Epic16 - Jabah's report (up to 1730 - to be finished)

[Jabah]

Unfortunatly, i thought the deadline was next week, so I went on holiday before finishing a game that i had stop like 3 weeks ago.

Anyway there is the report of what could have been a quite fast diplo victory if i had counted a bit better and been less enthousistic with missionaries (did he write after playing the game, as I was the 1st surprised to see that I just barely missed the diplo victory in 1505AD).

Report now ...

Want to have a religion in Nidaros on top of Sushi to make Wall Street (and all cash multipliers) much better. Therefore we need an early religion before founding a second city.
Without Mysticism, it could be difficult to get hindhuism, but we should manage Judaism as a back up plan.

Research is set to mysticism (then Polytheism), while working max hammer for a workboat (then max food until size2, then second work boat at max hammer).
Executive is send to explore while safe.

3700BC - Buddhism fidal and a panther is spotted, time to get back home safe.

3350BC hindhuism in Nidaros



Research Mining->Bronze (at 70%-80% stable)
Production warrior->Worker

2050BC found Uppsala, start Stonehenge (built in 1475AD). Uppsala will be a production city for Wonder and/or military and keep a clean GPP - Prophet - (multiple wonders, plus priests) until we get a GP for Nidaros Shrine (quite late in 880AD as Nidaros will be GPP happy before).



Discover shortly after that we do have copper on the island, just under the last fog (due to barb activity preventing better scouting).

1900BC Masonry in, Nidaros changes its production to Great Lighthouse immediatly (build in 1325BC) as this is one of the most important Wonder (for me) on this map. After Meeting the 1st AIs (Brennus 1650), the cash from GL will insure a good balance qwith the other expenses.



950BC 1st GP, a Merchant in Nidaros, get Metal Casting for Forge and Colossus.

800BC found 3rd city Haithabu, food poor but planned to get sushi quickly (440BC). Production city with main task to provide military for the Empire (National Epic), but will also build a few Wonder and Sushi executives.



Meet AIs while trying to prove the world is round with WB and galley (done by 125BC).
Brennus 1650BC, Gilgamesh 650BC, Justinian 500BC, Genghis 380BC.

Brennus even convert to Buddhism without any help in 440BC.

Keep slowly settling the island and exploring.

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10AD Sushi report.
2 cities with 8 foods (6clams+2fishs)
-16 maintenance (still positive at 50% research)



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Get Code of Law in 85AD (and late Colossus in Nidaros), with Courthouse, Sushi will become much more intersting.

Get Theology first in 280AD, Philo first in 490AD trying to minimise religion damage.

Around 500AD.
Get another GM in Nidaros who settled there.
Meet Louis (forget to look after him in fact)
Khan declare on Gilmaresh.
Build late Pyramids in Haithabu (engineer city)
Build Chichen Itza in Uppsala (priest city)
realise I need a religion to build AP (done in 860AD)



Get the Prophet shortly after (in 880AD).
Start converting Brennus (already in, changed and comed back in 1485AD), Gilgamesh (990) and Genghis (1170) by sending missionaries to most of their cities and get at least one for the Justinian and Louis (both needed the anti-Theocracy trick of gifting them a missionary in a religionless city - it was also needed for Giglgamesh Capital before he convert).

From 1000AD to 1500AD
Start sending Sushis executive to my food poor cities (or the one that needed to grow faster) as finances are much better.



Complete Castle quest (get the diplo bonus) to improve thec chance of diplo victory.



Complete the Sushi quest



Get a low odds G Spy in Nidaros, who is sent to infiltrate France and regular spy will later steal high quality technology (Gunpowder in 1400, Astronomy in 1505 after a miss in 1460).

Around 1500AD
1st to Economy in 1455AD (GM to Paris -Artemis- for 3500g)
1st to Liberalism delaying as much as possible to get Steam Power.
Genghis (friendly for ever) is coming with a small stack, but a a very wrong time time for 2 reasons (declare on IBT)
1. I have lots of money and will discover Rifle (and steal Astro) so he will be out-tech very badly)
2. AP election is coming and I was counting on him



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1500AD Sushi report.
5 cities with 13 foods (7clams+4fishs+1crab+1rice)



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1500AD AP election
The election had always been versus Gilgamesh, but with Brennus reverting to hinduism 3t before, I am facing him this time with much better chance as he is less popular.



unfortunatly missed by 25 votes out of 600, so close.


After 1500AD

Genghis declares as expected but is repulsed at sea and peace sign asap (back to friendly)
next AP election is a bigger miss as genghis and Gilgamesh decided they loved Brennus better now, and with Vassal appearing more and more often (and these don't have all the nice bonus i have with their masters, they are not voting "properly").



Brennus even declare later (1660AD), was punished by having his islands captured before peace.





I stop in 1734AD (thinking I had another week after coming back from holiday
More or less beelining to UN, hoping to get it before all the hindhuists go to Free Religion and should be able to win a UN victory against Justinian who I am un-officially helping to stay in 2nd place.


(Might try to finish it soon as I need only 2-3 techs)
--> done 2-3 hours later...

Jabah

[Jabah]

Suite

UN build in 1784
elected 1786 (871/1074) vs Justinian (unanimity m
1788 G-Eng -> Mining Inc in Nadaros

1800 Vote
1802 Victory



Sushi score
30 components (11 clams+2 crabs+16fishs+1 rice)

12 cities



No War declaration as well

Jabah