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

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My forces take the lovely GP farm of Gaul and we quickly rename it to Interjection.

3 95% odds attacks on warrior. I also have a level 4 unit for HE, too.

I expect to get CoL and Confucianism next turn, henge in 4. I have one more city I want to plant (for the gems) and then I think a young man's thoughts turn to slaughter. A stack of 10-15 war chariots should do great damage to a civ...

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oh look -another barb city!!

Got CoL, will switch to Confucianism.

one thing I don't understand is why people get a religion and don't switch. Sure, it's a turn of anarchy... but it's hard to beat an extra happy...

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Will get Stonehenge next turn, and will switch into Confucianism. Steadily building military.

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An interesting tactical situation has shown up:



Sticks has 2 impis and an axe visible. I don't know what other forces he may have in the area.
I have 2 axes and a war chariot, with a couple of more war chariots healing nearby.

The barb city is size 1 and will autoraze and 3 barb warriors.

My goal is not, actually, the barb city, though it would be nice to get it. My goal is to kill some of sticks forces to get a GG at some time. The barb city is nice, though, so that's a secondary goal - getting the barb city. That can happen later, though, if I want it.

I wanted to keep his units there to kill the barb city, and not let him kill and raze it. So, I moved the C1 axe to A, the war chariot to B and the shock axe to C - thus, if he attacks the city, i should be able to hurt his surviving units with 2 axes and a war chariot. The axe will kill it's warrior, but the impis will (hopefully) take more damage. It will be interesting to see what he does and if I can take advantage of a misstep.

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well, he backed up, so I'll wait for hte city to grow and take it. I'm surprised he backed off so much, to be honest.

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And it grew to size 2, so I took my 2nd barb city (and 6th overall) and renamed it Be.

I am 4 turns from MC and a few turns from hooking up gems, so that's a potential +4 for my happy cap. I am building courts where I can. I have one more city to plop down, i think, and then it's time for the war chariots to start rolling.

Cities:

Lava
Muscle
Pitch
Silver
Interjection
Be

I'm about 2nd in most of the demos (more pics later), solidly in 2nd basically everywhere. I need more workers, though - alot more workers.

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oops - just a +3 - I don't have gold hooked up yet. Still, that's pretty good. Plus the production bonus is nice.

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I now have 5 workers for 6 cities. That's a problem

Impis are a pain in the ass, btw. They basically mean that war chariots need to be escorted, cause they will kill 'em.

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So, I have a couple of issues, as illustrated by the below screen shot:



1) I am barely making a profit at 20% science. that's with being financial. I have 2 courts up and am making more, but my 2 barb cities are very expensive. I'm not sure I should have kept Be (costs me 9 gpt and only brings in 3 at 0%)
2) I am attracting quite a crowd up there!! That's 3 mini-stacks of spears/axes/others. Fortunately, they are all separate stacks, they can't see each other or coordinate and I shall have the advantage of roads... But it will make life interesting. One nice thing is that any battles in my land give me 2x GG points on my way to the GG I so crave.

(My forces in red, enemy forces in black)

btw - this is something that is very convenient for me:



I dunno if this is a bug or intended behavior, but note that BE does not, in fact, have any connections to any other city. it is, however, on a river in my territory and there is another city on a river in my territory. I have noticed that this is enough to make connections. I guess it's good to be me...

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kjn moved his stack closer. He's going to be able to approach on the hills, which is a pain, but I'll be able to kill the stack, which is the important thing.

catwalk left his stack where it was. he also built the parthenon, which I would not have done.

A) He's already philosophical, so the effect is not as much.
B) It makes it obvious he's going up to literature, which means that he's not going military and is going to be building the great library. (which he was likely to do anyway, being philosophical). I guess he must have marble, so it's relatively cheap.