Preturn - Weakness, 1 coal supply. 4 Natural luxuries.
I am a firm believe in use or lose the leaders - rush factory in Sardis.
(1) 1640 AD - We are suffering from the standard rails trap - All irragated plains and all rails - food galore, but no
shields.
As an example I take Tamiun from 15 to 23 shields and still have 5 excess food.
Silks and $25 gets us espionage from the Zulu - Kyoto starts intelligence agency.
Scratch the Iroqious - The Zulu have wiped them out.
Battlefield medicine is ordered.
(2) 1645 AD -
(3) 1650 AD - We have tanks. Researching planes.
(4) 1655 AD - For some reason I feeling the need for rails to Russia (tm).
Unfrelling believeable - another coal source exhaust on me. Own ONLY source again
A certain nation has 3 - time for a new permanent source :flamedevi
(5) 1660 AD - Oops, our spy in Russia got caught. I heard 2nd attempts always fail, but I try again. Yep, they always fail.
I heard 3rd times a charm. NOPE. Fails again - oops, war with Russia (with 3 coal sources). Gee, and THEY declared war...
I am scared - Persia declares war on us.
Paris is captured after killing a whopping 1 knight.
Sevastopol is captured after killing 1 musketman.
Smolensk is captured after our guns create 1 hp infantry unit.
We RAZED Orleans after killing 1 cossack.
We have coal again.
We picked up 11 new slaves.
The Russian have some punch, and reclaim Smolensk. However, attrition has clearly favored us in the counter attack.
Those couple of Persian cities are a pain - riots in the former cities of Persia.
(6) 1665 AD - Smolensk is back in our hands again.
Odessa, Sverdlovsk are captured.
Our first tanks appear - and the first performance is bad - we need to work out the bugs.
GACK - 2 luxuries go away - no new offer. Worst possible thing during a war.
(7) 1670 AD - I really hate to give away tech, but...
Steel and $3/turn to America for Fur and Incense.
Since Steel is known...
Steel and $47/turn to Zulu for Ivory and alliance vs. Persia. I want those last to cities of Persia DEAD.
Kiev is captured - we get the obsolete Lighthouse.
We clean up a Russian stack by Sevastopol - no leaders
Summary - Pi-Ramesses is our closest spot to the Zulu landmass. I am building up an invasion fleet there.
Russia is down to 4 cities.
@SomeGod - You are up.
I don't understand the special files comment. This is a standard game of Civ3.