1AD:
Peace with Monty, forward settling the rice and Iron right next to Aztec Border. Rice, Corn and Wheat are key health res, need to snatch them ASAP.
75AD:
Research is low, running 2 scientiest in all cities. Planning to build Moui Status in Longdon, this city will become a prod moster with huge populations.
150AD:
Settling city of resources, it will never grow but will be provide Marble+Silver +Iron+2Fur for the entire empire.
275AD:
Empire view, Building up to finish Churchill. I need to finish him off so all English cities will be happy no "yean to join mother land" factor.
400AD: Captured English capital.
620AD:
Shipped some unit over to Finish English last city.
620AD:
Capital is a production powerhouse, building GL.
640AD:
Spying Monty territory. Making sure he does not have a huge SOD near my border.
680AD:
The farthest size 2 city is paying for itself by GLH effect. Very cool
720AD:
Nappy is doing me a big favor by keeping Monty busy. Nappy is to my NorthEast and Monty to my North. Let the 2 military juggs duke it out and I ll have some pop corn and enjoy the action...
Nappy fights very well, he even has a medic2 HA in the stack!!!
740AD:
Shaka wants a piece of me, he is annoying, sending a small stack from who knows where... I rushed some Swords to defend.
780AD: Spy pts allocation, assign pts to the 3 top scores, Nappy gets most since i had low pts for him. need to be able to monitor his border cities passively.
880AD: Gone through a long peaceful build up process, growing population, bulding infrustructure, consolidating empire costs and boosting productions, so far ALL FARMS and mines, hence the low research you see. When all courthouse/forges/markets are built, research will soar, happiness is almost no issue since I have grabbed so many resources. Ealier war gave me a decent standing Army, kept my power rating good to deter AIs from sneak attacks. Affording me a little bit "Sim City" time.
Note I adapted Jewish religion to gain diplo pts with the most powerful AI leaders, GK is Friendly, Boudica is Pleased. I used Organized Religion extensively in most of my games when building infrustruture. 25% boost in production is HUGE. Need to spread the religion a little though.
1030AD:
Mass building castles to boost commerce, gotta use what we ve got as Protective leaders.
1110AD:
Empire view, did a nice job growing the empire, see some very large cities at 1110AD.
In addition to "Land is power" motto, I am a firm believer of "Population is power"; without population to work it, land is nothing. When you have this kind of large empire, it translate into a very very versitile game, you can have high production for war having cities working farms and mines; or you can run tons of specialists under caste, it is much much more flexible than a CE game, and the cities will be a lot bigger than a typical CE game at the same check point. That is why I believe FE (Food economy) is the way to go in early stages. After you get domocracy, you can mass build cottages and quickly switch to a CE under Emancipation.
1110AD:
Capital size 17, high prod, built a few wonders here, will go for NE/OXford combo. Had an Academy here.
1110AD:
HE city size 17, 1 turn to 18, troop factory with close to 30 base hanmmer, will add more workshops later.
1110AD:
London size 20; had Moui Status, it can do anything. Every new pop will become a specialist.
At this point, I will mass some Samurais/trebs, and prop go after Nappy to secure my NorthEast flank, he is weakened by Monty, so it should be a good strategical move. Now you have seen my powerful cities, its time to get them to good use. Next target will be Monty, basically doing a sweep from East to West.
But york needs to be captured asap as soon as war starts: it already has a strong cultural defence and I would not be suprised to see 4 pro archers in there if you take much time to capture it .... that even with spy supported revolt, can be very hard to tackle. That means the York needs to be the first target of the war.
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high in those large cities?
just from 
if i go all out specialists in those 17+ size cities, it will even add more beakers.
