Fiddle with the sliders a bit and end up back where I started but with no clowns.
Not much else to adjust....
Joan and Liz start Newton's. Egyptian knight attacks at El-Amarna but is repulsed, no casualties...
Wake up an e'zerk to press my luck with the crippled Egyptian knight.
Take a gander at Lizzie's territory and she is sprouting smokestacks to go with her moustache.
Kill the knight but no promotion, then lose a whole boatload of zerks leader fishing with an elite against a crippled musket at Buto.
Pi-Ramses falls, promotes a vet, but not a 'leet. Keep the town as Thebes goes next.
In 1110 Egyptian knights retake Pi-R and El-Amarna flips back to the queen. We lose two wounded zerks bit since we get the furs back nobody riots.
In 1120 fail to take El-Am but take no casualties, killing a spear....then retake Pi-R and burn it to the ground, killing two knights, promoting a vet but again no 'leet promotion. The army takes down two muskets at Thebes. lose a zerk wounding a musket, kill a healthy musket with a vet, no promote, then kill the wounded musket with a 'leet zerk who still does not promote. Now that I have the town what do I do with it?
Take another look at the map and see that shares no fields with any other Egyptian town so I'll move the other army into killing range and wait and see.
In 1130 El-Am comes back to the wolves' fold but no joy from the elite. Cathy is making strange moves around Kazan so I shuffle some zerks around.
Heroic Epic complete in Birka in 1130.
And Irkutsk goes back to Cathy but since the peace with Cathy just ended that won't last long....French finish Newton's and Byzantines, Copernicus
In 1150 manuveur around on the Chelyabinsk isle and pay some coin for investigation of the towns, 1 LB on walkabout, a pike at Irkutsk and two spears in Chelyabinsk. Two boatloads of Zerks due to arrive soon.
Zerk army reaches the northern reaches of Egypt who have a spear on the hills guarding the passes, pulls up to await reinforecement by land and sea.
In 1170 head the boarts north from Giza and the armies move onto the hills of Tundra Egypt. Declare on Cathy and lose a zerk in the assault on Irkutsk but it is in our hands again. Russian LB takes out a zerk but second LB dies to zerk in the hills above Chelybinsk.
In 1180
Move on the Egyptians in the north
And Chelybinsk in the south
Brynask and Kazan riot "stop beating up on our mama!"
In 1190 raze Abydos and sail north. Russian galleys and a caravel attack our fleet in the South Bight and sink a caravel.
Lose a zerk at Chelybinsk and
There is still a Russian spear on the sland.
In 1200 kill a Russian pike at Gemtown and take two more slaves on the northern march into Egypt.
The Northern March
Wait on the attack at Asyut until the victorious zerk can get army coverage. The Egyptians still have at east one knight hanging about.
The Buto and North Island Expedition
Nordic Desert Pick-up for Kharabovsk
The Heart of Cleo's Realm
Lost a caravel to an Egyptian so I think we need to build some more.
Research to Magnetism due in 8 or so. The city of Bergen is a royal pain. It may need a cathedral. With it luxury spending can go down, saving a bunch of money.
No +zerks around, will be retaken in 3 turns. 
Otherwise, we need factories in the core cranking out berserks and longships every 1-3 turns.
