Turn 0 :
Take boss instructions on city designations
- Guangzhou goes financial and switches from lib to bank
- Shangai goes hybrid (Guess I'll put some watermills there), macau goes prod and beijing goes SCI
5 turns before peace treaty ends. Prepare troops already
- On great prophet points. Rome has 4 points coming from buildings so I can't turn off GP generation. Let it generate its GP then I will consider whipping there at will
I switch from market to confused academy in Karakorum. City already built a ton of Scientist points

. Let's try it though. Hire priest already in Karakorum
- Set Holcomb on cottages to help with growth
- Switch Beshbalik to market, extra happiness is good
- Antium is still building its walls

. Switch to theatre
- trade routes are wielding 62 golds. specialists will earn us 48 beakers with representation without counting the specialist related stuff
1 civic change = 1 turn anarchy, 2 civic changes = 2 anarchy turns and 3 civic changes = 2 anarchy turns too
Hence, we go representation, bureaucracy and mercantilism. First turn of anarhcy
Turn 1 (1605 AD) : second turn of anarchy. move caravels and improve chinese country
Turn 2 (1610 AD) : Beijing is not building anything and don't bother to ask for one (is this a bug ?). I set it to courthouse
Guangzhou is financial. I must chain irrigation there or the city will grow very very slowly
JC has pitiful forces north. We'll deal with him in time
Cathedral costs 7 pops in Karakorum. Guess this is a bit exagerated. don't whip
IBT : Louis signs peace with Qin. Okay I'll be the one to wipe this guy from earth
Turn 3 (1615 AD) : start a bank in Hamburgh (no scientific buildings available)
Berlin starts a theater. We need those to play with culture slider
whip confucian academy for 4 pops in Karakorum. Rome gives a great artist. Send him to capital. We may need him for domination late game.
The wheat in Guangzhou is now irrigated. Set another farm and then start cottaging
Turn 4 (1620 AD) : Confucian academy done. Hire three priests. Karakorum generates 30 GPP and have 385/800. That is 14 turns. Let's cross fingers for the priest
Just check regularly in case some city governor decides he needs more specialists and screws things up. Only Berlin has more GPs in stock and is only 6 GPP a turn. All other cities generate less than 30 GPP
Turn 5 (1625 AD) : start taoist monastery in Shangai. As predicted, Berlin grows and governor hires an engineer. I ask him politely to burn his diplomas and get some happpy fisherman life on the coast
We got Steel, go Education. Steel makes Alex
But I refrain. This is monopoly.
cancel peace treaty with Qin. I thought those were auto cancelled. Happy I checked
I declare war. Instant +6 angry in Berlin

. Waooo, these are really peaceful bunch.
Set culture slider at 20%
Move the stack to Qin place. I had a knight near to check forces.

This is gonna be tough. Hangzou is defended by ... a longbow and a cat.
I was heading there with 6 cats and who knows how many CRII grenadiers
If we were attacking Athens (where the missionary is standing), it would have been another matter.
Athens and Macau are confused
Turn 6 (1630 AD): Okay, I have 2 knights ready to attack china. The first takes the longbow with 69% and win. Second attacks cat with >90% and raze China from map. Poor stack going home without having any fun. Okay, the good part is we are gaining a turn of 20% culture slider and many unhappy citizens.
IBT : Alexander declares on Asoka. Very intersting. Now I am tempted to give him steel, but it is still only DR and Printing Press on trade table.
Turn 7 (1635 AD) : Cologne get a theater.
Turn 8 (1640 AD) : taoist monastery done. Start taoist missionary. Cologne starts Ironworks
Oooh, Rome is generating 40 GPP. What the f***. I don't check 2 turns and it went that far already. Get it back under 30 GPP. No concurrence for Karakorum, I said
Turn 9 (1645 AD) : Macau finishes lighthouse and starts a courthouse.
IBT : Asoka offers nationalism + gold for Steel. Go home already
Turn 10 (1650 AD) :
Louis too has nationalism. I check the "what would make this deal work". not bad
Alex offer is still standing. With more money now
Grey was right, tech hole was not that large after all. We can already be on par if we decide to trade steel. Education is due in 2 turns. We are running +15 at 30%. There is a lot of banks/markets in progress. Should get back to 50% science soon. We haven't built the FP yet but I am no good at choosing a place for this one. Let you decide.
The first confucian missionary, I will send to Karakorum. If we fail a prophet next time, we may need to set two cathedrals there and make 6 priests.
Roster :
-- GreyFox
-- Rex
-- blid == Just Played
-- kikinit == UP
-- namliaM == On Deck
-- Bede