Finally got some free time to play a bit.
Things are looking great - Sci Theory finished T172, second to enter Industrialism (Theodora entered 2 turns ago). BPT is probably the highest I ever had at this point, and thats without having a science building in the island outpost I made.
The early crippling war with Harald had one hidden benefit - in the first turns since last update, I hit some barbs and got a Great General, which was promptly used to grant me the Marble under the 2 CS
The 5th city is growing nicely, and helped a lot for the growth of Lampang. I sent food ships both ways. Soon it will be better than most of the others, as it has a lot of food and production.
I have some RA, and everyone except Celts and Indonesia are my friends, including Harald - lol.
Serious wars are going in the eastern part of the continent. Everyone hates Indonesia (except me, I see no point denouncing them, as they give me happiness, and I keep stealing from em techs).
Happineswise we are ok, I have not built Zoo's or even Circus Maximus, still improving the Silver on the island too. So there is still stuff to build before picking up the Order happiness. I have some borrowed happiness, so have to be careful, but I think we are OK.
Culture - well, there are 5 cultural CS in the map. 1 ally, 4 friends + some from my own cities = serious CPT. Policies - I got tradition, consulates, secularism, humanism and free thought. With the curent rate if I use oxford and rationalism finisher, I could have plastics in around 30 turns.
Problems:
1) We have no GPT. While I am selling a lot of resources (8 horses, 6 iron, 4 coppers, 1 silk), I had to buy some lux and open borders and 3 of the 4 trade routes are for food.
There are zero caravans coming my way
Need to build 2 more markets for East India, maybe that will help a bit , but still - where should I place it? Si Satchanalai probably, as its closer to the others.
Good that the wars are going without my help, but I'd really prefered to be able to sponsor some more ...
2) Very low production. Hope we have aluminium, so I can improve it in the cap at least. I am not sure - is it possible to build Hydroplant on a city with lake? Or its different than the garden?
Theodora's religion sux, and recently changed the brazilian, that gave me 2 Mosques. At least it has bonus production per follower, so I am enjoying nice boost in the eastern cities.
3) Because of the many cultural CS, Brazil, Celts and Theodora have over 10k culture. Somehow the +3CPT per wonder passed, and the only one without one is me ... Peaceful culture victory would probably not be possible. I kinda gave it up already, especially as I have no religion of my own. At least only Brazil has some influence over me (12%, while mine is non-existant), so I foresee no happiness issues even if few of those decide to go freedom or authocracy.
Everyone filled Aestetics too, except Harald. He only has 3 points there. Go figure ...
From here I see following path - Electricity - Radio - beeline to Plastics. If the math works, I should take replacable parts for free with rationalism's finisher, plastics with Oxford.
After that - Biology and we'll see. If Brazil takes something different than Order, I will have to take em out with bombers, before they decide to backstab me. So that means, Danmark has to go too, as its on the way, and I need bomber bases near em
. All of that if I have oil of course, what I seriously doubt, as I have no tundra and too few desert tiles.
Any comments and ideas
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