It's a slow walk over to Mongolia, and it takes a while to get into position around Karakorum. Eventually I declare and capture his capital in 1500 BC. The fighting isn't so straight forward and I lose 3 warriors
. Genghis gives me a city in exchange for peace, which is nice of him. Meanwhile, a second city is founded in the forest north of my own capital - this city will be set up for production.
I get a golden age around here. It's not really planned - I kind of have too much happiness because only Ceasar will buy my luxuries and he's a bit strapped for cash.
After the 10 turns of peace with Genghis, I attack again. This time it all goes swimmingly, and he is removed in 1125 BC. I'm tempted to leave Augustus so I have a trading partner.Time to think about the future. I have lots and lots of land, with a decent number of lux resources. Plan now is to tech to Acoustics ASAP and pick up at least the base policy of the freedom branch, then spam out cities. Tech path after that is toward Optics so I can meet some more city states (especially maritimes) and then Banking for the Forbidden Palace.
With a GS bulb I learn Acoustics in 170 BC. I take the base policy of Freedom. Given the lack of maritime city states around here, I'm not convinced going ICS is the best route just yet. So I'm delaying taking the Rationalism policy until I am more sure that I want to start spamming settlers, so that when I do I can do it during a golden age.
At 10 AD I have 2 cities that I have founded - both size 5. I have 3 puppets, sizes 5, 5 and 4. A bit of a disappointment really. Science is 33/turn, and Compass is still 15 turns away. On the positive side, I'm not far away from having 3 social policies saved up so I can take Rationalism, Secularism and Free Thought soon and start laying down cities. There must be at least one maritime CS out there...