1550AD [Preturn]: Check the flip risks as told, and none of the cities is in danger of flipping. Ganges is the only one, with 0.16% chance. Not that bad.
MM Moscow for max commerce.
Hurry court in Hangchow.
Some minor Mming.
Our cities are really happy. Most have WLTKD.
IBT: Moscow completes the Intelligence Agency. > Military Academy.
St. Pete inf > police station.
Novgorod inf > nothing else to build than military, so art.
Hangchow court > market.
Taroslavl' inf > coastal fortress.
Vladivostok duct > granary.
1555AD [1]: Barricading complete in the South.
Remember what microbe said about the areas near the oil colony, send some infs there to block any settlers.
RR.
Hurry temple in Calcutta.
Hurry market in Bryansk.
Hurry court in Tver'.
IBT: Calcutta temple > rax.
Bryansk market > harbor.
Krasnoyarsk temple > factory.
Yaroslavl' coastal fort > inf.
Tver' court > temple.
1560AD [2]: RR.
IBT: Novgorod inf > inf.
Buffalo stock > coast fort.
1565AD [3]: RR, hurry harb in Bryansk.
IBT: Calcutta rax > cath.
St Pete police > inf.
Bryansk harb > temple.
Buffalo coast fort > wealth. We need nothing, and money can be used to rush stuff in newer towns.
Yaroslavl' inf > wealth.
1570AD [4]: RRing...
IBT: Novgorod inf > wealth.
Tver' temple > market.
Vladivostok granary > temple.
1575AD [5]: RR.
IBT: Ganges uni > bank.
1580AD [6]: Garrison the forts at the Indian Frontier.
IBT: We learn Steel > combustion, due in 11.
Moscow completes the Military Academy > hospital. I know it doesn't need one, but we have only 4 hospitals and Battlefield medicine requires 4. So, I'm building it here so we get it faster, no city is in real need of one for a while.
1585AD [7]: Decide to check just in case, and Wall street actually gives more cultre than the BF, 2 against 1. Seeing that, I rush a Stock in Calcutta and use the hospital in Moscow as a minor prebuild.
IBT: Calcutta stock > hospital to get also Battlefield Medicine on line.
1590AD [8]: Moscow switches to Wall Street, due in 4.
IBT: Pollution strikes Moscow.
Bryansk temple > bank.
Pollution strikes Vladivostok.
1595AD [9]: Clean the pollution, RR.
IBT: Pollution strikes Novgorod.
Vladivostok temple > market.
We get a Palace Expansion, Yay!
1600AD [10]: RR a litle more.
Pretty boring turns, mostly waiting... the cultural victory is still some 100 turns away...