Still a highpaced PBEM, now at turn 140. so what happened?
Erikk was not too happy about my suicidal warrior triggering his GA. Even more, my spear decided too snoop around the mountains long enough so that I could get closer to his core. Finally we agreed a peace which left him in a despot-GA and me with a spear.
The peacetreaty will last till one of us enters the Industrial age!!!
Okay, so we have some work to do. Comparing my situation to Erikks, his continent suits itself a lot better for quick conquest. As he can bribe one AI with him, to create a second front. Also, the Vikings and Hittites are far smaller then my Greeks and Inca, not to mention less of a threath on the sciencescale, since both are relatively beckwards.
On the bright side. I do see a bit more potential in my island, since it is a bit larger. Overall, it is good that Erikk has had his GA!
The situation: I am by far the most advanced guy on the block. Leading everyone by at least one tech. We are also a republic. And for joy, the Ducth landed two warriors on my turf last turn, declaring war when I asked them to go. Since I have over 30 MW at the Incan border I still decide to take on the Inca, and bribe Greece against the dutch. The dutch are on a separate Island so no real danger at all. I am aware, swiss mercs are not far away.
Willem:
69.13*KB
But no matter, we proceed. The Inca are strong. They are the largest civ and the only one where my mili is actually weak. So a nice target indeed.
In the meantime, Erikk is allying with the hittites vs teh Vikings, and with succes as he conqueres a city almost every turn!!
I must make haste and stretch my troops to the fullest. Cuzco and others finally fall.
The inca are defeated but for a 2-tile island city where at the time of my arrival by boat the worker was mining the hill
. This took him 19 turns, in which I had SEVEN flips....
I lost some MW but luckily most where outside their cities...The Portugese finally landed 8 horses near the Incan capitol to take it and finally killing them all.
The battle DID give me a great leader used for a FP in cuzco:
115.18*KB
As I entered a GA the minute I became a Republic I attempted to get as many techs as possible. Greece got Feudalism as a free tech, so I got Mono in 8 turns, Lit in 4, Enginering in 8 and after trading for feudalism, chivalry in 8. I also got Monarchy form the Vikings for Feudalism.
Next, I declared war on the Greeks, roughly the time when Erikk declared war on the Hittites. The Greeks had a huge military (50 turns war with the Dutch, still going on) but I have Knights.
The damned Hoplites make for many casualties but on the bright side, we did get a second leader which was turned in an Army of Knights.
Also, on techs, several AI know Invention and Erikk may be one of them. I hold a chiv monopoly but will not give that away! My max on theo however:
75.55*KB
YES!!! And Sun Tzu's was built in Niagra Falls!
And even better, the turn before my armies want to attack athens, it builds LEO's, already having the MoM and even better, the almost (but not yet!!!) obsolete temple of artemis!
73.18*KB
And
56.92*KB
On techs: We lead everyone by Theology and next turn Printing Press. The AI (greece/Netherlands and probably Erikk too) have Invention (GP). I do not want to trade yet, since greece will already give it in the peacetreaty.
The lands:
97.54*KB
And the minimap:
8.26*KB
The Civs:
-Portugal (lila): Backwards backstabbers, no chance
-Hittites, (uppperleft): Putting up a decent resistance vs Erikk, holding their capitol AND forcing Erikk to peace!!
Other then that, no chance
-Vikings: Should be dead, if I didn't have a settler/archer combo hostage in my lands.
Sumeria: King of their Island. strong but not as strong as me.
Inca: who?
Greece: sturdy, stupid, will die soon.
Netherlands: best AI, shitload of units, no Iron. dead soon.
Iroquois: strong
F11:
52.64*KB