 So I noticed last round Coming up in here that these this area was blockaded And I couldn't see what was blockading it and now this round the Barbarian fleet comes into view. Luckily I'm almost done with my own tri-frame and I did learn partly from talking to Scott outside of the game from serving, but he's got a barbarian problem He might have found it a second city right here because look at that pattern There's no way he would have all this extra land because I know his capitals like right up here He must have found it a city like right here to get this iron and this copper Which is interesting that he's gonna stay away from the water because I'm pretty much if I actually declare war I'm only gonna take his capital like I don't really care about the rest of it So my plan continues I basically walled him off from the whole top of the map, which I don't have a lot of room to settle I can stick a city here, but I'm actually gonna crank out a settler sometime soon Send it up over here. I think I'm gonna build it right there Well, the reason for that is when I'll get this iron and stone and I'll get the sugar Which is a luxury source that'll ensure that I can actually support this city To it maximizes the land. I'll have access to that's useful and it'll a butt right up against Prague Thus giving me quite a nice buffer here. So I have a city here of a city here probably eventually still build a city here or Maybe I could conceivably see myself building one like here The problem is Wellington because Wellington is gonna expand and get those horses So unless I'd push this earlier in the game, there's no point in expanding up there But anyway, very importantly There's a hut hiding here. I didn't know about now I could if this one let me upgrade my unit, which I think it will I could theoretically take this guy Send him all the way down here. And if I step on that I could turn him into a Straight-up crossbowman, which would just be the god unit on this map for some time But I think I'm not gonna I think I'm just gonna take it now see what I can actually take here Yep, so I could upgrade my unit. This will only give me an agent technology. Oh I actually do have an important choice. I could just get a free religion right now Do I take the free religion or do I take the composite bowman? It's actually a really tough choice. I Decided Definitely that I rather have the unit the religion stuff is not great in a small map like this I'll let's go do it everyone to the religion. I'm just gonna ignore religion in this game. Oh, I was just going about my normal business It's probably nothing up there Still that worker, but I'd rather Wellington be my friend sugar. I can get some sugar Don't get some sugar. So now an important choice as well See I sort of filled out the old air instead of jumping forward Partly because jumping forward here wasn't that useful At this point, I think I want to blitz culture I've got plenty of defense and trapping I got which I wanted because I can use that to get some camps around it I really want to buff out my cities, but I think this stuff is not that immediately useful Swordsmen would be pretty good because I have enough money to upgrade immediately and then I could also build the Colossus I'm gonna go for iron working first I'm gonna upgrade that warrior to a swordsman and then my swordsmen and two composite bowmen are gonna harass Scott for A while while I then skip this middle part and jump straight up here Barbarians just keep Cropping up. I know Scott's having similar problems with them, but I'm just gonna farm them for culture for the time being culture and experience So I'll have this guy go clear that camp out I'll bet a camps are gonna keep spawning up here, and I think that's fine So this guy I actually want another military unit here because I want to send both of these archers forward to harass Scott So not sure if I'll do it, but I'm still pretty much planning on building a third city here Because a lot of cities here with one it'll just give me more access to the sea to control it So he has no approach to my capital and to remember my power is that my units fight better in my own territory And I get all the expensive territory So I build one here this whole area will all be my territory so we can't easily march an army through to get to my capital Same thing here So as much as I don't want to go beyond the forest city limit I have one two I could build one here for three Still thinking about building one up here or here that would be four or five, but I could also build a city Right here Now why rim would you build a city right next to Scott's stuff at the edge of the map like this? Well one if I actually put it one more over I could start farming this for faith and eventually get a religion some stuff later in the game More importantly all of this would be my territory, too And I wouldn't even care if he took the city it would be a big challenge for him to take it And if he did it probably just give him a lot of unhappiness And he probably wouldn't really be able to use it could it be kind of a crappy city and Two I could then have military units all in here just harassing and preventing him from expanding his territory northward I'd also get access to this iron and that iron. That's 12 iron Might actually put the city on this hill right here Even though have the