Between the two invasions, cocoa was getting a bit sparse. Therefore I used the empty island in the south whose ore mine had emptied to set up a few mote plantations for the good.
Rhenus had grown quite a fair bit, and my aristocrat count reached 1500. This gave me the honour of being able to build a palace!
It has no purpose whatsoever and does nothing but waste money and space, but it looks shiny and a solid proof for my success, and that's all that matters! I also built a few more houses and streets for my city to look more complete; I don't think it will need any further expansions.
I had to restrict the further increase in my population numbers however, as due to my warfare I did not have the time to concentrate on their growing needs. In particular tobacco was getting rare, and since Delirium was almost completely filled with plantations already and I was currently still trying to seize another island able to grow it, I had to start buying it from flying merchants. It worked out in the end however.
This was all the more pressure on me for conquering the red player's remaining island. After having built up quite a sizeable army, I set foot on it.
Unfortunately, I forgot to take screenshots here. There was not too much going on though - I split my troops into two groups and took on two of the island's marketplaces and cannon towers each. The latter, much to the disadvantage of my men, kept being rebuilt, but fortunately (after some reloading of saves and thus luck manipulation) the CPU opponent started erecting them within the reach of my ships' cannons, able to destroy them much more easily than my frail musketeers and artillery. For the last attack wave against the remaining tower and marketplace I had to bring in fresh troops however, as my initial ones had been decimated quite a bit.
They did their job well.
Some of my ships had been damaged in the battle, so I sent them to my two wharfs for repairs and transported my now useless units back to Festung Erpel. Who knows if I might need them again in the future, hohoho!
I purged the last remainders of my late enemy's settlement and established two cigar production chains.
Taking another look at my main island (which as you can see in the left corner I had refined a little prior to my claiming of the red's last stand) I was a bit worried to see my alcohol and food storages having grown rather empty.
Fortunately I am a ruthless imperialist and in the possession of land formerly rightfully belonging to someone else, so I have plenty of space to build all the bakeries and vineyards the gluttons that are my citizens want!
After the annihilation of my enemy I had also been awarded with the option to build a triumph arc, which I promptly did. Victory looks neat, doesn't it!
That's it for now. My goal is to reach 2500 aristocrats in order to be allowed to build a cathedral. This probably won't take much more than the further expansion of my productions, but I will nonetheless report on it till the end.
Rhenus had grown quite a fair bit, and my aristocrat count reached 1500. This gave me the honour of being able to build a palace!
It has no purpose whatsoever and does nothing but waste money and space, but it looks shiny and a solid proof for my success, and that's all that matters! I also built a few more houses and streets for my city to look more complete; I don't think it will need any further expansions.
I had to restrict the further increase in my population numbers however, as due to my warfare I did not have the time to concentrate on their growing needs. In particular tobacco was getting rare, and since Delirium was almost completely filled with plantations already and I was currently still trying to seize another island able to grow it, I had to start buying it from flying merchants. It worked out in the end however.
This was all the more pressure on me for conquering the red player's remaining island. After having built up quite a sizeable army, I set foot on it.
Unfortunately, I forgot to take screenshots here. There was not too much going on though - I split my troops into two groups and took on two of the island's marketplaces and cannon towers each. The latter, much to the disadvantage of my men, kept being rebuilt, but fortunately (after some reloading of saves and thus luck manipulation) the CPU opponent started erecting them within the reach of my ships' cannons, able to destroy them much more easily than my frail musketeers and artillery. For the last attack wave against the remaining tower and marketplace I had to bring in fresh troops however, as my initial ones had been decimated quite a bit.
They did their job well.
Some of my ships had been damaged in the battle, so I sent them to my two wharfs for repairs and transported my now useless units back to Festung Erpel. Who knows if I might need them again in the future, hohoho!
I purged the last remainders of my late enemy's settlement and established two cigar production chains.
Taking another look at my main island (which as you can see in the left corner I had refined a little prior to my claiming of the red's last stand) I was a bit worried to see my alcohol and food storages having grown rather empty.
Fortunately I am a ruthless imperialist and in the possession of land formerly rightfully belonging to someone else, so I have plenty of space to build all the bakeries and vineyards the gluttons that are my citizens want!
After the annihilation of my enemy I had also been awarded with the option to build a triumph arc, which I promptly did. Victory looks neat, doesn't it!
That's it for now. My goal is to reach 2500 aristocrats in order to be allowed to build a cathedral. This probably won't take much more than the further expansion of my productions, but I will nonetheless report on it till the end.
