[SPOILERS] 3 Players, 1 Civ, No Clues - Tatan, Nakor, and Serdoa are Darius of Rome

[Nakor]

Very boring turns... going to tech Machinery, will be done in 5T... what shall we do afterwards?

[DMOC]

My recommendation would be to attack one of your neighbors. Hoping to see some war action soon.

[Nakor]

Thanks, DMOC!
We're not exactly in a position to attack, but what else can we do?

[Nakor]

Pindicator, Sunrise and Ichabod all are building pretty big armies...

[Tatan]

Grabbed the turn.

Pindicator, Sunrise and Ichabod all are building pretty big armies...

We're almost at Machinery, though. And we're #2 in GNP at 100% research! So all we have to do is magically hold out until we reach the industrial era.

For what it's worth, Plako completed the Horse Whisperer quest, whatever that gives him.

I noticed that we had a longbow fortified in Augustus, which has +3 surplus happiness and isn't exactly on the front lines--any chance we could shift him to Tiberius or to the western island?

[Nakor]

Let's try to keep 2 units in all coastal cities... just to be safe. Tiberius has started on another LB and can build them pretty fast.

We finished 3 forges, so our MFG shoudl be a lot better now:



Why aren't they coming in to kill us? Still building armies?



Machinery will be done next turn, then we'll take Construction. Started Nero on a Forum:

[Nakor]

Construction and Machinery done. Going for HBR now to open up Knights at Guilds. Don't know what to do else then build and tech for now...

[Tatan]

Construction and Machinery done. Going for HBR now to open up Knights at Guilds. Don't know what to do else then build and tech for now...

noooooooooooo don't fall for that trap; knights require iron.

I switched us to researching Guilds at 0% before the turn ended; HBR will be useless to us unless you think HAs are critical (I don't).

Let's go up the Guilds and Banking line while building catapults and maces (LOTS of catapults and maces). From there we could either go for Astronomy to counter Plako (I would be surprised if he doesn't try to get some use out of East Indiamen, and we would be the logical target), or we could beeline Rifling, which would give us near-complete land security for the next 30 or so turns and also help our economy with the lucrative Printing Press.

[Nakor]

Thanks for the rectification!
Building cat's it is then once our defense is secure with enough LB's.
Turning tech on makes us number 3 in GNP.... maybe we should tech to a better economy indeed...

[Tatan]

Another turn comes and goes without a major event. I whipped a few infrastructure buildings that were taking forever on the western island. I'll try to find time later to write up an actual report on the state of the Broman Empire--despite how hopeless our position seems, and despite how acrimonious the east seems to have become, I still find this game to be at the very least an intriguing puzzle!