I finished playing more than twenty-four hours ago, but for reasons known only to my ISP I haven't been able to get online until now.
Anyway:
1610 (0): I see at least six gaps well within our own lines where we should have cities. I'll try to fill them in this round.
Beorn is right that a cultural expansion would help in the northwest. I switch South Fort to a library, which completes immediately, since we'd rushed a cav there.
I use armies with some movement left to start hammering the big Dutch stack. We defeat two Swiss and five LB (7-0).
In the southeast we account for an NM and an Ir pikeman (9-0).
In the NW we pick off a French knight (10-0).
A Dutch cav appears out of nowhere to cut down one of our cav (10-1).
Astronomy --> Physics, due in eight turns at 70% and a modest surplus.
1615 (1): After a fifteen-minute interturn:
We found the fill-in towns of Milan and Vinho Verde.
In the NW we set up a funnel of death, so that enemy units will only be able to advance through the ZOC of our armies in South Fort. We destroy sixteen enemy units (9 Ko, 2 Fr, 2 Ro, and 3 Gk; 26-1).
We found Lewisville, pushing our borders forward in the eastern hills.
We raze Mayan Cuello, held by two spearmen and a JT (29-1).
In the eastern hills we crush one Mayan and five Ir units (35-1).
In the central grasslands we eliminate one Inca, one German, and six Dutch units. We lose a cav attacking a redlined knight (43-2).
1620 (2): We found the fill-in towns of Lebanon, Martinsville, and Carmel.
In the NW we smite eight enemy units (1 Eng, 2 Ko, and 5 Gk; 51-2), and capture a settler.
We can see twenty-three Inca AC--115 turns' worth. Is this their first war, for ___'s sake?
On the central front we strike down 16 enemy units (8 Inca, 7 Eg, and 1 Su; 67-2), seven of them Inca AC.
In the hills we obliterate nine units (4 Ir, 3 Mon, 2 Ger, 2 Inca; 76-2).
We barely hold Suburbian Dye against the attack of Eg knights, slaying two and losing a cav (78-3).
1625 (3): Hmm,
the Dutch are in the Industrial Age. I assign more scientists and cut a turn off our time to Physics.
We can now see twenty-four AC, though we've expunged seven. So that's 155 turns' accumulation.
In the NW we deal with twenty-one units (16 Ko, 3 Az, 1 Gk, 1 Ro; 99-3), capturing a settler.
We found New Castle in the eastern hills.
We auto-raze Portuguese Rio Janeiro [sic], held by a spearman (100-3).
In the hills we liquidate fourteen units: five Carthaginian cav, five Ir knights, two Inca horsemen, one Inca AC, and a German knight. (114-3).
On the central front we smash five Dutch and two Eg units (121-3).
The English are building Shakespeare, the French Magellan, the Romans Newton, and the Indians Bach.
1630 (4): We sink a Sumerian galley, and its unknown contents, with a newly built caravel (122-3).
We found the fill-in town of Anderson.
We can see seven enemy ships off the South Fort-Babylon-Nippur coast, so perhaps the landings are about to get more serious.
The Koreans are in the IA.
About half of the main Inca force emerges onto the flatlands between Incensify and New Hattusas, and the slaughter begins--thirteen AC and five horsemen (140-3).
We found Marion and Frankfort, pushing our borders forward in the central grasslands, where we shatter seven Dutch and two Eg units (149-3).
In the eastern hills we wipe out seven Ir and two Carth units (158-3).
In the NW we annihilate nine units (2 Fr, 1 Eng, 4 Ko, 2 Az; 167-3) and capture a settler.
Heavy Mongol cav attacks cost us a cav and a musketman in the hills, while we strike down four attackers (171-5).
1635 (5): We ride down seven Roman and two Carth units landed next to Babylon--this although we're fighting the Carths in the
east (180-5).
Elsewhere in the NW we liquidate three Korean units (183-5).
On the flatlands around New Hattusas we exterminate another nineteen Inca units, nine of them AC, along with two German knights. Somehow we lose a cav attacking a horseman (204-6).
In the eastern hills we slay six enemies (5 Mon, 1 Ir; 210-6), generating the GL Huzziya, who immediately forms our twenty-third army.
In the central grasslands we kill fourteen foes (6 Eg, 3 Sum, 5 Dutch; 224-6), and found Franklin.
Another two Mongol cav perish attacking New Castle, while we lose a pikeman to the attack of a Dutch LB (226-7).
Twenty-three elite victories this round generated one Great Leader.
