President's Report: 1880-1886

ixnay · February 21, 2003, 22:25

1880:
Change production and rush various items as per city planner's report
Cure for Cancer started in Pamplona; freight delivered to speed construction
Oil from Saragossa arrives in Valencia; revenue: 182
Gems from Leon arrive in Avila; revenue: 300
The railroad connecting High Tower to Freeport is completed!
City of Guu founded midway between High Tower and Panama Canal
Japanese destroyer sunk off St. Praski
Unnamed Mongol city bribed for 327 gold; we get fundamentalism, 5 cavalry, an engineer, a transport, and an alpine troop. City officially renamed to Chii.
Units rehomed to other cities.
Cannon outside Cartenna destroyed
Chinese get medicine
Japanese get medicine from china
Chinese destroyer killed attacking freeport; other ships retreat

1881:
Cure for Cancer built in Pamplona! Citizens everywhere celebrate.

Fighter destroys Carthaginian cavalry and cannon
Vikings get university, theology, espionage from carthage
Carthage gets combustion, corporation, electricity, literacy

from vikings

1882:
As word of the Cure for Cancer spreads, more cities begin celebrations
Population exceeds 17 million
Gold from Cordoba arrives in Naples; revenue: 172
Celts develop flight
Mongols get flight from Celts
Japanese develop amph. warfare

1883:
Rocketry discovered! Work begins on Mobile Warfare (other choices were recycling or guerilla warfare)
Population exceeds 18 million
Mongol transport destroyed (7 units lost)

Wines from CAPITOL arrive in Leptis Parva; revenue: 405
Mongols get steel from Celts
Celts get theology from Vikes
Vikes get refining from Celts
Japanese get guerilla warfare from china
China gets amph. warfare from japan

1884:
Not much of note happens during our moves.
Chinese develop chemistry
Japanese get chem from china
Peasant revolt near salamanca!
2 Japanese destroyers attack transport & escort. 4 freights lost.

1885:
Mobile Warfare discovered! Research begins on Space Flight

Population exceeds 19 million
Gold from Capitol arrives in Kerman; revenue: 440
Cloth from Valencia arrives in Kazan; revenue: 265
Cloth from Whereitsat arrives in Nepal; revenue: 317
Temporary peace signed with China
Mongols get espionage, theology from vikings
Vikings get steel, economics from mongols
Carghage gets steel from vikings

1886:
Numerous cities build superhighways
Space Flight discovered! Research starts on Nuclear fission

So that's where we're at! Plenty of research and trade going on. Screenshots to follow.

ixnay · February 21, 2003, 22:29

Cities I:

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Cities II:

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Cities III:

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Cities IV:

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Defense:

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Foreign:

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Trade:

ixnay · February 21, 2003, 22:36

Science:

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Wonders:

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Top 5 Cities:

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Demographics:

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The Upper Continent:

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The Great Apolytonian Railway:

ixnay · February 21, 2003, 22:42

The frontier (our transport was sunk off Nagoya):

Six Thousand Year Old Man · February 21, 2003, 22:59

3 techs in 6 years... exxxxxcelllent.

Though I'm glad to see the Freight being delivered (with great results), I wonder why we didn't get Rocketry in 1882?

Nice turns, Mr President

SCG · February 21, 2003, 23:09

Looks like another successful round

Looks like several of the domestic deliveries were successful

Shame we lost that transport - did we make any attempt to spot new Jap cities? or was that why we lost the transport? If there is a inland city across from Whale Island, we might be able to deliver to it without escort.

ixnay · February 21, 2003, 23:33

I searched for Japanese cities with a destroyer, then had it rendevous with the transport right before they were sunk. No cities were found on the coast north of Nagoya.

SCG · February 21, 2003, 23:41

ah, guess i wasn't specific enough - i mentioned using a spy aboard the transport, or possibly a fighter (when we get one). Guess I should have mentioned that while a destroyer has a vision of 2 spaces, it can only see sea spaces, not land spaces

Ben Kenobi · February 22, 2003, 03:37

Good turns ixnay!

My job interview went well, so I am back from afk.

Glad to see the fighter working on the cartenna front.

Looks like we'll still need some more escorts...

atomant · February 22, 2003, 04:06

Except for the loss of the four freights an excellent series of turns.

A question that does arise from the images posted is, is it worth bribing the 'peasant uprising and getting cannon and musketeers? I mean they will be none units but will only be useful as cannon fodder as I believe Leos has been rendered obsolete by the discovery of Mobile Warfare.....

Not saying cannon fodder is a bad thing..... but are there better uses for our gold. Perhaps placing a defensive unit where indicated on the attached images would be more productive than have the barbs pillage irrigated land and railways etc etc etc....

But again, my congratualtions on a good series of turns...

atomant · February 22, 2003, 04:08

even if we were to vote and decide that capturing Leos was feasible in the first place

SCG · February 22, 2003, 04:18

actually, only the musketeer on the forest would be NONE where they stand now, as most are closest to Salamanca. As for Leo's, it was built in CAPITOL some time ago and was made obsolete by our discovery of the Automobile (which made all of our superhighways possible

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cavebear · February 22, 2003, 09:41

Wonderful work, Mr. President!

It's a shame about the Transport, but these things happen and there is a limit to how much escort strength we want to assign to individual Transports.

CannonFodder · February 22, 2003, 15:46

Very well done. Enemy attacks are weak and unsuccessful, and our techonology is forging ahead. We'll be done in no time.

Ben Kenobi · February 22, 2003, 16:14

atomant:

That's a good suggestion for those barbarians. Since they are only musketeers, we could send a calvary on the hill as well.

cavebear · February 22, 2003, 16:19

Quote:

Originally posted by obiwan18
atomant:

That's a good suggestion for those barbarians. Since they are only musketeers, we could send a calvary on the hill as well.

It might be nice to build a fortress on that hill. But we would have to be very sure we coulod keep it manned.

If we were sure we could keep it, it would be a good way to rotate units through it to get them "Vet".

Six Thousand Year Old Man · February 22, 2003, 17:02

If they're only Musketeers... we might want to build a second fortress on grass/plain, so as to grab the barb king.

Really, though, it'd be simpler to just ignore 'em... they can't do us any significant harm, and serve only as a distraction at this point in the game.

cavebear · February 22, 2003, 17:13

Quote:

Originally posted by Six Thousand Year Old Man
If they're only Musketeers... we might want to build a second fortress on grass/plain, so as to grab the barb king.

Really, though, it'd be simpler to just ignore 'em... they can't do us any significant harm, and serve only as a distraction at this point in the game.

Allowing them to waste themselves on our defenses is a legitmiate idea too. But we don't have City Walls there. Just Units. And something else to consider is that the source of the Barbs will send more barbs, and that will demand resource expenditures for defense. The way to deal with a place Barbs originate from is to builkd a city on that area.

SCG · February 22, 2003, 17:22

Quote:

Originally posted by cavebear

Allowing them to waste themselves on our defenses is a legitmiate idea too. But we don't have City Walls there. Just Units. And something else to consider is that the source of the Barbs will send more barbs, and that will demand resource expenditures for defense. The way to deal with a place Barbs originate from is to builkd a city on that area.

I'll second the plan to build a city there

- it would allow the possibility for unescorted deliveries (transport starts and ends in the city) to a couple more Japanese cities, or at the very least, cut down on time for safe deliveries. Right now, lacking transports to shipchain through our island cities, safe deliveries take a long time, and escorted deliveries have the risk of what just happened this turn