So, for always war, these turns were relatively boring. I mean, I did fight some, but I killed a bunch more barbarians than anything else. I killed two barb camps on our continent, killed 5 barbarians with a single longswordman on the southern continent, killed a greek trireme and a greek catapult with a rushed caravel. I like the visibility of the caravel.
I also rushed a frigate, so we have one of those over there. There's a big problem with sending over a bunch of rifles and cannons. We don't have that tech! Heck, we didn't even have gunpowder when my turns started. We do have two great scientists, but I recommend saving them a bit. I think we should finish metallurgy and then rush rifling. At that point, we'll still have one GS that I'm not sure what to do with. Rifling should be good, though.
We have zero muskets and zero in production. Ummm....oops!
We do have a fair number of longswordsmen and cho-ko-nu though. I took the liberty of moving our troops west. Westward ho. Bunch of units in the water, including a great general.
We're actually close to our first city on the far continent. We're going to have to decide what to do with it. I would actually advocate for annexing it (we're at 0 happiness, but....) It provides another luxury, a healing point, a bombarding point, and a safe-ish landing spot. No, it's not a great city. Byut it's a start.
Basically everybody came wanting peace. Hiawatha was the only one willing to pay for it. I turned them all down, of course. Peace is for weaklings; we are not weak. So they all went away empty-handed.
I founded a couple more cities. Workers are there or nearby trying to help. I recalled a few exploring workers (or worked on recalling them). We have a bunch of cities to improve again at this point.
I mostly built buildings. Working on science and barracks (for heroic epic) and culture and happiness. Once we get rifling, we'll need a slew of units. Our economy is strong (like we are printing our own money!), so we might want to build a number of swords to upgrade to rifles. Though we're not that many turns from rifling if we go with my great scientist plan.
Our overall empire looks competitive, at least....
And that's about it. I think I have the seas protected. Actually, I think the AIs can't even enter ocean squares yet.
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