overlap with this city three away. I think that's far enough Then I wouldn't get the stone my desert stone, so who cares Putting on the hill would make it more defensible Equally useful would be putting it right there Both of these will get me Mount Sinai This one would just mean a little less overlap here, but I still wouldn't get the stones I think I might actually just put it on the hill, so we'll see it was pay attention to see if I do that or not Now I want to spread my religions. I build more cities because remember my benefit is Ton of healing if I'm next to a friendly city So I would actually like to have that benefit in these further cities I build but this pantheon won't expand I would need to actually expand the religion to make that happen still Content that taking the composite Bowman was the right choice because now I can clear out that barbarian camp and that barbarian camp and As much as I hate to do it. I really want to send this guy up here to harass Maybe I'll send this guy up here to harass or I could bring this guy back down Let this be relatively unafended a little bit longer and send this guy forward But now I think I'm actually gonna send both these guys forward We'll see we'll see what I do with this guy after I take out that camp There's warriors definitely gonna poke around in here possibly clear out this camp might actually move him back and heal But generally I just gotta wait for this to finish so I can be friends with the Wellington Get these workers done and just really buff out these cities before I extend expand too much further I think I want to build Now we'll see what I build barbarians continue to be a Surprisingly difficult problem to deal with for the size of this map because unless I post military units around here, they'll keep coming Now I'm just gonna farm them Because the culture boosts are actually pretty good But it means that I need to keep military units around here and this guy just sort of maneuvered in annoyingly This is the third time that's been pillaged by someone Even more annoyingly I'm a one away from being done with this mine and I don't want to risk having to deal with chasing this guy and catching him back So I got to do this This guy's gonna have to move in deal with that this guy'll finish the mind and he'll go repair this the downfall of this Coupled with the fact that Hong Kong just recently stopped being my friends They're a happiness of and I kind of needed that happiness now They'll be friends or allies with me again very soon because as you can see I'm finishing some copper here shortly But not soon enough. So now I'm gonna pretty give it because I could redirect temporarily away from the Colossus to build something else over here, but Which could be a military unit just to sort of secure this But I think this spearman coupled with the city itself and this guy now that he's finished this encampment temporarily Might even not finish it off I'll let us find another barbarian send this guy back up if I need to I can live with the temporary lost happiness If I really want it back in a hurry one thing I could do See this guy is Finishing his walls and because I'm unhappy now. He's not gonna grow quickly But what I could do in here is Buy this workboat Be about a little over half the money I've got which money can be a problem on these maps I don't necessarily want to spend this they got a really nice nest egg, but the workboat could Immediately the next turn go get these whales and get me a nice happiness boost the other things Scott didn't realize is that Based on demographic and train information Those are the only three resources he's got and If I knock out whales, it'll be a serious blow to him It also means that he won't be able to get the money from these two spots in Babylon. If you look at the demographics I've got a lot more people and a lot more everything than him He's beat me on science not by that much but enough to where it'll be a problem and Right now. I'm very unhappy and he is very happy I built these three try reams and he can't see them all I told him in real life Jokingly that I have a tri-ream and he said don't worry. I'll soon also have a tri-ream to defend my whales I think I'll be okay as long as I have those whales So what I'm thinking about doing Now it's I could wait one more turn because these guys I could finish this off because look I'll do about that much damage per tri-ream. I could finish this off in two turns no matter what and The worst-case scenario is his special bowman plus the city plus what's left of the tri-ream take out one of these three Tri-reams that I've got which actually make my economy work out. Okay, but the other thing I could do is Buy the workboat Wait one more round to get my happiness up despite my problems over here and then attack this guy I just got to keep all these guys be within range Which means to I could start moving this guy in To be ready to menace as well This guy I'm just gonna keep moving forward So yeah, I think that's what I'm gonna do because I just might as well. I don't want to wait for building it here later I'm just gonna buy this stupid workboat. I Hope that doesn't come back to bite me later Next round happiness tri-ream tri-ream tri-ream, and this guy's gonna move here Pretty much to ensure that he can't really attack everything It's basically a target because