built 2 cities, then started build chariot archers... isabella asks me to go to war with venice, I accept... with just 3 chariot archers, and a horseman, and NO help from spain, venice is mine...
Keep researching towards chivilary, and turn my attention to Sweden... with 6 chariots and 2 horseman, I take both of Swedens cities... time to consolidate, and take care of happiness... trading with russia, and get denounced by spain... spain will be a tuff nut to crack with all that jungle, but I am 5 turns away from upgrading to Keshiks...I have 4 Khans...
I also went honor for the cheaper cost of upgrading my military. Make the chariots to Keshiks 95 each.
Also now getting gold for every kill, since I really don't have much of an economy.
Turn 120, and I dow spain... draw her units out, and pick them apart.
take all of her cities, burn one, and keep Barcelona and Madrid.
Russia denounces me, and I march on novograd... take novograd, she offers peace, I refuse, and march on Moscow, going around St petersburg, which is built in the middle of tundra. Take Moscow, and march on st petersburg... I want to entire continent to my self....
Catherine offers peace, with 3 cities... I accept, as my hapiness and economy is in the tank again. Get 4 great works from the 3 cities, and move them, and burn the cites to the ground...
Turn my attention to the 2 cities states that enrico converted... roll over both quickly, as I now have 12 Keshiks, and 4 horsemen, and still have 4 Khans... 2 with each army... have built 4 citidals.
The ten turns are up on the peace treaty, and I turn on St petersburg... a few turns later, and all I have left now is to clean up the barb camps, and the resistor barbs that keep spawning...
yep my happiness is in the negative teens...
Finishing up astronomy, to go hunting for the other continent...
I have opened tradition, first choice for the culture, then honor, right side first for the cheaper upgrade cost, then finish right side for the gold for kills. Opened commerce, for the reduced cost of roads, and a little better cash for the trade routes with city states.
open exploration, and finish astronomy... head one army east, one army west, and have the donated units from the city states fortified in cities. Annex Venice, need another port city to make a navy, also annex madrid...
Run into napolean's caravel, trade for embassy, and 3 happiness goods...
army one runs into the coastal cities of atilla.... talk about fun, genghis fighting attilla....
trade for another happiness....
and run into boduccia... last, making her my first target... and both nappy and atiila give me open borders... scout them out as I move into position to take edmonton....
I can stand off with logistics and range, move around, heal.... those keshiks are immortal.... and even when I oops, they heal so quickly... I did loose one to a city, treb, and gallias bombardment. He was new anyway.
took a few turns to decimate the large military boudicca had, from fighting atilla.... but she was not ahead of me in tech....
TAke edmonton, move on dublin, which is forward settled on atilla's court, which has the great wall. Get Dublin, plant 2 citidals, to negate the great wall, which caused atilla to dow me hey hey....
Atilla has musketeers, but with double tap keshiks bolstered by khans... they fall quickly and after many turns of picking off his military, I can finally attack the court. Mean while back home, navigation is complete, and the first of the frigates are on their way to paris...
6 frigates, 2 caravels, and 1 privateer made quick work of Napoleans navy, and a few turns later, paris is mine...