Ok Guys (and gals, if there are any in this team)! Do not take this otherwise but I have some major cribs.

I know this is a game but there are some errors that are too egregious for me not to notice. Hopefully, my crib will have some learning value for some of you.
(a) We already know Republic and we have not revolted yet and are stuck with Despotism.

Why? We are Religious. Our anarchy lasts only one turn.
(b) We are building a settler in Nara? Why?

where will this settler go after he is made? This is one edge of the empire that is completely settled. The Chinese city will be taken over by us and there is no land to settle here. This settler will have to cross the entire empires length to get to some land where he can settle. And we are done with the settling phase. We are now in the conquering phase. Our outer cities are already corrupted to hell.
(c) MA with Egypt against Otto?

What for. Firstly, we cannot defend against Otto with our single outlying city. So we have to just give him a hard time and then sign peace. Secondly, Cleo cannot even hurt Otto even if she wants to. She is on an unconnected island altogether. All she can do is take a two of Ottos useless cities. Even that she did not do as you will see in my write up
(d) Why in the name of Zeus are we still creating swords and spears from cities that do not have a barrack?

I thought I pointed this out already. We are militaristic. That means our barracks cost only 20 shields. A single whip can create that barrack.
(e)If we had build the FP in Mecca we would have had two solid cores by now. Now we are stuck with one core and two corrupted arms of an empire.
Please take care of these little things from now on. For all practical purposes this game is already won. So it does not matter in this game. But we will win this not because we played very well (which we did at times) but because we were lucky in the layout and we were playing at monarch.
270 AD: We revolt. Rush barracks.
IT: India signs PT with Otto. So much for his MA with us.
280 AD: We capture XinJian. We are a Republic now. XinJian had 6 settlers. So we got 12 workers from them. I send them towards our homeland where improving tiles will give us better returns since those cities are not corrupted.
IT: China and Egypt sign peace. We sign PT with Otto. Our reputation is already trashed as I remember so this cannot hurt anymore.
300 AD: No more Chinese.
310 370 AD: I consolidate and start making improvements in cities. I do not think these should be vetoed. Let these buildings finish. The tech pace in this game will be slow as hell with Otto at war with Egypt and the useless Gandhi (who doesnt do anything at all in my experience). So wait till Chivalry. Build Samurai and then the game should be over.
Here is the
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