The Chronicle of Circon
Being an account of the reign of Erik V.
At once after his coming to power, Erik decided to trim the military. Those 7 Warriors considered obsolete were disbanded- blah, stupid time is hard to write.
I disbanded 7 warriors, shuffled pikemen. Brandenburg changed from temple to market, it will provide more happy faces.
Turn 1: Economics > Metallurgy.
To Babylon: Economics and Incense for Metallurgy and WInes.
To Rome: Econ and Metal for Phys.
To Persia: Econ and Metal for ToG.
However, we cannot buy Magnetism, so I must research it.
Turn 2: Sell Chemistry to Azteca for another 20 turns of Ivory. France and Russia sign MPP. Continue exploring to the west. STart mining by Berlin as it is size 12 with +4 food.
TUrn 3: Frankfrut cannon > cathedral.
Turn 4: Palassberg musket > cannon. Barndenburg market > bank.
Turn 5: Magnetism discovered. We get our free Nationalism. Bremen university > bank. Everybody except rome (and aztecs) has Magnetism already, so I sell it to Rome for Furs, 20 gold and 7 gpt. We are researching Steam Power at a slightly slow rate for the benefit of Wall Street.
TUrn 6: Konigsberg Knight > rifle. Palassberg cannon > rifle.
Turn 7: Workers moved. Persia is now up MilTrad on us, Babylon is up MilTrad and *steam power*, rome is up MilTrad but down Nat. France is up Miltrad and SP, Russia up MilTrad. I pull our science down, then buy SP from Babylon for 100 gold and 95 gpt. Lots of workers set to railroading. I'm not sure whther to go for Industrialization or Electricity > Rep parts, so I set sci to Ind but gaining gold.
Turn 8:Munchen Market > Worker. Nurnberg market > bank. Hannover market > worker. I've been working on the rail-road... Jus' ta pass the live-long daa-ay... I sell nationalism to Rome for MilTrad, Free Artistry and wmap. We have exactly one coal on all of this island, it is south of Palassberg. Russia has neither coal nor saltpeter. Persia ha 2 coal, rome and babs 1.
Turn 9: Russia is building Shake's.
Interturn: Babylon demands tmap and 55 gold. We just paid him 95 gpt, so I refuse. He backs down. Don't want to lose 1790 gold, do you?
Turn 10: Konigsberg rifle > worker. Munchen worker > worker. Palassberg rifle > worker. Hannover worker > worker. Seeing a trend here?
Next turn Wall Street will be ready. Then we will gain 50 gpt and can research twice as fast. I am glad we revolted into Democracy last turn- the tech pace is blindingly fast here. If we get ToE (I don't have a prebuild started, we need factories) then it might very well give us Motorized Transport.
Savegame
It's incredible to press Reply, look back 40 posts and realize that then we had not discovered Polytheism yet, and had 4 cities less than today, being not finished with the settling phase.