Ooh... we accept!!

As it happens we were only 1 turn away from Nationalism anyway but, ah well. They only just got it this turn themselves and I think they were researching something else, it quite possibly came from the Omega fund? They're at war with each other now anyway!! On the tech front Japan is way behind though, with Education, Printing Press and Astronomy, we should possibly think about giving them these ourselves so they can catch up.

And in other continental news, we told Ragnar that he was worth exactly one Copper... he agreed!

Here is the new state of international affairs:

Nice! Ragnar is now researching Rifling too and we've set out to get Military Tradition (Currasiers, Cavalry). Although they started out on 6 turns and after the end of the turn they were on 7 turns, so who knows when they'll get it. 

In national news - Welcome to Nebula City!

And the news from our ship in far away waters:

Tee-hee!

One thing of concern though. Now that we can see what Ragnar sees his (maybe soon to be overun?) outpost on Omega's continent is a very useful lookout point, and this is what it has seen:

Hmm, probably time to get plenty of defensive units over to the east. We really need cannons too so we can upgrade and smash a few Omegan stacks. Thoughts on Military Tradition (to combat their presumed imminent big horses) vs. Steel (Cannons and later tasty defensive Ironclads)?

So do you want to take this on from here NC? (Or Bis?)

I have used the no anarchy in a golden age rule to switch to Police State (+25% unit production and -50% war weariness) and Nationhood (Can draft 3 units per turn) to help out our war effort, it definately seems like time to turn on 'full defence mode'. Certainly looks like we've got an industrial monster on our hands now! I'm concerned that war weariness might eventually start to hurt us, like it did with the Japanese, especially with their Statue of Zeus. Hopefully having Police State will help to limit that and let's hope they start to feel it soon themselves, as most of the fighting has been in our territory!

One problem now is we have to consider where the fleet we sighted is heading, it may be coming straight for the east coast or it could decide to go around the Viking lands to our northern coast. Or, since they "know we know they know we know they..." they may change its plans entirely? We're pumping out the defenders at full capacity but it's all about the positioning. Unfortunately we haven't got the ships to get to the galleons before they make landfall, unless we get lucky.

Oh and, as expected, they flattened the Viking outpost this turn. Must have been the passing fleet taking an unplanned pitstop with that kind of response time!! So perfect timing for us to spot them right at that moment... not so good for Ragnar though!