Emperor Cookbook III -- Kublai Kahn

I built my capital on the stone. Missing a lighthouse won't hurt me until size 19, if the game even lasts that long.

I researched Animal Husbandry, Agriculture, Writing, Fishing, Alphabet, Horseback Riding. I only built 3 cities. My production was suffering due to lack of chopping/whipping, but I managed to keep my slider above 50%.

I popped a GS in 1560BC and settled him in the capital.




Once I had HBR, I went crazy with chopping and whipping Keshiks.

725BC: Declared war on Hammurabi.

625BC: Hammurabi defeated.

550BC: Declared war on Zara.

50BC: Sued for peace with Zara, he is down to 1 tundra city.

I have the Pyramids, Great Library, courthouses, and a tech lead. The game is pretty much won, just need to build some infrastructure and mop up with middle age units.

I wonder if I should of skipped mining/BW at start now. It was purely experimental really.

The only danger in bashing 2 Ai to death is the other Ai's expand into the empty land. Then again the UU is so strong that you might as well bash a 3rd one to death too.

Well with scientists etc i got my research up to about 44 beakers a turn with representation. I was losing 16-17 a turn but I have a gems to work by Babylon. I could of switched to COL instead of construction I guess. The taking of Aksum may give me 100-200 gold. It is workable. That is the challenge of this kind of economy I guess.

I started off with AH. Then I beelined for priesthood. yes i ignored BW till I traded for it.

I built a worker and then a settler.

Then SH in cap and worker in second city.

I then built Settler and oracle in capital. I took HBR as i didnt have writing.

Had a few minor issue with barb archers near marble/ horse resources. I attempted for GW but the Babylonian beat me to this. The excess cash was welcome. (3 turns off)

I then DOW Babylon and have left him on one city.

Techwise someone has feudalism already. Yaqob has col, calender and another tech I need. I need to rush him asap.

The economy is still losing 10 a turn but I am due a Great person in cap in 8 or so turns. I may get a chance for a holy shrine which will make me almost break even.

Mids and hanging gardens are also built in cap. 4 wonders and still some forest left for GLH.

See what you think.

So here goes. Given the stone nearby I couldn't resist an 11 turn build of the great wall. Prior to starting on this I had built a settler and 2nd worker. Once this was completed I had 2 (almost 3 because of the second city) workers and a pyramids with 19 turn timer staring me in the face so I went with it.

Unfortunately because of both of these wonders and a barbarian city my expansion to the south and west was halted, but I had (due to being creative) blocked off the peninsula behind us. At this point with representation up and running I spammed settlers while researching writing while crashing my economy with new cities. The same turn writing completed I build cities number 4 and 5 and began building 5 libraries. Once these were complete and a great spy from Karakorum was settled there the tech rate was once again humming along.

Aesthetics was researched oddly early in this game and alphabet was also being passed around by many of the computers so I didn't have typical trade fodder. Instead I researched Horseback Riding and Metal Casting to fill in my techs where needed. Although I'm still slightly behind because I do not have aesthetics or some of the religious line, I am 3 turns away from currency and working on completing 4 forges (allowing more specialists).

I am admittedly weak in regards to military power or a position to exert it and have done a poor job on exploration. I chose hinduism as my religion in order to appease hammarabi, zara, and darius. Both Fredrick and Saladin are buddists, but based on time of contact are further away from me.

Although I have no military to speak of, or garrisons in many cities for that matter, Karakorum is poised to pump out several units upon completing it's forge.