Takeo takes on Deity

[Takeo]

290bc
Meet China and they are down Math, Lit, HBR and Poly. Sell Math-

270bc
Republic and Monarchy come in and we enter into 6 turns of anarchy.
China bulds the Great Lighthouse.

170bc
Egypt builds the Hanging Gardens and America gets the Great Wall.
Meet Egypt and here is a current world map-

150bc
Babylon builds the Statue of Zeus and France becomes a Republic.
Don't want to pay upkeep for warriors, and currently no one can get to my island, so the warriors are disbanded and save 28g/turn.

An embassy with Egypt takes 183g and they are in a Golden Age-

Egypt does not have horses, so the GA must be from wonders.

Here is how the home island is looking-

 

[Own]

Or they have the collouses? What is that palace prebuild for ?

 

[Takeo]

Or they have the collouses? What is that palace prebuild for ?

There are 3 shields in a few spots, so it must be a GA. The prebuild will be talked about in the next posting.

 

[Takeo]

130bc
Babylon has entered the Middle Ages-

Egypt must have researched Currency, cause Babylon and America both have it and have 0 gold, and Egypt has 700g.

Have a palace pre-build going in Rheims with 207 shields stored up. At this point, gonna try to snag Leo's. The triple upgrade cost is just too much!


110bc Middle Ages
Currency comes in and France enters a new age-

Germany is brought up to the next age for their free tech. Trade Ancient Age techs to Germany-

Pay Egypt 22g for a Right of Passage to explore past them.

90bc

Japan has to be nearby.

Egypt is the only nation that has gold-

That will definately help the treasury!!

 

[madviking]

Keep it going!

 

[Takeo]

50bc
Get a ROP with Germany and send a horseman over to scout their lands.

10AD

Zulu and China are still in the Ancient Age. Still no contact with Japan or Russia.

70AD

The Forbidden Palace is 1 turn from completion in Wonder City. Switch it to Sun Tzu's, not with any hope of building it, but hopeing that Invention will come in before someone else builds Sun Tzu's. Then Rheims(with the palace pre-build) can switch to Leo's and Wonder City can switch to palace and wait for JS Bachs. Is that confusing? If it doesn't work out, then Wonder City can change back to Forbidden Palace for an immediate build.

110AD
Engineering comes in.

Egypt is researching at a 4 turn pace with their GA.

 

[Woobi]

Good stuff so far...

Keep going...

 

[Takeo]

130AD

Here is Rheims progress for a hopeful Leo's-

There are 369 shields saved up and 14 turns till 600 shields.

150AD
Here is Wonder City and it's progress for maybe JS Bach's-

There are 240 shields saved up and 22 turns till 600 shields.

Tried to get a horseman over to Babylon, to scout, but the galley sank.

 

[Takeo]

Don't know what to do here- Wonder City is storing up shields to hopefully grab JS Bachs, but it could build Knights Templar next turn! What do I do?
Only have 1 luxury on my isle, so 2 content per city would be good.

 

[Own]

It depends, are you having happiness problems? Do you need a lot of lux slider? If that's the case Sistines is better for cathedral beastliness.

 

[Woobi]

I'd go for Bachs...

Definetly not Knights Templar...

It's not that great...

 

[Azash]

well is there emperor level in vanilla?

Yes. Demigod and Sid are C3C, though. (No demeaning behaviour intended.)

 

[Takeo]

260AD
Egypt and Babylon are building Leo's Workshop-

Rheims is at 498 shields.

270AD
Theology and Invention come in. Rheims changed to Leo's to complete in 5 turns and Wonder City is changed to Palace.

Finally settled my last city(on my island).
Curragh down by Egypt spots a green border.

280AD
Meet Japan and they are still in the Ancient Age-

 

[Own]

I'm amazed at your wonder grabbing. Any offensive attack plan? Cavalry campaign? Beyond sid musketeer style?

 

[Takeo]

I'm amazed at your wonder grabbing. Any offensive attack plan? Cavalry campaign? Beyond sid musketeer style?

The trick is to start the prebuild very early and to have the ai separated on an archipeligo to slow down tech pace in early game. Probably lay out an attack plan in next update.

 

[Takeo]

320AD

Egypt builds Knights Templar.

340AD

The Big Three have Gunpowder, so I missed it by 1 turn. The Big Three are America, Babylon and Egypt. Those three are researching fairly quickly and when a tech comes in, all three have it that turn. Everyone else is in the Ancient Age or beginning of Middle Ages.
It seems that Babylon got left out of the loop this turn; they have Gunpowder but no Education-

Babylon wanted 430g, but they settled for 200g.

There is no saltpeter on my island!
Egypt is the only nation that has saltpeter connected and has 2 sources.

Set research to Music Theory in 11 turns. Hire scientists anywhere that is possible, epecially in corrupt towns and research goes down to 7 turns.
There is 486 shields stored in Wonder City, waiting for Bach's.

 

[Ansar]

could you show a map of the AI empires, well, if you can see their empire that is.

 

[Takeo]

could you show a map of the AI empires, well, if you can see their empire that is.

Here is the current world map-

Sent a horseman over to Germany/Zulu to map out their island and here is the german core; all 12 cities strong!

The rest of the German cities are on the other side of Zulu terrritory.

 

[Takeo]

380AD
My tentative war plans had me attacking the Germans first, cause their core is small and they have no strategic resources. It looks like there is something my troops can take from them-

390AD
There are 12 cities in the German core and the rest of their empire is on the other side of Zulu territory. Was going to bring the Zulu into an alliance and crush the Germans inbetween. The Zulu decided to start the party early-

During the interturn, my exploring horseman ran into this small SOD headed for a German city-

400AD

The Big Three have Astronomy and Music Theory will be researched in 1 turn.

During the interturn Germany asks for an alliance vs. the Zulu. I tell them that they are on their own.

 

[Takeo]

410AD

Click on the 'Big Picture' and change Wonder City to J.S. Bachs to be built in 1 turn. Then, sell Music Theory to the Big Three.

America had most gpt to give up, so started with them-

Babylon had no gpt and gave a tech instead-

And Egypt had an extra resource they were willing to part with-

Saltpeter!! Soon be time for .

America trades a much needed luxury to the french empire-

And...

Now it is time to start building up the military!