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Old 29-01-2020, 16:07   #27
Beorn
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T135, 500AD

Today was a good day.




Stapel mustered his forces and tried to weaken our army with catapult collateral when there was 1 turn of bombardment to go, so we used that last turn to finish off the walls, promote a healer (healed all but 1) and let loose on the next turn.



With great success. Total losses: 1 elephant riding in, 1 catapult at the gates.


Matrix's army is sure to be marching East right now so we'll send a 2-galley war party to scour the coast and try to "bluff" our way into making him doubt, or double back, or allow us an easy capture.



Still 3rd. Matrix researches Theology - either for Theocracy, or for further ends ...



That GA could get him further down the Nationalism line, either by bulbing Divine Right or Nationalism itself.



That's a big gambit in quite some time, if it is indeed his plan. Plus, a cuirassier rush would have a tough time against an army of elephants.



First to Alpha and CS, making spies, will try to steal machinery and currency from Matrix ASAP. Stapel has HBR but no more elephants to use it on.

We'll soon have saturated our useful tiles in the homeland ; new conquests are a timely addition. Babaorum is working 8 cottages while Aquarium has 4 specialists at size 6. All of the great people options would be nice: spy for Matrix's techs (or Brunch's), scientist for an academy, or GE for a wonder. Bureaucracy in the capital hoisted it to 35 hammers (rival best MFG is ~65 empire-wide) while Petitbonum remains a crazy mix of whip output + hammered military.

Some hammers are being whip-overflown into mausoleum, slowly building up the next wonder fail gold. With conquest $ pouring in on top of the last payday, we'll keep running at 100% science until Education. Then, a quick whipping of universities will keep me in the game a while longer.
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