OK, thanks for finishing off the turnset woopdeedoo!
Just in terms of vranasm's request for a swap due to "SW:TOR" (Star Wars, The Old Republic?), my personal agenda's also filling until mid-December, and I'd prefer to take another turnset now and maybe skip one during the coming weeks.
In terms of the upcoming 10-15 turns, I guess the objective is a simple one ... take out England:
I thought that we'd need more time to get our units together, but I'm actually pretty satisfied with what we've got on hand. Basic plan would be to take the Iron Mine out of the equation so he's left with whatever units he's got right now, plus Longbows and Horse Archers. I'd keep every city except maybe Coventry, which is 50-50 raze-keep to me. Probably I'd go south and take Nottingham first. Given our numerous Catapults, I'd be inclined to use a fair amount of siege rather than risk highly promoted Horseback units if odds weren't great. Given he's a Protective leader, I'm still wary about throwing Cavalry at these cities without any siege support.
Civics-wise I'd be happy to go into
Caste at the conclusion of the Golden Age and shoot for a few more Great Scientists for merging into Prague, or maybe a Great Merchant for a trade mission? The other tech' that I'd propose we go after immediately is Economics (2 turns at 60%) for the extra
from
Free Market. More's the point, I'd be prepared to gift it to Catherine just to dislodge her out of Mercantilism if we can't get a decent deal out of her for Economics.
Aside from Economics, I'd propose we then complete Printing Press, then Chemistry. I guess we've got a good shot at the free Great Scientist out of Physics while Biology's great for growth, so Scientific Method should probably be up after Chemistry.
Generally things are going well, but there are a few funny things that I'd fix - a couple being; Shanghai should be building a Bank rather than a Longbow, while Berlin's got a 'stop growth' on it for no apparent reason. Unit pumps probably should focus on Cavalry for either an invasion or homeland protection depending on which way we go, while commerce sites could possibly look at Banks if we were to go after Wall Street eventually in Shanghai. I think that we can include some Observatories in a few more of our better production sites in preparation for Laboratories; Steel Jaw Guy and Berlin (also Scientist slot), and maybe Le Chiffre and Zurich. Even our #1 unit pump in Monte Carlo might build a spaceship part one day, but there's no hurry on that one.
I'm happy to press on with the proposed settlement plan earlier agreed upon. Not exactly sure which tile in the jungle we want to found our city on around there however; one tile north of the City Ruins? I don't think that this city can do too much but get up basic infrastructure and pump out a few land units or build Wealth.
Again, I hope it's OK if I cut in now and then not play again for a couple of weeks.
to upgrade to Cavalry. Then we also have our city defenders ( 
) to consider. We have a bunch of warriors out there still! On that note, very interesting fact I was unaware of, upgrading a GG unit costs 0
I'd just get it done and roll over the variant requirement, even if we cancel the deal at the first opportunity.
... or at least some anti-invasion strategy.
s from our big food cities such as Berlin and London.
all of a sudden and cottaged cities perform better than food-focused cities, but I'm happy to go along with it. If we find that post-Golden Age that things aren't 'so rosy', then we can smoothly switch back ('yay' for Spiritual!). I suppose the thing is that we only have three or four well cottaged cities, so I'm a bit surprised that Uni' Suff' + Free Speech work well for us.
