2 turns out from the FP. I started slowly moving workers toward Punjab (FP site) so they could help chop forests to hurry the aquaduct once the FP is done but some of the workers are 4-5 squares away.
One lone settler is on auto, heading for the last dot left south of Punjab.
I gathered all of the "free roaming" MDI we had and a couple of horses (upgraded to WE) near Kholapur (sp?) to the SE of Delhi. All of the MDI/WE are in sentry mode except for the top unit so it's easier to find them.
Mono was discovered early on and all of the cities that seemed to immediately need cathedrals built them so our unhappiness seems more under control, although it wouldn't hurt to still keep an eye on things.
Almost all of the cities that weren't on fresh water I now have building aquaducts with the thought that once our FP comes in we'll have the ability to support more people easier, and they'll be more efficient.
Military count:
11 Warriors
8 Swordsmen
17 MDI
6 Horsemen
2 War Elephants
47 Spearmen
2 Pike's.
IMHO, we have enough offense and need more/better defense! WIth this in mind I have the cities that produce 14 shields building WE, since they upgrade to Cav later, and the cities on 15-16 shields building pikemen. Some of our southern cities had a Swordsman and Warrior defending them, which is not good, IMHO.
Pikes are moving on auto to our Southern cities to help bolster them more.
We might also want to build more catapults, since they upgrade a long way, and concentrate less on the MDI since they only upgrade to Guerilla, at best.
Hrm, what else... Discovered Mono, Chivalry (chose that to get our WE sooner, before the Iroq are destroyed, if Abe feels froggy we might get a Golden Age out of it) and Theology is next in the next 1-2 turns. Research now is at most at a slight defecit, -10 gpt, if that, but I believe it's positive now. Should be even better once the FP completes.
Korea made contact and offered Monarchy for 470 gold around 890-910 AD so I bought it in worse case scenraio we need to swap to that.
The "cowboys" are still fighting the "Indians", and our military is better than everyone BUT America's, and our culture is worse than America's as well. Let's hope Abe decides to fight France next, or better yet, not fight at all, otherwise we'll be stuck on the same land mass as the proverbial 800 pound gorilla!
America and France are building Leo's, so it looks like we're still down 4 tech's at least; Education, Astronomy, Engineering, Invention. We won't know what else until we get at least Theology shortly.
Don't forget to start re-arranging workers on our size 12 cities so they will crank more shields once max population is been reached. Some workers near Bombay and Delhi are working on more shield intensive projects to help with this fact.
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