Mrs Mongol's Gold - A Crazy Succession Game

[Scouse Gits]

The order reads as follows:

1) La Fayette
2) Julius
3) SG[1]
4) Straybow
5) SG(2)

Messer Niccolò is on holiday for 10 days will slot in on his return.

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SG(2)

[Scouse Gits]

I'm on it ...

SG[1]

[Julius Brenzaida]

Originally posted by Scouse Gits
Calling all RODENTS
Time for Republic?

Well, the empire, after milleniums of Monarchic propaganda and careful military occupation was not ready for democratic ideas
We could win by republic/democracy, but only by 4000ad

[La Fayette]

Republic?

I vote Yes

[Straybow]

Hah! Everybody knows Bortei is just a figurehead… literally. Been dead for centuries. Had her carcass stuffed and puppet controls put in to move the mouth and hands.

[Scouse Gits]

Re: Republic ?

Not on my watch!

Prelate SG[1]

[Scouse Gits]

Great Khan Hungry Hamster I

Hungry Hamster is declared Great Khan of the Mrs. Mongol's People. He surveys the Realm, and winces!

We are building a Wonder - this is good - in a dirt hole - this is bad - without the use of caravans - this may prove disasterous.

An Invasion Force is moving towards Russia - this is Very Good - it is too small - this is bad - there are no defensive units - this is Very Bad. There is only one Russian city that needs taking - for the very reason we need to take it. Although the Gardens are nearing their 'sell-by' date they still give the key to celebration and importantly are the keystone of the Russian Empire - when Moscow falls their whole empire will revolt and be purchasable for a mustard seed or two.

1080 = Babs tithe 250g; Buffalo Skin founded;
1100 = University in No Decorum; Temple in El-Amarna; Persians 100g;
1120 = Temple Turin; Hierconpolis destroyed;
1140 = Courthouse in Goldilocks (worth 5 arrows); Persian Gate founded;50g from Persians;
1160 = Assault on Sevastapol starts
1180 = Temple in River Elbow; Sanitation -> Invention; Sevastapol falls, 75g; Barracks Sold;
1200 = Sun Tzu's War Academy in NPV; Temple in Oil Well; Silk, Port Remote, 123g; 50g Persians;
1220 = Sewer System in No Decorum; Dye, Short, 38g; Silk, N. Star, 135g; Copper, Pt Remote, 41g; Silk, Miraculous Fish, 66g; Unsought Riches with Temple and Granary (60g) tips from hut;
1240 = Marketplace in Short; Gold, Goldilocks, 37g; Food Caravan to No Decorum; Nomad from hut; Northern Egypt founded; Persians 50g;
1260 = Temples in Confluence & N. Star; No Decorum @ 13; Salt, Summer Palace, 25g; Dye, Confluence, 40g; Food to No Decorum;
1280 = Marketplace in Goldilocks & Spamarkand; Invention -> Democracy (for SoL & Fundy); Closth, Thebes, 83g; Alexandria falls, 41g; Egyptian civilisation destroyed; No Decorum @ 14;

SG[1] - Happy Hungry Hamster ...

[Scouse Gits]

Straybow - you now carry the torch

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SG(2)

[Straybow]

Glug, glug, glug…

[Throwing cheesy Pythonesque old-lady voice to Bortei puppet]
We are ready to rule! We appoint Straybow our vizier [seen casually sipping from a chalice]. See, I can even give orders while he drinks a glass of water.

(d'ya think they bought it?)

[Straybow]

Small invasions

1280 General Straybow takes command of the Mongol Hordes. I assume
–––– most of the Caravans produced in the suburbs of No Decorum are
–––– intended for Wonder production & nearby Settlers are converting
–––– forest to plains = food, and trade blessed by Crom
–––– For the rest take good commodities as they come (what's with all
–––– the coal?)
1300 Silk from Quad 150! Small force lands near Moscow. 2 Ruskie
–––– Settlers die; 2 Crucs ascend to glory
1320 Archers and Cruc die in counterattack; Silver from Lake Ferry 65
1340 Democracy invented, now to Theology (improve Mike's effect)
1360 Mostly tickling; Russian Chariot near Short; Cruc makes short work
1380 Surviving Cruc plunders Kiev for 17 gold (destroyed)
1400 Silk from Goldilocks 120! Surviving Cruc no longer surviving.
–––– Caravan stockpile converted into…
1420 Statue of Liberty by which we demand a new government:
1440 Fundamentalism under H. P. Bortei/Lord Protector Straybow
–––– (Max eff. sci = 50%, lux = 30% for WLT Lord Protector in No Dec)
1460 Hut Legion (NE of Alexandria)
1480 Stabilized at 10 turns/discovery. River Elbow Gold to Giza 72
1500 Theology mastered, now to Steam Engine
–––– Turin Silk 150; Moscow Barracks and Elly sabotaged, -1 Phalanx.

