Turn Chat Instruction Thread: 1490 AD, Saturday 15 May, 13:00 GMT

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A final longbow is now left defending Thebes, we attack and capture Thebes! There are 5 resisters.

 

[Furiey]

We try again with Heliopolis – the Cavalry will have to earn their upkeep. We win until we meet pikes, then lose. Not daunted we try again, winning, just a Longbow left. We form an Army with the Leader to allow us to get another, then attack the Longbow with an Elite Cavalry, we win, Capturing Heliopolis!

 

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Our Tanks can now reach Byblos. We bombard first though, destroying the Temp, Harbour, Market, Library and kill some citizens, we manage to injure the defending Rifle, kill it with a Tank, and destroy the Pikes with Cavalry. We have taken Byblos!

 

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Next is El-Armarna. We soften it up by bombarding with our Destroyers, then the Artillery, destroying the Market and missing repeatedly We attack with Cavalry, then a Tank, and lose to a 2/4 Rifle!. We continue attacking with Tanks and Cavalry, then finally it’s over.

 

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We spy on Alexandria – a 4/4 rifle is defending. We need more than just Cavalry, so load the recently formed Army with the Giant Stickman, Scourge of Egypt and 2 other Cavalry. We attack Alexandia. The fight goes back and forth, but we win. Two pikes now defend, we attack with Cavalry, 1 retreats but we win. We capture Alexandria and Magellan’s Voyage. Before our eyes all our ships gain one movement point!

 

[Furiey]

We are now rapidly overrunning Egypt.

We rename Thebes -> Much Ado, Heliopolis ->BlackHoleVille, El-Armarna -> Jetropilis and Alexandria -> St. Ravenaticus. We spy on Memphis – defended by Rifles, and Elephantine, only defended by Pikes!

Time to spend some gold (Turn 2 Christmas Bonus from F&L) – a Market was rushed in Wyfurd, a Harbour in Troy and Temples in Domain of Cal and Needles.

End of Turn 2, 40% research, Sanitation in 2, 3727 gold, 1032 gpt.

 

[Furiey]

1505 AD – Turn 3

Egypt now has Infantry! To counter we build our first Tank Army

we can’t attack anything this turn with more than the spying Cavalry, so we set our troops up to attack next turn.

End of Turn 3, 40% research, Sanitation in 1, 4759 gold, 1038 gpt.

 

[Furiey]

1510 AD – Turn 4

IBT: The Egyptian Infantry in Elephantine injures itself on one of our Cavalry which retreats.

Memphis is first. We bombard, redlining at Rifle, Infantry, Pikeman, injuring another Pike, destroying the Market and killing some Citizens. We attack with Tanks . We kill the Infantry and a Pike, with our first Tank, promoting it to Elite. Our second Tank destroys the Rifle and Pike and is also now Elite! We capture Memphis, which still has a Factory!

 

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Hieraconpolis is next. We bombard, redlining a Rifle and 2 Pikes. A Tank takes out the Rifle, An Elite Cavalry destroys a Pike giving us our second Great Leader (De Gaulle) of the Session.

 

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A second Elite Cavalry attacks the remaining Pike. We win – and get another Great Leader (Charlemane)

 

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We capture Hieraconpolis which has 10 Resisters, but still has a Market and Bank.

 

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Elephantine is next in our sights. We bombard with Destroyers and kill one of the Infantry with our Tank Army, but only Cavalry can reach now, we’ll have to wait until next turn. An injured Cavalry breaks the link between Elephantine and Egypt’s Rubber in the Tundra – no more Infantry there! We move some Cavalry up towards Asyut which still has Riflemen defending. No attack until next turn though

Turn 4 Christmas Bonus from F&L, this time the captured Catapult was upgraded and Tanks were rushed in Needles, Domain of Cal, Rejkavick and Otorohanga.

War Weariness is just starting to appear, not a problem yet, but will need to be watched. A Settler built in Avon Nova catches the transport with the Settler on the War to the Ice Island. With 2 Settlers we can claim it completely and not have to worry about blocking foreign Settlers.

End of Turn 4, 90% research, Flight in 4, 4129 gold, 178 gpt.

1515 AD – Turn 5

IBT: Raven’s Flight builds our first Hospital!

 

[Furiey]

Elephantine beckons, we bombard, we attack with the Tank Army, then with Tanks , we win, a Tank is promoted to Elite and we capture Elephantine!

 

[Furiey]

Our Settlers reach the Ice Island, one can settle this turn, the other will be next – we need more city names!

Some of our trades will expire this IBT

End of Turn 5, 90% research, Flight in 3, 4311 gold, -149gpt.

 

[Furiey]

1520 AD – Turn 6

IBT: Our trade with the Aztecs expire:

They want to let it do so, but we persuade them otherwise

 

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We start on Asyut, bombarding the defending Rifle and Pike down to 1 hitpoint, but destroying the Cathedral, University, Coliseum in the process. We attack with Cavalry capturing Asyut for no loss.

 

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We Bombard Kahun, defended by two regular Pikeman. We redline them with Artillery, then move in with Cavalry.

 

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We bombard Busaris, redlining the defending Rifle, but the last defender is a Pikeman, so we save the remaining Artillery so that we can reach Egypt’s last city next turn. We attack with Cavalry and capture Busaris.

 

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We move our troops in to take the final city next turn and start loading the transports to go to Persia/Zulu. We build our third city on the ice island.

End of Turn 6, 80% research, Flight in 2, 4171 gold, 8gpt.

 

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1525 AD – Turn 7

IBT: Shall we build Battlefield Medicine?