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Ouch our economy is hurty
we are paying 32gpt unit costs and yet still need a LOT more troops for MP duty. MM for a few more gpt. Dacca is building a library... why???? It generates jus 5 commerce per turn and loses 2 of that to corruption. Don't really want to change it as it would waste 45 shields for a sword or horse switch to harbor, due in 2. Babylon is well advanced on us so a GL rush looks to be a good idea... eventually, its still out of the question now... I take a look at our unit list and we have just 3 galleys. Veto galley builds on eastern coast however as they will take upwards of 10 turns to reach the correct side... the irony is that this is not a wonderful AW start... but it would be absolutely perfect for a regular game. Oh well...
Goals for this turnest:
Build more galleys
Build more troops
Get ready to invade Babylon
Get us a bit closer to Jumbos
ok lets go
IBT - Persopolis completes Sun Tzu's, deficit jumps to -19gpt but Feudalism drops from 6 turns to 4
Turn 1 - Move troops around looking for galleys, try and set some small cities to build cheap mp's
What to do with the settler on the jungly peninsula? Its costing us gpt and with nowhere to settle for a whil i'm tempted to merge him. Our attack on Babylon is going to require capturing actual Babylon on the first attack and then founding cities in the space created by burning their other cities. Not sure if he's needed now... keep him anyway.
IBT - China rocks up, finally some mroe contacts, that should drop tech prices a bit. The bad news, it means all civs have Astronomy probably. Means we need Lighthouse to reach them, they can reach us regardless.
Turn 2 - Call up China, I can't even afford a territory map, let alone techs.
This is just painful. Declare on them. Fedualism has dropped by two turns again thanks to China arriving.
IBT - Babs come asking for peace, they would give 159 gold, world map and monotheism for peace. Don't even consider it and tell him to get stuffed.
Turn 3 - Dacca: harbor --> duct. We get a low treasury warning.
Feudalism due in 1 but if i cut back science at all (which, incidently would take us from -19gpt to +12gpt) then we dont get Feudalism next turn.
The amazing thing is a check of F8 shows we are top in score, and leading in most of the demographics. That means 1 thing, we aren't exerting our dominance properly. However I look around and I'm struggling to see where we can fix things, MM for a bit of gold here and there but really there isn't much more we can do... load some guys on galleys, we have 2 boats loaded now. Find a redlined galley fortified in open waters (where it cant heal...) with a vet horse and... a vet warrior??? We have limited resources, we can't afford to waste anything,so send him to the nearest harbour city to heal and ditch the warrior for MP duty.
IBT - barb galley attacks ours and loses but yellowlines us. Feudalism comes in, set to Monotheism due in 18 turns at +12gpt, cant get it any faster as we have 2gold and were running at -19gpt.
Turn 4 - Delhi: Library --> Sword
zzzz
IBT - Get palace expansion
Turn 5 - zzzz
IBT - Ditto
Turn 6 - Troops waiting for galleys, worker moves.
IBT - zzz
Turn 7 - Dacca: Courthosue --> Galley
IBT - barb galley attacks us and dies pitifully
Turn 8 - Calcutta: Sword --> Sword, Chittagon: Galley --> Galley, New Kollhapur: Archer --> Archer (reg, for mp duty)
IBT - zzz
Turn 9 -zzzz
IBT - once again... zzz
Turn 10 - Madras: Sword --> Sword, Lahore: Galley --> galley, Swordy Mountain: Worker --> Sword, Hyderbad: galley --> galley, bengal: galley --> galley, New Lahore x2: archer --> archer (reg, mp duty)
Post turn thoughts:
Well we have a stronger military, but we cant afford it.
We have more galleys but they will take some time to reach the required destination, in the meantime they drain gpt.
Our economy is broken. Very broken, we are poor as a church mouse whos just had an enormous bill the day after his wife ran away with another mouse, taking all the cheese.
I leave it to Lboogie to maintain the military and naval drive, this is looking like by the time we can reach the mainland it will be time for Great Library or bust. We need proper war with Babylon fast regardless. Both china and babylon have astronomy so we should be wary of landings. We have a strong military compared to both, but our economy needs work, and I dont mean infra. I mean we just plain need more commerce. Also I noticed there were a fair few places building libraries when they generated less than 10 commerce (and usually lost most of that to corruption). Libraries cost 1gpt and with the low commerce of the cities they werent going ot increase the science outpt of those cities. We need to avoid that, culture is not something we need right now, we need commerce, harbors where possible. Taxmen once cities run out of tiles that will make a difference (an unimproved hill is pointles, no extra commerce and unless it will take the city over a threshold (10 useable spt, 15 etc.) then its not worth using, better off with taxmen in that sort of circumstance. Improve the hills around indus, we need it to pull as many shields as possible to get the FP finished as quick as we can.
