It was a busy kind of set even though nothing major happened. When I looked at the opening save I thought that our economy was slightly compromised and tried to fix it a bit.
1550.(pre-turn).
Jaipur: whip granary.
Cologne, Delhi, Essen and Madras: all builds changed to courthouse.
Hamburg change build to grocer (health).
1505.
The middle-age hippy makes us an offer we can't refuse! (should but can't
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Still annoyed? How about some festive cheer?
Munich builds Llongbow (welsh longbow), starts granary.
Jaipur builds granary, starts CH.
GS in Delhi, no idea what to do with him. Park GS in Delhi.
Trade engineering to Liz for banking +140g.
Trade music to Mao for 260g.
Trade rice to Mao for 7gpt.
Notice Liz has paper and philosophy = liberalism beeline. Change to chemistry.
1510.
Mao wants gunpowder for his christmas fire-crackers. Of course, Comrade.
Seasons greetings
Berlin builds cat, starts christian monastery.
Frankfurt builds mace, starts buddhist monastery.
Trade gunpowder to Liz for paper, optics, 10 g.
No other trades available.
Alex is annoyed. Cheer up good buddy
Research up to 50%. Culture reduced to 0%. Happy anyway.
1515.
Whip CH in Hamburg
Whip CH in Cologne
WhipCH in Delhi
Vicky now has education and philosophy.
1520.
Our Christmas generosity wins over Mao:
Now we're friends (almost) its time to open borders with Mao.
Sell paper to Mao for 210g (he needs it for fire-crackers).
Munich builds granary, starts christian missionary.
Delhi builds courthouse, starts grocer.
Hamburg builds courthouse, resumes grocer.
Cologne builds courthouse, resumes musket.
Research up to 60% (-11gpt).
Delete lvl1 archer, upgrade 4 CG2 archers to longbows.
1525.
Cologne completes musket, starts grocer.
Essen whips courthouse.
Berlin completes christian monastery, starts grocer.
Hamburg completes grocer, resumes christian temple.
1530.
Frankfurt completes buddhist monastery, starts buddhist missionary.
Monte declare war vs Asoka.
1535.
Hamburg completes christian temple, starts buddhist monastery.
1540.
Agree OB with Asoka.
1545.
Dortmund whips courthouse.
Frankfurt completes buddhist missionary, starts cat.
1550.
Dortmund completes courthouse, starts granary.
Gems appear near Cologne.
Monte captures Lahore.
Liz discovers liberalism.
Berlin goes buddhist.
End of Set.
Still got GS in Delhi. He could lightbulb towards education. We're breaking even at 60% research and about 10 turns from chemistry. We've got a stack of knights just north of Delhi as a quick reaction force.
The peace treaty with Asoka expires next turn, he's got two southern cities left. We've got a small stack nearby:
Final thoughts; As you may have noticed I like grocers:+3 health, +25% cash ain't bad. Economy has improved. I'm wondering if (edit:jungle city n.e. of) Essen has the potential for a long term superscience city (lots of jungles being converted to cottages); if so it might be best to use GS for academy there.
Let's polish off Asoka; he can't ask for peace within ten turns.
Power:
Demographics:
Save in post below.
. When Asoka asks us to declare on Alex, we're toast. Some military please 
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2 wars for the price of 1.
Declare war and sign a peace deal on the same turn! I didn't even know that was possible! 
