I hate to do this but since my time is more than up I have to write a quick report.
(my excuse if anyone is interested)
This was a quiet turnset, but with an important event: We learned Optics and sent caravels away, making our first (eer... second) contact.
During the first few turns we heard the Church of Nativity was built, and someone says we are 4th in power (out of 6).
We finish Chicken Pizza:
I let a barb ship pillage our nets
We take our revenge next turn
We finish some more wonders
We get a great engineer:
We also finished NE in Edoras this same turn, and you can see our next GP is due in 7 turns (Parthenon effect too. And we hired 3 specialists in Edoras, one of them a merchant that I now think it is better to convert into a scientist).
Same turn we learn Optics and immediately upgrade 2 trirremes to Caravels. I sent both west because it was faster to build another one to go east (due next turn).
During my last turn we found Chinese lands...
Seems they have only 3 cities:
I am not sure if this is still the case, but I learned it is good to gift in first contact to get +4 bonus. I try a "fair" trade first to get something more than the bonus, intending to maybe gift something later:
And we get the +4 immediately:
I took Drama because the more I look at Edoras the more I want Globe there.
A look at Chinese capital:
And at the amazing water tiles at Ex-London:
I say we save the engineer to rush a wonder in a hammer-poor city (possibly a national, like Oxford). Statue of Zeus is still available. I only started the Colossus, the other wonders were already being built. In fact, this whole turnset was fairly easy after the great setup left by Meiz and the team (settled all the cities suggested, built some Courthouses, economy is recovering fast).