Sumeria now officailly qualifies a a "runaway freight train". Byzantium is, effectively, a 4CC with all that that implies when it comes to Industrial and Modern Age research.
The idiot epidemic affects me and I make a boneheaded deal with China, buying Ironclads for a lot of money 85gpt, thinking I could sell it to Gilgamesh for money. Well, he already had it.....Sell electricity to Iroquois for cash and 12gpt, then cancel the Iron deal with Aztecs. The only available in the market right now is from Germany and they are at war with Germany. Will wait a turn then maybe sell it back to him if he is feeling generous. Now that we have iron we can build factories...so start one in Constantinople and another in Iroland.
And that was the year that was, 1550....
In 1555 our supply of Dyes from Sumeria cancels and theprice goes up 25%....to 15gpt.
Somehow I expected this...
And Sumer takes Oporto...
Leaving this....
Then Iroquois and Germany sign a Peace Treaty in 1560
In 1565 Celts join Sumer against the Aztecs..
Sumeria is now flying bombers against the Aztec navy.
In 1570 Aztec wines deal expires...and it costs another 25% to renew, up to 17gpt. They also must have bought iron from Germany after the Peace Treaty....
In 1575 the Celts kill the Aztec musket blocking coal moutain on the Iroquois island so a settler is ordered up out of Grand River.
The Sumerian landing force sails right by the furs peninsula.
In 1580 the gems colony goes down on the mountain and we hook up another silks,
so in 1585 sell silks to Sumer for 55g+25gpt. It is feeding the beast but we need the money...
And after founding Coaltown in the Celtic hills and hooking up the Portugese coal sell Brennus's coal back to him for 150g+58gpt.
In 1585 the horse deal and the saltpeter deal expire and I don't renew, the Age of Cavalry is over.
And we get this surprising message....
Then in 1590 sell Gems to Sumer for 528g.
And then the Celts declare on Sumeria betraying their ally against the Aztecs.
In 1600 acquire Replaceable Parts from China for 209g+182gpt then sell it forward to Germany for the Corporation.
All the rubber in the world appears to be in Germany, Sumeria and Azteca and only Germany has spares. Sumeria is already building the SETI program BTW.
Not at all sure where to go from here, other than continue to acquire luxuries and sell them for cash and technology. I don't really think warfare is in our future, rather watch the rest of the world fight, they are doing a good job of that, and try to postion ourselves to snatch off pieces of territory as the towns are razed. Hopefully we can poach additional resources for use as trade bait. That means more boats with settlers and defenders following everybody else's navies around.
Decide to see what happens.
The Sums finish ToE (I think right around here)
dance:)
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