I'm gonna move away right afterward He won't be able to take it out in one round But it might be menacing enough to cause him to not take out one of my tri-reams. I might save me a tri-ream We'll see how it goes. I'm highly doubtful that I'll actually lose that unit These barbarians are giving me a lot of trouble here with everything being pillaged I'm just gonna have to keep a few more military units around to deal with it But at least now it always goes back to this worker to this warrior. Anyway, that guy's gonna go over here That way he won't bother me Because I need to deal with these barbarians But at least my worker can come out and finish this mine next turn because I don't want the mine finished I want to finish the buildings there And this guy has enough space to come out and get whales which makes me happy Which means my tri-reams will be more effective for what I'm about to do to Scott Let's see how this works out. I haven't actually Really planned out how this would go So let's see so I can surround him One two Three Now I can't pillage in the same round But Scott probably can only see one of those tri-reams until suddenly just now and for good measure I'll move this guy in he could bombard. He can attack. We'll see what he does He's not gonna be happy I'm almost done with my mine here, which I get my happiness back up And then once I prepare this my happiness will be back up even more and this guy's just gonna have to hang out As much as I was gonna send this guy over here to hold Scott off Maybe harass him down here a little bit and to support building a city here I think instead I have to build yet another military unit over here just to defend against these barbarians They're gonna keep him out of this black area forever As soon as I finish the copper that I'll be friends with Hong Kong again, so I'll have a surplus of happiness Well, you can see here that Scott took the bait. So look he definitely attacked this unit I don't know why because I'm actually gonna retreat it now I only had it there long enough so he would deflect at least one of these two shots this way to ensure that my tri-reams would survive So you head back to friendly territory I guess I can deal with these barbarians And I can start repairing All right, so back here. So first things first now. I have to pillage these whales Let's see what effect this has on us. I don't know if it'll show up right away. I don't know how quickly this Updates so right now Approval so he's at 99% which means he's doing fine. Oh No more whales Yeah, I think Scott's out of this game now do I leave these guys here fully interdicting I'm still not a hundred percent clear on exactly which tiles are interdicted for shipping when units are like this. I Guess I'll retreat them out of range I'll let this guy remain in range of that because they can just sort of rotate Otherwise, I'm just gonna keep him here I wonder how Scott will take the fact that now Hong Kong is also declared war on him Because I acquired the copper that I needed which means now my happiness is off the hook And I can do whatever I want for much of the foreseeable future And bear in mind this is without the resources I lost or the resources I can get by building another city So now I've just got to repair all this Build the hell out of this city and build the hell out of this city And actually now might be the time to build a settler and stick it over here somewhere That'll that will basically ensure my victory in this game. I think Yeah He's got a pretty good army. I'll give him that I can't just conquer him Actually, it would take some significant effort for me to conquer him So I've got a star of him out and prevent him from expanding He's not that far behind on these things, but population he didn't get I don't think he built a second city I don't know how this happened here. How did he expand his border out that far unless he built a citadel there? I haven't looked because it doesn't have any tradable cities I don't maybe just because I haven't seen the city yet. I don't know. I actually don't know how that is the way it is Anyway, I want to get this iron immediately because then I can upgrade that warrior and then it's got to get more worried and I should probably actually move him back this way because I could go take care of this. This is gonna be a problem. I Guess I could send my bowman over there. I'll just move him in this video. Do this It's not much else to do except win So if the game continues, I don't know how good his economy is actually Oh, he's making money. All right. He's got iron And he doesn't have better science than me. I know he's got significantly more science than me So what could he do in the short term that would actually give me pause? Because I'm actually pretty behind on science and slowly catching up See he could build horse units and give me some trouble But I don't think he actually could use them effectively He could build catapults. Of course, I can build catapults now, too None of this really helps him Unless he got all the way to civil service and can start cranking out pikeman, which I guess he theoretically could be here if he'd rushed it He's probably rushing. He wasn't rushing over here. Anyway He doesn't have enough of a science lead to make a unit or an advance that could actually Significantly disrupt my plan. So that means