Now I need a good joke...
What do you get when you cross a civfanatic with 36 hours of no sleep?
An attempt to start a world war.
That probably makes no sense. But it's what I ended up doing.
I started the turnset looking around and saw lots of people with lots of gold. I tried begging around but nobody gave us much. Washington gave us 70 and Hatty gave us 30. I looked at our wonderful empire - everything looks to be in good shape.
I then looked at the diplomacy screen and decided to start some wars. I managed to start two, although I wasn't able to start the one that I really wanted to do - dragging Wang into a war... Hatty declared on Brennus (even though Brennus has a LOT more power than her) and I bribed Hannibal to attack Asoka (we don't have any techs on Asoka). Washington is a non-factor in this game so that just leaves Wang as the last leader we have to drag into this world war. The price of bribery wasn't too bad.
Unfortunately, then I made my
move of the set. I forgot to cut our OB with Hannibal and Asoka came to us demanding that we cut deals the next turn. I thought about it for a while and decided to agree. We have two civs as a buffer already and I think Asoka will be easier to keep happy than Hannibal.
I hit enter, and voia la. UoS. We also get a GS (who will bulb about half of PP). I immediately switch production to a university and shifting the scientist/priest ratio accordingly to maximize its production speed. I then continue to rapid fire the enter key, as there's not a whole lot of microing to do when you only have to look at one city
As soon as the university is complete, I break out the engineer to rush oxford. Gunpowder rolls in at 1250 and research is set on chemistry. Oxford shaves a good 3 turns or so off of the research time and things are looking good. Wang has teched nationalism and gunpowder - I'm hoping he goes for rifles instead of grenadiers so that we can bribe him into one of the two wars that's going on right now (preferably Brennus-Hatty).
Hatty has also lost a city to our SE - it was razed by the Celts a few turns after the dow. Brennus had quite an impressive stack of elephants and medieval units. I think he may have been coming after us but now that his attention is pointed elsewhere, I think we're safe for the time being (though watch out - he's annoyed with us).
After Oxford is complete, I switch building to a grocer. I don't know why we skipped it, but it'll help alleviate some of our health issues (if only by one
). The grocer was completed at the very end of my turn set and I have set build to research to speed up chemistry into two turns. If we can bribe Wang into a war against somebody (other than Washington), we'll be golden. I'm keeping my fingers crossed on that one though.
That more or less concludes the set. Sorry if I made some bad moves but... I'm pretty tired and I didn't want to hold up the game too much.
Best of luck to the next player!
PS. I have not traded for banking or compass yet. Compass will not be needed until we decide we want astronomy and banking isn't necessary till we want rifling.
Imhotep first (since that's what he signed up for):
I definitely did not leave you a save with 1 turn away from UoS. In fact, IIRC, I left you a save with 14 turns away from UoS, with a great engineer which group consensus is to be used to rush Oxford, hence I expect you should have switch to a University then followed by Ocford, thereafter continue with UoS.
- by my ISP and couldn't take the save for a deep look. I guess the immediate plan is build the University and rush oxford right away... For midterm... Well, let's say I'm a bit worried that we're becoming a tasty target for the AI military. And if it's true, we're going down. Maybe shyuhe's idea of spreading the havoc among them is the best way to prevent them from even thinking of conquering our 
You get one cheap thrill for each bad joke, that's the deal. I have already 
