[SPOILERS] Bacchus and Archduke serve a mouthful of Pecorino Romano

[Bacchus]

The plan is to put the units into action as soon as the horse completes, yes.

[Bacchus]

Good bit of luck, a barb camp has spawned exactly on the way of our army.



Not only will that camp yield much needed gold, it will also push the warrior over into promotion territory. Healing!

I also remembered that GG projects give gold, so the capital is back to working on one of those (3 turns to completion). Hatch builder will chop another forest into the Camp, and then mine the jade.

[Bacchus]

Good news: ran into a city of Preslav down south, completed Political Philosophy and adopted Oligarchy for a boost to warriors and overall increase in speed of conquest. Also switched from Maneuver to Conscription. Legions incoming!

Bad news: Ichabod already founded a religion and picked Defender of the Faith.

Save for you to check out.

[TheArchduke]

DotF. UGH.

Ichabod is a smart cookie, it is unfortunately also the obvious best choice.

Hmm, Carthage and Jerusalem are still valid and you can work with a GG.

I would hope the german-russian war is a real one and signal Germany that you will join soon.

Else, I am at a loss. Thanks for the save. Easier then reporting on your end. 

[Bacchus]

I'll take Carthage for sure. More globally, I think everyone should realise the need for a dogpile, so as soon as I upgrade a Legion, I'm going to push on Ichabod's border city, and hope for others to join in. Not much else to do.

Another option to consider is Stonehenge, but I don't think I can get a settler and a builder out in time before Krill gets the next prophet.

[Bacchus]

Ichabod suzerained Carthage, and Carthage offered me to capture a 2-charge builder, so a declaration of war it is. Rowain declared war on Jerusalem though, which is not good, but expected.

Second encampment completes next turn.

Cleared barb camp, coming up to 80 gold. Gold still a reasonable problem, but we should have just enough for an upgrade as soon as IW completes.

Save attached.

[Bacchus]

Hilarious. Last turn Ichabod declared war on me, which led Carthage to declare war on me, even though we were already at war. Well, my units still got booted out of Carthage's borders! This breaks at least a turn of siege, and also removes my warrior from a hill for a -3 malus, so an all round disaster. Ichabod sent me a heads up in a PM. He is pelting said warrior with slingers because he apparently lacks Archery.

[TheArchduke]

Wow, this seriously sucks. Is Russia not at war already? Quite... daring of him to dow you.

You could retreat on that pasture and pillage some gold. And you will need legions. So that pillage would help.

Not sure how I can beg for more regular updates. Would love to comment more.

[Bacchus]

You have a save from t55, and last update is from t56, I'll post another save or maybe even t56 if I can dig it out.

IW completes next turn as you see, but looks like I will be a few gold short of an upgrade. Is it 110 did you say? Which is a shame, because the horse takes two turns to heal, could have started the attack then.

[Bacchus]

T57 Save, haven't looked at the game yet.