Ho hum. Just another dull set of turns.
Looks like Toku is eager to settle a colony on NewFoundLand (a Settler and Longbowman are under our Maceman in the north.) Too late!
Having a look-see around... Orleans is building a Market?!? Our emphasis here is supposed to be on science so...
Orleans begins: University
Turn 340 (1550 AD)
Tours grows: 8
Marseilles finishes: Library
Avignon grows: 4
Turn 341 (1555 AD)
Marseilles begins: Harbor
Rheims grows: 10
Turn 342 (1560 AD)
Poor Toku. All packed up, but nowhere to go
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Turn 343 (1565 AD)
Tech learned: Steam Power
Coal found outside Lyon and Rheims! Both cities are specialized for Production, and both resources are already mined! Neither Lizzie nor Alex have coal.
Paris finishes: Courthouse
Chartres grows: 5
Turn 344 (1570 AD)
What to research now? Nationalism or Railroad? Hmm... Fred already has Nationalism, but wants both Liberalism and Chemistry for it. Could also research Scientific Method, but hold off in the vain hope Buddhism arrives on our shores. Railroad would be nice, but Nationalism will open up Corporation/Democracy (Emancipation), so opt for it.
Research begun: Nationalism
Paris begins: University
Lyons finishes: Frigate
Chartres finishes: Library
Avignon's borders expand:
Here's the screeshot:
Besancon finishes: Courthouse
Turn 345 (1575 AD)
Lyons begins: Confucian Monastery
Decide to build a least one monastery for each of the religions we've acquired before we lose the ability to do so with Scientific Method.
Chartres begins: Harbor
Besancon begins: Harbor
Rheims finishes: Drydock
Tours finishes: Forge
Turn 346 (1580 AD)
Rheims begins: Christian Monastery
Tours begins: Courthouse
Turn 347 (1585 AD)
Turn 348 (1590 AD)
Tech learned: Nationalism
Lyons finishes: Confucian Monastery
Rheims finishes: Christian Monastery
Rouen grows: 3
Turn 349 (1595 AD)
Lyons begins: Frigate
Rheims begins: Frigate
Research begun: Constitution
Lyons begins: Drydock
Besancon grows: 6
Turn 350 (1600 AD)
The Muskateer has been watching the action between Peter and Alex. (Our Settler is still on the Galleon just to the south of the Mainland.) Alex appears to be completely cowed, as Peter has been pillaging Alex's land without resistance. It looks as if Peter may be assembling another invasion stack in Sparta:
If Peter razes Delphi, we may be in business! Alternatively, we could found a city now smack-dab on top of the fur on the coast, but it won't develop into much of a city. We'd get some fur, but we're not suffering from unhappiness.
None of the other civs appear to have been spreading their religions around much - for most of the Buddhist block, less that half of their cities are Buddhist! If we do found a city on the mainland, it is unlikely that anyone will bring us Buddhism.
I expect most of the Buddhists will eventually convert to Free Religion anyway, so our getting the religion may not matter. Relations-wise, everyone in the Buddhist block appears to like us as much, if not better, than Toku!
We can now build the Taj Mahal in either Paris or Rheims in ~ 30 turns. Although we don't have marble, we're Industrious, so we might want to take a crack at it. A free Golden Age would be fab!
Good call on the Monasteries, too ~ we can spread the religions for the happiness bonus @ Free Rel (which I agree that they won't be buddhist TOO much longer. It may be good to trade Liberalism to Japan first and demand a civic change to free rel right before the war, BEFORE the others have a chance to get out of Buddhism. We also have to be careful not to start the war on Toku too soon or else they may take enough cities from him to make someone else be #2 in pop
