Played up to 800ad. Just got engineering.
The save:
http://gotm.civfanatics.net/saves/civ4sgotm15/Maple_Sporks_SG015_AD0800_01.CivBeyondSwordSave
Quick report.
680ad. Meet mansagawa (no screenshot), he's surprisingly backwards, guess that's the effect of no tech brokering. Archery>eng. Whip forge in deergold. Genghis makes a demand:
In the interests of peace we agree.
700ad. Iron connected. Deergold forge>xbow. Marble hill forge>wealth, research 90%, eng in 5.
720. Inca/Mali are a team, they're both wheoorn! We're probably the target. Sell our map to Shaka for 40g.
740. Hyuanamansagama adopt vassalage. Shaka adopts vassalage.
760. Kyoto NE>Forge (+2happy). We hit 2 million pop. Sistine bidl.
780. Meet Cyrusagawa who's at war with Hats.
800. Tokyo having built wall and hintemp starts on CH (9gpt maintenance).
Engineering is in. Swop from wealth to units. Start on CS.
Interesting culture map:
Zulu north of babylon, mongolia north of egypt, england in the middle, persia and inca/mali unknown.
Swop to theocracy? Who's our target?
edit: off-topic, I've just had a look at the progress page, plastic duck's power rating is phenomenal, OSS ain't too far behind.