Start with the tech situation....Abe is still down Engineering so there is no chance he will be able to get Invention before we get Education.
Finding India. Looking at the numbers of cities (8), I think China is on its own island. It has been settled by both Sumeria and Byzantine. I'll back the galley and hopefully find India due south before Education. The Great Lighthouse will help.
We have 4 armies and only 4 galleys in our home waters. I'll get a few more built (one in production now) before Navigation.
Wake a slave building a road where a settler should go three from Grand River and Tegea. Pull Armies out of town. I will send the leader south to rush the Pentagon. We can build Knights Templar in three with a slight famine. I'd rather have this than face the Crusaders on the other continent.
Change Knossos to a Hoplite. At 6spt, an MP will get the other citizen working and growing.
Everything else looks good.
IBT Droman sinks a galley. One Knight dropped off at Mauch Chunk.
660AD-1 Theology--> Education in 10 @ +124gpt Oracle usefulness ends. Knossos hoplite-->galley Apolyton founded in the south. Move troops north. Move 2 MDI into Mauch Chunk. Rush Court in Gortyn for 284g.
IBT Knight flwalessly kills our hoplite in Mauch Chunk. Four new statues adoren our Palace.
670AD-2 Sparta knight-->granary Palenque hoplite-->hoplite Tikal hoplite-->knight Gortyn courthouse-->harbor New Athens built. *MDI wins 3 straight then loses 5 against knight fortified in jungle near Mauch Chunk. Rush library in Scyon for 84g. Complete market in Herakleia for 80g.
Attack Constantinople
13hp Army loses 8 killing vet pike but promotes one of the knights.
8hp Army kills vet pike w/o loss and promotes a knight.
Others arriving now.
IBT 3hp MDI defends against 2hp knight in Mauch Chunk. Invention arrives!!!! Sumerians start Leo's. Americans work on Sun Tzu's.
680AD-3 Athens Knights Templar-->Pentagon Delphi aqueduct-->library Herakleia market-->granary. Miletos galley-->granary Sicyon library-->courthouse
Constantinople
13hp Army kills vet pike losing 4hp.
Army returns to the fight killing a reg pike promoting a knight and dropping to 7hp.
9hp Army kills last reg pike to capture the town.
The city comes complete with barrack, Great Wall, Colossus and the Great Lighthouse and 7 resistors.
Rush temple in Troy for 104g.
IBT
690AD-4 Thermopylae knight-->granary Corinth granary-->galley Halicarnassus harbor-->library Pharsalos knight-->granary Mytilene worker-->library Oil Springs worker-->courthouse Mycenae-->library Troy temple-->market Kahnawake worker-->granary Rush Pentagon in Athens. Rush Library in Delpi for 148g
Attack Caesarea
8hp army loses 5 killing a reg pike.
8hp army loses 4 killing a reg pike.
Go on a limb and send the 4hp army agains a reg spear not fortified and win with 2hp, but promote the knight.
Caesarea has an aqueduct, three resistors, 3 workers, a settler and 2 droman's.
Other 2 armies head to Smyrna.
Kill a barb galley.
IBT 2nd barb galley promotes ours. Sumerians work on Sistine Chapel.
700AD-5 Athens Pentagon-->knight Palenque hoplite-->hoplite Delphi library-->granary Eretria Library?-->granary Pergamon settler-->settler Phocaea library-->harbor Rush library in Mycenae for 120g.
11hp Army kills two reg spears to capture Smyrna.
IBT Plat some trees around our Palace.
710AD-6 Argos knight-->courthouse Mycenae library-->barrack Ephesus library-->barrack Thessalonica knight-->galley Rush granary in Sparta for 80g.
IBT
720AD-7 Chichen Itza settler-->granary Sparta granary-->galley Knossos galley-->galley Missed the growth in Bonampak and riot.
Finally meet Gandhi. He is lacking Literature and The Republic in the Ancient Age. He has a total of 5 cities. Delhi has a temple/market/colosseum. He has 4 lux and both iron and horses. Size six with a sword and 3 spears with a fourth due next turn. With nothing to extort, I declare and we are now at war with everyone.
Bump up science for Education in 2.
IBT Ephesis riots so the barrack build becomes a temple. Laast resistor on our continent calms down.
730AD-8 Palenque hoplite-->hoplite Corinth galley-->galley Rhodes worker-->library Athens Crusader. Rush library in Constantinople for 144g.
IBT Education -->Astronomy
740AD-9 Constantinople library-->temple Artemisium worker-->library Bonampak library-->temple New Sparta founded. Rush court in Herakleia for 40g.
IBT Byzantines start Sistine Chapel.
750AD-10 Athens knight-->university sparta galley-->galley Thermopylae granary-->courthouse Tikal knight-->hoplite Pharsalos granary-->university Mycenae barrack-->granary Herakleia granary-->barrack Thessalonica galley-->galley
We have eight galleys in our home wateres now with 4 more due in 4 turns. Astronomy in 9 @ 126GPT for the upgrades. Eleven knights have been ferried to the jump island. The Armies and our Trebs are outside Gandasetaigon. There is a settler that can catch a boat to settle the new island or go to the Halicarnassus-Marathon island. There is a second settler due next turn.
The Game