Back to my pre-flight check:
I decide to let the workers finish thier appointed tasks...
IBT - Resistance in English Walnut ends.
Silver Maple Library>Settler
Blue Palo Verde Library>Settler
Turn 1/650 AD
Workers road a recently cleared Jungle at Shagbark. Maybe roading these tiles will be a good way to "Mark" these tiles for planting trees later on.
Date Palm is one of those towns that will probably be woefully corrupt, so I spend 76g on a Temple, and I'll finish that one... selling it off after the borders expand.
Other short rushes:
72g to a Temple short-rush of Sequoia's Market.
36g to an Archer for something cultural at White Birch.
4g to a worker at Witchazel, and swap to Library.
36g to a settler short-rush of Pignut Hickory's Harbor.
36g to an archer short rush of a library at shagbark Hickory..
16g to an archer short rush of the library at Joshua Tree.
36g to a settler short rush of Cottonwood's Library.
68g to a granary short rush of Ponderosa Pine's Market.
36g to an archer short rush of Bald Cypress' Library.
36g to an archer short rush of Valley Oak's Library.
36g to an archer short rush of Palmetto's Library.
36g to a MDI short rush of Dogwood City's Library.
96g to a Granary short rush of the Court at Sumac City. Probably the last short rush there.
24g to a worker at Common Hop Tree, and swap to settler after verifying all its citizens are Iroquois.
72g on a Granary short rush of a Library at Lodgepole Pine.
We're actually making a little uncorrupted gold at English Walnut... rush a worker and swap to Library. Swap Date Palm to Library. Swap Coconut Palm back to Aqueduct...and we could build an even more profitable fishing village there. Short rush a Mounted Warrior into it.
I hired a scientist somewhere to shave a turn off Theology. Now at 809g+162gpt, Theology in 16.
IBT - a Barb Galley sinks attacking a galley near our capitol.
Turn 2/660 AD
841g+157gpt, Theology in 15.
Do some worker stuff... a scouting Galley has met the Hittites. We are up Republic, Monotheism, and Feudalism on Mursilis. He's nearly broke, with a single shilling to his name.
Cabbage Palm founded with our Spanish Settler.
Rushes/Short Rushes this turn:
72g on a Library short rush of Sequoia's Market. We'll now get that market before the city grows.
36g on a settler short rush of the Library at White Birch.
36g on a Barracks short rush of the Harbor at Pignut Hickory.
36g on a settler short rush of the Library at Shagbark Hickory.
36g on an archer short rush of Common Hop Tree's Settler.
36g on an archer short rush of English Walnut's Library.
28g on a settler short rush of the Library at Joshua Tree.
36g on a MDI short rush of the Library at Cottonwood.
68g on a Library short rush of the Market at Ponderosa Pine.
36g on a settler short rush of Palmetto's Library
76g on a Granary towards Dogwood City's Library.
@SimpleMonkey: Sequoia will be a good place to practice my short rushing techniques. It needs a library, but it needs a market more. It's producing good gold, but we're working a lot of coastal tiles to get it. White Birch may need a harbor.
IBT - I see a red Ancient Cavalry looking like it's headed for the Hittites...might be time for a diplo check.
Tamarac finishes its Aqueduct, starts training Mounted Warriors.
Silver Birch Worker>Harbor
Turn 3/670 AD
Spend 52g on an embassy with Babylon. Sure enough, that capitol is defended by Pikes.
Rushes and Shorts:
76g to complete Pignut Hickory's Harbor.
28g on a barracks short rush of Joshua Tree's Library.
108g to complete Ponderosa Pine's Market.
36g on a MDI short rush of White Birch's Library.
Red Oak is producing 28gpt with a court due next turn.
IBT - Mursilis complains of our trespassing galley.
Douglas Fir Settler>MDI
Ponderosa Pine Market>Library
Red Oak Courthouse>MDI (Now making us 33gpt)
Pignut Hickory Harbor>Library
Turn 4/680 AD
Begin the turn with 473g, +158gpt, Theology in 13.
Sumac City's Court comes in, currently making us 27gpt.
72g on Dogwood City's Library. Time to stop defecit rushing, and leave SimpleMonkey something to work with.
IBT - Barb Galleys shuffle.
Dogwood City Library>Harbor
Sumac City Court>Mounted Warrior (now making 30gpt)
Coastal Redwood Worker>Library
Turn 5/690 AD
Start with 523g, +157gpt, Theology in 12.
Babylon now knows Engineering Do NOT buy it for GPT. We do not want to feed the AI research machine in this variant.
We might not really want Chivalry in this one if we can help it.... but we can discuss as a team.
28g on a worker to short-rush Ponderosa Pine's Library.
