preturn: I double whip the temple in Xinjian. We definitely need some culture.
I switch Macao to rax.
(1)130BC: I know it's risky, but somehow I try to steal immediately from Greece by 500g plus change. Although it's close to us, it has no horses and is rated relatively weak. I normally wouldn't take the risk this early but I got irritated by the flip and kinda acted irrationally. We succeed and take
Feudalism.
I then buy
Monotheism from Mongols by Feudalism + 104g + 4gpt. We are level in tech except Monarch, which we can get it now.
OK, so we just need Republic and Chivalry.
We could actually take one incense back by aggressive settling, but we'll just take it THE WAY later.
IBT Spain starts Knight Templar. That's absolutely not good news to us..
(2)110BC: ZZZ
(3)90BC: I establish embassy with Spain. Madrid has two spears in capital, 12spt building KT due in 19 turns. It also has the Great Library and Colossus.
I'm wondering whether we can send an AC army to capture it. It's pretty close.
(4)70BC: France entered Middle Ages as well.
I hire a scientist in Shanghai and lower sci to 0 while keeping lux at 10. Shanghai stops growing but it's producing 10spt as a 3-turn horseman factory. This way we make 14gpt more.
(5)50BC: Republic is known. America and Spain exchanged techs. We could use all our gpt to buy it, but then have no money to cover the anarchy, so I hold.
(6)30BC: Greece just got Chivalry, meaning we have some 2-fer chance.
54gpt to Spain for
Republic+91g.
Republic to Greece for
Chivalry+27g.
With 285g in bank I decide to revolt now.
We draw a freaking 7 turns! We need about 100g more.
I hire many taxmen and we lose -44gpt per turn. I sell Republic to India for
Monarchy + 44g (all its gold). We should be OK then.
(7)10BC: riots.
(8)10AD: riots.
IBT Zeus still works in anarchy. Spain completes Sun Tzu's.
(9)30AD: I disband warrior in Mongol territory.
IBT Greece completes Knights Templar.
(10)50AD: a Spanish spear enters our territory. If you are bold you can try to ask it to leave.
We have 2 turns left in anarchy. 167g in bank and make -38gpt. Let the cities riot.
I think we should get Greece first, unless we can get Spain to declare us first. I expect those AIs have 2 spears in average and maybe plus an archer in their towns. We should have about 10 units before we declare. We already have 3 AC and 2 horsemen (mostly in Hangshow). We probably won't have too much gold for upgrading to riders due to the gpt payment, so we may just connect the iron and build riders directly. I'd rather the army to be filled by riders if possible. Delphi and Knossos would be the 2 target towns. Greece has no resources connected so the only counter will be archers.
Or, we just keep building riders and wait for the gpt payment to run out (in 16 turns) then we take on Spain to extort techs. Probably the safest approach.
Remember, our variant probably requires combat settlers. We need to set some cities up for this purpose.
; Nanking riots; Spanish are building Sistines