that my plan would be to not invade because I don't want to lose the defensive advantage I have so instead I'm going to finish the classes and Then I think I'll actually build the settler and then I'll backfill all this other stuff So I'll build a settler If I build a settler though, then I'll need another military unit to defend this area because barbarians are gonna keep coming in That horsemen you get the settlement's just gonna keep spawning up here forever Unless I get a unit out that way so I actually will need another military unit here in the short term Which will decide how to deal with that later, but I'll at least finish the classes I got four turns before I have to make that decision. I Probably don't even need walls here at this point. He's not gonna invade His only hope would be to expand a city up here So I mean I might actually do the thing I talked about before and instead of putting my city down here like I talked about put the city here push in on his borders and One that would give him a target He might try to attack it and it would be a canard if you attack the city that I built up here He couldn't actually keep it because his happiness is so bad And that city wouldn't have any additional luxury resources for him So that city he'd pretty much have to raise it and if he attacked it because our military's are pretty much equal I could probably send my military in to either take Babylon or just to plunder the ever-living hell out of all this stuff It's kind of too late to put a city here So the conservative strategy Would be that this will hold off any advance out this way He only has one avenue if I was really really conservative about it because theoretically he could send units up this way And I wouldn't see them because I can see that tile for whatever reason Looks like I can see that tile So I guess I'd see units up here here suddenly But if I was really gonna be conservative about it I could put a unit here or I could build a pathfinder a scout and put it like here and just be ready for it That means he can't come across this way And if he did even though I don't have a huge military here The bonus I get for being in my own territory would ensure that he wouldn't really be able to get past this city So having the wall there is very conservative strategy and I'd still I build a couple units and just like park one here park one here Just hold this thing So this area is still safe So the other thing he could do because I'm not allies with Prague is he could push down this way Maybe settle or build something down here and then he could try to get here and settle So if I settle here as well, then I present a unified wall because look you can't come across here At least he won't This is like a wall of Military and culture that he can't get through easily this fleet forms a wall across basically this entire sea He can't actually get out of his city and then even if he goes across Prague You would be allies with Prague which you have to get past first If I ally with Prague, it's over then it'd be a wall of my territory yet again There's no avenue for him to even touch the capital Scott is courting Prague now Prague is not his ally yet But he's done something for Prague at least to have just some barbarians they cared about which I soon was around this way somewhere Also, see like I said, these barbarians are gonna keep coming in so I've got to Continuously deal with them Let's just go there because they won't be able to pass me to hedge them off because I want this guy to survive To be able to build his business. I want him to heal all the way. I I must got an iron from one of these guys because I didn't finish mining any iron yet. I only mine this copper here Horses and spices. Oh, yeah, so I guess iron alongside the cotton and the jewelry and the happiness Yeah, everything's coming up millhouse here They want sugar so sugar will start a we love the king day. They're in the middle of we love the king day So I'll let that be the city's gonna grow pretty quick, especially if my guy starts building here Let's check out the demographics All right, I got a bigger military not by that much though See what's going on in here. Oh He does have a pikeman. Oh indeed so on the technology tree Yeah He's in the medieval era which also means his cities have more defense So yeah, actually assaulting Scott would not be too feasible right now with all the military I have I would not be able to take his capital Unless you really messed up, which I doubt he will so he's already up here. So I am pretty behind on science I'm going to have to Play conservatively just in case so I'll keep these guys back. I just have to interdict all of his Commerce make sure that he can't ever get out into the water never actually get those whales and We use my happiness. I'll go with the plan. I'm gonna build the city down here Real soon and then when it's war time, I will build the canard city here to get basically like like a Citadel Now if I get a great general I could build the canard city here fill all this in as my territory And then immediately build the Citadel here and just cut him off So yeah, I'm going to finish this guy And I think I'll make a settler right away and just try to build the city here And I'm just gonna try to out economy him Because my second city is not great by any means, but that's just because