600 BC Copper traded for ivory + 4 gpt
575 BC We get a GE!. This means i can rush Parthenon in Heliopolis. I don't know how the fight for the fish is now but with Parthenon we're sure to get it quickly. An alternative would have been to rush Parthenon near one of the barb cities but i'm confident we can prevail over the ais anyway. Capital finishes settler and is set to max food + S. paya. We have gold so we'll make money on this wonder, i'd actually like to have it as it saves a scientist for philo bulb.
550 BC Pericles researches col. We need a trireme to explore, we may have met all ais, maybe not. I want to know for sure.
525 Parthenon rushed , Alexandria founded near iron. Much as i'd like to go on with S.Paya and GL, 2 swords have priority now, getting Illinois and Teo can mean the difference between a 12 city empire or a 7-8 city one.
500 Memphis has finished his settler and will be assigned to worker building/whipping for some time.
450 Sell monarchy for mono + 40. I'm continuing wonders after 2 swords in capital and OR is a big help, also in other cities.
425 We destroy a barb galley
Set out to explore
325 Illinois captured. Was kind of close. Decided to attack with 3 axes against 1.5 archer. Else Darius would have axe + 2 immortals which is scary. I had > 80% overall to win this
Hmm this will change for sure.....
275 Oh my there's some good land left
250 BC, i had been going currency with saved gold at 100% and can trade for it now being halfway, not ideal but i get it with some gold in bargain for Aest. Sell fish for wine with Darius. Go 100 % col now, i need quick border pops in some cities.
175 2 swords built in capital means i can take flatland Teoihuacan easily. Nice blocking city with some good resources and it has 2 workers in it as a bonus. I sell lit for 235 gold to Qin.
125 Col in.
100 Darius demands Aest, i give in, why not.
50 Get Banana + 7 gpt from Darius for Copper. Go caste system for pops. Trade Col + lit for Cal + 10 gold. Teoihuacan has dye so i like Cal.
1 AD. get 40 gold for priesthood from Darius.
I don't know and i'm a bit too lazy now to check when i finished S.Paya and GL but i got them both.
We got a second GE instead of a GP. Lucky sure, well against the odds. But i did help luck a bit by at least assigning an engineeer while building S.Paya and GL instead of working a plain forest.
Obviously i plan to build UOS with it once we reach paper. With 12 cities that wonder would be kind of huge with cheap temples build almost for free.
Atm We have 9 cities and settlers for city 10 and 11 are ready and almost in place. Especially with UOS coming i'll settle them asap. Need to check that CS doesn't take me too long from here but i can't see us being beaten to UOS.
Overview:
There's lots of good land though so you should be good. Is that barb city for the gems on a city? If so, you'll probably need a catapult or two to take it without ridiculous losses.
. As i like this series a lot i decided to come out of civ retirement to offer Kossin a hand. At least for the time being the name of the series will have to be altered to Deity round or something else that suits DR as i certainly don't have time to play a round a day. It should be possible to do one round/4 days approx. Kossin will also play rounds, we'll see how it turns out as we go along.
. But with the food situation early game and this leader farms are better. Could well be that we won't build a single cottage this game.