Somewhere in the mid 1400s I got 75 from Persia. Use the 3 Bears Dip to bribe a warrior so the Settler can irrigate! Sending a couple caravans up towards the northern colonies, some to cross the Memphis Straights, many down to Russia with demanded commodities. Might as well profit from them before we hack them to pieces in traditional Mongol vs Slav fashion.

Ooops, looks like I forgot to fix the workers in Giza and Turin.

[Scouse Gits]

Thanks to everyone for keeping the game moving so well! I have downloaded and will consider my strategy over a glass or two of red

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SG(2)

[Scouse Gits]

Youall will be glad to know that I pursuaded the Old Git to stay in Fundy....

SG[1] - extremely well greased

[Julius Brenzaida]

[SIZE=1] Originally posted by Scouse Gits Youall will be glad to know that I pursuaded the Old Git to stay in Fundy....

Yeah, but did you persuade him to play his turns too
It might reveal some imcompatibility

[Scouse Gits]

Both Gits took the first two turns and decided a general plan - then SG(2) played on resisting all thoughts of going Commie

1500 - 50g Tribute from Persians; noting that we are currently throwing 25% of our lovely arrows down the nearest drain we move the Science slider to a more comfortable 0% setting! (With a token scientist currently in Memphis)

1510 - Coal, N Star, 57g; Coal, Pt Remote, 46g; Dye, memphis, 126g; Coal, Smolensk, 262g; Wine, Byblos-Smolensk, 86g; Babs donate 50g (out of a treasury of 51); 25 gold from Persians

1520 - Tribute from Persians 25g and with the money Antioch bribed...at last a port city to facilitate transport to the northern cities; Riches-on-Sea founded; Quad Specials Salt - 65g; Upper Nile Wine 75g;
Smolensk captured by Vet Crusaders 60 plundered. No Decorum size 15

1530 - No Decorum size 16; Quad Specials Beads 65g; North Ferry Dye 40g; River Elbow wine 27g; Confluence wine 23g; Unused Whale founded

1540 - Tarsus bribed; Byblos Silver 200g; Gold to Byblos 75g; Vladivostock bribed; Barracks built in Smolensk for unit healing

1550 - Steam Engine - Now for Economics; Persian Rug founded; Wine to Moscow 102g; Gold to Get Whale 180g; Giza Dye 220g; Goldilocks copper 48g; Thebes Salt 103g; Upper Nile coal 75g; Heliopolis copper 102g; PI Pamesses Wine 100g; Dye to Argos 104g; Buffalo Skin silk 43g; Get Whale beads 60g; Three Bears silk 40g; Memphis wine 66g

1560 - Economics Now on Gunpowder; Nice Island founded; NPV Dye 50g; Oil Well cloth 34g; Operation Moscow ...the army gathers

1570 - Moscow and the Gardens captured; No Decorum builds Stock Exchange...very rich priests Spamarkand Silver 60g;Heliopolis dye 218g; Summer Palace silver 75g;Pi Ramesses spice 100g; 163 plundered; St. Petersburgh bribed for 980 but 124 in plunder; Corinth bribed for 932; 185 plundered. Persians declare war! About time too

1580 - Minsk bribed for 318g - 105 plundered; Arebela bribed for 432 - 19 plundered; Cut salt 31g; Cash Flow dye 40g; Upper Nile cloth 80g; Northern Egypt coal 77g; Coal to Oil Well 90g; Russians throw 600g for a peace treaty - Advanced Tribe - Little Russia

1590 - J. S. Bach's Cathedral Rhodes captured 151 plunder; Persian Gate silk 189g; Summer Palace dye 60g; Get Whale salt 65g; Memphis cloth; 73g; Novgorod bribed 7 plundered

1600 - Gunpowder now Metallurgy (very little offered) Byblos gems 86g; North Star wool 60g

1610 - Ephesos bribed for 715g - 151g plunder; Odessa captured - 11 plunder; Tblisi captured 6 plundered; Buffalo Skin coal 47g; Heliopolis gems 122g

1620 - Leonordo's Workshop; Persepolis captured 46g plundered; Susa bribed for 216g; One more Persian city - Gordium! Where? Sverdlovsk captured 11g plundered; Yakutsk captured 3g plundered; El Amarna dye 210g; Pi Ramesses cloth 112g; River Elbow coal 28g

Gold 4176; 1325 gold per turn less upkeep of 53

It became a monster towards the end so SG(2) retired to bed

La Fayette next to play

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SG(2)

[Messer Niccolò]

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