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The Reign in Spain: Inquisition, Exploration, and Enlightenment

Forgot to mention, took the liberty of building the Foreign Palace, I think in Utrecht. Shaved quite a bit off of our expenses. We got a poison event as well, I think also in Utrecht, that's part of the unhealth. Sal cancelled the crab deal, must have gotten the resource we traded to him (?). By all means get it back if desired. Wouldn't disband units, just put more cities on wealth when money runs out. Though at -31 gpt we currently can run more than 100 turns in the red while there are just 45 left. :D

Pacifism is fine, might as well go caste then as well to maximize artists. Without caste Amsterdam can already hire 7 artists (!) but it can hire a few specs more. With all the happy from the cultural slider at max, we need not be afraid of emancipation unhappiness.
 
T420 - swap civics to Caste/Pacifism, go through trade deals to hoover up any excess gold our fellow civs are producing, go through culture cities.

Culture cities first:

  • Barcelona - why is it building a hospital with +6 :health:? :confused: It only has one turn left though, so I'll swap it to culture next.
  • Madrid - only 15 pop. Needs growth. I cash rush a grocer, so I can cash rush a supermarket next turn for the +1 :food: Once that's done, will go back to culture
  • Rotterdam - cash rush a supermarket ahead of the Taoist Pagoda

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Next step is to go over the :gp: pool:
  • Nijmegan, Vienna, Maastrict, and a few others get all their specialists converted to citizens to avoid popping anything other than a GA.
  • Amsterdam was going to pop a GA in 10 turns. I hire enough artists so that the city barely has enough food to get buy and get it to 6.

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Okay, all you priests, spies, and engineers. Due to optimization needs of our fair city, your jobs have been eliminated. However, we have plenty of ditch digging positions available.


Disbanded a lot of units, choosing those who were both obsolete and inexperienced. I take Maastrict off of producing military units in favor of health buildings and wealth. This may have been a mistake. Made a missionary to convert Aiguestortes.

T421 - still not enough :gold: to buy a National Park, so I bump our culture down to 60% and sell some old techs around to get more. Send our workers North to build more forest preserves in Aiguestortes.

T422 - Buy a national park and a few more health buildings.

T425 - GA born in Amsterdam, and sent to Madrid.

T426 - Finished buying everything left to build. All cities are healthy except the one that was just poisoned. Back to 100% :culture:, with +426 :gold: per turn. Culture bomb Madrid with our new Great Artist.

T428 - Gah! Another poisoning! I find an idle spy and send her to Jaoa for counter espionage. :mad:

T429 - GA born. Culture bomb Rotterdam. Discover we have been putting 0 espionage against Jaoa, and don't even have enough Espionage points to counterespionage :cringe:

T430 - Counterespionage Jaoa. I'm pretty sure it's him since the cities hit are all more convenient to him than anyone else. I've put in a reminder for another counteresp 10 turns from now. Switched out to Environmentalism for the health, and surprised to see it only dropped our surplus by 2 gpt :dunno: Maybe the forest preserve bonus made up for the loss of trade routes?

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Tech trade with Jaoa for flight and start building fighters to guard our culture cities.

T431 - a factory in Rotterdam is destroyed by spies. :gripe: I sell Divine Right to everyone to help in rushing jails in our culture cities.

I let a few cities start working some specialists again as they are too far out of the :gp: race to matter.

T434 - Elizabeth and Louis make peace. I swing back to military on some of our cities. Louis is no worry as he has to fight through Portugal to reach us, and Elizabeth is far more likely to try and take back her lost cities than hit us, but the power imbalance is high. I move our stack to her border, within sight of London, upgrading as many of the units as I can afford, in hopes that would make her think twice. Also put a sentry upgraded knight in her borders to keep an eye on her. I now regret letting the military building lapse, but I was focusing on health and popping artists.

End of turnset:

I put us back to 70% culture to keep some gold coming in. Even so, victory is close.

Spoiler :
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I think we'll get 2-3 more GA's before the end as well. :D

Spoiler :
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Got it, will play either tonight or tomorrow.
 
Seems to have worked out rather well, Cam H, our esteemed leader, will get the last 7 turns or so. seems only fitting as he's set out the game.

Been fairly much won ever since the Dutch war, once they were fully eliminated, and Joao was driven into our arms by Charlemagne, it was just a matter of time.
 
With Great Artist pops, Sengir might be able to finish it. Or to within a turn or two.
 
Quick turns, no time for pictures, as I have to run.


Make some changes:
Turn up the slider to 100% culture, run merchants in other cities to get some extra gold.

Barca: 15t
Madrid: 21t
Rotterdam: 18t


Turn 3:
We get a GA in Amsterdam > sent to Madrid

Turn 4:
Bomb Madrid:
Barca: 11t
Madrid: 10t
Rotterdam: 14t

Turn 12:
We get a GA in Aiguestortes, sent him to Rotterdam

Turn 13:
Bomb Rotterdam:
Barca: 2t
Madrid: 1t
Rotterdam: 1t

Turn 14:
Madrid hits legendary
Rotterdam hits legendary

Stop here; Cam_h gets the honor to finish this one (as I don't have the time to write a proper endstory).

Hit enter and we're done :D
 

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Started a new SG:
The Orwellian State

Not that I have so much time on my hands, but I'm going to play anyway, so might as well host one.
 
Hmmm ... nocho ... Barcelona's the one 'dragging its feet' ... ;)
Yeah, but Barcelona always has to do it on its own while Madrid has to draw the lifeblood out of the poor countryside for its resources (in the form of a GArt), while Rotterdam also received its bombing (though not by the Germans this time :mischief:). :p
 
Isabella: The most dominant Cultural nation on the globe? I know from long experience all my men have the artistic talent of a cluster of colour blind hedgehogs in a bag.

Phil: You have a cunning plan?

Isabella: A plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel! We will show them Cultural dominance in a manner that will command 'Real' respect, and the icing on the cake? Once again we will foil the Dutch!

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For the curious (many thanks to DanF5771);

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Ta dah!

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Screenies;

Spoiler :
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Sengir's attached file from #408 > hit 'Enter'. ;)
 
Thanks to everyone who participated ... and Brian for lurking!:

Sengir, nocho, and IPEX, thanks again.

Norvin and Happyturtle, great to play a game with you - especially a winner!

In absentia; TCMIV for his/hers/its input.
 
And Spain wins it again... :D:p

The way things are going at the moment the Spanish couldn't lose anything if they tried.
 
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