Sounds like a good plan, vra. Greece is gone now. We can go for Korea in a just a few more turns.
Inherited turn (1860 AD): I wondered why were were researching Biology. If we want to conduct an intercontinental war, we're going to need an intercontinental navy, meaning we need Combustion. We've got some beakers invested in Biology already, so I left it alone. I'll go for Combustion when it completes.
War weariness was setting in pretty good. I cranked up the culture slider to 40% to speed up production of all the infrastructure that I found being built:
The Pentagon(6) in London
West Point(12) in Athens
Wall Street(10) and Scotland Yard(21) in Nottingham
The Kremlin(5) and Mt. Rushmore(6) in Nidaros
5 Stock Exchanges and 6 Factories amoung others
Out of 31 cities, we are building exactly 1 military unit -- a Cannon. You couldn't tell from the build queues that we were at war. Not a huge problem because we had a huge force hammering the final 2 Greek cities on the continent. There was an island city off our east coast that I wanted to capture to end the "We yearn to join our Motherland" unhappiness.
I decided to leave things unchanged until we captured Argos and Mycennae and then take a look at our situation at that point.
Turn 1 (1862 AD): Uppsala constructed a Market, started an Infantry(3). Tonsburg constructed a Forge, started a Barracks(5). Lodose constructed a Library, started a Forge(10). Haithabu constructed a Forge, started a Barracks(3). Dusseldorf trained a Cannon, started a Granary(6). Munich constructed a Barracks, started an Infantry(6).
A settler founded Coventry on our east coast. The citizen there started constructing a Lighthouse. I sent our Great General to Athens to build a Military Academy. He was planned to help produce very highly trained military units when West Point was completed there.
At Argos I sacrificed 2 Cannon, then sent in some grunts and a Cavalry to capture the city. We kept it and the 221 gold.
Turn 2 (1864 AD): Birka constructed a Stock Exchange, started an Infantry. We gotta start garrisoning our core cities!
A Great Engineer was born in London. He can start a golden age, contribute 1570

to the discovery of Combustion, or help us build something kewl. I put him to sleep there in London.
Ratz, our General arrived in Athens only to discover Alexander had already built a military academy there. I checked our cities. London had an academy already. Nidaros, our 2nd best hammer producer doesn't have a military academy but was going to be building Wonders for the next 9 turns and probably more after that. An academy there would be a waste. Next in order, after Athens, was Upsalla. I sent our General there. Unfortunately, he wouldn't make it in time to improve the skill of its first Infantry unit to come off the assembly line.
In Greece, we hae no Cannons available to cause collateral damage in Mycenae. I called in a Galleon who had been guarding a fishing nets outside of Canterbury to help ferry some Cannons healing across the bay there.
Turn 3 (1866 AD): Hastings constructed a Factory, started an Infantry(3). Jelling constructed a Taoist Temple, started a Jail(7). Cologne constructed a Factory, started an Infantry(5). Hamburg constucted an Observatory, started an Infantry(3).
Turn 4 (1868 AD): Uppsala trained an Infantry, started a Cannon(2). This was the start of the Haithabu constructed a Barracks, started a Cannon(9). Berlin constructed a Courthouse, started a Theatre(10).
Throughout these times, had a slew of workers building lumbermills and railroads in the forests outside our core cities. Our Great Merchant arrived in China:
I decided to extend our risk a little bit longer and have him explore this continent a while and shop around for the best deal.
Turn 5 (1870 AD): Nidaros constructed the Kremlin, started Mt. Rushmore. After pondering a few minutes, I decided it was worthwhile for our Engineer to rush its construction. We'll be able to start cranking out Infantry when it's completed out of many of our cities that are now languishing with War Weariness. It was possible we could turn down the Culture Slider and speed up our research once again, all while finishing off all of Greece's cities. While I really like building the 3 Gorges Dam, the benefit from Mt. Rushmore is needed now just to get us closer to the point where we can finish researching Electricity. It would take our Engineer 3 turns to get to Nidaros.
At Mycenae:
Meanwhile, the bombardment of Mycenae was complete. We lost one CR III Cannon taking the city. That leaves Alex with 1 city off our east coast. There was a Galleon there waiting to ferry units across the channel and a Frigate doing performing some preliminary bombardments.
Turn 6 (1872 AD): London completed the Pentagon, went back to work on a Confucian Academy. Hastings trained an Infantry,s tarted a Cannon(2). Birka terained an Infantry, started another(3). Roskilde constructed a Stock Exchange, started an Infantry(5). Uppsala trained a Cannon, started an Infantry(3). Tonsberg constructed a Barracks, started a Theatre(4). Hamburg trained an Infantry, started another(4). Dortmund constructed a Stock Exchange, started a Factory(23). Knossos constructed a Courthouse, started a Granary(9).
I spent about 1100 gold cash-rushing lots of Theatres, Exchanges and Factories as well as Wall Street.
Turn 7 (1874 AD): London constructed a Confucian Academy, started a Coal Plant(1). York constructed a Factory, started a an Infantry(5). Canterbury constructed a Stock Exchange, started a Factory(13). Jelling constructed a Jail, started an Islamic Temple(3). Tonsberg constructed a Theatre, started a Lighthouse(4). Losose constructed a Forge, started a Factory(19). Bjorgvin constructed a Factory,s tarted Barracks(2). Dusseldorf constructed a Granary, started a Courthouse(12). Sparta constructed a Factory,s tarted Barracks(1). Berlin constructed a Theatre, started Taoist Temple(10). Munich trained an Infantry,s tarted a Drydock(5). Stuttgart constructed a Stock Exchange, started a Forge(9). Coventry constructed a Lighthouse, started a Granary(19). Nottingham completed Wall Street, gaining us around 70

