 Scott is so afraid that I'm going to pillage his caravan that before we did the show He actually threatened me and he threatened serious war if I pillage his caravan So you can't see it now But what happened over the last couple turns is he's got a caravan coming out of his capital Which is as best I can it's got to be in one of these two spots But he's got a caravan that comes right up here to Lhasa and it's a big part of his economy as far as I can tell And I saw it go in this way So I just let my scout in because I've got my unit slowly moving up to be ready to assault him Now he had a couple units here ready to fight me and We'll get back to that so independently because garrison units are free My economy is not great. I just spent a ton of money to buy this spot So I waited for my culture to expand made here. I immediately spent money to buy this wonder not this wonder this uh Like it's a wonder of the world, but not in the traditional sense of a human making it But anyway, so I got this thing primarily because of the science Like it's just a great place to have and I'm pretty sure her was gonna expand over to take it So I wanted to get it first so I spent like 65 gold on this which was a significant chunk of the money I have so I'm a little low on money But because barbarians are gonna be a constant threat on this kind of map because I won't have troops stationed out here Watching all this nor am I gonna build cities out here. They'll just keep coming in for the whole game So I built a couple extra military units to just station for free in my cities And I'm gonna make sure I have a garrison in every single city just to be able to defend it from barbarians But I'm not gonna keep any other troops out this way Now these barbarians just appeared and I'm gonna take care of them as for these barbarians Oh, I thought they were a city-state quest. I can't I don't think they are anymore Anyway, let's Go nuts But I can't take him in one turn. That's not a great thing to attack right away So I'm gonna come all the way around so I'm flanking with my other guys So the caravan has got to come back up this way and I've got another unit here and Scott has retreated because it looks like the cavalry arrived I did not know there was I wonder where that barbarian was because this guy's complaining They want me to defeat barbarian units that are invading them and truffles gonna get truffles when I build my settlement here But now that there's this barbarian I'm not gonna attack it because I don't it's scaring Scott away Scott said and threatened that he's got plenty of units here He's gonna take out my hop lights that are quote-unquote quote low on health and now he's retreated a little bit Things aren't looking great for scots. I'm actually gonna retreat my scout up one Because the caravan is still gonna come through here, and I'm still gonna get it fortify This hop light is just going to fortify And this guy is gonna fortify and that guy is gonna stay fortified Their health is just gonna keep going up and this little wall is gonna sit here. It's got can't come across There's two there's no room up here. You'd have to really fight to move a unit through and I know There's barbarians up there. I'll take care of that barbarian when the time comes I'll pillage the caravan and that's gonna be a death spiral for him And he also in apparently well then as soon as I kill this guy I'll be allies with them this whole wall will be impenetrable except by the water So yeah, I'm not gonna attack. I'm not gonna be arrested. I'm gonna stay here while I mop up these barbarians Let these guys heal and swing them up around I'm not gonna try to take one of his cities unless somehow he just sucks, and I take it easily I'm just gonna try to destroy his improvements even if I lose the unit or two and just raise everything and just make his life miserable and Meanwhile all my domestic development will go unhindered I mean look at this Mine's almost done here. This guy's building roads I'm gonna build a road to connect these two and then I'm gonna build a road to connect Jerusalem Because they also want this which will make them my ally and then that road is gonna come right out of Jerusalem to my city here I'm gonna build a city here. I'm gonna make one pretty big empire actually So what can I build here if I'm doing this domestic policy? I could build more military But I kind of don't want to right now my economy. I'd rather not push it Even though I could easily build a giant army. I'm going to build more things to stabilize I'd build this if I was gonna attack him. I know he's not gonna build it all this would get me I'd want to build a composite bowman first because if I built it now I just get one hoplite one scout and one companion cavalry if I built a composite bowman and a Chariot archer I'd get those as well and a catapult Let's see. What is the best economic or this might be good. Well, I get any great people and I've been making great people I am not making great people. I haven't built any other wonders So That would slowly make great merchants, but otherwise a stone would get me two extra gold source of marble or stone Well, that's stone Only marble the marbles up here so that wouldn't help so that would actually if I build that even though It's only one stone here That would get me Two extra gold which is half of my deficit. That's actually not that bad Otherwise though, it just gets me a culture. It's not that great It's touch you a Zeus will be good for finishing Scott off. He hinted that he's building stonehenge. I don't know if he's bluffing or not Temple of Artemis might just be good to grow Hang gardens temple of Artemis are both growing. I haven't done the math to figure out which one's better I suspect the hanging gardens a little bit better Free garden in the city which built which would be good if I was making great people But I'm not and it will not help me make great people so it would be useless temple of Artemis is much simpler culture engineering and Significant boost I could build this and then when I need to build my range units The time would be right or I could just say fuck it and build a settler I'd like to get a little more here I'd like to have filled this out But I don't really