Emperor Games: how to improve your skills

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800AD: the Celts are in deep trouble, but at least nobody will bother me for a while. Bismarck is happy to announce that we added the Sistine and Leo’s to our collection. Our treasury is up to 1’150 gold and banking is our in 15 turns.

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900AD: another milestone. The German High Command decided that a short war with Russian would give us a few more cities. As a result, we have now Horsemen-in-Steel and our treasure is down to 50 gold.

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16 Horses are begging to be upgraded. Well, another day maybe…

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We are finally no. 1. Let’s party (after our ‘police expedition’, that is…)

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1080AD: our scouts suddenly spotted lots of Spanish units heading our way. The German High Command is splitted: some believe that they come to help us against the Russians, others think they will backstab us. A decision is taken by Bismarck: let’s make peace with the Russian (we captured 4 cities) and let’s our armies move north.
In the meantime, our units would make the Mobile Maginot Line (it was fun to see all these Spanish units going up and down our line, every time we opened it for a turn…)

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1265AD: the German-Spanish war was short and brutal. We lost about 10 units, the Spanish about 50-60. Now it’s history.
Another upgrade later, we are going to war against the English: they gobbled up most of the Celtic lands and are now our biggest threat.
We got SmithTC thanks to a providential GL.
We got Navigation and the trace on the map is our newest ocean-faring Caravel. It retraces the ‘steps’ of a previous suicide Caravel which, well, suicided.
What will we discover? Just stay tuned, folks…

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1280AD: … a land of plenty! Lots of civs (yeah, great discovery), all behind us in techs and with plenty of gold! We are going to, well, exchange goods and technology.
Back home, Bismarck has a new plan: M+H (money+happiness).
The German-English war was a short one. 4 more cities joined our Empire. As an afterthought, we also took the last two Carthaginian cities. Bismarck wanted to bathe in our Inner Sea…

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1300AD: the extortion (sorry, the trade) is over for the time now +3’500 gold and the ‘new’ civs are still behind in techs… The Continental Celts are down. We are in Democracy (we have to call Bismarck President, now).

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1405AD: a further milestone, meaning another short war against the English.

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The strategic plan is to take the 5 cities on the N-S axis, plus the two nearest our border.

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Our economy:

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1500AD: our new border. We entered our GA (can’t remember why???).
As for the sequel of ‘The Saga of the German Empire’, please watch this thread next week for the ‘Empire Reloaded’.

Have a nice week-end.

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The end of the game: it's 1796AD. The Romans are extinct, the Greek soon. Turns are now about 3-5 min. each, much too long to enjoy the game.
Anyway, for the MOD. It has been one of the most interesting plays so far.
Now, some pics for the record:

The end of the Greeks:

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The military (probably the biggest I ever had, I got carried a bit away... )

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Culture and maps: