 Much has happened since we last checked out the Shoshone and you can see that the world has changed quite a bit so Domestic policies are going as Planned pretty much everything I talked about wanting to do has happened. I got the city out here I had to slightly anger my pet and ally The Egyptians you see there's still a little butter about that because I had to make sure they didn't settle there before I Settled there really wanted this city. So everything's coming up millhouse and I ended up declaring war in Poland because I had to I liberated thieves pretty Trivially because I have a gigantic army. That is I believe still the largest in the world It is in fact the largest in the world by quite some margin. So You might recall all this business here Every military plan I had worked out fine I liberated thieves because the city wouldn't really get me much and I actually want Egypt to be reasonably Powerful country so that it can just be my trading partner and ally mostly because they're gonna be mine Anyway, my culture is completely dominating them I can actually just annex their cities at some point in the future if I really need to but This is basically my pet and trading partner for the rest of the game so in terms of Poland I Just suddenly declared war after having set up this system here to protect myself and be and have a launching point To then come into thieves and later It's interesting because if you'll notice what I did here part I didn't really capture all these turns there was I wasn't gonna record this every single turn You get bored to death, but you'll notice that I got a lot of redundant roads here That is why this was able to move so quickly Because these redundant roads through these forts, especially here. There's a road in every one of these meant that I could have a sort of Saliant here with some defensive forces ready for whatever because I did expect Poland declare war on me I was actually shocked that Poland didn't declare war on me, especially before I was ready I was kind of worried about that so I had this army here waiting But as I built up my army of longswordsmen who are now musket men I lined them up all down here So I could very rapidly because of these roads redeploy rearrange and when it was time to actually start a war I let them come in I inflicted severe casualties against this hard point and then I sprung forward Oops Well, I guess I just moved that guy there Oh, actually, I won't be so bad. I can take out these lingering forces So yeah, anyway, because I can move these around I could very quickly get a giant force to Spring it around thieves surrounded. I captured it in like two turns And I immediately liberated it I liberated it partly because I want other than just having egypt here and a little more powerful and useful There's no luxury resource that thieves would have that I don't already have And thieves wasn't the greatest city when I looked at it So I kind of just let it be Because I wanted the happiness buffer to be able to take a bunch of polish cities So roclaw, which I took pretty metridged trivially because as soon as I got peace Because as soon as I liberated thieves Egypt isn't actually a war with poland So now my army is sitting entirely within these protected borders And poland would have to also declare war on egypt if they wanted to attack me And I immediately just sprung forward with these roads that are already in place and the rest of my army the reserves That I didn't send into thieves I had them follow this road along And I hit roclaw and took it almost immediately and to my pleasant surprise. There's a wonder here So this is actually a pretty good city and it got me a luxury resource truffles So now with the furs here And uh, there's some ivory hanging out over here. I don't think I'll get it right away, but This is a great city and look how huge it is taking the city may seal the game for me I could probably get other cities if I left war saw alone But I think I can take war saw pretty trivially and then I think I'm also going to take crack out I don't know if I actually care about lads or not. I might let I might let poland continue continue to exist as a rump state with posnin, which Yeah, silver Stone there's nothing I care about over here. I might let them keep posnin And lads, but I'm definitely taking war saw. Maybe I'll take crack out as well And just I'll leave these two cities separated so it'll be very difficult for poland to ever Challenge me militarily and hopefully that eventually they'll either be afraid of me or more importantly Just like with egypt my culture will overpower them and I can take the cities at my leisure And then the continent will basically be mine So let's play a little bit of advance wars here right now and see how quickly you can say I lost one trebuchet That's to be expected Oh More defense. Yeah, this is looking pretty good. I'll take the range defense I actually want to as much as I want. Oh, let's see. Let's see how much you damage into the city first Because the most important thing is taking the city Because as you know, I think I can take this turn my units Get a bonus when they're fighting within my own borders Oh, yeah, I'm definitely gonna be able to take it that didn't do it That really