emperor, not k-mod
Not sure exactly which victory type I'm shooting for. Right now I don't exactly feel like backstabbing De Gaulle, Sury's far away and the continent of unit spammers Mehmed and the very much reduced Sitting Bull isn't exactly tempting either.
Since I built so many ratthaus and my capitol was a bit subpar for bureaucracy I have been running an espionage economy with nationalism for a very long time, using ~20-30% espionage and ~20% science. It's been working pretty well. Most techs have been stolen from Cheju and Pyongyang and some from Orleans.
I managed to get three cities on France's West coast, two from barbarians, culture hasn't been a huge problem though I could reclaim a few tiles even now.
. Here was my land at the time
Instead of a knight war, I upgraded my knights to cuirasiers and declared on Justinian (the only buddhist on our island though initially I had more buddhist cities than hindu). De Gaulle joined the war and took Justinian's fourth and last city while I took the others. After Constantinople (chock full of wonders and a pretty good buddhist shrine and a second Scotland Yard) the other cities didn't have too much.
I cannot resist settling open land and discovered the island to the south before France had any cities there. They did get one before my galley arrived and captured this barbarian city twice only to have it recaptured twice. Two cuirasiers sent to the island captured three barb cities. Up to present the French have two cities on the island and I have eight.
Eventually I decided I was being too peaceful and decided Wang was too good a target with the Hindu shrine and triple corn capitol with Spiral Minaret, a few other wonders and as I would find, a third Scotland Yard. Here's the start of the war, planned to coincide with rifles-cavalry upgrade, those are leftover from the Byzantine war.
Mehmed declared on me and took this city. The draft really helped take it back and get some military on this not very promising island. I bribed De Gaulle into this war (I had begged gold from him before I started the Korean war to avoid unexpected vassaling and this would keep him busy after that first peace treaty had ended). A further bonus was the French navy has demolished the Ottoman navy and I haven't had trouble since then.
I figured that if I wanted to keep Pyongyang and Seoul, Korea would be a very weak vassal with a hole cut through the center of their territory. I have taken it all and will probably hunt down their island cities. Kinda too bad, he was willing to vassal after losing his first city and a bunch of maces and hwachas.
Not really sure what my strategy is after this, will probably pause here for a day or two. Still stealing most techs, just now from De Gaulle.
, which isn't very much with so many brown tiles around you. It's not at all clear to me that the corn can be spared.
) water tiles? I'm having trouble (again) with placement. And map doesn't help LOL No city there can get 2 (or 3) food resources...best place for floodplains is 2S of vine, but then all other cities get too much overlap or something...and if I do like I alt-x'd, sheep is out of all BFC's
Still went ahead and moved my capital to Seoul as it looks a fantastic commerce capital. However, the city is being hosed in culture and I've had to stuff the place with about 15 units just to keep it afloat.
is a lot better then 350? 
for making peace with Sitting Bull, cause he's stronger and was winning that war.
