Adventure 3: Part 3
Whee! Toledo is captured in 1010AD!
And even though Isabella tries to take it back, she fails miserably. She's willing to talk now, but I'm not - I think I might be able to take Santiago too and that would be rather nice :)
In 1040AD I discover Monarchy & promptly revolt to Hereditary Rule, as per the scoring system:
In 1050AD the revolution is over, and I'm still trying to take Santiago. Even though there's bad odds I succeed in 1060AD! Luck favours me this evening.
Having got my two cities I negotiate peace with Isabella in 1070AD. In retrospect I think I was in a stronger position than I realised here, and should've kept building military units and tried to take over more Spanish cities. Hindsight is always 20:20 though :/ I then spent a little while buttering up Qin, and building a settler to plonk down a city between Rostov and Santiago, otherwise Santiago's a bit out of the empire. In 1130AD Isabella plants a city next to Toledo - she's desperate for that iron, I think. And look! Christianity spreads there pretty damn immediately.
In 1200AD I finally get iron as the borders of Santiago expand, and then when Toledo's borders expand I get that iron too. Poor Isabella. Not. In 1230AD I found Yekaterinburg:
And the very next turn Christianity spreads in Toledo:
Followed by Yekaterinburg in 1300AD and Santiago in 1360AD. All my cities are Christian now:
Once Currency is discovered I start to research Code of Laws followed by Civil Service so that I can change to Bureaucracy for the scoring. I also decide to build an aqueduct followed by the Hanging Gardens in Novgorod - mostly because I'm about to chop lots of forest to build cottages (my income is lousy, Currency let me increase my science rate to a whopping 20%) and that's the Wonder that's available to me at the moment. And I'm pretty poor in the power department, as I'm informed in 1410AD:
1500AD is the next scoring point, so I pause to tot up the things I can score now. I captured 2 cities from the Spanish, Toledo and Santiago. I've no cities over size 15 though. The following screenshots show the 9 health resources I've got hooked up in my empire:
And Christianity (the only religion I founded) has 14% influence:
So that's another 4 soldier points, 9 farmer points and 14 priest points.
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