Turn 141
The Medieval Age is over! Long live the Medieval Age!
I’ve lost one of the crossbowmen on Big Island, I’ve completed a quest for Antananarivo (get the Banking eureka), CMF rejected my deal, I’ve gotten boosts to both Printing and Banking, Liang established in Proof, Valetta wants a trade route. My trader was also pillaged. Lastly, an unmet city-state was defeated. Which one was that? Akkad. Who did it? CMF, of all people.
Oh, then there’s this:
Yeah, there goes the neighborhood.
I start out with the game management stuff:
None of that is remotely useful to my cause. I do take Monumentality though because what the heck? For governors I grab Victor and park him in Graceland. There’s some good news on the civics tree:
Everything in that first column will take three turns. Diplomatic Service first, Reformed Church second, Mercantilism third. I will note the loyalty situation on Big Island:
I also see that with the nuking of my trade route I’m now at -2.5
per turn and that number is about to get larger….Serfdom and Press Gangs out, Professional Army and Twilight Valor in. Do the upgrades, I’ve got 16
left and am at -9.6 per turn. On Big Island I move the pikeman into Fifty Ways and the crossbow heads up towards Graceland. That crossbow has a promotion available and takes Garrison, as that’s what it’ll be doing when it gets up there.
Confucius makes it into the sea and will turn west as far as he can go before getting sent home. The good news is that I have an inactive trader in Al because I had three traders and two slots. I send it to Conor Goldson – the route is completely over land and goes through the trading post I have in Tavernier. That makes me
positive (by 0.4).
Bruindane, that caravel off to the east of the main group has two friends in the fog. Of the two caravels to the west of Barasic the northern one has one friend in the fog and the southern one has two. There is a galley off the coast of Fifty Ways that is within striking distance of your eastern frigates, if you want to go sink something. It doesn’t have any friends over there.
Looking around it looks like I’m not the only one having my lunch eaten. In somewhat of a surprise, Archduke is losing ground fast:
I don’t know what Archduke and Kaiser were up to but TAD is getting killed and Kaiser doesn’t seem to be doing well.