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Turn 124, In Which AT Posts (with Pics!)
Much drama around the former barb city!!
When last visited, I had expected Yuris to take the city and I thought about taking it from him. However, Molach took the city unexpectedly. I chose not to to attack Molach while facing off against Ichabod in mulitple directions.
However - Yuris took the city! With only 1 HA in it, it's in a good spot to get killed by a CR II axe, chariot and archer - plus, I have LB, so can defend the city effectively. I moved my stack in close and will attack next turn. I presume Yuris doesn't have more HA around - if so, I'll probably just leave it alone, but have to take the chance, no?
Also, Ichabod is attacking Molach - probably just a border skirmish, but Ichabod does have a fair amount of power. I'll have to watch that to make sure Ichabod doesn't just eat Molach
Also, note that Gawdzak is attacking BGN (I think it's BGN)
Gawdzak is clearly winning this game - huge power, also just picked up MoM. Presumably, he'll eat someone soon.
I get ToA next turn - not sure it was a good build, but whatever.
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No former barb city for me!! yuris had 3 more HA in the area, 2 of which were unharmed. I sent the chariot exploring and the other units back home...
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Not a lot going on - Civil Service in 2, then the plan is to tech to gunpowder via machinery and guilds. Molach just switched into Bureau, so he has CS.
Gawdzak offered OB to me, which I accepted. Add in ToA and my trade routes in the cap are pretty impressive for this part of the game. I'm thinking I may turn some of the mines in the cap to cottages... but I'd also love to pop something in one of those, so I dunno. Cap is just growing to be as big as it can.
Still need a few more cities - 2 island ones, the pig site, maybe one on Jowy's island there.
Forges are starting to come and am spreading hinduism around, for the culture and the OR boost.
My guess is that I get gunpowder in 20-30 turns.
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CS next turn - I put a turn into machinery by accident.
I have by far the biggest GNP - part of that is culture, but part of that is also ToA and lighthouse.
Both Jowy and Molach are in Bureau. I'll go in next turn.
Not a lot happening - BGN declared war to send a WB through my culture. I'll let him, though I could just sink it.
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I may have screwed up. I haven't been paying as much attention to power graphs as I should have and Ichabod's power has spiked tremendously. My assumption is that he has guilds and has assembled a huge force of cataphracts.
My estimate is that he has about 300K more soldiers than I do - machinery, HBR and Guilds makes up about 20K of that or so. A cat is 12K. So, he could now have a stack of about 20 cataphracts. Most likely, it's not that many - I'm going to guess 15 or so. It's a serious worry.
A C2 cataphract vs a protective LB behind walls on flat ground with a full 25% fort is about 50/50, though I don't think cataphracts are immune to 1st strikes, so I have that going for me. In any case, I'm a tougher target than my neighbors, so I suspect he may go elsewhere.
In any case, I've started adding more LB. I'll delay my switch in Bureau a turn to get out some LB's and spike my power a little.
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Ichabod didn't come crashing into my land with a stack of knights, so I switched to Bureau, cause I need to anyway. I'll build up wealth for awhile in case I have to upgrade archers while I make a run to gunpowder.
Ichabod can certainly take some cities if he attacks me, but he'll likely end up bogged down and letting Gawdzak win the game. he's better off going after someone like Molach or Jowy (Jowy I think is pretty probably pretty vulnerable - he's had his expansion and now his traits are not all that useful).
This may be wishful thinking on my part 
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So, what' happening?
Ichabod declared war!! On Jowy. He took no cities the first turn, which kind of surprises me, though maybe he couldn't get a 1st turn hit. I don't think Jowy has LB yet or pikes, and that's about all that can stop Ichabod. Maybe elephants? Are elephants banned?
I expect to see Jowy lose a bunch of cities - I think his economy is toasted. I'll put together a small stack to take advantage once ichabod breaks him, but I'm going to concentrate on teching. I definitely don't want Icahbod to win too easily.
Yuris is ripping apart Brick - I don't know why it's so easy - Yuris is attacking with pure HA and just a few spears would slow this down a lot. Maybe he didn't have enough and yuris has a larger stack than I was thinking, but he's got 3 over at the barb city, so that seems to be incorrect.
Got Calendar. I'm thinking of picking up Alpha to give Jowy OB and maybe help him survive a little longer. and open them up for Yuris, too.
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Ichabod took a city from Jowy - Valkyrie. I don't remember if that was an important one or not - my guess is not.
I'm teching to machinery - once I'm there, I'll run 0% for a few turns (I''ll have a market in the cap to help), but I want to get some windmills up in the cap to help it grow - getting it as large as I can is a priority (with lighthouse and ToA). I think I can run to guilds and gunpowder in 6 turns at 100% - might be 7 or 8. With gunpowder, of course, I can start kicking ass...
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So, I got machinery and am building some windmills in the cap (gotta grow the cap) and then I teched to alpaha (dreylin closed borders, but I figure that some of the guys across the water will want OB with me) and now I'm saving gold.
I want 3 cities - 2 of Jowy's and one of Ichabod's (the island city I attacked before). Getting it will require probably 6 or 8 attackers and 3 galleys. It's possible because he hasn't put LB in it. Give him a turn and he'll whip in LB. I suppose I could land and immediately turn around and pick up more units - if I go after him, then I can do it without him dry whipping a LB. However, not sure manipulating the turn order that way is right. I'll have to check the rules, which I think says that the attacked can pick the turn order. Not sure about that.
I have to do something - Ichabod is way ahead of me in cities, though I have a lot more infra in place.
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Well, I'm finding that I'm at gunpowder and making janissaries, but I think I should have gone with knights, since I'd probably have done quite well against molach already.
At turn 150, I had 10 monsters. Jowy is almost done, Ichabod is already researching education, so that's a problem.
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