Turnlog from where I left off:
Turn 4 cont'd:
Build airfield at Auda City and move units toward Seattle. Build airfields and airlift infantry to America. Since the arty can bombard Seattle from our own territory, I'll leave them on the airfield with the 3 infantry for protection and attack Seattle with the rest of the units.
Battle for Seattle: Arty gets 5 hits out of 11. Vet cav dies, but rl's infantry. elite cav kills infantry and retreats, vet cav dies but rl defender showing, vet cav kills infantry, elite cav takes Seattle, but no leader.
Raze Seattle, netting 20g, 1 arty and 5 slaves. All returned to stack and fortified except wounded elite cav returned to our territory for healing.
IT -
Americans destroy the Japanese. Carthage infantry leave our territory. Richborough arty -> arty, AudaCity rax -> walls, Lurkersville infantry -> bomber.
Americans start Universal Suffrage. pollution at Scoutsrest mountain (argh!).
5. 1325ad - All units moved back onto our airfield, wounded elite cav sent to rax to heal. Moving ships, cleaning pollution and railing.
IT - GOC bomber -> bomber, Vilcas aqua -> settler, Harrietsburg cav -> bomber, more pollution.
6. 1330ad - Our first bomber is sent to Auda City airfield, protected by 3 infantry. The rest of the stack is moved toward Atlanta. Our 2nd boatloads of units have just arrived at Auda City, but no movement.
Battle for Atlanta: Arty rl all of the 3 defending infantry. Vet cav kills 1, but loses 2 hp, vet cav kills another, but is rl'd, Elite cav kills the last defender and
Atlanta is razed, netting 20g, 1 arty and 5 slaves. All are returned to the stack and fortified except our 2 wounded cavs who are returned to our territory.
Skim combat settlers from Agedincum for loss of 4 shields, SwampTown 4 shields and swap build in Gold Hill for settler in 3.
IT -
Carthage and France sign peace. Joanie declines to renew our trading incense to her for 13gpt, but offers 10gpt, and then declines renewal of dyes for 10gpt, but will take it for 6gpt, and we accept both changes. Joanie is polite at bats her eyelashes at Brennus.
We complete the Military Academy in TJville -> army in 8, SwampTown settler -> arty, Nemausus bomber -> bomber, Richborough arty -> arty, Mayhemium factory -> flak, Bugsrest factory -> flak, Salt Poach factory -> bomber, Last Resort bomber -> bomber, Deva lib -> arty, Jungle West aqua -> flak, Agedincum settler -> arty.
7. 1335ad - Rebase bombers in AudaCity. Entremont is unhappy so hire taxman. Move 2 injured cavs to AudaCity and other units toward Denver. Send The General's Revenge and
pillage Abe's horses. Our single bomber made a run on Denver and failed. Load 3 settlers and 1 cav on galleon and send with empty transport toward America. Worker moves. I'm beginning to feel sorry for those 2 lost Carthaginian infantry who have a very long ways to home through enemy territory.
Mass Production next turn and MM to +67gpt.
IT -
Mass Prod in -> Motorized Transportation in 5. GOC bomber -> Heroic Epic in 4 (we could use some leaders for armies), Scoutsrest bank -> bomber, Camulodenum cruiser -> bomber, Exrockpile harbor -> court, WestFlank aqua -> flak, Noviomagus court -> market
8. 1340ad -
MM to Motor Transp in 4.
Battle for Denver: Our 3 bombers get only 1 hit in Denver. Arty rl's defenders. Our guerillas cannot get close enough. Vet cav dies against rl'd infantry, vet cav kills infantry but is rl'd, vet cav kills infantry losing 1hp and promoted to elite, elite cav kills infantry but is rl'd, elite cav kills last infantry flawlessly but no promotion,
Denver is razed netting 20g and 5 slaves, and
Abe has lost his supply of ivory.
Send injured cavs back to AudaCity to heal and fortify others to protect arty and workers. The General's revenge heads off to pillage some oil next turn.
We now have a spy planted in Washington. A check of F3 shows 11 workers, 2 rifles, 23 cavs, 106 infantry, 6 arty, 27 frigates, 2 galleons, 4 transports and 4 guerillas. I'm kinda glad I didn't know this earlier. I
rushed walls in AudaCity, thinking we've been very lucky so far.
IT - 2 infantry suicide against our guerillas and 2 guerillas show up just north of Audacity. Incense Desert aqua -> arty, Richborough arty -> arty, AudaCity walls -> lib, Shuruppak harbor -> arty, Lurkersville bomber -> bomber, LoveShack court -> market, Tolosa factory -> flak, Glanum temple -> flak, GrapeVine aqua -> harbor, Gold Hill settler -> arty
9. 1345ad -
Dial up Hannibal and trade him silks for 8gpt.
Bombard and hit both of the guerillas outside AudaCity, then kill both with bombers.
The General's Revenge pillages Abe's only "connected" source of oil...he has 2 or 3 others and a couple of rubber, but none connected.
I decided we needed more cavs to make up for the ones lost in previous battles and airlift 3 over, but also build 2 more airfields in Auda City just in case we need to get them home for defense in a hurry. Head all units toward Buffalo.
The galleon of settlers sails into AudaCity. Lots of worker moves.
IT - One American infantry shows up on our salt in AudaCity. Ugarit arty -> flak, Nemausus bomber -> bomber, Harrietsburg bomber -> bomber, Last Resort bomber -> bomber.
10. 1350ad - Bombard the American infantry with arty and kill with a bomber. Bombing runs on Buffalo, 1 missed,
harbor is destroyed, next failed, next killed pop. Most of our units were moved just outside Buffalo in single stack and could bombard next turn.
After turn notes:
The General's Revenge is sitting on a mountain just south of New York ready to pillage the salt next turn. There are 3 settlers in Auda City and 3 more near Hattusha on our mainland and could be transported. We now have 8 bombers on the airfield at Auda City with more building soon. There are lots of workers sitting in Auda City that I haven't done much with since they'd need to be protected.
The MMing should be right on for for Motorized Transport in 2. We have trades that will end next turn with both Hannibal and Joanie. We have +75gpt and 362g in the kitty. Hannibal will trade 690g, 40gpt and WM for Steel, but I'll leave that decision up to the next player.
Here's the save. Pics to follow.
Second the motion!
gmah! Way to put the screws to Abe. I think if we check we will find that Abe isn't building Universal Suffrage anymore. When the war ended with Japan he de-mobbed for a turn but I just have to bet after you got finished with him, then he re-mobbed. That's both good and bad, as while he is mobilized his culture growth is cut in half, but his production in his core cities is really high.
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