Ah, as if an ad for AT using an ax in AW. Am thinking AP, ay?

[AutomatedTeller]

btw - the south grass in the pic by Be? that's the percent that is ZULU, not mine. Messed that up...
oh - also... note that i'm getitng TWO commerce in a trade route with the capitol, not just 1!! yay

[AutomatedTeller]

moved settler in place for the new city, along with spear, mace, archer and war chariot. Will have an xbow to help next turn, another after that. Builds there will probably go walls->castle, since I have stone.

Article is now building Notre Dame - 8 turns. Don't know if I'll get it, but I have stone and I don't know if KJN does, so that's a leg up.

No one built HG yet, so that's a plus. I think I'll whip it - 3 or 4 pop - next turn, but that's ok - I'm up against my happy cap, anyway. and HG gives the pop right back and the boost will help all my cities... so, cross fingers that no one builds it in the inter-turn!!

still losing out on culture up north - will be whipping in culture as soon as I can - obviously, Globe will help.

Moving my stack around to raid stick. Nothing really interesting going on in the world, it seems.

I'll also be adding walls and castles everywhere - they are cheap with stone and useful in deterenace, culture and, of course, trade routes. Well, not everywhere, but a lot of places.

[AutomatedTeller]

oh - Ceiliazul has maces, so he'll be switching to bureau soon =.

[AutomatedTeller]

Also, I'm getting cultural pressure on my CAPITOL, from Ceilazul. he can see into it. He doens't have any of the tiles, but I guess I need to get a theater there soon. HG and a theater will help a lot with that, of course, as will a cathedral, if I can get it.

What a pain in the ass.

Worse, he can see that the defenses are... small. So, guess I have to bolster those. Maybe the raid into stick can hold off, i dunno.

[AutomatedTeller]

Also, need 2 more settlers - well, at least 1. I want a city between Muscle and Be - will help with culture and can work some of the tiles that Interjection can't really work and run specialists. Plus, there's some tasty grass river for cottaging.

With my 8th city, I shall be able to build the Forbidden palace! which will be really great, cause costs are insane on this map...

[Commodore]

Could we get a zoomed shot of the whole empire?

[AutomatedTeller]

your wish is my command!!



It's too long to fit in a regular screenie, so you get it this way...

There are two things I worry about right now:

stick is 2 turns from gunpowder, which is a problem.
celiazul has roaded a hill near my rice, for no reason I can see (other than to give him the opportunity to dump a large stack in my land)

cities:




Whip in HG->Theater. I'll get some unhappiness next turn, as I am at my happy cap in some places. I'll whip in market in muscle to take care of that (and make some more cash). Whipped in a monastery in Be for culture.

[AutomatedTeller]

I was doing some world buildering, and it seems like the extra sight from optics only applies to water tiles by boats. So, really didn't help me at all. Still, whales are nice - not really complaining there - happy, production, commerce. Plus, optics is required for some later techs and this game may take awhile...

[Commodore]

I think in a map this size three airships would give just about 100% coverage.

[AutomatedTeller]

The bad news:

Celiazul has knights. (and banking). Mainly, that means I have to reinforce the Capitol and build some pikes. Pain in the ass.
sticks stole my marble tile, which means I can't dump a stack next to his city. I dry whipped a theater and will run artists to try to get it back, but that's a pain.

The mediocre news:

KJN built Notre Dame, which is better than sticks getting it. Plus I get fail gold, so that helps.

The good news:

I got HG and whipped in walls in my new city. I can whip in Globe next turn. War Weariness is going down, slowly. I think I can get my marble back. I hope.
Also, sticks couldn't 2 turn gunpowder, so I can maybe go pillage some towns and hurt him that way. We'll see.