Turn 115
Builder at Al complete, archer at OC complete. Start trebuchet and man-at-arms, respectively. Builder mines the niter and I find rifling:
I see that I forgot to disable Sukritact’s UI mods again after some SP fiddling for PBEM 21. Whoops. Man-at-arms is still not updated for my policy situation. I’ll fix that in seven turns when Exploration completes. Over on Big Island the sword reaches Mother & Child and the horseman and builder continue moving south. Graceland grew this turn, Hearts & Bones grows next turn. A bit further south:
My galley’s got an issue. CMF was able to come up and around….should have seen that. My galley did earn a promotion and I promote-heal with Embolon. That might buy me some time for this:
I already got that era score boost. I had read on CivFanatics that the patch did some funny things to era score awards (someone posted a picture of not-Sweden getting +4 era score for training Caroliers). Anyway, the jong was bought at Hearts & Bones and will able to attack the eastern galley the turn after next. Elsewhere it’s a bit of a shame I have a DoF with Japan:
Down at the Aussie coast:
Let’s see here. How to inflict max damage? I need two jong shots at the capital, three to four at Theory and that leaves me one spare. Chariot jong shoots the galley blocking the capital. Sword jong moves up, unlinks and shoots. Swordsman takes and I’ve got five turns to get loyalty under control. Liang moves down here, giving me twelve turns to relieve some loyalty pressure. Start a monument repair and I’ll buy walls next turn if I still have the city. Over at Low-End Theory the sword jong shoots the galley next to the city. Non-escort jong kills the injured galley and the knight jong moves up next to the city and shoots a galley in the fog to the east, killing it. The two free jongs sink the injured following galley and do 94 points of damage to an uninjured one. Situation at the end of the turn:
Low-End Theory will fall next turn. Roland, I fully expect there to be a potential World Congress vote called as an emergency next turn – taking an enemy’s capital usually makes the resolution available to everyone. Oh yeah, check out Russia’s milpower. There’s definitely some frigates on the way...somewhere.
Ljublana lost a pile of empire score (155 → 142) and about 42 milpower last turn that I didn’t note. Archduke gained 12 empire score this turn as well, so I think a city flipped hands. There’s no trade gossip but Writing on the Wall isn’t in Phoenician hands. I haven’t been paying attention to check the city’s borders and there’s no trade gossip (there’s gossip that England is trading with Japan) or anything about cities (or era score indicating a flip). Phoenicia has DoFs with everyone but China so it would have to have been a swap. (Post-turn addition – it was Phoenician with full loyalty last turn). That makes me wonder what Phoenicia (and England) might be planning if they’re willing to swap a city like that.