RB PBEM #1 - Gandhi [spoilers]

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Thebes [10]
Palace, Granary, Academy, Library, Tao Monestary, TGL

Units
Archer

Build
Market [9]

Athens [11]
Barracks, Granary, Aquaduct, Forge, Library, Tao Monestary, Pyramids, THG

Units
Warrior, Cat

Build
Nil - just completed Cat

Sparta [9]
Barracks, Granary, Lighthouse, Forge, Library, Colossus

Units
Warrior, Phalanx

Build
Nil - just completed Phalanx

Corinth [10]
Barracks, Granary, Forge

Units
Phalanx

Build
Longbow [1]

Argos [5]
Barracks, Granary, Forge

Units
Warrior

Build
Settler [3]

Knossos [2]
Granary

Units
Archer

Build
Lighthouse [4]


[SIZE="4"]Power Rating[/SIZE] [210 from demo screen]
Population of 47 [23]

Techs [80]
[8] - Sailing, Hunting, Mining, Animal Husbandry
[16] - Wheel, Alphabet, Metal Casting, Construction
[12] - Maths, Archery
[24] - Guilds, Bronze Working, Machinary
[20] - HBR, Iron Working

Buildings [20]
[12] - Barracks
[8] - Forges

Units [63]
[6] - 3 x Warriors
[18] - 3 x Phalanx
[18] - 2 x Maces
[15] - 2 x Cats
[6] - 2 x Archers

Missing [24]
Horse Archers [6]
mace [9]
phalanx [6]
Archers [3]

One good think about PBEMs is that I have a complete history of each turn. All I have to go is spend the time to open up each save if I really wanted to track these units down.

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• FF - Uni [1]
  
• LQ - Uni [3]
  
• DV - Mace [4]
  
• BH - Heroic Epic [3], Mace [4], Courthouse [16] delayed
  
• BS - Library [21]
  
• AC - Catapult [3]
  
• TN - Barracks [1], whipped
  
• Thing #1 - chop at BH
  
• Thing #2 - chop at BH
  
• Thing #3 - mine at AC
  
• Thing #4 - move to farm at BS
  
• Thing #5 - move to mine at TN
  
• Thing #6 - farm at BS
  
• Thing #7 - mine at LQ
  
• Dreylin's Lackey (new worker) - roading some tiles for Dreylin
  
• Scout (Dead Man Walking) - scouting sooooo's North
  
• Scout (Live Man Walking) - scouting mh's land
  
• Tech - Gunpowder [96], +76g at 0% science, 247g in the bank
  
• GP [16] - 50% Priest, 25% Spy, 25% Engineer
  
• Opponent Current Tech Research
  • athlete - Banking [617], 157g (+70)
    
  • mostly harmless - Engineering [2], 93g (-35)
    
  • sooooo - Education complete, 50g in the bank
    

Sooooo founded another city in the Frozen North (Iron, Wines, Deer) and went back to the top of the scoreboard.
News: I get Conf spread to AC after I hit 'end of turn'. That saves me some hammers.

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[SIZE="4"]Power Rating[/SIZE]
223 from demo screen - up 13 from last turn

+1 from Population
+6 from Longbow
+6 from HorseArcher

Population of 49 [24]

Techs [80]
[8] - Sailing, Hunting, Mining, Animal Husbandry
[16] - Wheel, Alphabet, Metal Casting, Construction
[12] - Maths, Archery
[24] - Guilds, Bronze Working, Machinary
[20] - HBR, Iron Working

Buildings [20]
[12] - 4 x Barracks
[8] - 4 x Forges

Units [81]
[6] - 3 x Warriors
[18] - 3 x Phalanx
[18] - 2 x Maces
[15] - 2 x Cats
[6] - 2 x Archers
[12] - 2 x Horse Archers (found 1 in the North)
[6] - 1 x Longbow

Missing [18]
Horse Archers [6]
mace [9]
phalanx [6]
Archers [3]

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• FF - Christian Monestary [1]
  
• LQ - Uni [1]
  
