Got it. We seem to have accomplished quite a bit with our bizarre mix of longbows and skirmishers, though I'm not convinced attacking Cordoba was worth it. I am worried about Isa getting horseback riding if we simply let her have peace now though, but we are not in a position to attack further yet. In 10 turns though, we should have some catapults.
Two civs have currency but both are 'we don't want to trade it away just yet.' Hmm. Never seen that before for Currency. I think it is to our advantage to delay the spread of alphabet (and thus other techs like horseback riding) further. Saladin is researching it, probably doesn't have it yet, but won't spread it around even when he does unless other civs have something of value to trade him.
With this in mind I do the following diplomacy:
Peace with Isa <-> IW + Monotheism
CoL + Monarchy to Saladin <-> Calendar + 20 gold
Interestingly, peace with Isa reconnects Seville to the trade network so it's not unhealthy anymore. It will build a worker, we are short of those, and this is something useful it CAN do.
I do a couple of resource trades with Saladin, think of these as reserving those resources for later when we have several silk connected and another wheat source at Madrid.
Hired a scientist at Timbuktu for now, to give us at least a chance of getting a GS instead of a GP. Academy/Philosophy would be better than settled Prophet/Theology. There is iron here, although there's a cottage on top of it for some bizarre reason.
Pre-turn show over.
Two civs have currency but both are 'we don't want to trade it away just yet.' Hmm. Never seen that before for Currency. I think it is to our advantage to delay the spread of alphabet (and thus other techs like horseback riding) further. Saladin is researching it, probably doesn't have it yet, but won't spread it around even when he does unless other civs have something of value to trade him.
With this in mind I do the following diplomacy:
Peace with Isa <-> IW + Monotheism
CoL + Monarchy to Saladin <-> Calendar + 20 gold
Interestingly, peace with Isa reconnects Seville to the trade network so it's not unhealthy anymore. It will build a worker, we are short of those, and this is something useful it CAN do.
I do a couple of resource trades with Saladin, think of these as reserving those resources for later when we have several silk connected and another wheat source at Madrid.
Hired a scientist at Timbuktu for now, to give us at least a chance of getting a GS instead of a GP. Academy/Philosophy would be better than settled Prophet/Theology. There is iron here, although there's a cottage on top of it for some bizarre reason.
Pre-turn show over.
well, I was building it while no iron was revealed yet and the worker was more or less jobless
). I think we should mix in some irrigation to make the Jungle cities more whippable. Doesn't mean we have to irrigate everything, but we'll build faster by killing our own people than by using hammer tiles. 
