[Spoilers] AW with highly promoted LB!! (Liz of North America)

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More building. Putting in a turn on engineering so I can get 2 GP on the same turn.

TT built the great wall. I guess he wants more GG?

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getting a prophet next turn, so, along with the artist from music, that's 6 more turns of GA. I'll wait until I get the GP from McHale's Navy - if it's an engineer, I can rush MoM and get 9 turns.

Zero killed a spear with an axe that was covering a worker. That wasn't smart - so i killed the axe with an x-bow and will make one more worker to finish roading the sheep.

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I'm getting a scientist. It occurs to me that having the scientist bulb engineering doesn't work, since I'd have to research alpha, sailing and compass first, and maybe optics, none of which are useful and the combination are as much as engineering. so, I guess I settle him in the cap - teching alpha is the other option. Knowing what my enemies are doing isn't a bad idea.

Or, I keep him for a 3rd GA.... choices, choices, choices...

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oh - Zero got a great prophet last turn and he killed by xbow with a chariot. So I killed his chariot with an HA and covered it this time. it's not a big deal, but I have to be more careful about exchanges - zero got about 100 hammers worth of units to losing maybe 40.

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More builds. I settled the priest in BirdsNest and am building units there. Will switch to LB's/Xbows next turn, with feudalism in.

Will burn the other 2 GP for more GA next turn. Attack Serdoa in a few.

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ok - engineering in 2, then guilds - no messing around with CS. Turn off research for Knight upgrades after that.

I've not seen a medieval unit yet from anyone but me.

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engineering in 1. I should have started a spear, which would have outgraded to pike - that said, I'll have some archery units.

Fun fact: Guerilla III LB's kick ass against units on hills. They withdraw better than units with flanking and get a 25% bonus, thus negating the hill bonus.

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engineering NEXT turn, not this one. I got mixed up by looking at the time after I hit end turn

zero tried to be annoying when I went to road the sheep and cover the worker with HA, by moving a spear. I'm not going to play that, so I put a turn into the iron next to and moved an xbow up.

Upgrade a couple of spears next turn, advance the turn after with a set of cats, HA and a few pikes, xbows, lbows, etc.

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Got engineering - decided to go CS after all, because of Bureaucracy, which is very strong on these settings.

upgraded 2 spears to pikes and ready my forces.

I show up on Serdoa's doorstep next turn, walk to his cap for 2 turns, then kill him on turn 4. And it will be death. I'll even have a highly promoted LB near the attack, but not in it - an x-bow will have to do.




So, that's my 12 HA, 2 pikes, 1 crossbow, 2 workers and 8 catapults vs. his 6 keshiks, axe and archer. I'm pretty sure he has another few keshik's around, so he might not actually die in 4 turns - he could get up to near even on units.

I have 2 more spears to follow, plus 1 in his land keeping an eye on things.

I also have to be careful he doesn't decide to hit one of my cities. I don't think he will, but I should have enough forces to keep it from being an issue, anyway:



8 archery units, 3 spears, 1 HA, 1 cat, with more units produced every turn.

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stack moves in, expenses go way up



This is the other reason why financial is great - you have enough finances to still tech well while your army is out killin'...

Serdoa did kill a spear with one of his keshiks. Makes me glad I waited till pikes.