Ok, played my turns carefully.
- I trade for CoL with Pericles as we agreed.
- He thought this deal was very “fair” so we got some more diplo points. As a result (pleased) he was willing to give us his ivory as well.
- Put 2 scientists on in Kyoto, but we still spawned a GM - I put him to sleep for now.
- Shortly after SB is willing to trade currency and MC. In a standard game I’d pick currency instantly, but I decided to go for MC here as I feel much safer with some triremes here given our widespread and seafood-based empire. (literature+compass – MC)
- Discover a second gem on our island, but unfortunately we also discover that it’s small, we can only fit 2 cities here (they’ll be very nice cities though). Also prove that the world is round, that +1 movement will come in handy. Also note that we have a source of food down there (fish)
- Turn 113 First barb galley shows up near our cities – southeast of Osaka.
- Turn 114 Gain another source of crabs and sell it to Zara for 6 gpt. Our island down south is fully explored and apparently it can only be reached via us (until astronomy).
Here’s a map for some global overview, look at Hannibal’s placement of Hippo, crazy! It must be the deity bonuses allowing that, a human player would get maintenance like WTH.
- Turn 116 Spawn a GS (yay). The NE was built quickly earlier, just a matter of ~6 turns, I chopped the last forest though (outside of our BFC). By now Hinduism got spread to us (Osaka) so I paused CS and researched meditation for a monastery. By the end of the turnset Hinduism is successfully spread to Kyoto.
- I bulbed philosophy with the GS for pacifism and traded philosophy to Charlemagne. Everyone else had it by now (except for SB which were also lacking CoL) so it was pointless to hold onto it. I got Currency and Calendar for it. We can now get a plantation on our plains incense which will be great with bureaucracy coming in in a few turns.
- Discovered iron on an island east of Osaka. It also has fish, clams and some more inland tiles, so I suggest we settle there soon.
Stopped when CS came in (18 turns). The next move is probably to revolt to bureaucracy/pacifism and Hinduism. Note that I did not revolt to HR yet, I didn’t want to go into anarchy for a single civic and we didn’t reach the happy caps as we kept getting incense/gems in and I had to whip down a little to get granaries up and running in our cities.
Also note that;
- Pericles has 8 gpt available now. We can choose to give him our incense or something else for it.
- The capital is currently constructing the MoM (1 or 2 turns), but I doubt we’ll get it. I just started it there while it is growing for some gold from the whip overflow. Feel free to stop building it right now and get something else.
- Remember to work the incense tile and the gems down south manually just in case. There’s a settler in the galley headed down there. I marked the likely spot for a city with a signal.
- Feel free to whip cities because we have a lot of happiness resources (and now granaries). Be careful with our capital though.
- Don't bother making a monument in the gem+horse city. It will have the important tiles in its first ring and sooner or later we'll spread Hindu there, it's better to make a granary first.
- I skipped the 2nd galley for now due to the circumnavigation bonus and the fact that we sorely needed granaries. We might want to get/whip one now however to spread religion and to send workers back and forth, but I didn't need one this turnset.
Here's the current tech screen. We have every backfill tech we need in order to lightbulb liberalism right now so stay clear of machinery, we don't want that tech at all. As you can see nobody's researched paper yet, so we should be able to get liberalism.
I might've forgotten something in my report as there were a lot of details. When/if i think of something I'll add it in a new comment to make sure that you see it.
PS. After Osaka finishes that missionary I suggest it gets put on settler duty for a little while and claim at least the iron+clam+fish spot, but possibly the one north of fantasy island too. Spread Hindu to our 3 seafood+wheat city, that one might run some specialists later.
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), but both the big mid-term gain from it and its cheap price (100 gpp) make it worth. In the future we would have to wait a long time for the next GM (if we generate it in e.g. Tokyo ), or we wont have the certainty (if we generate it in Kyoto) since our gpp are mixed , with GAp (NE) and GSp (GL). 
I should have learned my lesson in our last deity game.
-> 2 
is not bad, especially with a bureaucracy hammer bonus. 