didn't do it I guess I can't get over. All right That did it Yeah, this is the important part of the world the game wants to take me to all right. Let's see what's going on Oh, yeah, there's two wonders in here Oh, look at all that happiness. I just got a bunch of luxury resources. I just got a happiness wonder Everything's coming up millhouse I'm definitely going to for now create a puppet Interesting So now which of these cities do I want to take did I get the ivory? Do I have ivory in here? I don't see it So the elephants I didn't get the elephants. So I feel like I should try to take the elephants I can see I can immediately redirect my army around here There we go Now let's move this guy back into heel. I'm not worried about these doesn't have much of a military So it keeps wanting to come back over to this guy's let's talk about this I sent this guy over here. I got a great profit pretty quickly because I have the power as you recall Where I can choose what to get out of these ruins. There's no the ruins here And I just haven't gone to get it yet because there's a lot of barbarians hanging out around here I'm going to send an army to take it, but I discovered this whole archipelago That I might settle in For future parts of the game, especially now that I'm going to have this huge happiness bonus Especially once the city is out of resistance and stuff starts to calm down So I think I am definitely going to I don't know where else wants I could settle here. There's a good spot here I could settle down here. It's not the worst spot either. I don't think I'm gonna despite that iron I'll get that iron from kizzle So the only really Settable spot that I care about because I'm going to pop it all these I'm not going to take any of these cities I'm going to try to minimize the number of cities. I actually control because I have two seaports to the outside world I have my capital that's well protected But what I might do Oh, yeah, and I got this like Redoubt for any case. There's any sort of serious war which is less important once I pacify the continent But it's still good that I have it here It also is the only well, let's see Yeah, so I'm probably not going to settle up here So if I settle any more in this game, it'll either be most likely colonizing some distant continent Or Sticking a city maybe two But I'd probably start with one like right around here somewhere because look at all this great biz And a city out here while it would be pretty isolated would actually be a good Sort of staging point for military operations if I wanted to be offensive as opposed to defensive Because if I lost a city out here Wouldn't be that bad to be like rebel or whatever that japan had in world war two But I could use this as a base of operations for offensive warfare into All this where my real enemies remain And it would also be useful because as you notice I currently don't have any coastal cities In the east I can really only do naval operations out in the west here So having a naval base this really centered around military and navy and eventually air stuff here That would be really good for the end game So I don't think anyone will settle here before I get to it So I'm just going to keep a minor force poking around here and be ready So let's see what if I can get because uh The player who's playing pole and uh saw the writing on the wall and is also gone Wonder what I could get out of this guy Oh, there's the only cities you have left Or at least the only cities I know about Let's stay at war Ooh now look I have the surplus of furs So I'll trade with this ai I could gift it to him, but I'm gonna wait All right, so Do I leave logs alone? I could probably get it to give me one of these cities pretty soon I guess what I should do Is mop up these remnants Before I really engage in any further offensive operations Just move you to a it's not to say it's safe enough Let's get you in the city for now. Just be extra cautious. There's no reason to Risk anything. Oh, does anyone want to trade her out? Nope At this point I'm doing pretty well on gold again. So maybe I'll send production To word Yeah, I'm gonna send a production toward my small city to help it grow faster Ooh and my capital I really would like to get him edgy castle because my power is that I get a 15% combat bonus fighting in my own territory If I also have that that becomes 30% and I think that Would give me an insurmountable military edge for the endgame Let's look at the capital I'm gonna have a great engineer soon. So I'm not gonna start on this now I'm definitely gonna wait for the great engineer and just do it in one go probably I guess I should start we're getting to the point where real navies might appear So I should probably build some range units and stick them here here here Here Maybe here That'll defend the actually vulnerable coast And once I passify the continent up here, then I can leave a small army here A small army here and a small army in the middle to deal with any land incursions. Then I'll be set Keep slowly moving this guy over to be ready to take this land So an interesting question. What should I build those ranged units now? I guess I might as well build the infrastructure for it first might as well build the barracks