Well, I just took my first ever turns in an SG, I hope they went OK. Below is my timeline report on my ten turn reign over the Japanese empire.
Turn 1 - 2550BC. Wow Joan has a lot of warriors. I counted seven move past our one lonely warrior-scout in the north west. Certainly want to avoid war with her. I continue to explore north with this warrior (for the sake of my reporting this shall be warrior 1). Warrior 2 attacks the barb camp, killing a barb at the loss of one 1HP, but is promoted to veteran status
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Turn 2 - 2510BC. Kyoto produces settler, and I set it to build spearman. Ideally I would send an escort with the settler, but it will take Kyoto at least 4 turns to get that spearman out, so I send the settler to our preferred city site undefended. This may be a mistake, but we'll see. Warrior 1 continues northwards to try and find other contacts, however I am wondering if it might not be better to explore the land in our direct north to try and look for more decent city sites close to the capital. Warrior 2 beats a barb without damage and we gain 25 gold from the Uzbek Camp. Luxes dropped to 10% but we are temporarily losing 1 gold per turn.
Turn 3 - 2470BC. We establish contact with the Indians. We have a tech lead of Masonry, The Wheel and Iron Working over them. They can only offer 35 gold for each of them, I decide to leave this for now, an extra 35 gold isn't worth giving them one of those techs. Besides Ghandi is Polite already
. The Indians have 5 cities, as do the French. The Americans have 4. I notice that both Joan and Abe have Horseback Riding. Neither will sell for our 100 gold, but maybe they will trade to Indians and we can get it off them, we'll see. Warrior 2 uncovers a desert in the North East, Warrior 1 finds more jungle. Next big thing is to found Osaka. Once it is founded our economy goes to +3 per turn. I set it work the unmined bonus grassland. I tried it on the mined one, but the corruption meant it had the same output as the unmined one. Better having Kyoto using the mined square than the forest. I set Osaka to build a warrior. Luxs go back to 20% as Kyoto is size four again. +2 gpt.
Turn 4 - 2430BC. Worker completes mine, I send to road the mined BG in to the North. This may well be a mistake, so please correct me if it was, I am looking to learn (I figured it must have been left unroaded for a reason). I know the road leads nowhere, but the extra commerce it would provide would be good. The warriors generally explore, but I think Warrior 1 may have found out all it can up there. I will send it East next turn. Oh, and the Americans have founded next to the ivory to the sout west. They haven't actually taken the one we can see, but their border is next to it. Kyoto's culture doesn't expand to claim it for another 27 turns so we will see. No change as far as trades are concerned.
Turn 5 - 2390BC. I decided to keep the warriors going North, there was no route east for our other warrior and I didn't want to turn him around before we had completely explored the North. America now has writing, which Abe won't sell. Our writing is complete in 27 turns. I considered changing research but there isn't really much point, so I stick with writing. I tweak Japan's labourers so it will complete the spearman and grow next turn.
Turn 6 - 2350BC. The spearman completes and I decide to keep him in Kyoto. I can get him to Osaka in one turn in case of emergency, but he is saving us an extra 10% luxuries as military police in Kyoto. I order another spearman, but with Kyoto at size 5 perhaps I should have gone for a settler. It was my thought that we didn't want to stretch our military too much by getting a third city up before at least having enough defence to cover it. The settler will come after the spearman, which is due in 3 turns. Warrior 2 finds the Indian homelands in the North East.
Turn 7 - 2310BC. American warrior appears right next to our unprotected worker by Kyoto. I think we can trust him not to attack so I leave the spearman in Kyoto. Warriors explore etc. America and France both now have Mysticism, but India does not. I can't get any techs from Joan or Abe still.
Turn 8 - 2270BC. Osaka builds a warrior. I set it to build spearman, but the next player can change this if they like. Try to MM Kyoto, but there is no advantage to food or commerce in switching away from the shields. Send worker to work flood plain next to Osaka.
Turn 9 - 2230BC. Kyoto builds spearman. I leave this spearman in Kyoto to escort the settler which I have now set Kyoto to produce. MM Kyoto so it still grows next turn but now settler is due in 3 rather than 4.
Turn 10 - 2190BC. Barb approaches from the East. I send the spare spearman in Kyoto up to defend our worker. Luxs up to 30% to compensate for Kyoto's growth. There are now trade oppurtunities. I decided not to trade without consulting the rest of the team. The next player up can complete any trades, here are the possibilities:
-We can get writing +60g from India for Iron Working and The Wheel.
-We can buy Mysticism from France for around 110g
-We can buy Horseback Riding from France for 120g + 1gpt. (Note: If we get the trade with India we will have enough gold to buy this outright without gpt)
I suggest definately getting writing from India and then going for Literature or Code of Laws on Min Sci. Buying Mysticism or Horsebacking riding is a tough decision. I would say mysticism as it is cheaper, but Horseback riding does give us the horseman option. Also, if we get writing off India we may be able to sell communications, but I suspect they already know each other already. Still, worth looking.
Here is a picture of the Japanese empire at the moment. India is marked on as the borders don't show up. Someone want to dotmap this? I will try later on, I have work to do now.
The Save:
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads4/CTR1--2190_BC.SAV
Good luck, and I hope my turn went ok
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Joan 
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