack, so Im not expecting to capture this turn. Just going to soften up the defenses for next turn. Kill a pike with Pancho losing 2 hp. Kill another pike losing another 2 hp. Kill another pike with Ancient Glory losing 9 (!) hp.
Switch Edo from treb to settler. I plan on sending it across to settle on the northern Indian continent.
IBT China asks for peace. Nah. Barb appears by Kagoshima.
780 (3) Suo worker->worker. Khabarovsk galley->worker. Yokohama harbor->market. New Satsuma worker->worker.
True Battle for Karakorum: Pancho takes out the first pike without taking a hit. AG kills the second taking 1 hit. Use a 4/5 AC to kill a MDI. Now Genghis Khan is showing. Ancient Glory goes in for the kill, destroying all Genghiss cities.
After exploring a little farther north, I find Genghiss last city, Batshireet, defended by a reg spear.
IBT Genghis moves a longbow and a spear towards us, and a spear and a settler south.
790 (4) Tokyo samurai->samurai. Satsuma samurai->samurai. Nagoya samurai->samurai. Izumo settler->settler. Shimonoseki settler->settler. Hakodate settler->settler. New Kagoshima worker->worker.
Kill the units the Mongols sent out, including the settler. Also, the Mongols are in Anarchy, so we wont have to worry about any new units from them.
800 (5) Nampo settler->settler. Destroy a barb camp by Kagoshima.
Found New Sapporo ->worker.
Battle for Batshireet: Pancho Villa attacks, is hit by a longbow, and loses 2 more hp. Tontos Blades attacks, but loses 4 hp (left with 2/13 hp). Elite AC attacks and wins without taking a hit. Ancient Glory attacks and loses 2 hp (now at 5/17 hp), revealing a Longbow. He attacks again and loses 2 hp. Im guessing only Genghis is left since a worker is showing. All I have left is a 2/5 AC, so Ill wait till next turn. Genghis is still in Anarchy, so well still have just the King unit to deal with.
IBT The people love us! New building is added to the east side of our palace.
810 (6) Fukushima settler->settler. New Nagoya pike (barb had snuck up, so I rushed it)->wealth (what it was before). Sapporo samurai->samurai. Kozuke treb->harbor.
Found New Hakodate ->worker. Found New Ise ->worker. Destroyed barb camp in South.
Final Battle for Batshireet: Attack with Elite AC, lose 1 hp and destroy the Mongols. Only 2 civs left.
Advance towards Hangchow.
820 (7) Ise MDI (whoops
)->samurai. New Osaka worker->worker. Destroy a barb camp between New Mastuyama and New Sapporo.
Move an AC towards Hangchow and see Indian units around it. Just an archer and a spear, though, so I doubt theyre close to capturing it.
Found New Toyama where it will get 2 whales ->library (to get the 2 whales). Found New Fukushima ->worker. Found New Suo ->treb.
Gunpowder due next turn. Sci @ 40%, +23 gpt, 1090 gold.
IBT The Indian archer dies attacking Hangchow futilely, while the spear pillages a road. Gunpowder->Chemistry @ 0%, +158 gpt (stay at this for a few turns to regain some of the money lost from running the deficit).
830 (8) Nagasaki samurai->samurai. Matsuyama samurai->samurai. Youve got to be kidding me! In our territory, with all our roads, not ONE saltpeter is hooked up. We only have three on our entire landmass, from what I can see. Only one is in our territory (two after this turnwe have a settler ready to settle right on top of one!).
Found New Bizen (on saltpeter) ->worker. See Chinese galley over between the two Indian islands.
IBT Chinese galley moves right by me. Indian spear moves to pillage another tile around Hangchow.
840 (9) Osaka samurai->samurai. Echizen worker->worker. Nara samurai->worker. Edo settler->galley (well need a lot of these when we invade India).
Attack on Hangchow: I wont capture it this turn, but Ill soften it up with a couple of ACs. First is an Elite* who wins with a loss of 1 hp, after being hit by an archer. A vet AC is next, and wins losing 2 hp.
Discover a barb camp with 3 horsemen and a warrior on a mountain.
IBT Indian spear pillages another square around Hangchow. The people love us! A new roof for the left side building is added. Our galley with a spear heading over to India sinks.
850 (10) New Edo worker->treb. Nagoya samurai->samurai.
Second Battle for Hangchow: Ancient Glory attacks first, is hit by the archer, and loses an additional point. The Elite* AC attacks and wins losing no hp. Next the 3/5 vet AC attacks, wins unhurt, and promotes. An archer is showing. Just that and Mao remain, I believe. However, Ive run out of units to attack with, so the next person gets the honor of finishing off Mao.
Kill 3 of the 4 barbs in the camp, leaving a Horseman. Found New Echizen ->wealth (mainly because I dont know what else to build).
For the next person: You have plenty (actually, maybe TOO many
) units to finish off Mao next turn. I rushed a settler in Erdenet so we can build a city where Hangchow was, build some galleys, and start ferrying across units. The armies wont fit, however. I realize now that I should have left one unfilled so we could ship it across. Damnit! Oh well. Well have to make due with normal units
or wait until galleons
Gandhi is still using spears and archers, so he wont pose a problem for our MDIs and Samurai
at least the cities on the northern island. We know his capital alone has like 10-20 units alone!
We should also start joining workers we don't need into cities. We have something like 54 workers.
Admiral Kutzov said:
@ IP - summary of where we stand in regard to VC at the end of your set?
I think VC means Victory Conditions? If so, our only option is Conquest according to the variant (unless we want to wait to build the spaceship...
). We'll have to keep an eye on domination to make sure we don't go over, but for right now we're only at 40% land, 69% pop so no need to worry. No one else has any chance of winning, unless we were to accidentally get domination. We may want to stop expanding and focus solely on units. It is now the end of turn 200.
EDIT: Yes, there is a safe sea route from China to India. But like AEnigma said, it's FAR from our core. I say we either attack the northern cities now with the troops already there, or wait for galleons (we can then send our armies over, too).
) i find that he also lacks IRON AND HORSES. regretably, we still cant trade.
)
even in endgame. Although IIRC ninjas were outside the code of bushido, feel we should maintain our honor in keeping with the spirit of the game.
