redwings1340
Emperor
Advisors
While OP's advisor council was squabbling around, talking about how we were going to lose all the city states as friends if we don't act soon, and talking about how every other military could wipe us off the face of the planet, a new face walked in to the room. Instead of offering false status reports that OP was aware of, he uttered words that made sense to the Overlord of Poland. The One Prince of Poland also believed in the new advisor, so the new face, who called himself Maxym, was offered the position of Grand Advisor of the Oceanfaring Provinces. The other advisors were all jailed, and are being held in prison indefinitely. We have plans in place to gift these advisors to the British, just to make Elizabeth's life that much more annoying.
Ottoman settlers
Soon after the last update, the Ottomans settled very close to the west of the empire, where OP would have eventually wanted his fourth city. The Polish did not have happiness to support an expansion there, though, so they were ok with the Ottomans settling there. The Ottomans also sent a new trade route to Warsaw through this settlement, so there was no reason to go to war immediately.
Question: One thing I have trouble with is finding the time to actually build up troops and go to war, when there's so much development that can be done. I tend not to declare war until bombers, because when I can get more science, gold, production, or food, I will really want to get that. I feel like I can't see the benefit of warfare sometimes, especially if I have a weak army to start. Any suggestions about when it's right and when it's wrong?
City States
After traveling west through Ottoman lands, our triremes moved east through Moroccan and English lands. There we found many city states that we could protect. When we pledge our protection, we agree to put on a show and pretend to privately scold any civilization that takes tribute from them. OP also promises the city state leaders that if the city state is conquered, he will be moderately sad, and might even shed a tear. No promises though on that part. In return, city states agree to be friends with us and give us awesome stuff.
Trade routes
Until everyone started to travel across the ocean, the Polish Empire was the center of trade and commerce in the region. England, the Ottomans, and the Moroccans were trading with the Organized Power, providing some much needed science and gold. Once harbors were reached, Warsaw sent some food to Lodz, making the city grow and prosper. When the tech for education was reached, the money from the trade routes was put in to buying 3 universities immediately, and the Oxford university was built to assure Poland would have the ability to travel through the ocean.
Policies and Wonders
With new technologies pouring in faster than ever before, and spies stealing techs, OP caught up to the computers in tech in the early renaissance! Using this tech advantage, he ordered the construction of the Sistine Chapel and the Porcelain tower. With the Other Policies that come from Poland's UA, OP now had two versions of +50% science for research agreements, which will hopefully bring about an eternal lead in science the likes I've never had before on this difficulty.
Other civs and relations
Overall, I have fantastic relations with other civs. The Ottomans are concerning with having 2 expansions directly surrounding me, but while I constructed a couple of crossbowmen to be safe, we did declare our friendship. Morocco is my best friend as always, and they have spread a fantastic religion to my lands (with monasteries, my incense plantations yield 2 culture and 2 faith each). England hates me because I've stolen tech from them and because I've build a few wonders, but nobody really likes Elizabeth anyway, so that's ok. On the other continent, Songhai is my friend, while everyone else is friendly or neutral towards me. While Songhai could ruin my relationship with everyone if they start becoming a runaway on that continent (I hope not, because they're right up with me in tech), I can still make research agreements with them for now, which is nice.
Current Plan
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While Grand Advisor Maxym suggests I delay ideology, I am planning on being more bold, and am going to try to get the world to follow my ideology without any tourism. I have a lot of money saved up, and when Big Ben gets finished, I will have coal in my empire. Then, I am planning on rush buying 3 factories, and getting freedom as my ideology. After that, I am hoping to go straight to radio, where I can propose the world ideology be freedom in 2 sessions of the world congress (hopefully before enough people get an ideology of their own to oppose it). I've done this plan on lower difficulties before, but I think I'm in a unique position of maybe being able to get this done. If I can, freedom is the best choice for me because I don't have many cities, are not planning on warmongering, and am definitely not behind in tech. Getting to the modern era early as Poland is also nice, because it's an additional social policy, and you can never have too many of those.
Side notes
The world is overflowing with religion. The Celts and the Ethiopians are both in the game, although Ethiopia may not be for much longer. There are also 5 religious city states out of 16. Because Poland really needs more social policies, I proposed the world fair for the first world congress, which will be voted on in 9 turns. I have a lot of production, so I should be able to win it. This also had an added benefit of helping me diplomatically with everyone, because everyone likes the world fair!
PS: also, amazingly few words begin with O. Some of these are definitely stretches...
