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Pre-tun:
Establish an embassy with Ottomans. Sogut builds swordsman, 6spt, it has 3 luxuries(dyes, insense, silks).
Improvements: barracks, temple, cathedral and colosseum.
Resourses: 2 Horses and 2 Iron.
The Ottomans are in Despotism.
Make peace treaty with Rome.
IBT
A Persian warrior/settler pair lands near the place of where Leptis was(I hope they're not going for the wools east of Rome), and I see 1 more Persian galley reaching.
260AD (1)
Rome: temple >> barracks.
Hippo: library >> courthouse.
Carthage: hoplite >> hoplite.
Hurry temple in Theveste for 236g.
Make a single scientist in Rome and shut down research, +12gpt.
IBT
It looks like the persian settler/warrior pair is going for the wools, maybe we'll be forced to declare if they take them.
270AD (2)
Trying to block the persian settler/warrior as best as I can: they clearly going for the wools.
IBT
Ottomans and Greece(we haven't met the later yet) sign peace treaty.
Theveste: temple >> harbor.
The persian settler/warrior pair retreats after was blocked efficiently.
280AD (3)
Persia knows Monarchy.
Carthage: hoplite >> hoplite.
290AD (4)
Persia settles Bactra north of Rome: we can live with it for the moment and maybe the city will be fall in our hands from culture at some point. Right now there're plenty of land for Rome to work, and 1 tile less for Rome(after Bactra's expansion won't do anything to us.)
300AD (5)
Carthage: hoplite >> hoplite
Utica: cathedral >> courthouse.
310AD (6)
We see green borders south of Sogut(Ottoman capital); we'll contact Greece in 1-2 turns.
320AD (7)
Carthage: hoplite >> hoplite.
Rome is doing better now, and we can make a useless entertainer to work. Just be careful because our single scientist is in Rome.
330AD (8)
Monarchy is known by some civs now, so next turn, thanks to the GL, we'll learn it.
Utica completes it's courthouse next turn, and is going to begin the Hanging Gardens. I must say that Utica is our most powerful shield-city.
We meet Greece: Alex is ahead with Monarchy. Greece is in Republic.
Establish embassy with Greece for 115g: Athens is size 9, 22spt, is building the Colosseum(just now will begin building it and it's due in 5 turns) and from what I see, Greece must have it's Golden Age, judging from the shields it's tiles give(example: 4 shields a mined hill, etc...).
Greece has 2 horses and iron.
Establish embassy with Keltoi and they're in Despotism: Entremont is size 6, 7spt, has 1 iron and 1 horse and is produce wealth.
We probably have enough money for now, 105g, +29gpt, Theology in 32, 0% science - It doesn't do anything if we raise the slider.
IBT
The GL gives us the Monarchy.
Greece begins the Hanging Gardens in Thermopylae: We can't see the city, but it probably isn't so powerful like Athens, since there must be some corruption - it's not the capital.
340AD (9)
Carthage: hoplite >> hoplite.
Rome: barracks >> library.
Utica: courthouse >> Hanging Gardens. Utica produces 23spt with the courthouse(24spt, -1spt from corruption), and will finish the Hanging Gardens in 14 turns.
Hippo: courthouse >> marketplace.
IBT
Babylon starts the Hanging Gardens.
350AD (10)
Nothing.
Summary
1) Develop Hippos' terrain asap. I have 2 workers that clear a forest; they should mine the grassland tile Hippo works, and then cut the other forest at north.
After that, clear the forest with the spices, because Hippo needs to grow further and at some point to work it's second hill(after it's roaded/mined).
Hippo should built the cathedral after the marketlace.
When the 2 workers in Carthage finish mining the mountain, they should join Hippo(currently at size 8, and I already joined a worker in the city).
2) Let Carthage to produce Hoplites all the time for now. I have secured the most part of the ivory-area, and we should occupy the rest tiles and the tiles north/east of Utica.
After that, we should occupy
ALL the tiles that can be settled west of Carthage and on the way towards Rome(hills, graasland, plains, forests), so no one can settle in near the mountain areas.
Maybe we could produce units from Hippo also for a little time(cheap units, like archers, as, unlike Carthage, it needs some time to pump hoplites), so we start occupying more tiles, as it's crucial to control all the mountain area.
3) I have enough units fortified east of Rome to not let anyone to settle by landing from the sea or coming from the land, near the 2 wools.
4) Clear all the jungle east of Rome and where our fortified units near the wools are(in jungle, our units could die if they stay for many turns, although it's not something that I saw very often, as I usually don't fortify units in such terrain for long time).
5) Rome will need a cathedral/marketplace after the library to be more happy, although is in better condition now.
Theveste is building a harbor, in case the area to our core cities is settled by other civs or if someone settles and declare war, so our cities will have the luxuries/resources they need.
That's it for now: later on we'll estimate the situation again.