The 2/3 UHV should probably be Istanbul and vassals (we do not want smallish cities around the Black Sea).
1. 1280 We start out with an independent Constantinople defended by a single archer! And Hattusas has plenty of troops and wonders--Hagia Sophia, Temple of Kulkulkan, Sistine Chapel (as if we don't already have enough culture), Temple of Artemis, Statue of Zeus(!), Leaning Tower. Babylon only has Pyramids, while Rome has already collapsed (Mediolanum is show to have just the Parthenon). China I deduce has the usual complement of wonders (Mausoleum, Great Wall, Colosseum). Judaism is the dominant religion (Greece has the AP which is Jewish) while Christianity is only 6%. The irony is that Persia is Babylonia's vassal (good for us since we'll get another set of free troops!).
I switch to HR/Bureaucracy, Slavery and OR. 2 moves of anarchy.
Capture Istanbul (1/3 UHV done) and send most of our units to conquer Greece first. (The stack in Hattusas should flip to us and we'll get more units in our capital hopefully).
Set research to compass (goal is to beat everybody to the New World).
2. 1290 Greece recaptures an (indy?) Epidamnos. I declare war on them.
3. 1300 The flip occurs! Hattusas becomes Bogazkoy, As-Sur (which was Arabian) gets captured by a camel archer, and we instantly recapture and rename it Sur with no disorder. Artashat is also not a bad city, but unfortunately it's not on the Black Sea coast. We get a total of 12 free troops: 6 horse archers and 6 crossbows. Unfortunately the stack in Bogazkoy loses all their promotions.
We also capture Jerusalem (Kudus) which has the Temple of Solomon, no losses.
Since all of our cities have Judaism, now's as good a time to switch to Judaism so I do so.
We get the Best Defense task (need 6 castles before rifling)!
4. 1310 Epidamnos is captured and renamed Dirac. We kill 2 Babylonian pikemen. No losses so far: and our first great general Vercingetorix is born in Artashat. I decide to send him to Bogazkoy to build some promoted cannon.
5. 1320 Istanbul comes of disorder. Babylon collapses! A camel archer kills a pikeman but we kill it with a horse archer.
6. 1330 Greece collapses. Istanbul finishes forge (from 2 chopped trees).
Akkerman is found and reveals Lemberg just NW of the pig (but we'll get the wheat, horse, iron and eventually uranium). Kill 2 Arabian troops.
7. 1340 Unfortunately, a great prophet is born in Bogazkoy (probably from the effect of all those wonders. I had set an engineer to work to try to build the Spiral Minaret--well, maybe in 4 turns). We capture Athens (no wonders at all!)
8. 1350 We found Gaziantep 5 E of Akkerman. It's not on the coast, but it will grab more resources and land. Sparta is captured, unfortunately I can't raze it because it has the AP and Great Library. In retrospect I should have razed Atina).
9. 1360 Uneventful.
10. 1370 A great artist is born in Bogazkoy. I decide to save both the GP and GA until all our cities are out of rebellion for GA.
11. 1380 (I played one more turn to capture some cities). Spiral Minaret built somewhere!
We capture Babylon and Sirmion (Dimitrofce) which will eventually have oil.
OB with Vikings, Netherlands.
To do:
1. Capture Babili but probably leave Ninua alone for it to flip to us.
2. Capture Mekkah and raze the rest if he doesn't want to vassalize
3. Fortify borders with Germany and Russia
4. More workers for the Black Sea region
5. Don't expand into Italy--it'll drag our science down too much. Extra settler is sitting around Bogazkoy, I would use it to found New Orleans.
6. I forgot to set all espionage towards the Europeans (Persia and Arabia will probably collapse)--we need to steal some cheap techs like Aesthetics and Literature.
7. Befriend Russia (against Germany who's bound to declare war on us) until we're able to build infantry and tanks. We do not need two-front wars.
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