need to because as soon as I start building more cities it gets harder to get this stuff But I got the most important ones. I got this and I got both of these This one is moderately important, but it's not super important. This one's really good So I kind of want to get to more of these I could skip these for the immediate term. We'll see I haven't decided what to do there So what to actually build? I'm getting plenty of faith from my city-states So I think that's fine. I'm gonna have plenty of happiness as well, though I could bolster that By building this and this and then I'd be ready to build like the Circus Maximus all that other nonsense Cannot do this. Maybe if I can't build a caravan a Surrey yet. Oh, yeah, I can Increase the range by 50 percent, which would be good. That might mean I could get out over here But it would also Not get me any gold ever because I will never have a trade route with another civilization just for city-states Huh horses and sheep and cattle produce plus one production. I want horses It's pretty much it. It's not great grain or it'd be okay. It's also not great This is just happiness. I guess I could do this first to bolster my happiness a little more even though I've got one Two with the truffles down here, I've got multiple avenues for more happiness down the road But while they're cheap and easy to build maybe I'll just bang this stuff out instead of focusing on any wonders Yeah, let's get ahead on the happiness game just in case I could leave this guy here And I probably will may I can start moving him across later as well But for now I'm just gonna leave him in the garrison We'll see how Scott deals with this. He can't be as aggressive as he wanted These guys are in a very well fortified position. They're very strong. And yeah, he's got a swordsman It's probably the only swordsman he's got and the spearman is actually scaring him enough to worry through some units So I think I can just sit here and steal that caravan He's gonna be shocked when these guys come around to I don't think he believes me that they're on their way Kind of want to build a third companion cavalry and really fuck him up That would increase my debt. I'd actually wanted I definitely want to lose a unit But I'm gonna capture Two barbarian encampments in short order, which will get me some money and I'm gonna capture this too So actually as much as I was gonna build that circus. Let's bang out another companion cavalry first Because why not? My deficit will sort itself out. Oh He's moving the units in Well, I kind of want to finish that barbarian off But I think the city state might do it on its own which is actually really annoying I might just leave these guys set up because he's not that strong if he's Let's see So the city state is probably gonna finish these guys off as much as I want to finish them off I can't easily go around and get after them without compromising my position here against Scott These guys are both pretty strong I might just leave them set up here and let Scott try to attack me So I don't think he's gonna be able to handle it Meanwhile, let's just keep this road going over here and let's mess up these barbarians nice Let's see is anyone close to a level This guy is pretty good. He's got two levels of shock and open terrain This guy is real close, but he's the healer. I know he's not real close That's his life One of these guys are particularly close. I'd rather the companion cavalry level up So let's Yeah, I get some culture in Sky up move this guy in And that guy's good I'm just gonna leave him there to heal because I want to be full strength when I suddenly come around and start Well, Scott plus you might have another trade route coming over here, which will be a mirror of the last game That's looking good. Where are these barbarians all the way up there? This guy I guess can come up and defend it'll be finals ignored for now My mind's in look at this Look at this My deficits a little higher for now. I'll have to deal with that at some point But I guess I could I could deal with the deficit pretty easily. So I'm not going to right now It would be pretty bad actually 10 turns. I'm gonna stay on the gold science focus This doesn't hurt the city that much and all that extra science is gonna be real useful Maybe I should send this guy out now even though I'll lose the money to take this barbarian out. Yeah, just in case It increases my deficit a little bit, but I will deal with that as the time comes Come on. I just need the care. I just need to hold out until the caravan comes back and I'm good Oh, it appears that Scott has not moved in on me for some reason. I wonder what's going on I will just continue to dig in Stay nice and fortified and wait it out This guy's gonna head up here to see what's going on with these barbarians Keep building my road A little bit of money. Ooh, that was for her Which is already my ally now. They're just like crazily my ally Guess they were uneasy about it this turn and now I got it. Nice Well Guess I should finish this business Not ideal to attack for the companion cavalry, but might as well level them up Now I got a heal up and then burst across This companion cavalry will immediately go off maybe in to either go this way or If this guy can't defeat it for whatever reason if he has trouble they'll pincer it And then this hoplite is actually going to march right back around Athens while the companion cavalry goes on to join the front think I'll probably build a settler next and I can do this one later Iron and stone and marvel up there. There's a decent city to be had like here actually Yeah, look right here next to a mountain so I could build Oxford University if we get to that or the observatory I'm within range of these guys this stuff These that not bad. I think I'm gonna build here first cuz I'm gonna road I'll deviate just to at least improve these things and then road onward to Jerusalem Everybody else just heal up. Yeah, he's not a medic. No one's a medic. Oh, he's a medic Yes, definitely everyone heal up together Scott is just I wonder if he's Swinging in hitting this guy and retreating Because this thing is already pretty obsolete and he's just not doing enough damage and he realized that he's kind of fucked here