Round 5, 940 AD - 1400 AD (43 turns):
940: As suggested, I switched production from universities to settlers and units in order to colonize the island just to the north before it was too late.
I also traded with Hannibal to gain diplo with him. He was the worst enemy of Gandhi and the taoist block though so it cost me some diplo points there. In anticipation of this I opened borders with the taoists before doing the tech trade so that I could start trading with them the next turn after getting astro from lib, even if they got annoyed (which would prevent signing OB agreement).
960: Lib -> Astro -> PP. I was hoping to get something else than Astronomy to trade around since Hannibal was in WHEOOHRN and I didn't know if he was after me, I didn't want to enable an invasion prematurely.
Han asks me to cancel agreements with Gandhi and I agree. I was going to do it this turn anyhow since Astro now meant that I wasn't dependant on Gandhi for foreign trade. Gandhi didn't seem to mind though and I got no demerit for agreeing to Han's request. I think no other leader would be ok with it.
I upgrade my homefront galley to an east indiaman @ 110 gold. That's pricey but I want to colonize the island asap.
980: PP -> Economics. I trade with Pacal for PP since he's now got it and then start on Economics in the unlikely event that I'll get there first since noone has it yet. Also free market will help both my heavily trade-route based economy and to improve relations with Hannibal.
Darius asks me to give him Astronomy and I refuse, putting him at annoyed. Well since he's already in WHEOOHRN it doesn't matter right now.
Muslim shrine BIDL (Gandhi).
Both Pacal and Churchill got PP this round so before trading I checked the wfyabta table,
click here.
The list for my game:
Pacal: 5
Hannibal, Darius, WK: 10
Churchill, Gandhi: 15
Overall very good tech trade possibilities this game. Following the list I traded with Pacal first.
This put me in a decent position.
1010: My caravel had explored all of the island and it turned out to be quite juicy indeed. My first wave is on its way in this picture with a second wave being prepared in my best production cities.
1020: Churchill beats me with a few turns to Economic, not that I really expected to get there first with 4 of the AIs having all prereqs.
1040: Economics -> Gunpowder. I picked Gunpowder here to get a military tech, it's needed pretty soon in any case going forward so I might as well get it early when there's 2 civs in WHEOOHRN (Hannibal and Darius) with unknown targets.
I revolt to FM+FR.
Meanwhile at the island.. curses!

Gandhi beats me to the spot that I aimed for with 2 turns. I could have put a city where my longbow landed instead had I been just 1 turn earlier. The speed boost from the circumnav bonus helped but not enough. In fact, I delayed switching from universities to units by exactly one turn, a small mistake with big repercussions.
By the way, ignore these placeholder techs like sci meth and theology, I just click randomly when I'm asked to select tech and don't always remember or have time to make a real choice before taking pics.
Hannibal had gotten Replaceable Parts and I negotiated another deal. A bit lopsided again as you can see, I was doing my best to make nice in the process and hoped to get Hannibal out of the mutually maleficial mercantilism he was running and into free market for trade and shared favourite civic.
1050: GS born in Amsterdam, with no immediate goal I decide to hold on to him for a little while.
Darius demands horses and I agree, putting him back at cautious, still at WHEOOHRN though.
My settler moved to claim the closest of my planned slots and it turned out to be just in time as Pacal had a Galleon just off the coast to the west. The barb hut you see on the east coast contained hostile villagers.
1070: Versailles BIDL (Gandhi).
1080: Gunpowder -> Rifling. I once again opted for maximum defense from possible dows and by now was pretty sure about going a military route and probably invading the backwards taoist block at some point after exhausting my other expansion alternatives.
With the 2nd wave of settler+units ready for emigration my main production cities in the frozen south had lots of tasks to work on. My other cities had slowly continued their university builds and was getting close to completion. I needed to finish off this task in my best cities as well as provide additional units for capturing the island barb city, put up additional infrastructure off all kinds and possibly fend off an imminent invasion. There was also a good number of techs needed in the near future. With all this in mind, I decided to use my saved GS for my first golden age to help out a little.
1090: My second settler arrives on the island. Luckily Pacal didn't send a settler here, either he hadn't explored this area or his galleon didn't contain the necessary unit. The island was now fully blocked from further expansion and the only contest left for the colonial powers was the barb city of Gepid, my capital's first task during the GA was to build knights (the best available unit) to capture it.
1110: My caravel continued exploring the seas and came upon yet another island, or rather as it turned out, a group of islands.
1120: War! But not for me luckily.

Hannibal dows Wang and immediately asks me to join in, a request I prudently refuse. Hannibal's vassal Pacal has little choice in the matter though.
I decide that my trade with Korea must come to an end and I close borders and discontinue our resource exchange.
Gandhi is no longer on anyone's hitlist but unfortunately he refuses to speak to me (since I aborted trade earlier).
1140: Gandhi adopts FS & FR. Probably not good all things considered since this will make him more likeable to his fellow civs.
1160: Rifling -> Sci Meth. I put a turn into SM to trade for it.
1170: Sci Meth -> Chemistry. Another important military tech.
Hannibal was proving most reluctant to switch out of Mercantilism so I decided I might as well give him some encouragement. Sci Meth reveals two sources of oil in my home territory, one directly beneath The Hague on the island just east of Amsterdam.
Pacal also fancied rifling.
1190: My caravel mapped out the far northern islands more closely. Pacal had put a city on the leftmost one-tile island already, claiming copper and 3 sea resources. I'm the king of these type of islands though with my UB but at least the copper gives Pacal some production there (he's not running slavery). Apparently this encouraged him enough to decide to break with Hannibal, once again becoming a free state.
With the new land I was once again in need of settlers but the units sent to Gepid would come in handy, some lucky rolls ensured that all of them survived to become veterans that could be sent to capture Saxon. I also captured a worker.
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