12 turns for today if I counted correctly. I stopped on turn 315.
(0)-1478AD
Taj in 4... Excellent.
I revolt to Emancipation and Pacifism. Emancipation as we have a lot of new cottages coming up and I want them to grow and pacifism because I want to boost our production of GP's. The net on our economy is no cost. We should go out of theology as soon as we aren't producing military any more.
I MM the capital to emphasise production and it makes a Great Prophet a little more likely. We need one more for the Islamic Shrine.
(1)
Bombay: Islamic Monastery -> Courthouse
Calcutta: Courthouse -> University
Trade gems to Alex for 9gpt.
(2)
IBT: Ghenghis Khan comes asking for us to cancel deals with Hatty. She's giving us Copper that we want for the statue, so I say No, not at the moment. I then cancel the free bananas we are giving him and trade them back to him for some fish. Then I sold him some dye for 7gpt.
(3)
Another wonder down
Delhi: Taj -> Statue of Liberty
Karachi: Granary -> Library
Nanjing: Granary -> Libary
A Great Prophet is born in Delhi. I send him to Bombay to build the Islamic Shrine. That's the last shrine we can build. Now we need to spread religions.
I push research to 100% during the Golden Age as we can afford it.
(4)
Madras: Courthouse -> Christian Monastery
IBT: Economics comes in and I revolt straight to Free Market for the trade.
(5)
I choose Astronomy as our next research target.
The Great Merchant is sent to Memphis as it's the most profitable city I can find. (2550 gold).
(6)
I MM a bit to emphasise growth and therefore allow our cities to use all those cottages. They take time to grow but the cities need to be big enough to work them all.
IBT: Both Ghenghis Khan and Alex both start Golden Ages too!!!!
(7)
(8)
Bangalore: Uni -> Hindu Missionary
Guangzhou: Courthouse -> Harbor
(9)
Madras: Christian Monastery -> Bank
Hanno (Great Merchant) arrives in Memphis and gives us 2550 gold. We can now afford to run 100% research for a long long time.
(10)
(11)
Bombay: Courthouse -> Knight
Bangalore: Hindu Missionary -> Hindu Missionary.
(12)
Lahore: Uni -> Barracks
Astonomy in (1) and Statue in (17) <- This is GA turns so will go out a bit once the GA finishes next turn. No-one has democracy so it's not a threat.
We need to build banks, grocers and markets in our shrine cities to increase the shrine income by 100%. We can also pick one of them for Wall Street but we need enough banks to build that so it can wait a little longer.
Always remember we have free civic swaps, use them if you see a civic that will suit us for even 5 turns as you can go back afterwards. You can use this by starting a number of military unit builds in a number of cities and before they finish you switch to Theocracy.. and then after 5 turns switch back. You can also put a building in front of the units just before they are finished so the unit goes into the queue. When you have a number of cities with units queued behind buidlings, switch civics, finish all the units at once. Takes a bit of preparation and care but it's not too difficult.
Another point, we need to watch our power level. Build military if you can't think of anything else to build. And missionaries. Lots of them. Let's spam them to every city we can possibly send them to.
Give me your thoughts on what civics we should go to. I would like to switch to Universal Sufferage when we have spread religion a bit more as we will have gold to spend on rushing things. Free Speech
once we finish the statue to give us +2
from towns and a bit later, free religion for the boost to relations.
Here's the save:
. As I am a bit confused 
. Then we will roll this thing up!!
Welcome back Atlas.
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