Well, if there is interest I might go on posting my adventure in this game. Not for asking advice, but just for story telling, as the future of England is uncertain. I will ask for advice on another thread.
I actually found out there is a subforum for Civ4 - Stories and Tales, maybe this thread would be more appropriate there, if a moderator could move it.
This would be the second chapter
From 50 AD to 890 AD
It is 420 AD and England has been at peace for several centuries and trying to develop peacefully. We have been struggling with unhappyness and specialization, and we have no major enemies, apart from the infidel Byzantines.
In 640 AD, England is at war with Byzantinians, who try unsuccessfully to assault the border towns of Coventry and Antioch. Soon the war reaches a stalemate.
By 860 AD, the war is over. England is lagging in technology ... and many other things. However it seems that towns begin to specialize somewhat, and every town in the mean time is Buddhist.
In 940 AD, England does not seem in a position to expand, apart from founding towns inside of its cultural border. The Ottomans at the south and the Byzantinians at the west also exert a lot of cultural pressure. The one good thing that I seem I managed to do in this game is staying friends with everybody but with the Byzantiniess and their buddies, the Russians.
England has even switched to pacifism and has resigned itself to being a minor power. Anyway, considering that a war with the Byzantines is still possible, it has now a bigger standing army.
In 980 AD, England knows much more about the world thanks to exchanging maps. England answers Hammurabi's call to arms, who is at war with the Russians. As the Byzantines are Russia's allies and they also are at war with the Babilonians, we prepare for a massive attack on the Byzantines.
