Sorry for the delay!
First up, I press enter. Holy cow, no wonder the economy is a wreck! We popped so many units that our income actually went
down in between turns. Looks like my first priority has got to be feeding units into the meatgrinder in the west, to keep their number and cost down.
We've got a great situation to start with that
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Ars is not nearly as scary as he looks when assaulted with undead and demons who can ignore his Death strength; we have just enough units in the area to finish him off.
That makes things a little bit tight against the Malakim/Calabim, but fortunately a Succubus Charm takes 2/3 of the Tigers out of commission. We survive the interturn, only losing one Succubus. Reinforcements are streaming in, so we should be fine.
T262: Actually...reinforcements come streaming down from the north. After razing another Calabim city, our main Witch stack is in range of Kithra. Str 10 Spectres clean up the area pretty well.
T263:
Late is better than never, I guess. Not sure Basium will be that huge a threat, coming in after we've wrecked half the world, but he might be an interesting challenge anyway:
T264: We kill the Calabim, and meet the Kuriotates.
T265: We scrape our economy back into the black! + 30 gpt isn't a whole lot, but it sure beats losing money. I go ahead and turn on research, now that I know we won't need the bankroll to avoid strike. I go for Taxation instead of Priesthood. I'm pretty sure we'll be wanting Tax Offices to go with our Money Changers; there's no way our slider ever gets too high. Speaking of which - I don't go at 100%, either, since we need that Gambling happiness.
T267: Kill the Clan. Turned out they were already mostly dead, most of the cities we saw were killed by Malakim and/or Luch.
T270: Consolidation! We've got Taxation in, so we can put up Tax Offices to continue the progress - but we've now made it to positive cash flow at 10% science.
We should abandon Binary research now that we're leaning on gambling houses for happiness, I think.
I did not manage to found many new cities, although I did manage to repair most of the Raging Seas damage that was left.
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