OK here we go:
basic plan is build a bunch more spies and steal what we can from Hat.
175 AD trade corn for wheat with Shaka.
trade cow+clam for ivory with Darius.
switch most cities to spy.
IBT Taoism founded in Pusan.
190 Uxmal spy-spy, Mutal spy-spy.
convert to Judiasm. We need this for LT relations. In our back pocket is that when we go to war w/Darius, we want to first bribe Shaka to attack him.
205. Steal currency from Darius (77%) no repercussions. OB with Zulu.
220 whip spy in chichen, Lak. I confess I'm not sure what to do with all our workers.
IBT hat wants to trade tech with us.
Darius gets a prophet.
235 whip temple in Thebes--spy.
IBT Darius build temple of Solomon.
250 disband warrior in Mayapan--in retrospect maybe a mistake as HR very soon. Still we're running in the red at 40% and we have a lot of not too good units.
Darius is sending missionaries to Hat--she'll convert soon. He will likely do our work for us.
IBT HG built in Zulu.
265 Mayapan spy--I guess continue WB just in case it turns up something interesting. Trade Darius sheep for 6gpt.
280 whip temple in Chichen--market. Maya WB-market.
295 Mutal spy-market.
310 whip spy in Uxmal--overflow to market.
325 ...
340 We try to steal monarchy from Darius--only 57% for 379. Success
We can sell tech to Shaka--I check to see if this is OK with our variant. My take on the variant is that we can only acquire tech by theft--we can still trade tech away. Hope this is correct. Sell poly to Zulu for 100g, trade cow to Zulu for 3gpt.
Revolt to HR as cannot get 2 civics for 1 turn anyway.
IBT Christianity FIDL, Jud--Mutal.
355 we're ready to steal from Darius. Choices are Feud, Math, IW and the little techs. I go for Feud at 75% Success again
and no discovery.
We are up to steal w/hat. Choices are HBR, IW, Math and little techs. Hat has taken Jud so we OB. I go for IW... success
but she is on to us.
trade her marble for 2gpt. This trade should be canceled when marble needed.
We have iron but it's not in a great spot--we'll get it by expansion in 24t.
Darius is building missionaries for us.
370 Lak temple-holk (partially done)
IBT Hat-vassalage. This was a gift from Darius
385 We're up again with Hat. Choices are HBR, Math, arch and little techs.
choose math. We fail
I'm sending a spy to Pusan as I think we should shift resources to Wang and try for COL on the next set.
whip spy in Maya--overflow into market.
400 ...
Note to next emperor:
1 spy will be ready in 2 turns in each of Egypt and Persia.
Sent a spy on a long trek to Korea.
We should take feudalism asap as I think CS a long way away. We get some % due to free upkeep and we'll soon be ready to get the military going.
BTW I'm pretty lame tech wise and don't know how to place or remove markers--marker is in Ergli from last set.