preturn: my goodness, I thought we were playing an AW game for a while.
I don't understand why we are building Heroic Epic. We are 5 CC, so we'll basically only have one army. I switch it to University.
England and Persia have a lot of gold. I sign peace with Persia and get 20g. I sign peace with England and pay 220g.
I'm not quite sure about our worker actions. Ta-tu has hit size 12 and we are still irrigating while leaving hills unimproved!
I sell Wines to Persia for 19gpt. Wines to England for incense+1gpt+6g. This allowes us to drop lux to 0.
I keep research at 0 but will start full when our first university comes online in 4 turns. This would make better use of our money and get the tech at the same time.
Now I start purely infra.
IBT I cancel RoP with Spain. Vikings start Newton's.
(1)660AD: IBT Hitties and Persia MA against Vikings.
IBT Spain kicks us out.
(2)670AD: hire a scientist in Tabriz and start Colosseum.
IBT our curragh defeats Korean caraval and promotes!
Korea declares on England. Nice! Vikings and England MA against Korea.
(3)680AD: IBT not good, Vikings and Spain MA against us! We lose the silks and capital riots. But we only get two attacks and win both.
(4)690AD: Keshik 1/4 kills musket and promotes. Keshik 2/3 kills musket. Keshik 4/2 loses to musket.
IBT Hitties and England MA vs Korea. England captures a small town from Spain. Persia and Hitties MA vs Korea. We lose a keshik fortified outside of our city to Conquistator - this damn "taking everything as road" thing is too annoying.
(5)700AD: We retreat two keshiks, but with army we kill two muskets and raze Zaragoza. We get 5 slaves.
I raise sci to 80 and Metallurgy in 8 turns with -93gpt.
Upgrade a horse.
IBT Aztecs demand Banking. I tell it to go away and it declares on us. It won't have any threat. Spain captures its town back.
(6)710AD: fire specialists. Lose a keshik but kill some units and capture a treb.
Vikings have an extra saltpeter, so I sign peace with Vikings by 280g. I trade wines for saltpeter+123g. I then upgrade 5 pikes to 5 musketmen by 450g.
IBT Conquistator captures our workers but we'll get them back next turn.
(7)720AD: Kill longbow/settler pair.
IBT Our 3 keshiks in Spain-Hitties territory get killed.
(8)730AD: WW rises so buy furs from Persia by WM+11gpt+12g.
We lose one keshik, retreat another but kill two muskets and raze Cordoba.
Spain agrees to talk now but we'll not stop yet.
I shut off research for now as we may get Metallurgy for free?
IBT Spain pillags one of our horses. Our elite horse is killed by longbow.
(9)740AD: We lose 2 keshiks but kill 3 muskets and raze Seville. We got 8 slaves. Lose an elite keshik to Conquistator!
Now Spain's territory has been cut in half!
We can now get Metallurgy from Spain for 298g. I make peace as I don't think we can make much more offense, and I don't want to hurt it too much to let England grow big.
Most AI have Military Tradition (but not Spain), and the good thing is Hitties and England do not have horses so no cav on our continent yet.
England really has a lot of gold (more than 10K)
but it offers the best price so I buy Military Tradition by WM+85gpt+563g.
I debated with myself whether to give Spain horses, but it's really worth a lot, so I go for it. Military Tradition+horses for Astronomy+341g. Spain has its native horses anyway which it must be selling to someone, and could connect the 2nd horses in no time.
I start researching Physics in 19 turns.
IBT Hitties wants to renew peace, sure.
(10)750AD: disband 2 warriors.
Now we are only at war with Korea and Aztecs. We should stay so until we want to lift Korea into Industrial Ages or trade with Aztecs (still wouldn't talk, and I forget which tech it has).
I shut off research this turn as we have another university come online soon, and then resume.
We have horses pillaged, but I am not sure whether we want to connect it, as England/Hitties may demand from us.
Things look very good. AIs are busy fighting each other. We should prepare for a force of cavalry and wipe out AI on our continent. I haven't seen any rifles, but it may appear soon.
I probably missed some MM at last turn.