Went for expansion almost exclusively, gifted cities to both WK and Toku.
Techs researched : finished AH -> Fishing -> Writing -> Aesthetics -> Meditation -> Priesthood -> started CoL
Turns :
50 : put overflow into settler, next turn grow to 5 then finish it and kept pumping settlers for a while
55 : Horse revealed in BFC, yay at least it wasn't a complete waste settling in place...
60 : Settled 3rd city to block WK
66 : Settled 4th city to block Toku
72 : Gift city to WK - was probably unnecessary, though he's pleased with his only other neighbour (Gandhi) and only cautious with me, so bad luck on a roll could have meant him declaring on me at any time.
76 : WK builds The Great Lighthouse, I think he'll be my 1st target when I eventually go to war, he seems to be reasonably small too
90 : Gift City to Toku - was a bit late, but him being Buddhist while everyone else over there is running judaism/hindu I think I was reasonably safe, my block city was on a hill just in case anyways, now he's pleased so I should be ok
In other news, finished Aesthetics last turn and have 1 turn into Alpha so tech trades start :
- Aesthetics +75g for HR (Gandhi)
- Aesthetics for Alpha + 40g (Mansa Musa)
- Aesthetics for Math (WK)
- HR for IW (Toku)
Also made a good deal with Toku for more happy faces :
91 : Captured Barb City South, MM did most of the work for me and even then I lost my first chariot with 90%+ odds, at least I got it
93 : Get Calendar gift from ZY, was a big one for me, the tech situation was pretty grim at that point... Zara had also got Aesthetics before me so I I considered it his repayment of my reduced trading opportunities
94 : Trade Calendar + 60g for Monarchy (Gandhi)
Also, settled 6th City to block MM...probably a bad location in the long run, there's now 3 cities down there sharing heavy overlap, but I think it was the only way to keep him from breaking into my land.
98 : Trade Aesthetics + Monarchy for Currency + 35g (Charly)