Turn 214 - trade rep parts to charlie for constitution +300 gold. (Ungy - since we make more than 300 gold in 1 turn at 100% gold I didn't see the point of delaying this trade by 1 turn).
Turn 216 - WK is 1 turn away from liberalism.
Napoleon wants us to adopt representation, I refuse.
Turn 218 - WK chooses to research radio next, the kremlin seems safe.
Democracy is in. I decide to revolt to US only, since adding another change will add another turn to the revolution, so we can do it later.
Turn 219 - we get an awful event in Mutal - a riverside town is destroyed to the ground.
I detour to music for 1 turn to help pop culture in our new cities.
Situation with Shaka is getting dangerous - he has astronomy and cuirassiers. I hope he is after his worst enemy and not us.
WK will trade rifling for steel+90 gold. Charlie will not trade rifling and the rest are far away from it, so I decide to make the trade with WK.
Turn 221 Oxford done. We finally capture phoneician. The barbarians were kind to leave a forge and a granary in the city. They even prepared a flood plain town for us.
Shaka has 4 caravels and 2 galleons in our territory. I noticed 6 more galleons resting in Ndondakusuka.
I switch coastal cities to spend 1 turn into riflemen for a more efficient emergency whipping.
Turn 222 - joao demands chemistry, I refuse. I trade him clams for 8 gold, now that I know it doesn't cause penalties.
Charlie demands that we cancel our deals with japan. I agree.
Shaka's ships are going away from our border towards south of his territory. I am not sure what he is doing.
Turn 223 - Shaka's ships are back in our territory.
I decide to keep cash reserves at around 400 gold for emergency upgrades.
Shaka has chemistry now, I expect to see some frigates soon.
Turn 224 - we get a nice event:
Shaka seems to be going for us after all. Kremlin seems quite safe now. I guess the general plan should be to defend the initial invatsion, buildup army and invade.
Tech status:
Steam power is 1 turn away.
We can trade for economics now with both napoleon and Charlie, or we can decide to self research it later, as it is relatively cheap now.
I think we need to discuss our plan going forward. If we are going to war now, I think we have 2 potential tech paths:
1) trade for economics, research corporation->assembly line (13 turns)
2) Research physics->artillery (14 turns)
I am inclined towards artillery, because we don't obsolete the GLH this way, but it's not a big difference now. Most of the world is in mercantilism anyway now, and Shaka is one of our main sources of trade routes, so we won't lose much by losing 1 trade route per coastal city.
If we attack Shaka Ulundi needs to be our 1st or 2nd city, as it has the Statue of Zeus.