16g on a Pike towards Bald Cypress' Library.
Aspen looks like another good candidate for a court. Rush the Galley for 40g, swap it, hire a scientist.
Somebody put a slave worker to work clearing some marsh that looks like a decent spot for a town. I've been sending more workers up there to help out.
Spend 75g on an Embassy in Chichen Itza. Smoke-Jag has Iron. I count 7 Spears and 4 Javelin Throwers defending the city.
IBT - we get a palace expansion, and I grow the palace tall, like the trees.
Turn 6/700 AD:
Spend 52g on a settler at Blue Palo Verde.
28g on an archer short rush to the library at Ponderosa Pine.
24g on a MDI short rush of the Library at Palmetto.
44g on a Granary short rush of the Library at Joshua Tree.
Drop a settler off on that island to the west.
IBT
Blue Palo Verde Settler>Market
Hittites start Sun Tzu's.
Turn 7/710
Red Mangrove founded on the Island.
Spend 60g on a Temple in Cottonwood, swap to Library.
28g on a settler into Ponderosa Pine's Library.
16g into a pike at Valley Oak for a Library.
8g into a MDI for Aspen's Court.
Spend 40g on a Pike in Tamarac, and swap to Market.
IBT - We get a cultural expansion at...
Lodgepole Pine Library>Court
Turn 8/720
Babylon and Arabia both have Theology and Engineering. We'll get 'em both next turn.
One of the advantages to self-research is that when you do get beaten to a tech you're researching, the beakers you have invested are factored into the trade. If we didn't have the Great Library, I could buy Theology from Abu for 276g. Since we have the GLib, I swap all of the scientists to Tax collectors to take our treasury from +167 to +218gpt.
Water Tupelo founded this turn.
Spend 64g on a settler in Silver Maple, and swap to Market.
16g to a settler for Common Hop Tree's Library
56g to complete Joshua Tree's Library.
108g on a Temple Short-Rush of Ponderosa Pine's Library.
24g on a worker to Blue Palo Verde's Market.
End the turn at 295g, +228gpt.
IBT - Engineering and Theology come in.
Joshua Tree Library>Court
Douglas Fir MDI>MDI
Red Oak MDI>MDI
Staghorn Sumac completes the
Heroic Epic, starts a Court
Babylonians start Sistine Chapel.
Turn 9/730 AD
At Cabbage Palm I
plant trees on a game tile that was marsh last turn. Chalk one up for Mother Earth.
Spend 20g on a worker for the Library at Pignut Hickory.
12g on a MDI for Shagbark Hickory's Library.
36g on a barracks short rush of Common Hop Tree's Library.
12g on a settler for English Walnut's Library
Fiddle with the specialists, and we're at 444g, +172gpt, Education in 16. Taking the Science Slider to 20% gets us Education in 10 turns at +117gpt.
Fiddling with sumac city gets us to 8spt...a funny number. Spend 8g rushing the Mounted Warrior and swap to MDI.
24g on an Archer short rush of Blue Palo Verde's market.
Scouting galley spots what may be another landmass East of Hittites.
IBT - nada
Turn 10
Something must have grown, Education is now due in 8.
Spend 56g on the Library at Ponderosa Pine.
32g on a Temple short rush of Aspen's Court.
24g on a MDI for Silver Maple's Market
24g on a Settler for Blue Palo Verde's Market.
16g to FINISH Sequoia's market.
28g on a worker for Joshua Tree's Court.
@Next better player: Priority improvements to rush along: A Library in Sequoia, Markets in Silver Maple and Blue Palo Verde. Anywhere you can pick up a "resource" tile is also helpful... for example, Cottonwood could pick up a couple of whales with a border expansion, and Joshua tree will pick up a tobacco with border growth.
Do anything you want on the resource tiles, plant trees on roaded tiles that don't have a resource. We can use the roads to keep track of tiles we need to plant, and then Seattle's Brave Warriors can trot through the woods on their spotted ponies.
The Forbidden Palace is due in Rowen Tree next turn!
Things should get even better then. We do not seem to be suffering badly from corruption at all. I leave you with 346g, +113gpt, and Education due in 8.
I reccomend we go Education>Astronomy>Navigation. Prior to Navigation we may need to sign a RoP with Arabia to use one of Abu's Sea tiles for a Mayan campaign. Maya have the Great Lighthouse... if we can take and hold that we can own the seas early.
The next few sets won't be "exciting", but they'll set the stage for endgame.
Here's
>>>The Save<<< 
I haven't even opened the save yet. Unless I do a middle of the night insomnia set tonight or tomorrow, it doesn't look like I'm going to get to this until next weekend. 
Unless I post a turnlog in the next 48 or so, please skip me this go round. Or sooner if folks get impatient.
