Something novel from the beginning as I didn't start a any wars to steal workers - not a practice I wish to repeat as there's nothing much to the. Also had to settle 3rd city quickly slightly off the selected spot to prevent Nappy settling same area and 4th city well off and even more delayed. Very late 5th city after ~30 turns of traveling - did I already say what a lovely map.
T25 pantheon, T65 religion, T76 Liberty finished and GE used for Petra on T80, T84 4C NC, T87 Oracle, T92 joined India DoWing Nappy, T95 enchanced my crappy religion, T99 Attila wiped Pedro off the map.
T100 CS, T105 Borobudur, T106 Pyramids, T107 DoWed because Maria paid for it. T120 Hagia Sophia & Oda RIP which didn't please my friends so I was going solo after that. T132 Paris, T134 DoWed Gandhi, T141 took Delhi and T143 India RIP without ever meeting Attila or Rammy. T151 Nappy joined the choir of angels.
T153 DoWed Attila, T157 ND, T158 DoWed because his prophet was available and missionaries started getting really annoying, T160 founded WC, T166 DoW Maria, T182 Attila's Court, T184 Lisbon & goodbye Maria, T196 Rio and Attila was no more and T201 Sukhotai to finish the game. Not forgetting my prophets it'd have been ~15 turns shorter game.
Nothing much happened in early stages, befriended with 4 AIs, was running negative gpt and mostly in severe lack of happiness so std Liberty until at some point some lucky CS quests and my happiness was +20 but nobody had any money so I couldn't seel anything. Caravans were mostly unused, Nationals unbuild due to constant razing and Attila & co really didn't want to build much of anything or they got lost during capture. No navy but I did swim across inland sea with a scout.
Both GSs were used to bulb Cavalry and both GAs were enjoying the view in the end. GWs were bulbed form culture which I didn't really need.
After Liberty 4 in Piety and then Commerce & Honor openings. I should've gone Honor earlier to get xp boost as I had all the faith I needed well before the end and since capital had no TRs the Commerce opening was wasted nor did I bothered to build road to the Easter half of the continent. Piety was filled in the end just to dump a policy somewhere.
5 own cities, 2 annexed & 9 puppets all following Tengriism like the CSs but I didn't have all of them allied.
By far the most intering thing happened on T167 when my Longswordsman swithed sides to Attila during a siege of Lahore. No defending troops, no indication of taking dmg or losing a unit, it just switched sides during a turn. Other than that I lost very few units and even when I did I was mostly known in advance I just was too lazy to do proper domination and terrain was much greater obstacle than enemy troops. Maybe it's just a feeling but the AI seems even more lazy improving tiles than it used to. By the time I took Paris T132 it had 3 farms and a silk done, marble, silk and stone undone amongst other things.
For the fun of it I replayed the start with same pacifistic style with Tradition but settled other cities only after NC and still the satellites were several pops larger on T100 as obviously so was the capital. All the same wonders, less military but no shortage of money or happiness at any point and teching way faster than with Liberty. The easiness of Tradition is scary.
