PB77 - Bing Bong

[BING_XI_LAO]

Could really do with you taking a look at the game state sometime. Expanding to 17 cities has resulted in only 100 net income during a golden age. Will only limp to feudalism.

[greenline]

Logged in, took a look around.

For the economic situation:

The main advantage other players have on us is just traits. Archipelago maps limit the amount of commerce you can get from towns, so most of it will be from trade routes if at all. Two players have PRO and one has cheap cothons, another has citadels. PHI can't compete with that directly, we can only hope to use bulbs and/or golden ages/trade missions to create economic advantages. Our other trait, CRE, is only a hammer saver early, and may not be as good compared to EXP for cheap granaries considering many cities won't have any first ring forests to chop.

Yuri's city is only guarded by an axe + archer pair. Don't need trebs for that, just cats and axes / maces will do. Ideally he would vacate the city if we moved enough units nearby and made a trade offer for the city, to not signal intentions for total war.

We should aim to revolt to HR + Vassalage by the end of the GA. The extra happiness doesn't hurt and bureaucracy won't be that good for our civ.

Might be worth looking at a bulb path to Gunpowder. Not sure if it is worth settling tundra iceballs until first researching Code of Laws and building courthouses in the most expensive cities.

[BING_XI_LAO]

Is he trolling with empty galleys? the most advanced unit he could have is xbows. It won't work unlkess he has xbow or chariot, maybe he does.... I've had axes there for a while.
I panic whipped a bunch of triremes, anyway. Chichen Itza soon... might even get feudalism in time and with enough gold left to upgrade archer to longbow.

edit: pic is before pressing end turn

[greenline]

Why are you invading us Yuris... scooter is the actual threat here!

[BING_XI_LAO]

I think he's sailed past unsettled land for this...

[BING_XI_LAO]

5 galleys in Ise.

[BING_XI_LAO]

Yuri could've landed troops from out of vision, instead he's spent 4 turns in vision without dismebarking.
Should I declare war on him just to let his neighbours know they could attack him?

[BING_XI_LAO]

I declared war since I now have 10 triremes. He has 2 visible. Haven't neglected to put some Lbows on my scooter border tho.

[BING_XI_LAO]

He unloaded so we get to see he had 9 swordsmen in the transports.
I guess I was worried about chariots and xbow (but scooter was the one who had machinery) because i had axes.

I used my 4 forward triremes to kill 2 of his galleys, sadly he won both trireme on trireme fights. 



He offered peace with no concessions, also peace for war with scooter. 
But I would rather remain at war while I can block his reinforcements and now also prevent his stack from moving around freely. 

Ise serves no purpose for him other than as a staging-ground for future attacks.

[BING_XI_LAO]

Also where's Greenline!?