What to report...well, I did alot of chopping and managed to get us the GW. Just as well, as we were about to be under attack by barbs at the time.
While that wasn't terribly exciting, I had a few terribly important discovories...I suspect we're in a postion to deny copper and iron to our neighbours!
As you can see, Shaka has founded two cities on our borders - one with Copper, and one with iron. Currently he has neither, and I don't see why we should let him get any. As soon as we hook up the iron in 3, we should mine the copper at NYC and spam swords to take the city to the east and Nohamba. They should have weak garrisons, and it should be easy once we don't allow them Impis. I would attack to uMung, and either take thier captial and swallow the cost while we cottage up, or leave it as a buffer while to take .
Now, the red dot to the south is another iron mine, however, we should be able to strike fast enough that it won't get hooked up in time to play a role. Maybe we should take the capital as we need his land and we need his workers as we also need to cottage up like crazy beforeour economy crashes. Also, I suspect we have the Great Khan blocked off, so we can deal with him later
As for tech path, what do you guys favour? Alphabet for Lit/Drama/Trading or Metal Casting for Forge and GE factory?
Oh, and before that, we need pottery next...and trying to build the Pyramids in the capital wouldnt hurt us either, whipping it as soon as we can. We should not need to chop any more trees. It's now a good production city with that iron resource.