Preturn: Stealing plans from Arabia is only 200. I do so to also see where the settler is and where it may be going. It is possible it is heading to a spot we could reach on the other side of the continent through the Jungle mentioned.
Also steal map from Turkey to learn the rest of the coastline we are missing due to lost boats. It actually may be shorter to the other continent from the eastmost point than the west. Therefore east will be the preferred direction of attack.
Great refinery goes into our current top shield producer: Byblos. It has a lot of hills.
Some Russian cities adjsusted from clowns.
IBT: Ford is being started by some civs.
1782: USA seems a good target. Arabia is sort of heading that way too. Start a road south. We got a settler as well for a town.
Stole Dutch and Magreb maps.
Going to try for Ford. We can get in 4 which beats at least 2 civs working on it (also in 4).
Rush Steam Rollers this turn. We have a break in the wars and getting them sooner improves more squares. Gold is a bit below 100k.
IBT: Volcano Erupts. Might break our road system.
1783: Build Buto just outside US borders.
Declare war with the US.
Using Partisans I capture Seattle, San Francisco (losing 1), Buffalo (losing 1), gaining Partisans as I do so. Partisans are especially effective vs backward civs with Pikes.
However, Washington is a different matter. We lose the first 4 Partisan battles and 7 (or 8?) overall. I have to use an Artist to allow the Hotchkiss to get to Washington so we can take it. We lose two Hotchkiss as well. It was Bad RNG as losses included def 2 injured units. All in all we came around even with 8-9 Partisan gained and 9-10 lost.
Steal the Scandanavian map as well. It allows us to see America fully. It shows we can capture Chicago. Capturing Chicago shows a number of large stacks nearby.
I kill off one stack with Trebs and defend the Chicago heavily in case of attack.
IBT: USA troops go west away from their own lands.
Dutch might be thinking of attacking us.
1874 AD: Capture Boston for a net gain of 1 Partisan. Capture Houston over the Mountain with 2 Partisan. Use a Monk which allows us to reach Miami with Hotchkiss
Miami has 2 Spear and falls without loss. Can take Atlanta which is reachable now with Partisan. New York is Tough and I use a recently acquired Monk so Hotchkiss reach.
We have sped up Atomic Theory by 1 (due in 2) so I can trade now. Get 21451 from Magreb and 142 gpt from Israel. Do some lesser trades as well.
We have no outstanding deals with Magreb, France, and Japan which would be our next opponents if we go East. I do sell a tech to Scandanavia which might be our 4th or 5th opponent.
Great Artists put in Aniba(Monks). We have 3 of them after gaining one this turn and last.
IBT: USA troops head toward our cities this round. It would be nice to eliminate them to take the useless ones off the board. We have still not fought their main forces.
Mekka (Arabia) flipped.
Dutch continue north not attacking a large stack. Spot the first Chinese forces.
1785 AD:
Capture back Mekka.
Partisans taking Philadelphia gain back more than they lose taking Philadelphia. We lose one taking Saint Louis.
We next kill Pike/Crossbow stacks using Infantry and Hotchkiss on the Pikes to allow Lawyers, Mullah, Partisans to try for recruits. We gain a Monk and Artist + some Partisans.
USA had a settler but we were able to kill locate and kill it with 'steal plans' and US is gone.
Tell the Dutch they have to leave and they declare war as expected. I kill the units that had entered our lands.
IBT: We get Atomic Theory. I go ahead to build some Settlers. We also managed to get Ford's Factory and free Assembly lines everywhere. I start TOE in the same town (science is high enogh as it is 1/2 coastal) in 3 turns
Uruk flipped.
1876 AD: Will likely stop here after 5 turns rather than start another war.
Units are injured due to attempting upgrades with weak USA units so many are healing. As usual, I use the capitol since I can get there easily with the h key.
Recapture Uruk.
Given the number of turns I expect Arabia has landed the settler. I steal their plans and it is in the area I expected it was heading. Unfortunately, I didn't do it right. I should have done the Arabia first and I would have been able to Eliminate them. As it is I don't reach with the Steamrollers and also have to pull off several Infantry from guard duty to cover.
Note that I think the next player should be able to see where the settler is but I will also give an image.
Notes:
If I redid the last turn I greatly improve unit placement. I didn't eliminate the Arabs instead went after cheap kills of Vikings passing through our lands and ran out of Infantry so Hotchkiss are suppressing resistors. I didn't fortify them so they will become active next turn, but the units should be reorganized and the Arabs killed off. That will remove all flip chances.
Magreb has Dreadnoughts. I am wondering if we should try a steal before starting the next war (compare cost vs buying as we could buy straight up). I would recommend them or France as next opponents. I didn't check if Israel also had dreadnoughts. Note that Magreb is the tech leader.
Been building Steamrollers but we still need more. I have been building in 22+ cities now and then; we should continue to mix with unit builds.
There is a Chinese town I haven't taken yet because I am not sure it wouldn't auto-destroy. We could also eliminate and replace if we wanted to use a settler, but we have a lot to settle and only 3 settlers so far. Will need many more to fill in lands.