I previously posted about the
first turn of my segment; here's the continuation:
Turn 131: After discussion, I finished the turn by moving the worker from Haithabu's cow to mine the hill near our new production city site (1S of where previously planned). The "promo" warrior near Spain moved to finish exploring Spanish territory.
Turn 132: The worker near Birka finished, so I moved him south to speed improving the new production city.
Turn 133: Haithabu finishes its monument and begins a library. The much-feared barbarian archer disappears into the fog. We found Bjorgvin, and I decide to keep the computer's choice of what to work:
I metaphorically slap my forehead as I remember I was supposed to move the eastern warriors to better spawnbusting locations given the reminder about 5x5 blocks.
Turn 134: The exploring warrior near Spain views the last "black" Spanish territory.
I send him back to his "wait for promos" site instead of trying to find Barcelona and Seville.
Turn 135: Birka finishes its workboat and starts building a worker, who will be ready in 15 turns.
Turn 136: Hinduism spreads in Birka, preventing our preferred Buddhism from auto-spreading. Sigh; maybe we'll need meditation after all. Spain asks for a donation:
As planned, we agree and she becomes happier with us:
Turn 137: Nothing of note.
Turn 138: Industrious Bismark finishes the Pyramids for us.
Turn 139: Haithabu's borders expand to include the cows.
Turn 140: Isabella and Suilieman become willing to trade Polytheism. Since we will eventually need it for Literature (Heroic Epic), and Sillyman will trade it for Writing (which the other two already have), I make this trade:
Turn 141: Uppsala finishes its worker and begins a library. It will grow in 4t at which point it will need to work the newly-mined desert hill, so there's no need for this particular worker to build another FP cottage. He moves to improve the cows near Haithabu.
Turn 142: The mine next to Bjorgvin finishes and we start working it instead of the beaver camp; monument will finish in 5t. Bismark and Izzy will now trade us for Priesthood. Since Priesthood will speed our research of Code of Laws, I get both of them from Izzy:
Since too few of our cities are currently Buddhist, I avoid switching to Organized Religion.
Turn 143: Nidaros finishes its library. It occurs to me that with OrgRel we'd improve production in any Buddhist cities, and Nidaros could build a missionary or two to spread it, but I put that idea aside for future discussion. Nidaros starts a city-protecting archer. Haithabu whips its library for 2 population.
Turn 144: Our vast cash reserves fail to protect us from nature's wrath:
The Uppsala miner finishes and starts another FP cottage. With two libraries in place (Nidaros and Haithabu) we resume research. At 70%
CoL would take 10 turns, but with a big cash reserve we go for 100% and 7 turns.
Turn 145: A barbarian galley appears near Nidaros. The German fishing boat and our Nidaros fish may be doomed; Nidaros might need to switch to producing a galley, but that's somebody else' decision at this point.
Here's the diplomatic situation: Bismark is pleased with everyone, Sulieman cautious, and, as you'd expect, Izzy is pleased with her co-religionists and cautious with the heathen:
Izzy will trade Monarchy, but it will require the rather more expensive Currency. Two people have Iron Working but neither will trade with us; perhaps that will take a few more turns.
The known world:
Our territory:
Our eastern spawnbusters:
A few observations: When the worker on Haithabu's cows finishes in 3 turns, perhaps he should camp the now-available ivory. Two workers are near Bjorgvin, one having just roaded the sheep and the other building a road to the horses; one of them can go elsewhere (such as to rebuild our quarry), since it will be quite a few turns before Bjorgvin's border expands (fewer if we switch to OrgRel and build a missionary in Nidaros or Haithabu).
Roster:
Nictel
dalamb -- just finished
Norvin_Green --
up
Admiral Kutzov -- on deck
Rex Tyrannus -- new recruit
cripp7 -- new recruit
Asaf applied next; we can keep him in mind if somebody else drops out. I thing a few of us presumed First Come, First Served was the way to go, but I figure Nictel as OP needs to say yeah or nay.
I'm glad to see Suleiman's culture to our north. It will help to generate friction between Izzy and Biz when they start to share borders. Our war may be a ways off but we might think about waiting until Suleiman declares on Izzy (or vice versa) and then take on Biz ourselves. Only time will tell.
atm, need to rex out the rest of our land. With Currency/CoL and the amount of 
overflow into a worker, need more workers. 
I was suggesting weighting the Turks because I'm fairly sure we can take either Otto or Izzy by conventional means with zerks and stone throwers (cats or trebs). I'd simply like to know what the Turk is up to. We can always move the EPs around as we solidify on the target of our first conquest. 
(and a refurbished crab fishing boat). Suleiman is sent away on this trade.
my bad. 
