The save abides within. Click at your own risk.
Good news: we are in good relations (well, relations with Genghis can stand to improve) in the strongest bloc in the game. I'm salivating at seeing us in the Hindu bloc of 3 and every other civ has a founded religion. That will hopefully aggrevate some AI wars. For practical purposes, it also means that we should be careful trading to anybody outside of Genghis or Huayna.
I contemplate selling Bronze to Genghis dirt cheap (4gpt is all he has). I'm coming back to that in a bit, but first some technology trades:
Literature is the cheapest tech we have to sell. Japan and Monte both have Lit already, so I'm going to get the only thing I can for it. I follow that up by practically giving Lit away to Mongolia: we get only 20g for it, but I'm hoping it goes longer towards good relations.
Decide to forgo on the Bronze idea for now. The risks of it backfiring and Khan coming at me even when friendly (oh, it's happened before, even when I was #2 military) are just too much. Maybe a spare food resource when one comes available.
Hmmm... Alex has 160 gold lying about, and he is listed as Pleased With from the rest of our bloc, so I go ahead and sell Literature to him as well for all his gold. He says the offer is light, so I guess I got a good amount for the tech
Science rate goes to 80% now, shaving a turn off of Civil Service.
Phrygian is well under the happiness cap and not working a plantationed dye tile. That's a good amount of stuff we are missing out on. In fact, I go ahead and fire both specialists, at least until we catch up to the happy/healthy limits again. Same with New York: MM it (Civ3 style) so that it still still completes Great Library next turn but gets max growth.
1) 820AD
The Venerable Bede!?
I'm glad he approves of how we're handling things!
Washington starts a Work Boat so we can hook up those crabs in the south.
New York builds Great Library. I'm tempted to put it on National Epic as well, but decide that should be a group decision. (Nat epic best in high food specialist + caste system or in mucho wonder shield powerhouse?)
2) 840AD
Monty cancels our open borders agreement. In may experience that is usually followed by war for aggressive civs. And Monty has 2 horse archers and an axe right by our "border island" southeast of Boston.
Trade Mission to Karakorum nets us 900 gold.
I up our science to 90%. We have 1107 in the back and running a -19gpt deficit
3) 860AD
Monestary completes in Philly. Decide getting missionaries out is better overall than getting a forge first.
Okay, this may not be the best thing, so nix it if you think it's
but I trade Genghis one of our Coppers for his Banana and 4gpt (all he had). Figure we can always renegotiate / cancel in 10 turns at worst.
4) 880AD
Civil Service comes in.
I revolt for Beaurocracy and Organized Religion.
By the way, we now have Ivory hooked up:
I think the borders expanded the turn before, but I didn't notice it then.
5) 900AD
Christianity spreads to Boston.
I set research on Construction to make use of our new-found resource.
6) 920AD
New York starts an Aquaduct. Next stop, Hanging Gardens.
Start another Monestary in Phrygian to help spread the word.
7) 940AD
Huayna demands Feudalism. Since half the civs already know it, I decide to help our relations and give it to him
Confucianism spreads to Atlanta.
This is too funny!
Huayna must have already been trading an ivory when our borders poached 2 of his 3. So I'm selling him back his Ivory for gpt, mostly for relations.
8) 960AD
Construction comes in. Begin on Compass for the health and trade bonus.
9) 980AD
Hook up the crabs to our south.
10) 1000AD
New York starts on Hanging Gardens, due in 11. That will go down when we manage to get Hinduism in the town.
Phrygian starts on a missionary.
Funny, I just played to 1000AD in
my other SG.
Notes:
- Building the first of our War Elephants. Probably want some catapults first, but I decided to emphasize infrastructure since LK said he basically ignored it. Our research is picking up.
- DC's Market is ... optional. I started it because it will be our best spot for one in Bureaucracy, but it will only pick up a few gpt. Might be better to get some military out first
- Philadelphia has a missionary coming out next turn. Send him to New York to shave a turn off of Hanging Gardens via Organized Religion.
- Do we want to build National Epic in New York, making it our Wonder Town? Or do we pull caste system + national epic in a different town?
- Huayna is willing to trade us Theology. Question is, do we really want it right now? Theocracy would be nice if we plan on pumping units (and keep those other religions safely out of our borders).
- BTW, Huayna loves us; he's at +14 relations so we have nothing to fear from him. Genghis is up to +3, and everyone else is in the negative, mostly because of the religious differences. But they aren't at odds with each other -- maybe the AI negatives against each other are somehow lessened?
- Speaking of Huayna, do we cancel the Ivory deal in 7 turns and trade it instead to Genghis for the Bananas (instead of letting Genghis have our extra copper)? Or should we keep exploiting Huayna's Ivory as long as we can? I don't know if it's too secure a border.
- The picture below shows where I was planning on sending the stray LB. It is not set on go-to orders; I'm just showing my intention to fortify Phyrgian considering Monty's mad tendencies. It also shows the Aztec troops trapped (temporarily -- they will be booted in 19 turns when Philadelphia's cultural borders expand) in our territory.
Too many SGs?
to Alex? I want to get that guy back so badly 