it hasn't been built up at all I mean look at this thing. It's got a pretty high population But nothing is developed I've spent I've got one thing developed here so far While I have Scott very nicely locked up over here The barbarians are continuing to be a surprising problem Pretty much have to prick my worker there I'm gonna keep sending this guy forward anyway because I want to start continuing to harass Scott up here But after I finish the Hanging Gardens, I'll build another military unit there Take care of these barbarians just to get the money even though no one cares about that yet Nothing interesting to do with these guys yet. I need to get some marble Anyone even have marbles Marble even exist on this map. He's got some It's right there All right. Well, I'm not gonna get that anytime soon. That's for sure I'll deal with these guys effectively because now they're not strong enough to kill this guy in one hit They can't walk through and come over here to pillage if they pillage that I'll kill him I'll come back around to repair everything again, and it'll be fine Well, my iron mines are almost done up here because you see my swordsman is gonna be kind of crappy till I finish the iron mine So I've given in to the fact that these barbarians are gonna be spawning constantly and instead I have just been Farming them one to make my these city-states love me Which is a huge advantage over Scott because basically this is my whole territory from here all the way around here And if I get progged in my ally, and I've got the entire map and there's literally nothing Scott can do in the long run So also, I would basically have to settle out here in these corners So I'd see the territory or I'd have to station a military unit like here here here here It'd be way too many units even if I use scouts It would cost me too much because you can't easily generate a lot of gold now I was positive here until these barbarians built their camp and then took out my trade route But let's continue this trend of destroying barbarians getting culture boosts and making city-states my friends. Oh Look who's my ally now? wonderful Now I know Scott has a little bit of army. I got my Triremes here just denying him this commerce now see he's got a trade route. It's clearly going over here So before I was gonna send one of these guys across and I just didn't I feel like now's the time to do it I should I'll build another military unit here cuz I just finished something So I'll send this guy all the way across take that thing out along the way and All the way across and then I was gonna plunder straight root. It'll take a long time, but I think it'll be worth it Let's see what he's got he had a swordman. There he is I know he has a horseman somewhere to the horseman might be down here Anyway, I want to keep these guys nearby just as not him these whales These guys will probably be fine So I could either circle these guys back around to continue defending against barbarians and Then move these guys forward safely or I could build a new military unit here and have these guys continue onward toward glory I'm not planning to invade Scott necessarily. I'm just getting ready to harass him. Oh Pike man. He's got some decent science Let's see if I can lure him into an attack Somebody does if I just menace him here. Yeah, it's just that guy there I'm gonna stay out of range still for now with these guys I'll stay in my territory because I get a fighting bonus in my territory So if he's got the horsemen, it would have to be here Here I doubt he's trying to sneak up this way or it might be out down over here somewhere so If it were here, you could theoretically sneak in here and I think you could attack this guy Don't think you kill him in one turn though because it's just a horseman And there's no way he has knights or anything yet. Even though he's got these pikemen. I think I'm okay mostly think that because whoo All right, so let that go I'll get this workshop done. Did I finish the workshop? Is that what I did? Yeah, I did finish the workshop. So now I got a production powerhouse. Look I can crank out some military units Just start sending them. I can also crank out a caravan and get back that money. I was losing Or I could crank one of these all these out Might be time if I crank the great wall out, let's see Terracotta army wouldn't be great. I'd get one swordman one spearman one composite bowman though One swordman one spearman one composite bowman Not bad for eight turns because that would take me three five It would take me eight turns Okay, that's not really that exciting then Guess I could do this and bust out culture. I doubt he's going after it. I go back and get these Does the city state? I'm not allies with so Buenos Aires Marble. I'll never get I can send him gold if I really want to be allies with Buenos Aires So they're off Hong Kong whatever great merchant temple of Artemis. I Doubt Scott's gonna build that I could finish it in six turns, which actually is pretty good So what's gonna be my overall strategy? I want these guys to just finish I want to build this city out to be gigantic and I do want to settle here But there's been no rush and I'm just building these cities up to be enormous before I settle here and Then here then maybe here maybe here Hmm I kind of want to send this guy onward to take this out. I will