/turn at our current tax rate of 30%, and started building Scotland Yard.
Turn 8 (1876 AD): Sitguna trained a Settler, started an Infantry(1). The settler founded Warrick at the northern end of Sitguna's island. London constructed a Coal Plant, started a an Infantry(1). Hastings trained a Cannon, started a Grocer. Sigtuna trained an Infantry, started Granary(7). Cologne trained an Infantry, started a Grocer(4). Sparta constructed a Barracks, started an Infantry(5). I got a message saying Nottingham couldn't continue working on Scotland Yard. I started a Lighthouse(1) there.
Our Engineer arrived at Nidaros. There are only 4 turns remaining on Mt. Rushmore and the war is almost over, so I canceled plans to rushbuild it with the Engineer. I put him to sleep in anticipation of constructing Three Gorges Dam there.
Our first unit to reach the final Greek city, Hali(something), an Infantry was able to get 75% odds on a CGI Rifleman there so I sent him in. He survived and was reinforced by 2 Cannon.
Turn 9 (1878 AD): London trained an Infantry, started another(1). Nottingham constructed a Lighthouse, started a Factory(10). Birka trained an Infantry,s tarted Scotland Yard(9). Uppsala trained an Infantry,s tarted an Islamic Temple(1). Bjorgvin constructed a Barracks, started a Stock Exchange(6).
At the final Greek city, one of the Cannons finished off the Crossbowman and captured the city, eliminating Greece's carbon-footprint on our planet.
Turn 10 (1880 AD): London trained an Infantry, started another(1). Jelling constructed an Islamic Temple, started an Aqueduct(2). Uppsala constructed an Islamic Temple, started a Jail(2). Hamburg trained an Infantry, started a Library(2). Frankfurt constructed a Library, started a Drydock(9). Ephesus trained a Cavalry, started a Factory(14).
Combustion is due in 3 turns. I have a stack of Workers sitting on an Oil deposit, waiting for instructions to build a well there.
There is a large force assembling at Stuttgart, ready to move on Korea. A second, smaller force is gathering at Bjorgvin with the intent of taking Cheju, Wang's city in the heart of our Empire. Before declaring on Wang, I strongly recommend we train 6 more CG II Infantry to provide additional garrisons for the 6 cities on our western coast adjacent to Korea. Wang's Galleons and Frigates far outnumber ours and he'll be sure to land a huge stack of doom adjacent to one of them. I'd also hold back some Cavalry as a quick-reaction force in the west to counter his landing when it happens, and you know it will.
Our Merchant still hasn't found Mecca. The best deal he was able to garner is 1900

. If Mecca can't beat that, send him back to most any city in China to collect the 1900. Then upgrade the Redcoats in Stuttgart and go wipe out Korea.
And please please please, I must insist. Do not leave cities ungarrisoned, if simply for the happiness, if not my peace of mind.
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