T80 Monty asks me to cancel deals with those vile americans. I have to decline. It's been a while since I have had this many requests, the only one I don't have a bunch of diplo hits with now is WvO.
Turn after turn after turn I had to put more into alfabet. All the others already had HBR, (well WvO was teching it, and I missed the opportunity to trade for masonry with him)
I was falling behind too much in tech, so I decided I had to go aestetics here again.
This was probably a mistake, as had just reached a key military tech (HBR) and should have focused much more on just massing units. I was party held back psycolocially because I was still lacking math for the chops.
At T100 the stars aligned for me to take Boston. Lincoln accepted casefire the next turn.
T102 I steal meditation from Lincoln, he is going away and I want something for my EP. I was happily suprised that I could then sell it to WvO for 75g.
I'm on my way to CoL here to possibly bulb philo, but I still haven't gotten any religion spread, so pacifism doens't do me any good.
Also, alot of my trees went into failgold in parthenon (failgold is even sweeter when playing a IND leader), so I decide to go for an academy at this point. (400-500failgold is incomming next turn)
(Next turn priesthood finishes and I sell that to WvO for 60g)
Have to get something from Lincoln while he is still around. I bet he regrets teching calendar before construction at this point.
Was waiting for monty to thin out that 12archer stack Lincoln had, didn't pay attention for a while and now there is only 4 archers left, and I get a sense of urgency.
I declare the next turn, and then another mistake reveals itself.
2 workers had just finished that quarry. It can be important to scout your own land sometimes too, especially before a DoW.
When I declared, that archer who was scouting my land was teleported to that hole in my culture next to my two workers.
I got Washington with only a few HAs dead.