need defenses here I guess I should send this guy back around. Is that my guy? That's my good guy So he can move fast Over terrain So I'll send him back around this way to be my defensive Butchers against barbarians because I don't want to get plundered again. That's happened too many times I'll send this guy off this way to take this out and then eventually men of scots caravan I'll let this fairman come onward and I'll just have one military unit here for now defending I'll men is here and see what Scott does about that. I Could build the settler now and just go nuts, but then it would be hard to build I Guess just that The great people aren't gonna be that big a deal. The Great Wall would make it so that Scott cannot invade me For any like it would make it impossible the game will never get to artillery So that would basically make me invincible that would get me friendship with Buenos Aires which gets me sugar, which I can get just from settling But this being an ally would be moderately useful. It's more useful to be Prague I'm gonna get a free monument As soon as I build another city, so I don't need to worry about this getting the way of building another city I can build that anytime That'll finish real quick, but I don't really care. I could blitz culture But it's not really gonna do anything for me in this game What really let's see what's going on here. What's he see me as so 1287 928 All right He's got low culture. I can try to go for a culture victory Possibly because if I'll control the map I can get all the ancient artifacts. That's way late game strategy I'll probably collapse before then so I'm gonna bother with the whole culture thing I might just build this to guarantee Now another kind of side thing is that I have my faith here my Pantheon and I got it from a hut so I didn't actually get anything else here But it's basically an amazing defensive thing Because of my plan remember this city is a defensive city to make sure you can't come across that way So I can put units here and they'll basically be invincible But if I build another city here, it won't get that benefit unless I push the religion up and spread it And I don't have any faith production And I don't care that I don't have any faith production so I could buff out this city in some moderate Mostly pointless ways I can build a military unit. I Think what I should do. I'm okay on money for now so I can actually let that fester a little bit I think I'm gonna finish one of these wonders. I could finish this and scare the hell out of Scott and I could buy a Scout or A catapult and just make my military huge in a hurry so I can use cash to like buy this And independently finish this Or maybe I'll let Scott build it because his economy definitely can't afford those units And if it does and he attacks me that would actually just be great to build the temple of Artemis Actually, both of these will be useful all this stuff will be useful And I don't think Scott can build them Ah great wall Will make me invincible I'm gonna risk that he's building the great wall and I'm actually gonna build the great wall while the city festers And then I'm going to build a settler See me waffling. I'm actually gonna build the settler. I got so much happiness Let's just go for it I feel like I should push the game toward an end rather than playing with Scott because the demographics I mean population wise Scott has no people Uh, I make so many crops that my population is going to be double or triple what it is now in short order Uh, I can just make I can just fill the screen with spearmen and just surround him and starve him out I have plenty of gold. I'm about to have a lot more land Comparably sized armies. He has a lot of science and a fairly strong core of a tiny army I'd have to overwhelm with the crappier units Uh He's ahead of me in science, of course because he's playing the science civilization I think he's had two great, uh scientists And here so behold the glory Of the shoshone because this is where I said from the beginning. I was gonna build a city See how it starts with all this extra territory. Holy shit. That implies some very important things. So one Because it starts with all this extra territory Even with no worker It'll basically have enough decent spots to grow pretty quick on its own independent of any other factors Now there's a little bit of an extra factor here than I got empire modifiers But it's got all this extra space so it can sort of pick and choose But too i'm almost done with this lumber mill and then this workers just come right over here and buff this city up I'm also to just rapidly grow it see this caravan That caravan is just gonna make money here But then I'm gonna as soon as I finish the temple of Artemis instead of making another wonder I think I'm gonna make another ship caravan really quick and I'm gonna point it here to again Just boost the food up so I can build this city quickly Now because I already finished look at this aqueduct and monument to start that is the true power of a small civilization Uh, it's not like you want to build four right away When you've gone for tradition you can build two right away and buff them out And when the time is right plop a city down and it just starts out with this huge advantage I'm still gonna get another thing in 21 turns and now that the city's here the barbarians