The President Reports - 1550 AD

[cavebear]

THE TALE OF THE YEARS - 1550 AD

1460 - Explore with Triremes, move Caravans and Diplomats. Rush Freeport Settler to use for bottleneck city. Change Valladolid production to Courthouse.

1480 - Barb Horses at Freeport. Bribe nearest one for 41 gold and use it to kill the other 3. Leaves Freeport short of food and shields, so disband a Warrior to save Settler or new Horse (note from later - it would have been better to disband the horse because it caused unhappiness being outside the city and 3 turns from returning due to being wounded). Freeport will go into Disorder regardless of attempts to prevent it. Build Courthouse in Valladolid.

1500 - Explore with Triremes, move Caravans and Diplomats. Have to disband Freeport Horse to prevent permanent Disorder.

1510 - Barb Chariots kill exploring Horse east of Freeport. Tip Hut for 100 gold.

1520 - Start Cordoba Library. Explore with Triremes, move Caravans and Diplomats. Build city "Whale Island".

1530 - Explore with Triremes, move Caravans and Diplomats. Tip Hut, get NONE Crusader!

1540 - Explore with Triremes, move Caravans and Diplomats. Get Gunpowder! Start Medicine. We have 41 Musketeers. Rush 2 Warriors to get them cheap (14 gold). Build "Panama Canal" at "bottleneck". Use 7 Caravans and 120 gold to finish Adam's.

1550 - Carth's attack our Trireme; we win, become Vet. Salt Caravan to Xinjian, 216 gold. Adam's is ours; maintenance costs drop to 4 gold from 29 gold. Return tax rate to 80% science, 10% tax, 10% luxury.

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Summary:

We are safely in Republic, our tech rate is down to 8 turns, our maintenance costs are only 4 gold per turn, we have Musketeers in every city, we have a few strategically-placed Crusaders or HGorse for offensive needs, we have Triremes exploring the world, some Dips being carried to Barb locations to bribe them into NONE units, we have Caravans moving to Capitol for building the next Wonder and some Caravans are going for trade (gold and beakers). We are ahead of the civs we know of in techs. We have Leo's to upgrade our units at no cost.

Some concerns: The Celts are tracking us on the powergraph and we need to be careful about them. We have little city infrastructure, as we have been living off Caravans and Diplomats and Triremes.

We need some things: Caravels, Engineers, Freight, shield production, Libraries and other city improvements. Democracy would be a good thing to research.

It will be interesting to see what the next Cabinet does.

I will send the 1550ad game file to the new President, whenever the new President is decided upon.

It has been a distinct pleasure being your President this past month, and I wish the best for the incoming Cabinet. I know I appreciate the efforts of my Ministers this month. I've tried to leave the new Cabinet with some immediate gains and potentially beneficial actions to take. I know they will do well!

[MrWhereItsAt]

Apologies again for the lack of a Trade report this time. I had another exam yesterday (my time), and I thought I remembered that you usually played on weekends, so I could get away with study until now.

Sorry cavebear, but at least we got the 2 WoWs that we wanted.

[H Tower]

still no new contact with anyone else? Either they're all stuck on an island together, or at least two per island and fighting it out, or they still haven't finished expanding yet Otherwise we would be seeing celtic and Mongol ships covering the oceans.

I see that we have the fastest growing population though

[mrboo123]

YEAH! NOW WE HAVE THE 3 OF THE 5 MOST IMPORTANT WOWs, YEAH! (The other 2 are UN and Apollo for winning a space race.)

[cavebear]

Originally posted by MrWhereItsAt
Apologies again for the lack of a Trade report this time. I had another exam yesterday (my time), and I thought I remembered that you usually played on weekends, so I could get away with study until now.

Sorry cavebear, but at least we got the 2 WoWs that we wanted.

No problem. The advice from your previous report applied to this session as well.