• DV - Spy [3], Mace [3]
  
• BH - Heroic Epic [1], Mace [4], Courthouse [16] delayed
  
• BS - Library [20]
  
• AC - Catapult [2]
  
• TN - Catapult [13]
  
• Thing #1 - chop at BH
  
• Thing #2 - chop at BH
  
• Thing #3 - road at AC
  
• Thing #4 - road at LQ
  
• Thing #5 - mine at TN
  
• Thing #6 - farm at BS
  
• Thing #7 - mine at LQ
  
• Dreylin's Lackey (new worker) - roading some tiles for Dreylin
  
• Scout (Dead Man Walking) - scouting sooooo's North
  
• Scout (Live Man Walking) - scouting mh's land
  
• Tech - Gunpowder [5], -52g at 100% science, 323g in the bank
  
• GP [15] - 50% Priest, 25% Spy, 25% Engineer
  
• Opponent Current Tech Research
  • athlete - Banking [616], 226g (+69)
    
  • mostly harmless - Engineering [1], 56g (-37)
    
  • sooooo - Gunpowder [11] @ 0%, +30g, 87g
    

I swapped religions back to Conf as most of my cities now have that (2 missing). I will also be swapping techs to Caste System and Pacifism next turn to crank up my GP points.

Dreylin and I chatted after we saw sooooo move onto Gunpowder - we are going to take a run at Steel for our liberalism free tech with Nationalism as a fall back. This well mean I tech Gunpowder, Dreylin techs machinery, he steels Engineer and then techs Chemistry opening up Steel. He might need a little gold to push this through but I can provide that.

After Gunpowder, I will be dropping back to Drama and then reconsidering my tech situation.

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[SIZE="4"]Sooooo's Power Rating[/SIZE]
226 from demo screen - up 3 from last turn

+3 from Archer

Population of 49 [24]
Techs [80]
Buildings [20]

Units [96]
3 x Warriors [6]
3 x Phalanx [18]
2 x Maces [18]
3 x Cats [15]
3 x Archers [9]
4 x Horse Archers [24]
1 x Longbow [6]

Missing [6]
Horse Archers [6]
mace [9]
phalanx [6]
Archers [3]

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• FF - Horse Archer [1]
  
• LQ - Palace [9]
  
• DV - Spy [2], Mace [3]
  
• BH - Mace [1], Courthouse [16] delayed
  
• BS - Library [20]
  
• AC - Catapult [1]
  
• TN - Catapult [3]
  
• Thing #1 - move to farm at DV
  
• Thing #2 - mine at BH
  
• Thing #3 - move to cottage at AC
  
• Thing #4 - farm at BS
  
• Thing #5 - mine at TN
  
• Thing #6 - farm at BS
  
• Thing #7 - mine at LQ
  
• Dreylin's Lackey (new worker) - roading some tiles for Dreylin
  
• Scout (Dead Man Walking) - scouting sooooo's North
  
• Scout (Live Man Walking) - scouting Athlete's land
  
• Tech - Gunpowder [4], -50g at 100% science, 271g in the bank
  
• GP [8] - 100% Scientist (DV)
  
• Opponent Current Tech Research
  • athlete - Banking [3], 172g (-54)
    
  • mostly harmless - just finished Engineering, no tech selected, 18g
    
  • sooooo - Nationalism [24] @ 0%, +32g, 121g
    

Civic swap to Caste System and Pacifism. I dialed up some scientists at DV (GP in [8]), started the Palace in LQ (9). LQ is already pulling in more commerce than my current capital. I am going to swap my capital over to a hammer city - military / wonder / settler / worker / conf missionary source.

My power at the start of this turn was 182. At the end of the turn it is 203 (+1 mace, +1 cat, +1 horse archer) - 7 turns until sooooo and my NAP fully expires. I am feeling better about my ability to build military now that I have my HE city up and running.

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[SIZE="4"]Sooooo's Power Rating[/SIZE]
236 from demo screen - up 10 from last turn

+1 from population
+9 from mace

Population of 50 [25]
Techs [80]
Buildings [20]

Units [111]
3 x Warriors [6]
3 x Phalanx [18]
3 x Maces [27]
3 x Cats [15]
3 x Archers [9]
5 x Horse Archers [30]
1 x Longbow [6]

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oh - and in other news, an AP option came up (stop trading with the infidels) with the vote being to stop trading with mh or athlete. Well, I had just traded Dyes for Rice with Athlete and so I decided to put the 'stop trading with mh' vote to the test. It is sure to pass as it only needs 79 votes to pass and I have 82 :D.

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• FF - Mace [1] (does anyone actually care for this level of info?)
  
• LQ - Palace [8]
  
• DV - Spy [1], Mace [3]
  
• BH - Mace [1], Courthouse [16] delayed
  
• BS - Library [18]
  
• AC - Catapult [3]
  
• TN - Catapult [2]
  
• Dreylin's Lackey (new worker) - roading some tiles for Dreylin
  
• Scout (Dead Man Walking) - scouting sooooo's North
  
• Scout (Live Man Walking) - scouting Athlete's land
  
• Tech - Gunpowder [3], -55g at 100% science, 221g in the bank
  
• GP [7] - 100% Scientist (DV)
  
• Opponent Current Tech Research
  • athlete - Banking [2], 119g (-53)
    
  • mostly harmless - horseback riding (111), 73g, +55g
    
  • sooooo - Nationalism [25] @ 0%, +37g, 158g
    

Another 21 pt increase in my power ... 224 v sooooo's 236. Found another of sooooo's settlers (and he has 3 in production). Guess he must like his land a little bit to still be building settlers.

It seems the AP election got canceled because I had too many votes. Gee - if I don't swap and Dreylin and I team up, it would have passed. And sooooo got a 75% (or there abouts) Great Scientist.

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• FF - Crossbow [1]
  
• LQ - Palace [7]
  
• DV - Mace [3]
  
• BH - Catapult [1], Courthouse [5] delayed
  
• BS - Library [9]
  
• AC - Catapult [2]
  
• TN - Catapult [1]
  
• Dreylin's Lackey (new worker) - roading some tiles for Dreylin
  
• Scout (Dead Man Walking) - scouting sooooo's North
  
• Scout (Live Man Walking) - scouting Athlete's land
  
• Tech - Gunpowder [2], -59g at 100% science, 166g in the bank
  
• GP [5] - 100% Scientist (DV)
  
• Opponent Current Tech Research
  • athlete - Banking [215], 190g (+71)
    
  • mostly harmless - finished horseback riding, 15g, +0g
    
  • sooooo - Nationalism [20] @ 0%, +39g, 195g
    

After turn end, another 17 pt increase (1 crossbow and 2 cats) in my power ... 239 v sooooo's 237. Feeling better now. If only I had finished researching Eng, I could move these new troops to the front quicker. I'll move my current capital onto producing a couple of settlers and settle 2 of my remaining 4 city locations.

Well, the AP resolution passed. Guess it shows the results at the end of the turn of the last person to vote (sooooo in this case). It means that people that have Conf (me, Dreylin and sooooo) have stopped trading with mostly harmless (basically closed borders and canceled trade deals). I am not sure how much impact this will have in MP games - guess I'll see if sooooo and mh can open borders next turn.

Talked to Dreylin about our Liberalism tech ... we are trying to reach for Steel but I'm not sure that the other team will let us.

Here is an overview of my Empire ... 4 city sites labeled with 'C's (1 NE of the capital and 3 in the deep South). Note the tile labeled 'Barracks' - this will be where I stick the bulk of my forces to act as zone defense on the basis that sooooo can target two sites (DV and BH).



FF - troops, workers and settlers
LQ - new capital, mixture of hammers and towns
BH - troops, troops and more troops (will slip in courthouse but not until after T100)
DV - food, food, food (Globe going here)
QC - troops
BS - tech
TN - troops

7 cities, 3.5 on troops. The city in the North will be a troops city, the 3 in the South will probably be Tech - will have to see.