Here is where we stand relative to the neighbors
And here is how the wonders fell out
And judging from what else I saw Ramses must have taken Hereditary Rule for his Oracle knowledge as he switched on the interturn.
Accordingly I adjusted the espionage allocation to put 100% against Ramses. We can already see what Justinian is doing but are about 10 turns from scoping out Ramses research path.
The warrior in the south east encountered the Byzantine border so I requested open borders and sent him to gather intelligence.
And when the settler produced in Aksum reached the edge of Egyptian territory I turned him around, then opened borders with Ramses and sent his escorting archer north. Ramses immediately took advantage of the open borders and sent a Jewish missionary south to Aksum
so I am glad I turned the settler around as even with our culture production I don't really feel like a cultural battle with a Holy City yet. The Jewish HC must be just to the north of the border that the archer crossed on his next turn.
There is another Egyptian missionary, Hindu this time, in bound to Aksum.
Addis Ababa went down on the very last turn
and here is its close up view
I managed to make a complete hosing of the happiness at Gondor so we nbow have to deal with an unhappy city that either grows too fast for its own good, or starves a little.
Whipped a library in Aksum and put two scientists to work, and the same at Gondor - which was the source of the unhappiness as the town grew faster than I could shut them down. I got caught up in looking at the Egyptian borders and trying to figure out where to send the settler.
And got some cottages built at Aksum and Gondor. I am almost of half a mind not to put granaries up until we get the health resources for them. Those deer camps sure can drive growth even without them.
Aksum is working some kind of filler project right now and if we wanted to slow down the GS generation could go back to training a settler for the green dot that AK has limned for us. We do risk losing that to the Chinese. That does seem to be the best choice out there. I failed to realize the speed of cultural expansion we will get with Steles and the Creative trait so I completely missed the reach of the city site at green dot. In any case it should be next.
Research is spanking right along with about 4 turns to go on Alphabet. We need to make an assessment at that time whether it is worth it to burn the midnight oil to acquire Code of Laws. I think what matters is if we can trade for Iron Working and whether we hold iron.
Roster
AK - played
Bede - played
dot - seeks a skip. Ask and you shall receive.
grahamiam - up
LKendter - on deck
