January 19th, 2013, 12:55
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Building wealth to get Nationalism fast - plan is to kick off 2 9 turn GA's if I can to catch up.
Silvery is running 2 artists to get the marble back so I can try to hit sticks city. We'll see how well that works.
Celiazul's knight moved away, so maybe he's gearing up for war against someone else. I'm still moving pikes to the cap, though...
Completed: PBEM 34g (W), 36 , 35 , 5o, 34s, 5p, 42, 48 and PB 9, 18, 27, 57
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January 22nd, 2013, 08:54
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thestick is 2 turns from liberalism (and nationalism, presumably)
I am 5 turns from nationalism. I am so hosed...
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January 22nd, 2013, 09:19
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next, btw, I dump a big stack next to his city and either burn it or go on a pillaging rampage. Probably the pillaging, of course, but we'll try the burning...
Completed: PBEM 34g (W), 36 , 35 , 5o, 34s, 5p, 42, 48 and PB 9, 18, 27, 57
Current: PB 52. Boudicca of Maya
January 24th, 2013, 01:30
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Lots of stuff happening. I am running into a bit of a buzzsaw, though I do have the advantage of woods cover.
celiazul seems to be putting a push on kjn... stick is teching to liberalism and putting cultural pressure on me - I just dumped a stack in on one of stick's cities. Either I'll attack it (across a river, which isn't great), or I'll plunder cottages.
I get a GP in 3 turns and nationalism in 4. The GP either kicks off a GA, or it builds Taj (about a 25% chance for an engineer). At that point, I switch to Nationhood and start drafting maces... I hope to get a 2nd GA going, either with Taj or another GP, and go off and hurt stick a lot...
Completed: PBEM 34g (W), 36 , 35 , 5o, 34s, 5p, 42, 48 and PB 9, 18, 27, 57
Current: PB 52. Boudicca of Maya
January 24th, 2013, 10:33
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so, just so you guys know:
Plan is:
Get my GP - if it's an engineer, wait till I get Nationalism, build Taj, kick off the GA. Switch to Nationhood and pacifism (to get another GP fast), build cats/war chariots (to pillage the snot out of sticks towns) and draft maces. I'll probably draft from nearly every city.
Tech path will be to get to banking and mercantilism.
If it's not an engineer, immediately kick off the GA and to much the same when i get nationalism, except handbuild the Taj. With a GA and marble, I think I can build it faster than stick. Unless he has an engineer sitting around and I don't think he does
Completed: PBEM 34g (W), 36 , 35 , 5o, 34s, 5p, 42, 48 and PB 9, 18, 27, 57
Current: PB 52. Boudicca of Maya
January 24th, 2013, 13:30
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once I hit nationalism and the GA:
Be will attempt to draft a mace a turn. I'm not sure that the way I have it set up will allow that, so I may have to farm under some cottages.
Muscle will build maces (and maybe some xbows/cats/pikes) - maybe trebs, I'll have to think about it) and be in the drafting order.
Interjection will be in the drafting order and will slow build war chariots (maybe archers, for collateral soaking)
Article should be able to 1-turn war chariots, and be in the draft rotation at the same time. Those will be collateral soakers and pillagers, as article does not have a barracks.
Lava will give a war chariot a turn, plus be in the draft rotation
Silvery will be in the draft rotation and will build catapults, I think, but probably not 1 turn them
Pitch will build 1 turn war chariots/cats and be in the draft rotation
Non-primodial will continue to grow and probably build war chariots, but slowly.
So each turn, i should get 2 drafted maces, 1 regular mace/cat/pike/crossbow with 2 promos & 3 war chariots (two with promos), or 6 units a turn, plus 2 more units every 3 or 4 turns from Interjection, Be and Non-Primordial.
Time for some killin', I think...
The hope, of course, is to use my advantage in cities to snowball into military advantage and badly hurt stick, so I can catch up in tech.
Completed: PBEM 34g (W), 36 , 35 , 5o, 34s, 5p, 42, 48 and PB 9, 18, 27, 57
Current: PB 52. Boudicca of Maya
January 24th, 2013, 13:50
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Also, after nationalism comes:
Monarchy
Theology (shifting into HR and Theocracy ASAP)
Feudalism
Guilds
Banking
HBR (bye bye war chariots, hello knights)
Paper
Education
Gunpowder
though, honestly, I expect I'll either be irrelevant or will be clearly ahead by then.
Completed: PBEM 34g (W), 36 , 35 , 5o, 34s, 5p, 42, 48 and PB 9, 18, 27, 57
Current: PB 52. Boudicca of Maya
January 24th, 2013, 14:44
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Reports are 9x worse in quality without screenshots. Nobody is going to remember where your cities are and where the city you're attacking is and what its environs look like.
January 24th, 2013, 15:02
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Whoops!!
The Battle for Ulna:
![[Image: T118ULNA.JPG]](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/68908721/PBem42/T118ULNA.JPG)
I have actually promoted all my units, but this is a recreation and I don't remember the exact promos I used, so I left 'em unpromoted.
Not shown is a force that Celiazul has to thesticks south - not big, but probably enough to pin some of those forces in New Scapula. There is a very good chance I can kill Ulna next turn. Unless he has significant other forces, I'd guess it's dead (unless I choose to bring down the walls first)
I'll post more pics to go along with my plans post nationalism tonight.
Completed: PBEM 34g (W), 36 , 35 , 5o, 34s, 5p, 42, 48 and PB 9, 18, 27, 57
Current: PB 52. Boudicca of Maya
January 24th, 2013, 15:08
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Liberalism: The game's biggest "kick me" sign.
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