Pre-flight - brace myself for the GL disappointment, and cross fingers for monarchy...
IBT - Warrior beats off barb horseman
Turn 1 - 530 BC
Galley moves off with warrior from N'burg, another galley on the way. Worker stuff, including mine building and forest clearing... Trade WM with France, again...
IBT - zip
Turn 2 - 510 BC
Found Salzburg, set it building catapult. Emphasise shields in Bremen, to get incense quicker.
IBT - fend off 2 barbarians
Turn 3 - 490 BC
Disperse a barb camp
Disperse another one
Chop forest to hurry library in Bremen... Trade maps to France and England, Russia not interested...
Hut produces a friendly horseman! He boards galley to come back to main continent - don't want him stuck here forever...
IBT - Joan wants an alliance vs Lizzy - the war must be back on!
i agree to an ROP just to maintain a positive relationship, but confess I was just stabbing in the dark here... Should I have just said "Not a chance"?
Currency researched - prepare for trading!
Turn 4 - 470 BC
Miscellaneous movement... Now a dilemma. Lizzy is at war with France, so no learning or money, and no way of her getting Poly... Grr! If she gets it from the GL, she may get Currency too... So, I go ahead and trade it for Poly with France. No point in delaying, really
(Note - can we discuss this later?) get 95g, WM and Poly from France, 215g and WM from Russia. Decide to give it to Lizzy, as she will get it soon enough, we can use the diplo boost, and she is likely to get the GL first anyway...
IBT - Settler built in Munich, start a spearman, as we need escorts.
Turn 5 - 450 BC
HUGE uprising spotted in the SE...
And another in the NW!
Last turn these both had one warrior... Now they have the Golden Horde...
I am pausing here for suggestions...