Heh, thanks! I squeezed out military units as much as I could, whipping my population to smithereens.
Now Beorn's stack is in retreat. This turn I had a decision to make: do I attack his stack, let it go, or...stand right next to it?!
Thing is, our stacks are of equal size, but he's on a forest. My catapults would not compensate enough for that defense bonus - they would have to do more than 1/3 damage of all units' strength to undo the 50% bonus - The same goes for him. But if I move next him, then I'm also on a forest. But now he cannot retreat, because then he's on plains instead of forest. As a result, I force him to stay there. And there are more troops coming.
Meanwhile I got caravels! So one 'unmanned' ship is going for a world tour, while the other will drop off an explorer and then head south to meet up with our infamous stranger
BrunchTime, whose borders became visible due to the +2 visibility upon discovering
optics.
Socralynnek and I have been talking. He tries to make me believe that he's unsure which side to take. But now I saw him moving in all his five or six triremes plus two galleys in the habour of Rajavihara. My caravels needs two turns of rest in the Hague to fully recover from the successful sinking of Beorn's fleet (three triremes and a galley; no losses).
Beorn is only two turns away from
gunpowder!
Hey,
I'm the one with the
great library. He went to get
paper and
education already, while I just started on
feudalism and will go towards
gunpowder from there. Beorn actually
stole engineering from me a couple of turns ago.
The first spy has reached Aztec land and started to explore Beorn's realm.