Nick014
Deposed Despot
Ok, here is the summary:
I only played 10 turns this time, I haven't had a lot of time due to RL conflicts
Took out some Ottoman cities. between turn 2 and 3 the ottomans got both Bach AND Newton ON THE SAME TURN
This means that Persepolis just built the most expensive cavalry in the history of civ3, Tarsus changed to palace.
I've captured every Ottoman mainland city to the south of(including) Edrine, and I have a stack of about 9 cavalry outside of Istanbul should the next player want to risk an all out attack. I would however, recommend nabbing the Ottoman island cities in a peace deal and waiting for replaceable parts. This war has been expensive, and the Ottomans are probably in their golden age (they won many battles with their cavalry unit, I forget the name). This would be much better suited to the artilery/infantry stack of doom than a quick cavalry strike.
But it's up to you Nad, pick whichever one you want to do. The rail line from our main production cities to the front lines is complete, so the cavalry arive at the border the same turn they are produced.
Ottomans:
N1-1450AD
I only played 10 turns this time, I haven't had a lot of time due to RL conflicts
Took out some Ottoman cities. between turn 2 and 3 the ottomans got both Bach AND Newton ON THE SAME TURN
This means that Persepolis just built the most expensive cavalry in the history of civ3, Tarsus changed to palace.
I've captured every Ottoman mainland city to the south of(including) Edrine, and I have a stack of about 9 cavalry outside of Istanbul should the next player want to risk an all out attack. I would however, recommend nabbing the Ottoman island cities in a peace deal and waiting for replaceable parts. This war has been expensive, and the Ottomans are probably in their golden age (they won many battles with their cavalry unit, I forget the name). This would be much better suited to the artilery/infantry stack of doom than a quick cavalry strike.
But it's up to you Nad, pick whichever one you want to do. The rail line from our main production cities to the front lines is complete, so the cavalry arive at the border the same turn they are produced.
Ottomans:
N1-1450AD
I did not sell steam to Otto's as they don't have enough lump sum, and I don't want per-turn incase we want to attack them.
They have no coal, however 
I decided to sell our surplus coal to the Frenchies for WM, 554g and 8gpt. I founded Banpur on tundra isle in the south (you never know, oil might appear there). Arbela completed Magellan's, which may be useful if we have to attack the French or Celts. Generally quiet
when this is built we might want to go for democracy, as suffrage has a considerable effect on reducing war weariness, although I would personally prefer to stay in monarchy. The Otto's researched Communism on my last round too, but again, this is optional so I did not trade for it - the Frenchies will probably get it before long, so we could then use a monopoly tech (like electricity) to acquire both democracy and communism at the same time. Also founded Tweng Tepe on tundra isle (I've never seen these Persian city names before - shows how large our empire is actually getting).
