Well, let's not waste any more time on things we don't need. We have 3 plains cottages built, which is 18 wasted worker turns. Worker turns are the most important resource at this stage of the game, in fact it is where games at monarch is won or lost. OK, the plains cottage at Akkad may get worked late in the game, but the two at Nippur are useless because the city is very foor-poor. We will probably fine at monarch, but just throwing away 18 worker turns is not great.
I cancel the hindu monastery at Nippur. Since we have 2 hindu cities already, I assume a hindu civ is missionarying us and we don't need a monastery. I'm going to let the lighthouse complete at DK, but it's likely that it's useless at this size of city. I'm not going to bother with the great lighthouse. Look at Boudicca's nearest city:
Yep, that's the AGG/CHA combo for you. Combine that with a crazy personality - it's not a good idea to go wonder hoarding. TGL would take 30 turns.
Some of our cities are at the happy limit but we have plenty of health. I think eventually we will want to befriend the hindu bloc, and conveniently they both have resources to trade for. I trade our spare clams to Surya for sheep, and trade our only pigs to Pericles for fur. The Surya deal is just for the relations.
Research to 100%.
Boudicca converts to Confucianism, hatty's religion.
Babylon finishes a bowman, starts our first (!) chariot. Akkad finishes a settler and starts a barracks. DK finishes lighthouse, starts granary. Temple of Artemis BIDL. Zara sent another hindu missionary to Babylon, thanks.
After a turn of production, I whip the barracks in Akkad. Then next turn I start military, but give no production to it. Instead I work our two FP cottages and hire two scientists. In emergency we can whip the unit.
Oh great
! We were 2 turns too late to iron island, since Boudicca has poached it. Send the galley back to the mainland.
Babylon built a worker after its chariot.
I settled the iron. I was very tempted to settle on the actual iron, but decided for this spot:
At least it is on a river so we can farm it. Some marriage problems for other civs:
Construction came in and I started Currency. I gave construction to Zara for Alphabet to see the trading opportunities to be had. There were no more, because only Pericles has something we want and will trade: Monarchy. He will not trade it for construciton however because presumably he is researching construction himself. Hatty and Zara have some monopoly techs they are unwilling to trade (CoL, metal casting). No one has currency yet, thankfully.
Charlemagne asked us to stop trading with one of the hindu civs, I declined. A random event cost us 20 gold to replace the food in Babylon's granary.
I built a barracks at DK after its granary.
The Save
I believe our plan should be to build an army, then revolt to hinduism and form an alliance with the hindus against hatty and boudicca.
