bobrath
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Not the most exciting of turns. QSH has a massive stack sitting just to our east that had me worried most all of my turns. (and still does) Its only a matter of time until Mansa asks us to cancel deals with QSH... and we'll have to in order to keep Mansa on our side when QSH attacks.
I do hope the throw away chinese city to the far NW will flip to us soon so that the - for cultural pressure goes down.
Mansa went thorugh a golden age during my turn.
I did extort 50 g from Cyrus at the start of my turns. Heck if he's going to sit up here, we might as well make him pay us for leaving him in the game.
The barbs in the new world have maces and longbows. Its gonna be tough. I popped one hut for exp on our explorer. Two other huts found, but both had barbs (warrior or archer) which meant our explorer couldn't touch em.
I joined the Great Scientist to Toledo to try and get that city cranking on research. (he would have gotten us half way to Printing Press)
Currently working on Liberalism. Its due in 5, but I think we might be racing Mansa.
I traded world maps with Louis when he came asking. I'd like to have him on our side instead of QSH. Too bad later in my turns, he demanded we cancel deals with Mansa. Win some, Lose some. Louis does like our civics tho (+4) so that helps a bit.
I traded our spice surplus to everyone but QSH and picked up 13gpt in total for it.
Mansa founded a city in the northern desert (right on top of the wheat). It got hinduism right away. Mansa is also starting to walk a settler across our lands. Not sure where he's headed.
I did some very basic longbow building for extra defense, but mostly just tried to improve our GNP. We have more food then most of the world, but our production, power, and culture are abysmal.
Here's the world as we know it:
The ultra scary stack of doom to our east:
Not much else to say. If we get liberalism (and I'd suggest doing whatever we can reasonably do to shave a turn or two), then we really need to seriously consider beelining for the new world (and destroying Cyrus along the way). Barbs are making some nice cities over there, and our UU is going to age out sooner rather then later.
Finally the save:
I do hope the throw away chinese city to the far NW will flip to us soon so that the - for cultural pressure goes down.
Mansa went thorugh a golden age during my turn.
I did extort 50 g from Cyrus at the start of my turns. Heck if he's going to sit up here, we might as well make him pay us for leaving him in the game.
The barbs in the new world have maces and longbows. Its gonna be tough. I popped one hut for exp on our explorer. Two other huts found, but both had barbs (warrior or archer) which meant our explorer couldn't touch em.
I joined the Great Scientist to Toledo to try and get that city cranking on research. (he would have gotten us half way to Printing Press)
Currently working on Liberalism. Its due in 5, but I think we might be racing Mansa.
I traded world maps with Louis when he came asking. I'd like to have him on our side instead of QSH. Too bad later in my turns, he demanded we cancel deals with Mansa. Win some, Lose some. Louis does like our civics tho (+4) so that helps a bit.
I traded our spice surplus to everyone but QSH and picked up 13gpt in total for it.
Mansa founded a city in the northern desert (right on top of the wheat). It got hinduism right away. Mansa is also starting to walk a settler across our lands. Not sure where he's headed.
I did some very basic longbow building for extra defense, but mostly just tried to improve our GNP. We have more food then most of the world, but our production, power, and culture are abysmal.
Here's the world as we know it:
The ultra scary stack of doom to our east:
Not much else to say. If we get liberalism (and I'd suggest doing whatever we can reasonably do to shave a turn or two), then we really need to seriously consider beelining for the new world (and destroying Cyrus along the way). Barbs are making some nice cities over there, and our UU is going to age out sooner rather then later.
Finally the save:
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I'm guessing Mansa adopting Free Markets got us some free trade route money. Hopefully that means he was working on Economics instead of Liberalism (I checked and he didn't grab Economics as a free tech with Liberalism).
Or is only one transfer allowed?
