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Ichange some coastal queues to caravals... I want a navy now
I give a medina an entertainer
I move some offensive units to the coastal staging point (swords) and manouver some inner defensive units to the outer cities, to ensure our coast is protected.
(1) 1000ad
Banking in 1 turn
I move to intergrate some workers into some of our major cities that dont have maximum pop yet
Our first musketeer kills an arabian spearman, and our GA starts
Our ocean bearing caravel survives, I return it home..an invasion fleet is more important that finding backwards civilisations.
We get banking...music theory in 4 turns at +410gpt !!!
(2) 1010ad
Changed a few queues...we have too many defensive units.
We are very safe on our continent...we need more offensive
(3) 1020ad
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(4) 1030ad
For the want of something to do, I rushed the temple in Strasbourg
I contact the arabs...and yes they are prepared to declare peace and give us a city.
This is good news, but my staging point plans have now changed, as I was planing on invading Babylon.
Now it will have to through the Aztecs.
(5) 1040ad
All troops were intercepted and turned to Leipzig
(6)1050ad
We get music theory, I choose Military tradition up next in 4 @ +202gpt
(7) 1060ad
I get notice that the poor Germans have been destroyed
It wasnt me...I swear
Tours finished Leos Workshop....Half Price upgrades for all
The babs change to Cops Observatory
The damn babs settle on Jumbo Island...we will have to share it.
(8) 1070ad
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(9) 1080ad
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(10) 1090ad
We learn Military Tradition, Economics in 4 @ +320gpt
My last turn...
Summary... We have a mass of horsemen at Leipzig, ready to be upgraded to Knights
We have a fleet of Caravals ready to transport them to our city on the Aztec Continent.
We have settlers ready also to settle on the new continent if we raze cities.
A lot of our cities dont have any barracks, so I switched Baghdad to the Sun Tzu...finished in 2 turns
Paris will have JS Bachs Cathedral finished in 6 turns.
JS Bachs is essential...we need an "happy" wonder.
Sun Tzu is still negotiable.
This needs to be considered before this turn is ended.
Paris can switch to Cops Obs and be finished in 1 round
And Baghdad and be switched to JS Bachs
Or we can switch one to the palace and save for Smiths Trading.
So...the next leader has a choice of Wondsers....
Cops Obs
JS Bachs
Sun Tzu
Smiths
My choices would be JS Bachs & Sun Tzu
Both of these will help us with a domination win, if that is what we are after.
With regards to the War....
I suggest, before the end of the turn, the horsemen are upgraded to Cav.
Then everyone is shipped to the Aztecs
We start a war as soon as everyone is shipped over.
Our GA will be over in 10 turns.
We can either
1) Take the easy target and wipe out the Aztecs.
2) Get a ROP from the Aztecs, and take out Babylon.
I suggest Aztecs
Babylonia has gunpowder, and therefore Musketmen.
We need to get a solid presence on their continent before we take them on.
That means we wipe out the Aztecs first...who only have pikes.
I suggest we can be at war in about 5-6 turns.
Note the Aztecs single source of horses....take that out early.