Deity
Arabia
Pangea
Standard with 20 city states instead of the normal 16
So the attached image is how the map looks like. I started this game by screwing around late at night. I went for a Stonehenge build and somehow no one beat me to it by around turn 29 so I saved it and played into the night. Now by about turn 60 I realized I
ed up and I called it quits. So today I reloaded at about turn 29. Fixing my earlier mistakes. Now earlier in my earlier game, Lhasa was attacked by the Chinese. I considered helping but ultimately called it quits so China took it. Then I decided to attack china with horsemen. Too bad I didn't realize China was allied with Tyre and Capetown by then. Also, I didn't expand anywhere near quick enough.
This time I expanded fast(rush buy) and defended Lhasa with my spearmen from an early rush by China. Now, this basically won me the map in my area. I tech to horsemen and start building one. I tech to currency so I can get the patronage policies. I quickly grab Tyre and Cape town and take out one of China's cities. Then I tech to camel archers. Man these things are so OP. I take Shanghai and Beijing without taking any damage. Camel archers have three movements and just like horsemen can attack then retreat. So I get in range of the city, attack, then fall back.
Now, I HAD to annex Shanghai and Beijing. Shanghai has like 3 wonders and Beijing has 2 wonders. I think at one point China completed 2 wonders during the same turn. I was like....god damn those are going to be mine.<3
Right now here I stand:
I only ever took 2 social policies in the patronage tree (up to the +science bonus...with 6 allied city states it is quite nice (2 military, 3 cultured and only 1 maritime 
)
I am at 1100 gold. Now, here is the problem: God damned Chinese cities made me fall into -17 unhappiness.
Japan is hostile with me.
I just teched to gunpowder and am planning on cannons next.
I have some choices.
1. Buyout +happiness buildings.
2. Trade for some resources. I can get 1 resource just buy trading some iron and horses.
3. Get about 700gold from japan then attack them (I get everything back) (I was thinking on waiting until cannons(5 turns <3 city states) to do this)
4. I have about 2000 culture and I only have adopted 2 policies in the patronage tree.
Actually, looking back it seems that grabbing Freedom is the best choice right now. I just noticed that it would fix my unhappiness problem. But aside from freedom, what else should I grab? Or should I wait it out until I hit order?
Well, I'll leave this post up. This game is going very nicely for me
Arabia
Pangea
Standard with 20 city states instead of the normal 16
So the attached image is how the map looks like. I started this game by screwing around late at night. I went for a Stonehenge build and somehow no one beat me to it by around turn 29 so I saved it and played into the night. Now by about turn 60 I realized I
ed up and I called it quits. So today I reloaded at about turn 29. Fixing my earlier mistakes. Now earlier in my earlier game, Lhasa was attacked by the Chinese. I considered helping but ultimately called it quits so China took it. Then I decided to attack china with horsemen. Too bad I didn't realize China was allied with Tyre and Capetown by then. Also, I didn't expand anywhere near quick enough. This time I expanded fast(rush buy) and defended Lhasa with my spearmen from an early rush by China. Now, this basically won me the map in my area. I tech to horsemen and start building one. I tech to currency so I can get the patronage policies. I quickly grab Tyre and Cape town and take out one of China's cities. Then I tech to camel archers. Man these things are so OP. I take Shanghai and Beijing without taking any damage. Camel archers have three movements and just like horsemen can attack then retreat. So I get in range of the city, attack, then fall back.
Now, I HAD to annex Shanghai and Beijing. Shanghai has like 3 wonders and Beijing has 2 wonders. I think at one point China completed 2 wonders during the same turn. I was like....god damn those are going to be mine.<3
Right now here I stand:
I only ever took 2 social policies in the patronage tree (up to the +science bonus...with 6 allied city states it is quite nice
(2 military, 3 cultured and only 1 maritime )I am at 1100 gold. Now, here is the problem: God damned Chinese cities made me fall into -17 unhappiness.
Japan is hostile with me.
I just teched to gunpowder and am planning on cannons next.
I have some choices.
1. Buyout +happiness buildings.
2. Trade for some resources. I can get 1 resource just buy trading some iron and horses.
3. Get about 700gold from japan then attack them (I get everything back) (I was thinking on waiting until cannons(5 turns <3 city states) to do this)
4. I have about 2000 culture and I only have adopted 2 policies in the patronage tree.
Actually, looking back it seems that grabbing Freedom is the best choice right now. I just noticed that it would fix my unhappiness problem. But aside from freedom, what else should I grab? Or should I wait it out until I hit order?
Well, I'll leave this post up. This game is going very nicely for me
