[SPOILERS] Meh. Plako organizing mess

[plako]

Swordsman eh? Got any concrete plans?

Nope - It has been on the queue quite a while (before HBR time) so I decided to finish it now. Higher base strength gives some benefits in defense over Axes and spears.

[regoarrarr]

How's the stables quest going?

[plako]

How's the stables quest going?

10 cities has them or are ready to whip them. Only Haarlem is dragging behind. I don't know what I'm going to do concerning the price. I might even take the food.

T139

Found Pindicator


Core is finally in Vertical growth mode


Tech situation and we're really backwards

[plako]

T143

Peaceful currently everywhere. None in our neighborhood is focusing on military. I'm close to #1 locally. Even if globally far behind the leaders. I think I'll take the food from quest. I won't have enough to steamroll through HAK so only reasonable option would be going against Rome's island, but I just don't see me building that many galleys. This basically means I'm going towards Knights and then see what I can accomplish with them. I'll finish the stables as soon as Haarlem is ready.

I'm still collecting gold since I'll take both Monarchy and Feudalism next and convert simultaneously to Vassalage+HR. I want to avoid Civil Service to keep the Astro bulb alive.

Scouting:

Cities:

Demographics:

[plako]

T147

Time to finish those stables. Taking the food almost certainly. Our corner has turned out to become peaceful one, but I think 11 unpromoted HAs is not good enough. Better take the economic bonuses then and head for Knights. Annoyingly HAK must have built HAgia Sophia on to his border city since I'm losing control over the Banana tile pretty fast.

Power

Demographics

[plako]

T148

Whipped the remaining stables and next turn it is decision time. At the moment I see no reason to get Horse Archers. I prefer to build Knights that can be either used immediately or later upgraded quite cheaply to Cuirassiers/Cavalries.

[plako]

T149

Quest finished and I took the food. I presume the city highlighted here would have got the HAs. Actually this would have been best possible spot to launch attack towards Rome's island, but now it is too late to change plans. I wish I would have realised this before. I would have needed to build 4-5 galleys more to launch the attack.

[plako]

Demographics are alright. I also got Sunrises graph and after great start it seems like he is losing ground.





Next turn I'll convert to Hereditary rule+Vassalage. Should work pretty well now that I also got the food boost to raise my population and there should always be military units to take advantage of the upkeep reduction.

[darrelljs]

How many HAs would it have been?

Darrell

[plako]

How many HAs would it have been?

Darrell

11, but unpromoted. Probably enough to take the Rome's Island, but as said I thought they would have appeared on capital and then I would have needed way more time and Galleys for transferring them.