Preturn - Switched Utica to produce wealth, while waiting for GL to arrive
T1 530BC Roman Archer from Veii attacks our archer and dies; another archer leaves Neapolis I think I'd like to destroy Veii before making peace with Romans. Checked cities, assigned tasks to workers.
T2 510BC, Leptis Magna finished Galley -> library, Theveste - Library -> sword; rushed GL in Utica. Galley reached remote land; I can see dark green border, but no units or cities in direct view. Another Galley blocks passage to the Persian island.
T3 490 BC. GL is complete. Dark Green borders were Celts, not very advanced nation. I sold them math for 20 gold. That was all they had. Archer kills roman archer and gets promoted to elite.
T4 470BC Nothing much is going on, Indian galley appeared, but guess what, "passage blocker" worked. Our galley moves along Celts coast, another galley up north went east, crossed ocean and spotted a land. All AIs are broke...
Can't make a deal with Xerxes any more... I waited till now hoping to get more money from him, but it looks like he went totally broke and sold his harbor... No trading with Persia is possible for some time. (I am not sure if it would affect our reputation if I made a deal earlier just to break it in a turn or two.)
T5 450BC Romans landed an archer from galley near Leptis Magna; I guess roman galley didn't have a settler after all. Sword kills that archer. I destroyed Veii, no losses on our side. With help of catapults I killed 2 legions, I think all they had. I had one elite victory this turn, but no luck this time. Will make peace with Rome next turn.
I haven't been given instructions what to do with Roman slaves, so I am sending some towards our land and left few to road southern shores and land for easy troop movements, There is one slave roads Jungle since beginning of my turns, I am not sure the purpose but I left it to finish.
Celts land is rich. Galley spotted horses, iron and 2 silks next to each other.
T6. 430BC Oops, Xerxes has construction that is where he must have put all his money. I offered him CoL, Lit and all our money but he won't take it. Our cash register is low only 90BC and +1GPT. More news - No peace with Rome this turn, I spotted Roman settler, we will have to wait until next turn to kill.
T7 410BC. Killed roman spear and enslaved settler. Two more workers. Making peace with Romans. They gave us 2 cities and 2 more workers. Rome is left with a single city. Here comes the problem, Xerxes can trade again...BUT
He would give me Horses for either wool and CoL or wool and 34Gold.... After long thinking and haggling with greedy Persian I am giving gold, may be we could use CoL to trade for construction in future... Switched to Horses in Theveste and Hippo.
The rest of AIs are still broke. We are paying too much of military overhead at this age... I suggest we scrap catapults and archers towards construction projects in our cities and build few Horses instead. A-ha... Galley spotted orange border... We will have to see who is that next turn.
Oh right, I forgot, I had a settler so we expanded to 8 cities, Utica switched to FP and I have abandoned 3 cities.
Last roman city has only one citizen and I hope they don't have spare settlers left.
T8 390BC. Orange border was Ottomans; Guess what, they have construction... Forget it Xerxes, Great Library will give us free construction next turn. Same galley spotted dark blue border.
T9 370BC. I surrounded Neapolis with Archers, although on a second thought it is a silly move, Neapolis will expand in few turns. (LATER EDIT: Actually not silly on the third thought, we need to restrain roman settlers some how until peace deal is over). Galley sees more of a blue border but no units no cities in sight yet. I sold CoL (good choice on trading Horses for gold previously) to Xerxes for furs and 49 gold. I thought I could moves lux slider to 0% but no, Utica people are not happy. I will add one more MP to Utica. I switched Theveste to build aqueduct.
T10 350BC Added horseman to MP in Utica, but people are still not happy. Dark blue border was Babylon. Quite backward nation. I sold them math for 26 gold. Also sold construction to Gandhi for 10 gold. The rest of AIs have no more than 2 gold in cash. One civilization is left to discover (LATER EDIT: actually more than one, i never looked up space race and haven't realized how many are there). Oops, I shouldn't really have traded on the last turn; I messed up my turn records and thought I still have one to go... Good think I looked at the date and it made my suspicious, had to recount... I've done.... Tarkeel is next.
Here is the map:
FrontPage palace has 11 turns to go. Firaxis score - 307, Jason - 407
After Carthage builds library it can start mass producing horses, Leptis Magna finishes library in 1 turn, we can start building aqueduct. I didn't start building neither library nor aqueduct in Hippo, since we might move this city and establish new one down south. This is opened for discussion.
I tried to MM my best, but i am sure Wotan will find something to complain about.
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Nice thought, but i am afraid it won't work... There is an article i read somewhere on this web site. You can use this trick only if both sides don't know nothing aand haven't contacted other civilizations.... Because we have already contacted Persia and India it is too late....
, Nah never..... 
That's an excellent idea, since i am playing after Wotan. 
I have to read through the whole exchange of thoughts you have had, before any official DoW though... 
