Since turns are taking slightly longer now I thought I would post the turnlog for the first 5 turns. Hopefully will have the next 5 finished and posted tonight (UK time)
Aims for this turn. Build up infrastructure and military . Get the 4 turn settler
factory working . Settle us much available land as possible . Try to avoid going
to war unless we get Monarchy.
I'm still slightly confused by the settler factory - shouldn't I build something else
and let it get to size 4 before starting to build settlers again ?
I'll leave it as is for the moment
Preturn - check all of the city screens - tile placement and build orders all look OK .
Ensure settlers are no longer on goto orders. I note we have a conscript warrior a couple
of tiles into Japanese territory. Hope this doesn't hack them off too much since I'm not
quite ready for war yet !
Check aroung to see if there are any deals available. only one who has anything we don't
is Gandhi who has Mathematics. Best deal I can get is Maths for HBR , Writing and 160g.
Much as I like Cats I don't think it is worth it . If we had the necessary Ivory to build
the ToZ I might have considered it but we will decline for now.
Hit Enter.
Barbs kills a worker near Delhi
Hattusas builds a Settler - switch to ... err .... err.... Settler !!
Cultural advisor tells me Egypt are building the pyramids
975 (1) Send newly formed settler towards riverbend to pick up a spear escort.
He will then head towards Bede's site 6 (I agree with you Bede that 3, 4, and
5, 6, 7 might be better as 6, 7, 3, 4, 5.). Settler near riverbend heads towards
Bede site 3. Find we have a worker 1 tile south of Delhi (how did he get there ?).
Order him south.
Forgot to cancel goto order on spear / settler pair by Ok Corral and they head
North

. Cancel their orders - they're now going to arrive a little late.
IT - Japan is annoyed by our warrior in his territory. Grovel .
Tarsus worker - worker
Riverbend spearman - swordsman
Babylon have produced the Colossus
950 (2) Send a couple of workers towards Hattasus to mine the sugar as per Bede's
settler plant instruction.
IT - Barb horseman kills the worker retreating from Delhi.
Egyptians are building the Oracle.
Russians are building the Pyramids.
Best deal I can get Maths from Egypt for is HBR , Writing and 150g.
Could turn slider down from 10% to 0% but it would only gain us 2gpt. Seeing as
we have plenty of gold I leave it as is rather than risk a town
going into riot when we get growth.
925 (3) Start moving a few workers to the south to road up our new cities
which will be formed soon in the area south of Riverbend.
IT - Nothing
900 (4) Settler (who was going to pick up escort at Riverbend)
heads towards Bede site 2 (Oasis) on his tod since there is already an escort to
take care of him before he gets outside our territory.
Settle Grassy Beach in Bede's position 3. Set production to Archer - please
feel free to veto. I'm not sure what to build here . We need more workers
and this could be a good source but we need to let it grow a little first I think.
Iron river founded at Bede site 1. Again I am not sure what to produce here - start
on Barracks.
IT - Tarsus worker - worker
Aleppo swordsman - swordsman
Vineyard warrior - worker (India warrior and barbs are nearby but we should have
enough defence and it would be good to get the wines hooked up ASAP)
875 (5) Settler headed for oasis site will be there next turn.
IT Hattusas produces settler. Start on settler.
Russia now has Mathematics we can get from them for 250g or Philosophy or Polytheism
India will let us have it for 225g or Philosophy
Buy Mathematics for 225g from India. Nobody else really has enough money to make
selling it on worthwhile.
Half way through my turns the state is as follows
We have 21% world population - next highest is Maya with 10%
According to demographics we are number one in everything apart from land area (2)
and Military service (9)
Military is 2 settler, 12 worker, 11 warrior, 9 spearmen, 1 swordsman
We are up by the following techs
Egypt - Phil
Maya - Maths + Phil
India - Phil
Japan - Writing + Maths
Arabia - Writing + HBR
Russia - Phil + Poly
Russia has about 160g, Japan has about 60g . The rest are broke. I'm thinking about whether
to sell some tech to them as writing + phil are both fairly harmless at this stage.
I'm also debating whether to build embassies or not - price is currently
Egypt 45g, Maya 51g, India 26g , Japan 33g, Arabia 46g , Russia 43g
Screenie to follow