Checked out the spare food situation. If Visby works fish, clams, irrigated fp and cottaged fp gives 10 spare; needs pop of 9, 4 to work tiles and 5 merchants. If Bruges works 2 bananas and rice gets 10 spare, pop of 8 (3 for tiles,5 merchants); add the pigs gets 13 spare, pop of 10 (4 for tiles, 6 merchants). But this is still a distance away.
1420 (Preturn) started to move units into cities to cure unhappy. Started moving settler and archer to rice/clams peninsula.
1430.
Deal with Sally; wheat for 4 gpt.
1440.
Lubeck builds crossbow, starts barracks.
Bruges completes library, starts market, borders pop.
1450.
Isabella declares war, gathers troops around Zwolle
Visby builds market, starts cat.
1460.
Mongolia suggests open borders, agree (might be checking us out for poss invasion but we need the trade, improves relations and he's likely to attack us regardless).
Kiel founded (rice, clams) starts theatre.
Isabella bombarding Zwolle.
1470.
Rostock builds library,starts crossbow.
Zwolle survives an attack (Izzy loses mace, HA, cat, our defending longbow and axe are injured).
1480.
The gallant defence is over.
Quiet elsewhere.
1490.
Spices are available; happy people; set cities to grow.
Visby builds cat, starts cat.
1500.
Our spear kills spanish HA; reinforcing crossbows on the way.
Discover education, start printing press. (I thought about tech options and decided to be greedy and gamble, music and eng are available, I thought wait for guilds and philosophy and try a 1:4 tech trade).
1505.
Lubeck builds barracks, starts longbow.
Rostock builds longbow, starts HA.
1510.
Danzig builds market, starts HA.
Visby builds cat, starts spear.
We seem to be trailing in everything but what the heck; still time to catch up; we definitely need more units.