Ok, the turnset was quiet, but here's what happened
First of all, I liked the idea of using the Great Prophet on Stockholm. Jerusalem didn't seem to be a high priority target at the moment, spreading our religion to civs we're going to attack soon felt like a waste, fully converting Sweden seemed to be the highest upside play. The prophet started on the way to Stockholm, but didn't get there during my turnset (stupid workers blocking roads on his way). Up to Ichabod to agree on spreading in Stockholm or doing something else (and moving the prophet around the map again
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Other than that:
T130: Russia proposes a declaration of friendship. I accept
T133: We completed Chichen Itza
T133: Russia has completed the Alhambra. Can never remember what that wonder does, but AI loves it
T134: Bought our first Trebuchet. Can confirm that it does benefit from Barracks. Promoted it to Accuracy (bonus vs units in open terrain)
T134: Russia founded a religion. Good call on that
Our presence in Moscow is not completely wiped out though
T135: Devotion spawns a Great Scientist. Didn't realise we were close to getting that. Not using him for the moment. This also gives us friendship with Almaty, a militaristic city state. Think we're allowed to use units gifted to us by city states? Not that it's particularly important, as the city state is far in the Northwest, and should they spawn any units, we're likely to gift them to another city state, whoever needs them
Also confirmed: we CAN build roads in other civs' territory
T136: Druidism naturally spreads to Divinity
T138: Bought another Trebuchet. Promoted this one to Barrage (bonus vs units in rough terrain)
And that's actually it. There were some 1-turn alliances with city states signed, but nothing worth mentioning. Our friendhsip with Almaty is almost over, but that's whatever
Diplo: I bough open borders from Maria to explore her territory. Also, Gustav doesn't want our iron anymore, so when the deal with him expired, I sold iron to Russia. I also renewed a luxury sale to Russia, adding 8g to the old 7gpt price (7gpt + 8g is the normal price when we have an active DoF)
Notes:
* Heroic Epic in Devotion is taking ages. I didn't want to take production tiles away from Faith, but we may want to do that once Notre Dame is finished
* I set Divinity on a Workshop as a placeholder, feel free to overrule
* We likely will need to buy another Treb before Gunpowder comes in and we can start getting Muskets. I assume we don't want a great prophet
* The Great Northern road currently goes from Devotion towards Iroquois, between Antium and Neapolis. We may want another one from Divinity towards Morocco. Not sure about this one, we're starting to feel the impact of road maintenance
* We're not far away from a golden age, worth thinking if our tactics should change because of it
* Russia now has a cocoa resource as well, as soon as either Rome or Russia gets a spare one, we need to buy it
And one more thing. We've been talking about killing other civs - we ought to keep in mind that exterminating a civ carries a severe diplo hit in BNW. I ran into situation when I'm on good terms with the whole world, have a DoF signed, then I kill a civ, next turn get two or three denunciations, then you start getting another penalty "leaders we like more than you have denounced you", in 3-4 turns you're the pariah of the world. We likely should leave each civ with one city, so need to think which one
Overview screenshot
Ichabod is up!
), there's really no rush to fulfill the mission if we won't get to ally (and right now, I think we won't). Perhaps we wait to do it with a missionary and try to time it with the Cocoa mission (which I think is also from Jerusalem).
