mice - cyrus has rifling and we're so far from it that we can't even see on the tech page that he has gunpowder! we're 6 techs away from rifling itself. but he's pleased, so that makes it less a concern than the saves where he beat us up. and brennus is actually up to cautious with you, i am quite impressed with that.
you're bulding an awful lot of troops. i know you planned to go to war with brennus, so you needed them, and i don't know when he vassaled to cyrus, maybe it was right before the end. if it was, then i understand why. but there's no way we can afford to upgrade those puppies to gunpowder troops any time soon, when we learn it, so if you were still building up after you knew brennus wasn't the target, in preparation for plan b without knowing what plan b is, i think that's
given our economic situation.
i'd really like to see some city improvements tho. our shrine city doesn't have a market (it brings in 14 gpt even at 100% science, and a market would increase that), and cities that don't have libraries (or even a barracks at gergovia) are still building troops.
keep in mind this is coming from the girl who still has only the archers and axemen i started out with, so what do i know.
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ojevind - i was thinking the artist in vienne, when we already own the city tiles, and the next GP is heavily favored to be a prophet anyway with no chance of a scientist, and it is our next city to put out a GP, was an odd choice. but now i see why you did that.
cyrus is only cautious, but i think he's only as advanced as he is in my game militarily, so that's not as bad as it could be.
you're up two national wonders on me, since i kept putting off lit), but i'd not have put national epic in dehli, i plan on putting wall street and oxford there.
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shyuhe - cyrus just sucks. we are so far behind in techs, but we do have gunpowder. 6 away from rifling tho. i would have settled the GP in dehli rather than making a new shrine, to get the production boost, planning on wall street there, and not knowing when we'll find the time to spread another religion, but that's a judgment call.
you did get cyrus to pleased real quick, with OB and resource trades even, while we're still in the peace treaty, a very good thing.
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giaur - cyrus still just sucks.
calcutta has no defenders, shame on you! arbela has a 9.1% chance of revolt and only one defender, rush some more in there pronto, the more the merrier. it may be recovering from one now and not still the original capture, i don't know, but this nagging applies in either case.
mostly i like the builds in your cities. vienne i understand, it changed hands a few times and suffered. i'd definitely prefer a market or university in dehli instead of the theatre (the grocer's kinda better than a market tho).
techwise i'm quite impressed, we're just two techs away from rifling even tho we had the neighbor from hell. there is no way i could have improved the cities, teched so well, and fought a war at the same time, i do think i believe that you were born from war!
you have bis at friendly (most of us have him only at pleased) so that's good. cyrus is annoyed, we razed one of his cities, and there is no doubt looking at diplo that we are his worst enemy, that scares me to death. then again, he gave you open borders and resource trades already while you're still in a peace treaty. i am impressed, and he is confused.
brennus in your save has "you have traded with our worst enemy!" with everybody except cyrus, including us! i guess he changed his mind on his worst enemy, like he did in my game *giggle*.
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cam - you have the pyramids so you suck (altho not as bad as cyrus) because you are lucky. yeah i hear that to get the pyramids you have to earn them but pshaw, technicalities.
we are way behind in techs, including gunpowder. cyrus has only longbowmen in that one city we can see, but i have this sick feeling it's a ploy to fool us into not suspecting that he has rifling, altho that is certainly influenced by the other saves *giggle*. he's pleased with us, so even if he did have rifles, i'd not panic. well, i would, cuz that's what i do, but we'd not need to really panic i mean.
thank you for explaining Khalid the GG CR3 axeman who will hopefully someday grow up to be Medic 3. i understand the sense of urgency completely. without the explanation i'd have given you bigtime
points *giggle*
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cabert - what can i say, i love you but, you know the rest. i don't know why you don't have a -1 "we fear our rivals becoming your vassals" modifier that's bizarre. gus surprises me in yours, he's rather behind on techs for being 2nd place but then i looked at his power graph. he jumped quite a bit ahead of cyrus this round, he's scary.
and, on the bright side, i don't remember to ask for help as often as you do. this round i did, because i remembered that you do (and because you've mentioned it in other threads lately), and i got yes's most of the time. so thank you for making me think to do that
. i forgive you a little bit for being such a better player than i shall ever be.
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as far as little miss hippy peacenik kmad's save - i could go on and on, but i'll say that the main thing as far as what i've typed about everybody else's is, here i go harping about who has gunpowder and who doesn't, and who's close to rifling and who isn't, and i've done what exactly militarily? built 2 stables and upgraded i think 2 archers to longbowmen and 2 axemen to macemen. and that's it! i did get guilds in a trade, but mostly for grocers since i was obsessing over health due to lack of resource trading options (altho we don't have ponies for knights anyway, and cyrus wanted 51!!!!!! gpt + dye for 'em on the turn i asked, cuz i had science at 0
). i got engineering in a trade but haven't made a single trebs, i just wanted to walk farther. i didn't give a thought to HE really, except to figure i'd put it in calcutta soooooooomeday far off in the future. i only bothered to get lit when i realized offhand that cyrus was at pleased. "well, Great Library's already been built, and i want such-and-such tech now" kind of thing. basically i got very lucky and had no idea how lucky until i saw the alternate universes. so i pick at your saves but if i was to list what i didn't like about my game, especially knowing what i know now, i'd be here until the deadline for next week's game.
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. and partly it was hard to tell what you were thinking, since you didn't give dates on important events in your report (like when brennus decided to be a vassal so your plans had to change entirely). so i might have really misjudged some things based on not knowing exactly what happened when. 
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(no time to examine each game and come to an evidence based conclusion) and so last night's results stand.
