580AD: Pre-turn
Change Istanbul to Sun Tzus. MM'd to get in 27turns.
Persepolis changed to court
Tarsus changed to harbour
Ankara changed to library
Bolu changed to Library
Edrine changed to settler
Fired many clowns.
IBT:
Uskadar court - knight
Ankara library - worker
Bolu library - worker
590AD:
Rush market in Izmit
Change Adan to aqueduct
Change Fustat to Library
Rush court in Persepolis
IBT:
Persepolis court - Forbidden Palace
Edrine Settler - Knight
Izmit market - settler
600AD:
Nothing of note.
IBT:
Babylon library - court
610AD:
Nothing of note.
IBT:
Kufah Library - court
Konya riots
gets clown
620AD:
Found Riza - Galley
IBT:
Learn invention - research gunpowder
Bursa court - market
Sinop court - aqueduct
630AD:
Bit boring this to read. Interesting to play though. I am basically preparing the FP city ring terrain and filling a ring around Istanbul. The next player will settle the cities.
IBT:
Get some minarets for the palace.
640AD
Edrine changed to market and rushed. Need to build Leos, should have thought about it before now.
IBT:
Edrine Market - Leos
Ellipi Pike - court
Izmit settler - settler
650AD:
Joined 2 workers into Edrine
Wines to arabia for WM + 63g. They'll die happy.
Rush library in Ashur. It's getting too big and we need to get a settler out of it.
IBT:
Iznik knight - knight
Ashur library - settler
Uskadar Knight - knight
Urfa Library - Galley
660AD:
Found Zonguldak - Market
Hurry Library in Mugla. Want a settler out of it for cattle 4NW
IBT:
Mecca riots.
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gets clown
Ur temple - court
Aydin court - harbour
Denizli warrior - worker
Mugla Library - settler
670AD:
Hurry temple coz I want a settler.
Join two more workers to Edrine.
IBT:
Konya court - market
Gordium riots
gets taxman
Uruk temple - harbour (needs aqueduct really but we need some boats)
680AD:
Library hurried in Samarra. Again I want a settler to refound razed city to the North.
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I'll post a couple of shots tonight so I can explain my thoughts for the future of this game.
My thinking is that we should research to Military tradition quite quickly and then turn off research to make as much money as we can.
We have to wait the twenty turns before declaring war on the arabs again as they have a one tile island city which we will not be able to take. In any case if we declare before that we get ALL the war weariness back. Even on the 19th turn.
Hopefully the AI will get navigation sometime after we get MT and they will find us. We should then get most of the middle age techs through the GL for free, well past education.
At this point we will have 35 galley to upgrade to Caravels, and 100 Sipahi to put on them.
We also (I think) need to fish for a leader in our war aginst the arabs for our FP which I think should go in Persepolis. I have started to build it there already, but it will take some time.
If we do this then we should dot map the area around Persepolis without regard to where cities are placed ATM. From what I have seen a 4.5 ring looks good and requires us to raze and move two cities.
We should also dotmap around the capital as there are at least 2 sites that need cities on them.