won't spawn so they can only spawn down here up here And may theoretically right there That's a problem you see another one spawned here So I've got one military unit that's gonna sort of make the rounds and clean all this stuff up uh I guess I should theoretically keep this swordsman over here to protect my worker from the eventual barbarians spawn here But fortune favors the bold I'm gonna start moving over this way to get into position to keep an eye on scott and to Look where this caravan goes I can sneak in here I don't care if prog hates me because actually prog's gonna like me real soon Because I'm about to finish the temple of Artemis But I'm gonna move this guy in and I'm gonna plunder this trade route and then scott I think is gonna give up the game without any war any bloodshed He'd really like these whales, but he can't get them Oh, look, he knows something's up. So I know he's got a horseman somewhere over here He's got that pikeman. He's got his composite bowman is regular fancy Babylonian bowman All right, so he keeps taking pot shots at this guy I think I should come in and then take pot shots back This guy I'm gonna swing around the long way and then he can heal slowly This guy is not gonna level up anytime soon. So watch this. I'll go here. Remember my religion says that he's gonna heal quickly And I'll just move a brand new guy Here I'll take all this risk But bam So now if he harasses me By attacking this guy or this guy With this bowman then this bowman will strike and this moment is gonna move in Most likely he's gonna retreat a little bit and if he advances well, whatever. I'm just gonna keep menacing him So what to build in my new city? It's gonna have more population in a hurry. So these turn numbers don't really mean that much but The library will be useful in a hurry that might have the third city With the library might actually catch me up to scott Oh, I guess my if I found a new city I've never founded a city between my in a game before between when I got a pantheon and when I made a religion I guess I just start with the pantheon. That's that's cool I'm not gonna even bother with religion then at all. I wasn't going to before. I'm definitely not going to now I could push culture Should probably start building military unit This city is gonna expand pretty quickly. So if I really want to push this city, I could do the granary But he's not gonna have any deer The deer No, it's all right. There's nothing here. It's a granary. We don't do anything And Bust out the worker and just start blitzing up like really building up the city Maybe I'll do that so I can rapidly build the city up So I'll build the caravan really quick to build this up even further and then I'm gonna immediately switch to build military units or wonders So these guys are all set to harass scott And look at the demographics now. Holy shit. Do I have a lot of land? So in terms of late game if scott doesn't surrender I might actually just build another city Here No Because I want to get these horses This truffles Actually here would be good then because then I can get I'll get this camp I'll get that pasture. I'll get that pasture. I'll get that for the truffles I'll get the wheat I'll overlap with this city I want to be the worst place to put if I want to build my fourth city there The other place is here. That's where I was kind of planning originally Because right along the river I could actually back it up a little bit But there's no point now because these city states are filled in so they'll probably just build it there I could build it up here to get that die And this faith But at this point and this stuff not the worst place I would build it like right here actually or here here Build it here No, I'd build it here here Anyway, I don't care. I'm not going to build that city See I'm either going to build one here just to fill it out and build an industrial powerhouse or here Other final option was to build a city like there and just get all this territory Forget this. I don't care about the faith. So I built it on this hill I'll get access to that iron That iron that stone It'll fill in this whole area being my territory which my units get a bonus in fighting And then scott will expect the assault to come from up here and I'll sort of mass an army And then I'll just build some giant other army down here Bring it up and then just end it So we'll see what happens, but this game is over and I just have to push scott to his final defeat God definitely knows it's over. I was just chatting with him. He sees my sword man Hanging around over here and asked me what I'm up to So he's probably got a scout here or here Somewhere in this area But I told him. Oh, I'm protecting a settler and he's like there's nowhere to settle down there and I made up some lie But no really I'm down here because I'm gonna plunder his trade routes See where this caravan's going. See that trade route there. I can't kill it now because it's here It's gonna bounce off the city Come back. We're still at war. It's gonna hit my sword man and I'm gonna plunder it. I think that's the end of scott I want to do the same thing up here. See what's going on Because he's got a trade route up this way too There it is that one if I just get in his path same thing is gonna bounce off So I'm actually gonna put my units up here, which will risk them