Well, one problem is that your spreadsheet isn't correct for Murkow. Taking off the rice keeping iron at 10 sci is -6 food not -4. We are paying 5 fpt for the scientist or 2f 9h as we cannot even sustain that. At the same time GS3 isn't that urgent with the PP route. St. Pete is paying 3f 5h for a scientist by throwing out the cows. We could delay GS2 by a turn, which means we would also have to delay CC. CC could use the scientist turns zo put hammers into a settler instead (note again in CC the scientist turns in this GA aren't that efficient, if we assume NE at some time).
Right, I guess I forgot to change the hammers or something, it's been a while. Anyway, I was trying to get the 4 GSes by T65. If we can delay Lib til T69/70, then we can also try spreading out the GSes, what do you think? I haven't tried it, but I assume it could work. We might still have to run a turn or two without the iron or rice.
The thing is, klarius, the more I study the map, the more I see it as vital that we control certain tiles, either by settling or by placing a couple of knights there and being prepared to DoW to stop AI settling. The most critical is the London south peninsula. We must settle there to be 4 tiles from Bombay, obviously, and hopefully, CHurchill will settle in between. He would have to settle only 4 tiles from London. Would he? There is also a more subtle possibility of settling at London 1se-3s, which prevents anyone from settling 5 tiles from Bombay or even London 2se-2s which doesn't prevent settling 5 tiles from Bombay, but gives us 4 tiles to both London and York!!!
In any case, London and Bombay are both ICBM threats that we want to avoid. Furthermore, London opens up the entire de Gaulle chain reaction, if we miss out on the dyes site.
So I'm thinking it's pretty critical to get to use slavery for at least a couple more settlers in the T70s and then switch to Communism. Evidently you see an alternative since you're not so hooked on SP. How would you go about handling that situation differently?
on T66
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. First GS will build academy (which still should pay off in the long run relative to bulbing). We trade for education with PP (probably more than one will have it by then so it might work directly - otherwise we might have to put one more turn in).
by double-bulbing SM and taking Physics. Are you saving more by starving less? 
bonus in SP. Trivial, right? Damn wrong. It's huge. Earlier, klarius mentioned the Kremlin 4pop = 335h (for nukes). Well, add SP and you get 361h! What that means is that a pop10 city can 4pop and 3pop 2 nukes in about 5-7t. A pop14 city can poprush 3 nukes in 7t.
