[0] 1625BC
Nothing to change. We're 48 turns from Lit at -1gpt.
IBT
Aztecs moving through
Chengdu Rax -> spear, will start another worker afterwards.
[1] 1600BC
Workers at Sugar Hill move to mine/road sugar toward Nanking
Southern curragh find small island with horses on it, its all of 3 tiles large.
Northern curragh just moving along.
Bubba settles into Canton and the Spear settles down in Sugar Hill.
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Shanghai worker -> spear
Sugar Hill rax -> horse
[2] 1575BC
Workers working...
Southern curragh spots coast to SE of small island. Suicide run next turn.
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Aztec warrior continues north. Roman settler pair is almost to the land of the Aztecs.
[3] 1550BC
Southern curragh moves into sea. Spots yellow border!
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Same old...
[4] 1525BC
Nanking grows to size three and workers connect to luxury to avoid riot next turn.
Southern curragh makes it to other side.
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Aztecs plant a city in northern tundra.
Beijing finishes spear, starts settler.
[5] 1500BC
We contact Temujin and the Mongol people.
Temujin has iron working, but lacks Alphabet and Masonry (and writing for that matter). Temujin has 5 cities total.
Trade Alphabet for Iron Working and 10 (all of his) gold.
Temujin also lacks horses. He'll likely make a run at the small island.
Northern curragh spots coast NE of our land mass.
We have iron due east of Nanking.
Aztecs have connected iron, the Romans do not.
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Roman settler pair heads back south. I guess that last Aztec city finished off our land mass.
Chengdu spearman -> horse
Aztecs start Oracle, Romans are building Colossus.
[6] 1475BC
Worker at Nanking starts mine of grassland.
Working north of Beijing mines plains.
Northern Curragh spots volcano on landmass to northeast.
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Temujin would like our Curragh to move along...
Roman settler pair starts west? Could they sense our marsh being cleared shortly?
Canton horse -> horse
Our norther curragh sinks.
[7] 1450BC
Spot another coast NE of Mongols. Our curragh is going to make a run for it.
Sugar Hill switches Horse to curragh. We need another.
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Roman settler pair heads south.
Sugar Hill curragh->horse
Our southern curragh sinks.
[8] 1425BC
Can't MM Beijing to produce settler at same time as growth. Will build one turn later.
Our new Curragh, renamed SpikeIt's Explorer, heads south along the coast.
Worker clears marsh spot revealing bonus grass. Still best place for city though.
Now that we're up to 1gpt, Rome will trade CB for 1gpt and 115 gold. We hold off for now. Still hoping to pick it up from contacts and we really don't need it.
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Tsingtao worker -> worker
[9] 1400BC
Worker from Tsingtao heads to horse mountain.
Worker start clearing marsh to be used by Nanking or the new city.
Mongols learn Ceremonial Burial. Still lack gold. Trade Masonry for CB straight up.
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As expected. Romans head toward our cleared spot. I'll send a horse to stand guard.
Romans start Oracle.
[10] 1375BC
Send worker to Canton to start irrigation project.
Worker starts mining horses.
Horse sent to guard spot - hard to believe Rome would settle due to cultural boundaries.
Settler in Beijing due in 1.
Aztecs and Rome both have Map Making. Rome is broke now, so Aztecs must have researched it.
We can buy Mysticism for what its worth at this point.
I kind of ignored growth at this point, working on horses instead. The current settler is intended for the marsh spot where the horse stands. We could probably settle another city or two in our current lands. The Aztecs have 3 more cities than us. We could stand to have at least one more curragh in play at this point as well.
Nice turns Barbslinger. Am I right to assume Nanking is set up for the Glib prebuild? I'll keep researching toward lit. With the AI running ahead with the techs, no other AI's to deal with, the GLib will at least keep us in the running.
little easier making trades on an arch 
