is 10 billion possible?

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turn 354 captured second dutch city, first one was a throw a way, razed it

 

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turn 358 captured another city

 

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turn 361 lost and recaptured dutch city

 

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turn 362 captured and razed another 1 size city

 

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turn 370 captured another city, healing up troops.

 

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turn 374 got first general

 

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turn 378 a couple more cities captured

 

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turn 386 captured or destroyed all dutch cities

make peace with saladin, near zero research rate.

 

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turn 411 finish research of code of laws, getting as many cottages and markets as i can to combat money problems

 

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turn 414 got my first great person, an engineer

 

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turn 427 got my research rate back up to 30%, want to wait till 50 % until attacking next civ.

 

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turn 437 finished civil service
turn 447 almost 40%, starting the troops back up

 

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459 10 million people mark, still not 50%

 

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turn 465 another great engineer

 

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turn 485-495 built a couple more settlers, researched gunpowder, declared war on saladin

 

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turn 501 saladin uses stack to capture one of my cities, i'm one turn from capturing one of his

 

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turn 501 to 570, building up musket men, capture a couple more cities, get another general

 

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turn 571 researched rifle

 

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turn 585 researching astronomy, captured a couple more cities

 

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turn 491 captured a couple more cities, riflemen joining the stack of doom