The Paladins

Play 11 turns, stop for Great Scientist and Aesthetics picked up.

Tech situation before Aesthetics looks really bleak:
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Monty is on Red Fist mode/WHEOOHRN, who's the likely target?
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Us or Boudica. We're lower on the scale than Boudica, so we're more likely.

Crap, we're going to get attacked again.

Check up on Alex and here's what he thinks of Monty:
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Probably has open borders, so Monty may attack through Alex's jungle city.

Genghis makes a demand and I accept:
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Next player please cancel the deal after pressing enter.

I road up Alex's and Ragnar's empire to enable trade routes and improve our economy.
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Once Prague finishes library, I starve for a while to get Aesthetics faster. I fired 1 of the scientists afterwards.
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Pretty soon the new trade routes pay off:
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Slotted in Metal Casting, but I dropped our slider to zero, so not much research into it.

I made a few trades. I would've traded for Alphabet but no one wants to give it up just for Aest. So I settled for other things to make our life easier. (And Polytheism in case we're going Literature next.)
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The Nappy trade was more of an improve relationships move. He won't give up anything else. And Alpha for Aest was out of the question.

We have iron in the BFC:
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And we pop a great scientist. So I stop here to let us decide what to do next.

Final tech situation:
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For next player, summary of what we could do, and what I can think of at this moment:
1. Build Statue of Zeus. We have ivory. We can finish it or go for the failure gold. Either way, it benefits us.
2. Figure out what to do with scientist.
3. Cancel free Ivory deal with Genghis after pressing enter.
 

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Good turns Meat!

But is there any reason why you didn't go on with alpha (for spies as we need them to get some more benefit from our settled Spy)..

So techwise I'd switch to Alpha! And about the scientist: I'd vote for an academy in Aachen!
And as we picked up Archery we should build some Archers to make some benefit out of our protective trait!
 
No one is willing to trade their Alpha. But I didn't do anything smart like tech alpha 1 or 2 turns. :D
So that is why I'm amassing gold.

Roster:
Meatbuster -->
Ad Hoc --> Gone until the 21st, so should be up by now
cripp7 --> on deck
Thy Spellcraft -->
White Dragon -->
 
Sorry guys, back from hols and straight into a maelstrom at work,

a formal got it and will play tonight.
 
First things first and change research to Alphabet to get some spies into operation.

The scientist builds the academy at Aachen

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and after the first turn cancelled the ivory to Genghis.

Monty makes his move, but it's on Ragner, he then comes calling for help but i think we'll sit this one out for now.

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Alex later sides with the anti-monty league and joins with Ragner, a little bit of help for him

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And lets keep Genghis sweet and the dye will come in very helpful

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and a few screenies to give you the gist of the situation.

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i'm very seriousley thinking about joining our jewish colleagues and going for Monty, We've got to go to war sometime :)
 

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Pre-Turn
Call Alex to beg
Spoiler :
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revolt to OR
Call up Rangar to beg
Spoiler :
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Turn 137 - out of revolt

Turn 138 - Vienna :whipped: library

Turn 139 - Vienna library>temple

Turn 140 - Ghengis offer a deal
Spoiler :
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Slider to 100%

Turn 141 - zzz

Turn 142 - Literature>Monarchy
Nuremburg library>archer
slider to 0%
Prague :whipped: SoZ

Turn 143 - Aachen worker>archer
Prague SoZ>axe
22:gold: from Mids
slider to 40%

Turn 144 - Nappy declares on Monty
Call up Nappy for a trade
Spoiler :
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revolt to HR

Turn 145 - Monarch>MC
slider to 60%

Turn 146 - Prague archer>axe
Nuremburg archer>sword
Augsburg rax>axe

Turn 147 - Monty makes a demand..um no
Spoiler :
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Stop here.
Spoiler Techs :
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I think we need to jump on Monty sometime too. I queued up MC for some trade bait plus workshops.
Sorry it's been awhile, don't know what I was thinking!
 
I'd purpose to see whether there will be some response from someone else.. In case we'll stay the only one I'd leave this game behind..

But for now my ideas:
Build some spies to make some effort out of our settles spy. Maye we also should start on GLib and there's still a good spot SE of Aachen grabing the fish.. Mabe settling this spot as long as khan is pleased with us.
Techwise I'd rather change to CoL to build some needed courts.
And as we don't want to go ofensive within the next few sets (not before cats and phants) I'll stop military production for now.
 
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