Good luck Lboogie13
Ouch our economy is hurty
we are paying 32gpt unit costs and yet still need a LOT more troops for MP duty. MM for a few more gpt. Dacca is building a library... why???? It generates jus 5 commerce per turn and loses 2 of that to corruption. Don't really want to change it as it would waste 45 shields for a sword or horse
switch to harbor, due in 2. Babylon is well advanced on us so a GL rush looks to be a good idea... eventually, its still out of the question now... I take a look at our unit list and we have just 3 galleys. Veto galley builds on eastern coast however as they will take upwards of 10 turns to reach the correct side... the irony is that this is not a wonderful AW start... but it would be absolutely perfect for a regular game. Oh well...Goals for this turnest:
Build more galleys
Build more troops
Get ready to invade Babylon
Get us a bit closer to Jumbos
ok lets go
IBT - Persopolis completes Sun Tzu's, deficit jumps to -19gpt but Feudalism drops from 6 turns to 4
Turn 1 - Move troops around looking for galleys, try and set some small cities to build cheap mp's
What to do with the settler on the jungly peninsula? Its costing us gpt and with nowhere to settle for a whil i'm tempted to merge him. Our attack on Babylon is going to require capturing actual Babylon on the first attack and then founding cities in the space created by burning their other cities. Not sure if he's needed now... keep him anyway.
IBT - China rocks up, finally some mroe contacts, that should drop tech prices a bit. The bad news, it means all civs have Astronomy probably. Means we need Lighthouse to reach them, they can reach us regardless.
Turn 2 - Call up China, I can't even afford a territory map, let alone techs.
This is just painful. Declare on them. Fedualism has dropped by two turns again thanks to China arriving.
IBT - Babs come asking for peace, they would give 159 gold, world map and monotheism for peace. Don't even consider it and tell him to get stuffed.
Turn 3 - Dacca: harbor --> duct. We get a low treasury warning.
Feudalism due in 1 but if i cut back science at all (which, incidently would take us from -19gpt to +12gpt) then we dont get Feudalism next turn.
The amazing thing is a check of F8 shows we are top in score, and leading in most of the demographics. That means 1 thing, we aren't exerting our dominance properly. However I look around and I'm struggling to see where we can fix things, MM for a bit of gold here and there but really there isn't much more we can do... load some guys on galleys, we have 2 boats loaded now. Find a redlined galley fortified in open waters (where it cant heal...) with a vet horse and... a vet warrior??? We have limited resources, we can't afford to waste anything,so send him to the nearest harbour city to heal and ditch the warrior for MP duty.
IBT - barb galley attacks ours and loses but yellowlines us. Feudalism comes in, set to Monotheism due in 18 turns at +12gpt, cant get it any faster as we have 2gold and were running at -19gpt.
Turn 4 - Delhi: Library --> Sword
zzzz
IBT - Get palace expansion
Turn 5 - zzzz
IBT - Ditto
Turn 6 - Troops waiting for galleys, worker moves.
IBT - zzz
Turn 7 - Dacca: Courthosue --> Galley
IBT - barb galley attacks us and dies pitifully
Turn 8 - Calcutta: Sword --> Sword, Chittagon: Galley --> Galley, New Kollhapur: Archer --> Archer (reg, for mp duty)
IBT - zzz
Turn 9 -zzzz
IBT - once again... zzz
Turn 10 - Madras: Sword --> Sword, Lahore: Galley --> galley, Swordy Mountain: Worker --> Sword, Hyderbad: galley --> galley, bengal: galley --> galley, New Lahore x2: archer --> archer (reg, mp duty)
Post turn thoughts:
Well we have a stronger military, but we cant afford it.
We have more galleys but they will take some time to reach the required destination, in the meantime they drain gpt.
Our economy is broken. Very broken, we are poor as a church mouse whos just had an enormous bill the day after his wife ran away with another mouse, taking all the cheese.
I leave it to Lboogie to maintain the military and naval drive, this is looking like by the time we can reach the mainland it will be time for Great Library or bust. We need proper war with Babylon fast regardless. Both china and babylon have astronomy so we should be wary of landings. We have a strong military compared to both, but our economy needs work, and I dont mean infra. I mean we just plain need more commerce. Also I noticed there were a fair few places building libraries when they generated less than 10 commerce (and usually lost most of that to corruption). Libraries cost 1gpt and with the low commerce of the cities they werent going ot increase the science outpt of those cities. We need to avoid that, culture is not something we need right now, we need commerce, harbors where possible. Taxmen once cities run out of tiles that will make a difference (an unimproved hill is pointles, no extra commerce and unless it will take the city over a threshold (10 useable spt, 15 etc.) then its not worth using, better off with taxmen in that sort of circumstance. Improve the hills around indus, we need it to pull as many shields as possible to get the FP finished as quick as we can.
Good luck Lboogie13
. We desperately miss the second leader for the FP. For now I would even consider to disband many units. Leave 2 or 3 units per city for MP. We do not need to fear the AI. It is too silly in overseas operations.
Chinese building JS Bach, worker actions
