[Spoiler] Kaiser has a plan

[Kaiser]

U2, merry Christmas and best of health

[roland of gilead]

a great general allows our bombards to move and shoot on same turn.

We should consider faith buying that GG in a few turns.

will be vital for any attack on CMF then into Sub. The +5 strength and extra movement are also great.

[Kaiser]

the turn came around and we are running again, I need to check the number but believe we get him naturally. Due to Bologna and our Encampment/Barracks building spree, we generate 16 GG points per turn if I remember correctly. Also the current GG is Renaissance Industrial, creating a 1 promo bombard. This is nice, but we could better use a Industrial/Modern GG, I believe, let me look

[Kaiser]

here is the save, we have to decide on 
- spending faith (GG vs units)
- switiching to Mercenary republic or resting in Theology (15% district build discount +10% gold in gov cities vs 15% faith discount + higher faith income in GOC cities)
- preparation for a Venice attack
- WTF is Suboptimals army
- Wonder plans

let us try to sync up tomorrow, here are some showoff pictures :D
Max


Current EoT Setup


Woden's Megacities Osgiliath, Erebor, Gondor and a 4th one should all be around 60 , Osgiliath might peak into 70
GM can get 100, is right now at 94 (with -2 amenities, meaning it looses 10 )
KG is at 70 
EM and Isaac are around 50-60 when in full production mode (ISaac waits for Steel to complete and EM borrows some tiles to AK so it both are running on ~40
The rest of our cities are in between 20 - 30 , enough to slowly contribute and grow.

We should consider some wonders, most interesting are Alhambra/Terracotta Army at Isaac, Potala Palace at KG, Casa de Contractcion at KG (we have 6 cities on a different continent than our capital, including GM, so the 15% boost would be really good on top of the three Governors). The reaal prize likely is Big Ben now that Woden has the Forbidden palace, but I do not find a good place to put it down.

[roland of gilead]

available most of tomorrow should be able to get some time no problem

getting Ruhr is great.

with an encampment GM will get even higher.

suboptimal may be awaiting some upgrade or other but you are gaining all the time. if he isn't careful he will be facing planes.

He may just be amassing in the south. we can talk about what scouting we can do.

spies?

[Kaiser]

The arena and stupa alone will be worth 10 production

I will be at my pc tonight (baby watching time this afternoon) so let us get in touch then if you can make it.

I try to think about the government choice from the back of my mind in the meantime

[roland of gilead]

Should be ok 5 gmt?

[Kaiser]

it seems fine, here is the start if the turn save, I play PBEM20 first and then get back to it, you can already have a look

[roland of gilead]

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[Kaiser]

Roland and me had a online session today, with the fresh save above:
We first discussed Merchante republic vs Theology. Theology brings us right now 30 faith per turn (60 pop in cities with Governors) and a 15% discount on buying with faith. I am not sure if that counts to GP as well, but it definetely is quite important regarding the UN 100% increase on producing units.

So let us compare this with Merchant republic, al Governor cities are earning right now ~60 gold together, so a ~6 gold bonus compared to Theology is quite bad. Granted income is my weak spot right now, but faith has double the value of gold, though limited uses (can only buy units, GPP and Stupas)
Merchant republic also increases district production by 15% which is the real important thing to consider, here is a list of planned district projects:
Cassius: Aqueduct in 25 CS/ED
Steve Newton: in 20 IZ
John Lamarr: Campus/HS in 9 ED
Talla: waits for tiles IZ -> ED/CH
Bortus: HS in 18 ED
Charly Burke: IZ, CH in 4 ED
Claire Finn: CH
Klyden IZ, Campus

Low value as cities are strong in production:
Isaac ED in 3 open district
GM HS in ~25 Encampment/CH
KG -
M Theatre in 17 ED
Alara Kitan CH in ~25 HS

There are quite some districts, all would profit but a real time advantage would only come from the less developed cities. While investing in them to become bigger is an important part, we also have to consider the current game state and that we will not be willing to pay a 3 turn Anarchy for returning to Theology later on. Ultimately we decided to stay for now in Theology as it is our best source of units, so likely for the next 25+ turns until the UN changes again.
This frees up all cities to work on infrastructure while we can buy current age units every 5 turns anywhere in our empire.

Civic wise we thought it prudent to get money and amenities improved as best as possible, so we went for Liberalism and Conscription instead of Chivalry and the dark age policy card (which basically was a mistake to ever slot)

Some units are moving down in direction of Venice now that CMF has Suzerained it to plunder and maybe conquer the city, we really would like the GG (Gustavus) but Woden will get him naturally just slightly before us. We can faith buy him already, but we will also get the next one which should be Jeanne D'arc, the last Renaissance GG. Woden will get one of the two and we decided we can live with Jeanne, hopefully Woden invests an Encampment Project or something to get him.

Gustave Eiffel however is very interesting but still far away, we consider running some projects to improve our odds of getting him to deny him to Woden. We will get a couple IZ and workshops to close the GE / turn gap to him (14 to his 18, Pingala promotion should already bring us to 16) and have a potential faith head start for buying him.

KG is building the Casa de Contraction for 3 Governor titles (probably 2 to Viktor for increased fighting strenght and the 2nd attack) and one still open. It also brings us 15% to all yields in cities with Governors on non Capital continent, which is our whole SE including GM and Isaac.

We are aiming for a Heroic Age next and should be able to free Liang and and Reyna to go to cities on that continent as well (likely Bortus and Charly Burke). We might even be considering bringing Amani over for the bonus.
Viktor and Pingala will remain in their respective cities as they are necessary for maximum effect.

If we can get Gustave, Big Ben is a real option

that is the list of possible district advantages with Merchant republic
counting money