Infrastructure: Not much going on, seeing as we only had 5 workers at the start of my turn. Not too big a surprise, really, as we've been concentrating so much on settlers. What workers we do have are mostly concentrating on the road net, though I did spare a couple for irrigating bonus tiles on our high-food cities. Vetoed a couple things at the start of my turn, but nothing too drastic, and mostly in the outlying areas -- our core cities spent most of my turn building granaries. One of our cities is building a harbour for trade purposes as well as because it has pretty much no good food tiles available. All our cities with sufficient food are primarily still working on expansion (post-granary, of course.) Sirian, it's time to update the dot-map; you should have several settlers coming due shortly on your turn. There are also several temples in need of whipping on your turn.
Military: I tried to skimp as much here as possible in favour of infrastructure. We do have a couple cities pumping military (I had to build a barracks 1st in one case) simply because they are food-limited and there's nothing else good to build. We built our 1st legion near the end of my turn, it is in Rome awaiting instructions. There is a barb camp to the east of Rome, on the coast east of the warrior fortified on the iron hill; that might make a good proving ground for our (hopefully) elite force!
Research: Ho hum. Didn't veto the 10% into Literature, I guess it's possible we might eventually get it that way since we still need contact with a bunch of civs to lower the price enough for it to be worthwhile to buy it. Still 30 turns off.
Diplomacy: Ho hum, there doesn't seem to be much going on here either. Gave Joanie another 50 gold for her birthday since we don't have a trade route to her territory yet. Soon she will have her own gems and won't need ours, but there's always furs and spices! (Hmm. spicy furs... no, don't want to go there!
) We don't really have the workers to spare to be gifting her any right now anyway. 
Looks like everything is proceeding apace, albeit with no firm plans at the moment other than land-grab. Two things that need a bit of attention are (1) FP location, and (2) whether to try to grab any land beyond the bottleneck at Cumae, with the latter decision affecting the former. Unfortunately the best spot for our FP if we don't expand past Cumae is in the middle of a mountain range, whereas if we do expand past Cumae then our bottleneck city might become our FP city.
Military: I tried to skimp as much here as possible in favour of infrastructure. We do have a couple cities pumping military (I had to build a barracks 1st in one case) simply because they are food-limited and there's nothing else good to build. We built our 1st legion near the end of my turn, it is in Rome awaiting instructions. There is a barb camp to the east of Rome, on the coast east of the warrior fortified on the iron hill; that might make a good proving ground for our (hopefully) elite force!
Research: Ho hum. Didn't veto the 10% into Literature, I guess it's possible we might eventually get it that way since we still need contact with a bunch of civs to lower the price enough for it to be worthwhile to buy it. Still 30 turns off.
Diplomacy: Ho hum, there doesn't seem to be much going on here either. Gave Joanie another 50 gold for her birthday since we don't have a trade route to her territory yet. Soon she will have her own gems and won't need ours, but there's always furs and spices! (Hmm. spicy furs... no, don't want to go there!
) We don't really have the workers to spare to be gifting her any right now anyway. Looks like everything is proceeding apace, albeit with no firm plans at the moment other than land-grab. Two things that need a bit of attention are (1) FP location, and (2) whether to try to grab any land beyond the bottleneck at Cumae, with the latter decision affecting the former. Unfortunately the best spot for our FP if we don't expand past Cumae is in the middle of a mountain range, whereas if we do expand past Cumae then our bottleneck city might become our FP city.
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![[party]](/images/smilies/partytime.gif "Party [party]")
He has jumped behind little Joanie and IS STEALING HER JUNGLE LANDS. That bully is going to have to be punished, and we're going to have to take those lands away from him at some point (and give them to Joanie 
so she can make use of them).
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Seems like our little sis could use some lessons in tact -- we love her, but gotta recognize the flaws as well as the virtues... 