While OP's advisor council was squabbling around, talking about how we were going to lose all the city states as friends if we don't act soon, and talking about how every other military could wipe us off the face of the planet, a new face walked in to the room. Instead of offering false status reports that OP was aware of, he uttered words that made sense to the Overlord of Poland. The One Prince of Poland also believed in the new advisor, so the new face, who called himself Maxym, was offered the position of Grand Advisor of the Oceanfaring Provinces. The other advisors were all jailed, and are being held in prison indefinitely. We have plans in place to gift these advisors to the British, just to make Elizabeth's life that much more annoying.
Ottoman settlers
Soon after the last update, the Ottomans settled very close to the west of the empire, where OP would have eventually wanted his fourth city. The Polish did not have happiness to support an expansion there, though, so they were ok with the Ottomans settling there. The Ottomans also sent a new trade route to Warsaw through this settlement, so there was no reason to go to war immediately.
Question: One thing I have trouble with is finding the time to actually build up troops and go to war, when there's so much development that can be done. I tend not to declare war until bombers, because when I can get more science, gold, production, or food, I will really want to get that. I feel like I can't see the benefit of warfare sometimes, especially if I have a weak army to start. Any suggestions about when it's right and when it's wrong?
City States
After traveling west through Ottoman lands, our triremes moved east through Moroccan and English lands. There we found many city states that we could protect. When we pledge our protection, we agree to put on a show and pretend to privately scold any civilization that takes tribute from them. OP also promises the city state leaders that if the city state is conquered, he will be moderately sad, and might even shed a tear. No promises though on that part. In return, city states agree to be friends with us and give us awesome stuff.
Trade routes
Until everyone started to travel across the ocean, the Polish Empire was the center of trade and commerce in the region. England, the Ottomans, and the Moroccans were trading with the Organized Power, providing some much needed science and gold. Once harbors were reached, Warsaw sent some food to Lodz, making the city grow and prosper. When the tech for education was reached, the money from the trade routes was put in to buying 3 universities immediately, and the Oxford university was built to assure Poland would have the ability to travel through the ocean.
Policies and Wonders
With new technologies pouring in faster than ever before, and spies stealing techs, OP caught up to the computers in tech in the early renaissance! Using this tech advantage, he ordered the construction of the Sistine Chapel and the Porcelain tower. With the Other Policies that come from Poland's UA, OP now had two versions of +50% science for research agreements, which will hopefully bring about an eternal lead in science the likes I've never had before on this difficulty.
Other civs and relations
Overall, I have fantastic relations with other civs. The Ottomans are concerning with having 2 expansions directly surrounding me, but while I constructed a couple of crossbowmen to be safe, we did declare our friendship. Morocco is my best friend as always, and they have spread a fantastic religion to my lands (with monasteries, my incense plantations yield 2 culture and 2 faith each). England hates me because I've stolen tech from them and because I've build a few wonders, but nobody really likes Elizabeth anyway, so that's ok. On the other continent, Songhai is my friend, while everyone else is friendly or neutral towards me. While Songhai could ruin my relationship with everyone if they start becoming a runaway on that continent (I hope not, because they're right up with me in tech), I can still make research agreements with them for now, which is nice.
Current Plan
Screenshot:
Spoiler :
While Grand Advisor Maxym suggests I delay ideology, I am planning on being more bold, and am going to try to get the world to follow my ideology without any tourism. I have a lot of money saved up, and when Big Ben gets finished, I will have coal in my empire. Then, I am planning on rush buying 3 factories, and getting freedom as my ideology. After that, I am hoping to go straight to radio, where I can propose the world ideology be freedom in 2 sessions of the world congress (hopefully before enough people get an ideology of their own to oppose it). I've done this plan on lower difficulties before, but I think I'm in a unique position of maybe being able to get this done. If I can, freedom is the best choice for me because I don't have many cities, are not planning on warmongering, and am definitely not behind in tech. Getting to the modern era early as Poland is also nice, because it's an additional social policy, and you can never have too many of those.
Side notes
The world is overflowing with religion. The Celts and the Ethiopians are both in the game, although Ethiopia may not be for much longer. There are also 5 religious city states out of 16. Because Poland really needs more social policies, I proposed the world fair for the first world congress, which will be voted on in 9 turns. I have a lot of production, so I should be able to win it. This also had an added benefit of helping me diplomatically with everyone, because everyone likes the world fair!
PS: also, amazingly few words begin with O. Some of these are definitely stretches...