[SPOILERS] AlaePB1 - Furungy & C++

[Furungy]

I decided to use production of South (cities near Hum borders) for building land units for my Core. At the same time my Core will produce naval units. Some time ago I thought about the war with Hum. But now I feel that my prod. capabilities are too weak for concurrent wars with Gavagai and Hum. More over, my prod. is too weak even for the war with Gavagai so my recipe will be specialization plus tech superiority.

CORE


SOUTH


NORTH


SUMMARY

[Furungy]

The gallery of the most beautiful cities.

Amsterdam.
Finished Oxford University during passed GA. Produces a lot of research now. According to my strategy mentioned above will produce Ships of Line (SoL) in the nearest future.


Rotterdam.
Moai and Dyke provide him 2P water tiles. Will produce ships.


The Hague.
The city has a lot of prod. resources: bronze, iron, coal.


Maastichct
This city is far from sea front so it will produce land units for Western cities. Maastricht is 1st in culture.


Veldhoven
My 2nd prod. city. Will produce Pentagon.

[Furungy]

And at last some pictures from my sea front with Gavagai.

The legend:
SoL - Ship of Line
F - Frigate
EI - East Indiaman
C - Caravel
G - Galeon
RM - Rifleman
K - Knight
M - Musketman
LB - Longbow

North front


South front

[Furungy]

Sorry guys, that there are no updates now. I'm thinking hard about current situation right now and that is why I have no time for anything else. I'm sure Gavagai reports about our war nicely. The brief description is following:

- I lost Amsterdam, Utrecht and Haarlem. I bought 6 infantries, 1 rifleman and 1 Trebuchet in Amsterdam so Gavagai lost about a half of his attacking stack there.
- Nijmegen has 1 longbow and 3 riflemans.
- The Hague has 3 longbows, 2 pikies, 1 mace and 1 trebuchet. My 2nd GG which wos born in Rotterdam again will found another military academy here.
- Rotterdam has 8 or 9 units. I have founded a military academy there so not it builds an infantry every 2 turns.
- The most problematic situation is near Asten/Nederweert. Some units are going from Veldhoven to Asten. Nederweerts should be defended by his own small forces. The future of these cities depends on how many units are going here.

Some statements:
- There are only 2 of 9 fregates left near Amsterdam ruins. I have 1 fregate, 3 ships of line and 1 privater near them. Gavagai pillages nets near Middleburg with 1 infantry so it looks like he not going to attack it and this is a good sign.
- I have enough money to buy infantries in any city which will be under attack.
- I will revolt to Nationhood this or next turn. I did not change civics yet just because I need money to upgrage existing stuff.
- I have built Pentagon in Veldhoven with 2 GE (my new capital).
- I think Hum should try to attack Weesp and Dorestad and if he will do this before my convertion to Nationhood he has a chance.

P. S. No screenshots because I'm not at home now.

[Furungy]

T207. Gavagai goes away, Hum declared. My forces left Dorestad, but I'm going to fight for Weesp. Hum spitted his attacking stack and it doesn't look like importable now. Here is a situation.

[Furungy]

T207. Demos at 0% science.

[Furungy]

Attacked Hum's stack near Weesp.

[Furungy]

Updated situation:

[BaII]

Do you think you can still keep up in research despite the razing of several key cities?

[Furungy]

Do you think you can still keep up in research despite the razing of several key cities?

My GNP is 4th with Nationhood and 0% science, so it looks like it will be good enough when I'll back to Bue and 70%. More over it is not clear what will be the result of the war with Hum. I hope I will be able to retake Dorestad and capture some of his cities as well.