[SPOILER] Augustus of China - gingereagle1969

[gingereagle1969]

Turn 125 [1300AD]

First, the economy:

0%: +87G/turn
50%: 109 beakers @ +1G/turn
100%: 218 beakers @ -85G/turn

Spotted one of Ioan's Chariots lurking near the site for Spam Cottage. Dammit!! Cannot cancel Open Borders for 7 turns ... well .. war might change that

Now it's happy-cap has increased, Duracell Batt1 can grow again, excellent. ooh .. Chichen itza can be built in 6 turns, I'll go for that [just hope Nicolae doesn't want his Stone back] .. hmm delay war until turn 135 then.

@ EOT, a market came online & G/turn jumped up to +95 @ 0% Another completes end of next turn, looking forward to the result.

Dammit!! Just noticed that there's a Settler with Ioan's Chariot!! Could it be he's going to settle his own Spam Cottage? Grrr!! At least it will be easy to take if he settles in the current situ



So I'll settle Elgin Cottage [as planned] and then Dove Cottage [up in the north-east]

[gingereagle1969]

Turn 126 [1320AD]

Yup .. he settled Floare de Colt .. greed over defence, eh? Wants the marble, eh? Sorry buddy, have Settler 3 turns away. Will use Elgin Cottage to key an eye on any military build-up [And build-up my forces in Duracell Batt2 ]

G/turn went from +94 to +116! [2 markets came online @EOT] enough gold to start teching Civil Service next turn.

[gingereagle1969]

2 turns in 1 day!!!

Turn 127 [1340AD]

To finish the economy update from last turn:

0%: +116G/turn
50%: 113 beakers @ +14G/turn
100%: 226 beakers @ -87G/turn

So that's 3 turns @ 100% to tech Civil Service. Actually not 4th in GNP for a change, but can't see who's below me from the graph.

[gingereagle1969]

Turn 128 [1360AD]

Oops! was i too hasty to settle Elgin Cottage?

0%: 110G/turn
50%: 116 beakers @ +6G/turn
100%: 232 beakers @ -99G/turn

Actually, able to drop to 90% [209 beakers @ -78G/turn] to complete Civil Service on schedule [2 turns] Strangely I'm now 2nd in GNP - guess both Ioan & Sareln are running at 0%!!

@EOT the Peace Treaty between Ioan & me ended. Chichen Itza in 2 turns .. declare war the turn afterwards.

[gingereagle1969]

2 days running with 2 turns in 1 day .. what's going on? it's not even the week end!

Turn 129 [1380AD]

Got nervous about the Chichen Itza & whipped it without really noticing how much pop loss there'd be, hope it wasn't too much

On the bright side, Civil Service still managed to complete @ EOT ... phew

Hmm ... turn 130 next ... am I ready to rush loan's border cities ... maybe

[gingereagle1969]

Turn 130 [1400AD]

Civil Service in [hello Maces] have queued up 3 1-turn-techs Aesthetics, Literature & Drama [may as well get my unique build -Pavilion]

The economy:

0%: +115G/turn
50%: 115 beakers @ +10G/turn
100%: 230 beakers @ -95G/turn

Just re-assessed my military force; will hold off declaring on Ioan for 5, maybe 10, turns. Of course it's likely he'll declare on me after his 1-turn-war with Nicolae. Queued Cho-Ko-Nu & Mace in my core 4 cities.

[gingereagle1969]

Forgot to post this about 6 hours ago .. 2nd turn today

Turn 131 [1410AD]

Happened to look at Sareln & Nicolae's resources to see if there was anything to worth trading. Offered Nicolae my spare Incense for one of his spare Deer [I'm in need of Health]. Spotted both had World map available, so cheekily sent that request too Ioan's got nothing I need/want, sod him!

Hmm .. 2nd in GNP .. again

[gingereagle1969]

Got a 3rd turn today ... well, technically yesterday

Turn 132 [1420AD]

Yay! Both accepted the map trades! I got the whole kaboodle Nicolae seemed to have cancelled the Marble/Stone swap, but chose to offer me back his spare for nothing ... decided to give him Sareln's map info in return .. hopefully he'll get paranoid that I'll pass his info onto Sareln and keep me sweet .. i.e declare war on Ioan when I do

Ooh, able to cancel Open Borders with Ioan - get orf my land

Damn, can't settle Dove Cottage, Sareln's planted a city too close - man,. I'm being boxed in - oh well, come here little Fishes!!

Economy:
0%: +123G/turn
50%: 120 beakers @ +14G/turn
100%: 241 beakers @ -94G/turn

How the ... ? I completed Literature @ 0% ... erm, did I get that much overflow?

Bingo!!Gold was found in a Mine near Rose Cottage

[gingereagle1969]

turn finally came around ... well ... 2 hours ago

Turn 133 [1430AD]

Settled Perch Cottage [after the Fish] to the west of Craven Cottage. Already built 2 Missionaries, so was able to convert this city straight away, along with Elgin Cottage.

Economy:
0%: +135G/turn
50%: 130 beakers @ +18G/turn
100%: 260 beakers @ -99G/turn

Drama completes this turn, so I've queued up Alphabet[1], Construction[1], Feudalism[2] and Engineering[4].

[gingereagle1969]

Turn 134 [1440AD]

A couple of units built & named [inc. first Mace]

Apart from that ... click ... end ... sent