to some injury Yeah, look at that nice. Look at that line He this thing is gonna come back. It's gonna next turn. It's gonna go one two. I forget how many spaces they move Lay there and here here and I'm gonna get it It's gonna be good news and maybe I'll declare war and steal that work We'll see what happens otherwise I forget what I already feel when I was building over here. Right. I was building military units Let me see how much that pushed up my demographics actually Not that much. Scott's got a reasonable sized army over there somehow All right, I gotta slowly take out these barbarians This guy's one of my best guys. He's just gonna stay here the whole game though and take out barbarians This guy is moving up here It's like I said, I do want to maximize these cities. I'm gonna advance wars even though I've 90 likely won this game and I can probably push to the end now I'm not gonna risk it. I'm not gonna I like an advance wars you move every stupid unit you've got every turn until the very very end Even if you don't think you need to because if something goes wrong Having all those infantry that are working their way across the map will be a big deal So I'm gonna make sure my victory is absolute which means I've got to buff the city I'm because like already I've got a guy two guys on unproductive or un improved places So I gotta correct that Let's go up here and build a mine and a pasture And this horseman can I do with the horseman? I'm gonna swing down first to make sure there's no barbarian spawning then I'm gonna come across here Think I'm gonna push toward the ends. I might just start building military units at this point Though I could bust some of those out The only one left though is Buenos Aires one statue statue of Zeus, which is not super I mean, it'll be moderately useful to take out a city actually. Maybe I should just build it really quick It's only six turns The other thing I can do is start cranking out military units or build a barracks and then start cranking out military units Or I could just crank out and see a triremes and use that in the final assault to surround him And then one by one week in the city because it's basically a bunch of extra Effectively extra land melee units. They won't survive. I mean look attacking that city I can't see it there Not great, but it adds up when you got a bunch of them I think I'll build the statue of Zeus That'll sort of push this toward the end because it's 15 attacking cities He's only got one city taking that city ends the game immediately might as well just go up balls out I got plenty of money for the end Uh, in fact, I can really ignore My economy for the rest of the game and the workers are just gonna buff these cities out Just in case to make them bigger and bigger and bigger to really really push these demographics over the top I mean look at this Our armies are relatively close, but I can support a massive army And he cannot He's ahead of me on science because of these two things So one thing I might want to do when I rush in is just start pillaging all this crap to starve the city out If I hit one of these then our science gets much closer And he won't be able to build more powerful units. He's probably pretty close to being let's see what he could build So I'm about to get pikemen that might be enough for me I'm not even gonna bother with I guess I could then build do physics just to get the trebuchet But I don't have any siege units right now. I might just try to take it by surrounding his city with regular old units and just starving it out I'm gonna hit those We'll see what happens, but I'm gonna hate take out these two caravans That'll mean he won't be able to afford to maintain this military and then Maybe he'll just give up that might just be the end. There might be no recovering from that Uh, very fortuitous that I built this guy here Because look at that barbarians popped out Now to move in for the kill Oh, they're not dead son of a- oh well. It doesn't really matter. All right, so let's see what's going on here Where's that caravan? There's that caravan and it's gonna come back this way. That's good. And it's gonna be pillaged So what was that other caravan? It's gonna come back this way So look at this Look at this You see that move there that reshuffle the transformation. That is why I win wars in sieve I can't attack again Let's just take a look And you get up there to be working on this so i'm gonna Pasture mine. Yeah, I got my plan. None of this stuff is really going to be interesting anymore It's got to keep an eye on scott Yeah, so see I've got coverage if he comes in here And I've got coverage here as well I've got two melee units on the front line where we're going to intercept That caravan as soon as it turns around This guy can't do anything about it. His caravans are forfeit And I'll have my new spearman soon because I have infinite production capabilities compared to scott I could use my money and just seal the deal and make this guy my ally I'm gonna pillage this first It is a thing of beauty when a plan comes together See that money Where'd that caravan go? Where'd that other caravan go simultaneous caravan destruction? So no, I mean it's over. I just gotta either convince scott to surrender or destroy him I'll wipe out these barbarians I'll start building military just to walk over there and end this