[SPOILERS] Rowain and the USA

[Rowain]

T99:
declined Open Border offer from India. Offered Friendship in return.

Declared war on Ichabod because I want "I believe in you".

Thanks to my ram thenewly errected walls are already reduced to 0. He has enouggh Units close by to kill at least one of mine.

Upgraded an Archer to Crossbow and showed him to Bacchus in case he gets any ideas.

[Rowain]

Lets clear off some cobwebs in this thread.

A lot has happened during the last few days with 14 turns played during the last 9 days.

Start and end of turn 99:



Looks like ran right into Ichabods army. Luckily Bacchus accepted my DoF so I don't have to worry about a 2-front-war
The next 2 turns saw several losses on my side turn 100:


and 101:



But still on turn 102:



I thought some time about keeping this city but given the huge red army surroundng me I decided to burn it down.
Ichabods revenge was more successful than expected:

[Rowain]

Turn 104 shows a serious lack of American Units.




But no English units showed up. On Turn 105 Bacchus gota Great Writer - India will get 2 more GP soon.

turn 108 and 109 I found the english Army




India in the meantime has not only managed to push his capital to size 10 but also a new Goverment:



Turn 110 I get a notification of a deal waiting. since it is not an offer from Bacchus I suspect a peace-deal from Ichabod so I look around first. to have Information before making a decision.




then I open the diplo for Ichatoria and accept the deal:



Ichabod and Bacchus are still at war.
This first 110 turns sawthe elimination of Japan and Arabia. While Ichabod still enjoys the fruits of his Japan-conquests he lost both arabian-cities. Myself has gained 2 arabian -cities while Bacchus has  gotten  Hattusa (a nice price both from luxuries and for the completed science-district).

[Rowain]

Since then:

India and America at turn 11:






The list of GP - a lot have settled in India:





and the current stats as far as I can guess:



Ichabod is still in the lead while I'm still 3rd. Ichabod can't sign peace with Bacchus else he gets swarmed with religious units and Bacchus would win a Religious victory. Bacchus has also a settler out since turn 111 from Bobrka.
As Bacchus has it difficult to reach Ichabod but quite easy to reach me I must make sure that my military is top enough to prevent any indian invasions. My goals going forward is closing the pop and district gap and get a Great Person for my own. Out of the 5 starting players I'm the only one without a GP so far.

[Rowain]

Happy new year to everyone

A new turn

A lot happened during the last turn: Bacchus got a tech a civic and 2 pop.

Ichabod got a new tech and entered Renaissance. If he did it via the shipline then he can now cross the Ocean and reach my eastern part. He also got a Prophet and founded Bardism. This triggered that the last Prophet went to Arabia. That a dead Civ gets a Prophet is not really logical but then Stockholm still asks for a Viking Longboat to grant an envoy so   what went on in the developers heads.

[Rowain]

Bacchus has now a 6th city and attacked Brussels with 3 knights. This will be his city Nr 7.

Ichabod finished another district and a settler.

I upgraded 1 Archer to crossbow giving me 2 CB.

[Rowain]

Bacchus captured Brussel (5 pop with Industrial District + workshop) and completed another District.

Ichabod switched to Merchant Republic.

[TheArchduke]

Thanks for the much needed screens.

[Rowain]

Turn 118: Ichabod got a civic and 1 pop (he still has a settler somewhere)
Bacchus got 1 tech, 1 civic, 1 district and completed a settler.

[Rowain]

On turn 121 Bacchus sent me an offer of he gives me 160 gold for 6gpt. I read that as a way to assure me that he has peaceful intentions. I accepted it fearing a refusal would alarm him.

Ichabod conquered Bacchus CS-ally. He also completed Hanging Gardens.

While I'm quite ok in and pop/city-count I am lacking and districts. In both I have ~50% of my competitors.