Okay, I have advanced the turn but have not done much.
The Barb Galley suicided itself on us.
Ragnar has shown up with a Trireme to the SW of Gold City, but he has yet to declare war. I don't feel like declaring war on him for him just having a Trireme visible.
We have 8 units on 3 Galleons for Joao and the 9th Maceman will be created in Pig Mmm Fish City next turn, followed by it walking for 2 squares on Roads, followed by it boarding the Galleon. So, we're only a few turns away from war on Joao with 9 units.
Isabella attacked us with her Catapult and lost, so Barcelona is defended by a lone Archer, haha!
Madrid was reinforced with a Horse Archer but we have a Galleon within range of amphibious assaulting that has a Pikeman on it, so we should be totally able to capture both of these Cities on this turn.
We just need to decide if we're going to keep them (which are probably some of her highest population Cities and thus the only Cities that I'll advocate keeping--plus are close enough to each other to be able to mutually protect each other, blah, blah, blah, I want to keep them
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We are now officially prepared for a Diplomatic game... an instant Diplomatic Loss, hehe! I mean, everyone hates us. So, yeah, let's hope that no one builds The Apostolic Palace in a Religion that JUST HAPPENS to be spread to the only AIs left alive at the time. Our total population would not allow us to counter said vote, as it's based on total population under the correct Religion, not total world population. Anyway, that possibility is very unlikely, but whatever, it's more the fact that I have a screenshot where everyone treats us as their Worst Enemy and I wanted to give some filler-text. Still, it's a potential issue (an Apostolic Palace loss) to keep at the backs of our minds.
I haven't attacked anything yet and am just going to upload the game shortly. I have already whipped for the turn (I have been very aggressive on that front) in most Cities, but I still need to decide what to do about Moscow. I'll probably whip an Archer there or something, since we don't have enough Food-based squares to be able to keep the City from shrinking unless we whip away a population point.
So, we still have time to decide on whether to keep or raze each of:
Novgorod
Barcelona
Madrid
I see no reason to keep Vicky's 2 remaining Cities, nor Cathy's 2 western Cities, so those will be razed for certain.
I have yet to get an attack going on Willem as I wanted to be sure to have enough troops at Isabella. I still haven't decided if I'll send 1 more boatload towards Isabella or if we'll be gathering the existing troops for the assault on Willem. Heck, we could even use the existing troops to push after Cathy's SW-most City, just to help kill the Feudalism-knower a couple of turns sooner.
The biggest fear is that if Isabella or Joao learns Feudalism, it could get instantly-traded around between them, which would make it no longer a monopoly tech for Cathy, who would probably trade it to Willem. Ragnar migiht still be left out, but he self-techs it as a high priority, and with every other AI knowing it (Vicky should be dead by then), Ragnar's self-research on Feudalism shouldn't take too long.
Joao has a nice low Power level, and I would like a suggestion on which Cities of his to attack. The southernmost Galleon of the 3 Joao Galleons is where it is located now simply by nature of it having headed directly SE from Marble City, where it picked up its 3rd unit.
Okay, I'll upload the game shortly and then will head off to bed for a good long time.