Pre-flight check... Joan is the only one who will trade us Military Tradition, and she wants our WM, treasury and 80gpt.
Treasury at +97gpt, research and lux @ 10%, Steam Power in 36 turns.
City Check
Brownsville, Univ. in 3, hire a Scientist...scratch that...move a citizen to a riverside tile...
St. Louis mm citizen to mined plains for bank 2 turns faster
Wilmington, similar move, aqueduct 2 turns sooner
Pittsburg, cut 5 turns off Market build
Cut 4 turns off market build in Chapel Hill
Hire a couple of tax collectors in Mexico City
Shave 1 turn off Cathedral in Washington
Shave 3 turns off Bank in Halle
Shave 5 turns off Market build in Southend
Shave a turn off the library build in Des Moines
Pensacola Beach is maxed in population w/o an aqueduct, only one citizen working coast.. corrupt. Switch Harbor build to market.
Shave 2 turns off bank build in Coeur d'Alene
Everybody is Happy in Atlanta... building Cathedral...hmmm...
Shave a turn off the market build in East Rutherford
shave 2 turns off bank build in Seattle
Cut Library build in Annapolis to 11 turns from 22. Go Navy. Heh. Plebes are illiterate here...
Cut Library build in Rockaway Beach to 12 turns from 28
Some of these moves will slow growth in a couple of cities, but many of our cities are at or near capacity. I hope the long and short-term boost to the the treasury and research helps. We're now at +100 gpt
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IBT - Arab naval units move
France declares war on the Persians!

Spanish workers move around
New York Cathedral>Musket
Boston University>Bank
Chicago Bank>University
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Turn 1/1110 AD
Tradition demands that we come to the aid of Joanie. As much as it hurt$, I offer her an alliance against the X-man and 80gpt for Military Tradition...
Diplomacy -
Spices and Chemistry to Bismarck for an Alliance against Persia.
I accidentally buy a worker from Temujin for 100g+1gpt

Not what I meant to do. Mongols join in Cheaper. MA v. Persia for 140g.
Dial up Izzy, WM + Military Tradition and 100g for an alliance against the X-man.
Dial up Caesar (I can't believe he survived my last dogpile) He joins the alliance against the X-man. Straight up Military Alliance. What a cheap...
OOPS! I almost forgot to invite Cleo to the party... WM +50g +8gpt for MA v. X-man
Dang...these workers spell "stack of Doom" for jungles... I hope Bugsy left me some serious units in those ships...cause that's the only thing I've moved this turn that wasn't a worker...oh yeah - we have a leader...where's Lee... move him towards NY...
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IBT - Here we go...
Arab galleys move...Some spanish units move through our territory (surprise)
No changes to the map (yet)
WLTKD in SEVERAL of our cities...
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Turn 2/1120 AD
A little diplomacy...
Gems to Cleo for WM+ 11gpt. Really dear, we must get you the techs to get out of that bonnet. It simply doesn't become you.
Gems to Izzy for WM+50g+14gpt.
Joanie: 18g for 1gpt (an interest bearing loan for the war effort)
Let's see...much of our military is knocking on Abu's doorstep...city check
MM a citizen in New Orleans to free up a plains tile to MM a citizen to that tile in St. Louis. Gets us a bank in St. Louis 2 turns sooner, but at the cost of growth in New Orleans. Rails will fix New Orleans.
At the cost of some food, Kansas City will get a library a turn sooner.
Hmmm...putting a couple of citizens on plains tiles in Great Falls gets us a bank 2 turns sooner...
stunted growth completely in Cd'A for a Bank another turn sooner
Slow growth in Atlanta for our cathedral to be completed a turn sooner...
Why doesn't it suprise me that Daytona Beach is a corrupt cesspool...
Note - we need to re-shuffle citizens in Boston and New Bedford when we get rails....
MM a citizen in annapolis for Library in 6...I'm gonna teach these Navy boys somethin'
yet
Let's see...on to actual playing now...
forestry operations near Halle
forestry operations near Atlanta
forestry operations near Des Moines
Land Troops near Medina!!!
Lee stands in New York. I'm going to let NY complete a Mustket in 2 turns, so as not to wast the shiels.
Press <Enter>
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IBT - The counterattack outside medina appears more ferocious than I expected, but maybe that's because somebody messed with the animation settings...but Abu kills a couple of our knights..
Brownsville University> Cavalry

Denver Marketplace>Aqueduct
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Turn 3/1130 AD
Diplomacy check - something with Cleo for 110gpt runs out in 4...
Renew Incense and Ivory as a package deal to Izzy for 50G+27gpt
Almost haggled with Joanie for Wines at WM+40gpt...but decide to be gentlemanly and take her original offer of WM+650g...then loan her 18g for 1gpt.
Then offer Temujin 18g+WM for 1gpt
City check... a litte mining around Chicago...
Forest chop near Hyannis...
***Battle for Medina*****+
kill a pike, promote a knight
redline a pike, lose a knight
knight kills spear x2
Knight kills MDI
Knight kills Ansar Warrior
3/5 Knight kills redlined pike...DANGIT...a 3/3 longbow, unfortified, and nothing left to attack with but wounded pikes...what to do...lose a pike, fortify everything else...
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IBT - Arab longbow kills one of our knights, arab naval unis shuffle, Arabs declare war on Mongols
LOTS of Spanish troop movement
New York Musketman>Military Academy
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Turn 4/1140 AD
We're due for another expansion of our "palace"...
Forest chops near Halle, Atlanta
Medina - again - this could get ugly - 6 units left, and one's a settler...
Knight kills a pike (where did HE come from??!?!!)
Knight kills a spear...
Knight retreats against an MDI
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IBT - Ansar Warrior kills one of our two remaining healthy Knights...Arabs 2 MDI near St. Louis....
STUPID amount of Spanish troop movement
We complete the Military Academy in Marion, AL, um, I mean, New York...
New York MA>Army
Dodge City Bank>Cav
Dallas Market>Library
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Turn 5/1150 AD
I'm not going to take medina anytime soon...time to regroup....
Diplomacy:
Egypt 18g+WM for 1gpt
Same deal for Izzy, Mongols, Bismarck
Joan takes the deal without WM
our MDI kills an Arab MDI outside St. Louis
Our Sword kills an Arab MDI outside St. Louis
Ratchet Science up to 19% for Steam in 19 turns...
Medina - I have 5 units an one Galleon... somebody must be sacrificed... 3 Knights, a pike, and a settler.... Our one 4/4 Knight must stay...and hope for the best
Rush a Cathedral in Washington...
MM Brownsville for a Cav one turn sooner
Nome hires a taxman
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IBT - Arabs kill a pike, and retreat a Knight... Arabia declares war on the Germans
LOTS of Spanish troop movement...
Washington Cathedral>Cav
Des Moines Library> University
Ocala Aqueduct>Market
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Turn 6 - 1160 AD
Something improved...Steam Power now due in 17
Lots of worker moves...
Rush a Library in Annapolis
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IBT - Arabia declares war on the Spanish
more ridiculous Spanish troop movement
Annapolis Library>Market
Kansas City Library>Court
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Turn 7 - 1170 AD
Suddenly we're at +192gpt...and people are willing to trade us medicine. We're 16 Turns from Steam Power at 20% reserarch.
... we had to retire from Medina, but we will be back...
...more to follow...