Interesting round.
We started out by calling off the war with Caesar:
We may not need Macemen to take Rome, but we'll definitely need Catapults.
Immediately after peace was declared, Antium (remember the "throwaway" city in the Balkans?) became worth keeping:
With our rampant happiness problems, I don't think we can afford to relinquish the Monarchy, but it's worth keeping Antium to have the option, no?
In 95 B.C., Catherine roped me into war with Egypt. Hattie is always good for a false war, and she's a future target, anyway, so who cares about our relationship?
We also made a quick trade to whip our sagging economy back into shape:
Yeah, Mansa won that trade, but not by much, and we need Currency right now.
Also, Cyrus asked us to convert to Islam. Fat chance.
Meanwhile, I came to realize that in allying with Catherine, I may have been backing the wrong horse:
Eesh. We may need to lay the smack down on Russia ourselves just to get a piece of the pie!
As the Calendar turned from B.C. to A.D., and as Berlin built a new army to take Rome, Paris did what Paris does- build Wonders:
It's too bad I couldn't get Dublin founded in time. Ah, well. Everyone else got the population point.
Finally, in 10 A.D., it was time for the false peace to end:
Antium, defended by two Archers and an Axeman, fell quickly to suicide Cats and a couple of Axemen of our own:
Again, I kept it. It's got the Pyramids, after all, and it can make use of those Pigs south of Berlin.
In 55 A.D., we finally established our Irish presence:
That city's going to be a drain for a while. As everyone has said, we're kinda low on Workers. You'd think that with all this conquest I'd've captured at least one! And with the buildup to war, we haven't caught up by much.
In 115, the pieces were finally in place. Rome's metal supplies were cut off, the city was surrounded by Axemen and Catapults, and a Spanish spy called upon the citizens' religious sensibilities to incite a full-scale riot:
As the looting reached its climax, the sudden boom of Spanish siege weapons turned the revelry into panic:
And, before the drunken Romans knew what was going on, the streets were being patrolled by Spanish soldiers and the Monuments to Caesar and Latin libraries were being demolished:
Sadly, Julius Caesar himself escaped, probably to a hidden city on the Black Sea. He is willing to give up 90 gold for peace, but is apparently too far gone to be willing to part with Horseback Riding.
So that's where I decided to call it a round.
The frigid north:
A Christian Missionary just landed in Dublin, and will spread the True Faith there next turn. And Stockholm is one turn away from a Border Pop.
The balmy south:
The Domestic Advisor:
And the international situation:
So... Do we continue the war, searching Russia and Greece for Rome's last stronghold? Or do we call it off and allow Rome to rot? Catherine is still at war with Caesar, anyway, so maybe Cathy'll do our dirty work for us. Of course, this is assuming he went east. If he somehow went to Africa, we're screwed.
And our next war... Russia or Egypt? Our Egyptian diplomatic situation is in tatters after a pair of false wars, and, besides, she
is a heathen. But Russia might not last too much longer. We may need to declare war while there's still a Russia to declare war on! And besides, Cathy doesn't have her UU yet. By the same token, though, I learned last game that Hattie needs to be taken down before she gets access to Gunpowder...
Two more questions. Antium needs to be renamed. What do you all think? Zagreb? Sarajevo? And should we be jumping into Representation? Universal Suffrage? Police State, maybe?
I was working the 3F4C square the whole time. I just changed that in the save to test you guys....
And keep HR, big cities as european lands give should not be hindered by lack of 
Like in the pictures "find the 5 errors!"
