Meatbuster
formerly Robo Kai
Play 11 turns, stop for Great Scientist and Aesthetics picked up.
Tech situation before Aesthetics looks really bleak:
Monty is on Red Fist mode/WHEOOHRN, who's the likely target?
Us or Boudica. We're lower on the scale than Boudica, so we're more likely.
Crap, we're going to get attacked again.
Check up on Alex and here's what he thinks of Monty:
Probably has open borders, so Monty may attack through Alex's jungle city.
Genghis makes a demand and I accept:
Next player please cancel the deal after pressing enter.
I road up Alex's and Ragnar's empire to enable trade routes and improve our economy.
Once Prague finishes library, I starve for a while to get Aesthetics faster. I fired 1 of the scientists afterwards.
Pretty soon the new trade routes pay off:
Slotted in Metal Casting, but I dropped our slider to zero, so not much research into it.
I made a few trades. I would've traded for Alphabet but no one wants to give it up just for Aest. So I settled for other things to make our life easier. (And Polytheism in case we're going Literature next.)
The Nappy trade was more of an improve relationships move. He won't give up anything else. And Alpha for Aest was out of the question.
We have iron in the BFC:
And we pop a great scientist. So I stop here to let us decide what to do next.
Final tech situation:
For next player, summary of what we could do, and what I can think of at this moment:
1. Build Statue of Zeus. We have ivory. We can finish it or go for the failure gold. Either way, it benefits us.
2. Figure out what to do with scientist.
3. Cancel free Ivory deal with Genghis after pressing enter.
Tech situation before Aesthetics looks really bleak:

Monty is on Red Fist mode/WHEOOHRN, who's the likely target?

Us or Boudica. We're lower on the scale than Boudica, so we're more likely.
Crap, we're going to get attacked again.
Check up on Alex and here's what he thinks of Monty:

Probably has open borders, so Monty may attack through Alex's jungle city.
Genghis makes a demand and I accept:

Next player please cancel the deal after pressing enter.
I road up Alex's and Ragnar's empire to enable trade routes and improve our economy.


Once Prague finishes library, I starve for a while to get Aesthetics faster. I fired 1 of the scientists afterwards.

Pretty soon the new trade routes pay off:

Slotted in Metal Casting, but I dropped our slider to zero, so not much research into it.
I made a few trades. I would've traded for Alphabet but no one wants to give it up just for Aest. So I settled for other things to make our life easier. (And Polytheism in case we're going Literature next.)



The Nappy trade was more of an improve relationships move. He won't give up anything else. And Alpha for Aest was out of the question.
We have iron in the BFC:

And we pop a great scientist. So I stop here to let us decide what to do next.
Final tech situation:


For next player, summary of what we could do, and what I can think of at this moment:
1. Build Statue of Zeus. We have ivory. We can finish it or go for the failure gold. Either way, it benefits us.
2. Figure out what to do with scientist.
3. Cancel free Ivory deal with Genghis after pressing enter.