Adventure 3: Part 2
Another day, another Civ session :)
St Petersburg finishes off a missionary, that heads off to Moscow converting my capital in 540AD. I've got a settler/archer pair heading off to the fifth city site, they fight off barbs on the way there gaining the archer a Garrison II promotion. And Isabella looks like she's about to declare war! I fail to do anything diplomatic with Isabella, but while I'm doing that sort of thing I trade pigs to Qin for his dyes (keeping him sweet). In 560AD Isabella does indeed declare war:
I respond by setting Moscow to churn out axemen, and pull a Garrison II archer out of St Petersburg towards Novgorod. In better news, Christianity spreads to Xian in the same turn. Rostov is still rebuffing barbarian attacks. And while Qin would declare war if I had anything to bribe him with, I don't. Bah!
By 600AD all my cities are set to churning out the axemen and the archer reinforcements have arrived in Novgorod. So I'm as ready as I can be. Christianity is still spreading, too, HangZhou is converted in 620AD and Chengdu in 640AD.
Isabella attacks Novgorod over a couple of turns, but I fight off her axemen with my archers:
And her archer legs it in fright!
Unfortunately I also make a tactical error in 640AD, I settle Yaroslavl'. It's set to build an archer, and I'm sending axemen there as fast as I can.
And I'm too late. In 720AD Yaroslavl' fights off the first wave:
But gets razed in 740AD:
Don't those city ruins look sad & lonely? I did revenge kill her axeman though, so that cheered me up a bit :)
In 720AD Alphabet had been discovered, so I tried to bribe Qin to go to war but no deal. I did trade Theology & Alphabet to get Mathematics, Sailing and Iron Working. Which not only keeps Qin happy with me, but shows me why Isabella was settling quite so near me - Iron! And neither Isabella nor Saladin want to play nice & trade.
Over the next few turns I work up to attacking Isabella's cities - I'd like to take at least one, if not two, to dent her pride a bit. While I'm building up to it I get told how powerful I'm not, all over again. Still, at least I'm back on the list, I guess.
As I'm building my troops up Isabella has yet another go at Novgorod. She sends what she clearly regards as a Stack of Dooooom. Only my stack's bigger than hers. And who says size isn't important?
The only other notable event before the second scoring point is that Qin (the sneaky whatsit!) steals my city site:
And here we are at 1000AD. This is the second score point and it's all about the religion, baby.
I have a permanent state religion, and I own its Holy Shrine:
The picture above shows that my four cities are Christian, and the picture below shows that 6 of Qin's cities are also Christian:
So that's 20 Priest points.
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