Bede tours the map
Wow! There is a lot of unclaimed territory in the East Looks like somebody had a little war out there as there are a crossroads and no cities
The two settler galley can drop one on coast with fish and iron then NE two tiles and drop the other on the fish then head back to the cove at Pi-R to pick up new settler
We need workers big-time. Lots of unconnected gold producing tiles!!
Dept of State:
Aztecs are cautious Give Monte WM and open an embassy hoping to improve his attitude Tenowhatever produces 10spt, 16gpt, 15 fpt, 40% sci, pop7, two clowns has Oracle but no Temple, HG due in 13 Monte is now polite
Hiawatha is cautious. Open an embassy. Salamnaca has pop5, 7spt, 12fpt, 10gpt, and a colusseum, 3 spears and an archer in garrison, building another archer, sci@90% He is now polite Sell him Republic for 67g and WM
Cathy is cautious. Open an embassy Moscow: 5 citizens, one clown, 7spt, 11fpt, 15gpt, sci@40%, HG in 7 turns, no improvements She is now polite but really has nothing to trade other than maps. Trade WMs straight up
Julie of Rome is cautious. Open an embassy. Rome: pop7, one clown, 6spt, 15fpt, 14gpt, has GW, bulding Legionary, has four spears in garrison Trade WMs straight up as he has nothing to offer He is now polite
Mao is cautious Open an embassy Beijing is pop7, one clown, 12spt, 15fpt, 13gpt, sci@50%, HG in 6, no other improvements Trade our WM for his and 20g
Shaka is annoyed Open an embassy Zimbabwe is pop6, one clown, 8spt, 15fpt, 14gpt, sci@70%, has Pyramids, HG due in 36, two imps in garrison The embassy and a WM gift have no impact on his bad attitude
Bismarck is cautious. Offers 21g and WM for WM Take his treasury then offer ROP to improve his attitude Otto is now polite
Homeland:
Put beakerhead at Thebes back to work and raise lux to 10% Cathedral due in 6
Switch Elephantine to worker in 4, grow in 6 and hire beakerhead
Push enter
IT Giza worker to worker
T1 90AD MIRC Drop off settler on coast
T2 110AD Found Lisht in NW corner on river and start worker
Found Buto between Thebes and Alexandria
Found Edfu on coast SE of Virconium start Spearman
Drop settler on coast SE of Edfu
IT
T3 130AD Found Pithom on coast start Spearman
IT Annoyed Mao demands homeward bound warrior leave his territory,. Apologise and offer ROP and his attitude improves
T4 150AD Julie has Engineering and will sell for ~460g or 23gpt Monopoly price and nobody else has any money Pass for now but shut off research
T5 170AD Julie's price for Engineering has gone up to 500g or 25gpt
IT Thebes completes Cathedral starts barracks Avaris grows and riots. Sorry Hire beakerhead Beijing completes HG Barracks
T6 190AD :Snooze:
IT GL produces Engineering Switch research to Theology
T7 210AD Shaka accepts 2gpt and is now cautious Hiawatha will buy Engineering for 29g
IT Homeward bound warrior trespasses on Russian territory Annoyed Cathy asks us to leave. Agree and sign ROP as she is crossing our territory anyway and she returns to polite. Thebes produces settler who boards waiting galley
T8 230AD Found Busiris N of Giza start worker Found Kahun W of Heliopolis start worker Settler lands at Edfu
IT
T9 250AD :Snooze:
IT
T10 260AD Hiawatha has 2 slaves on auction for 50g Buy 'em Sell Mao Engineering for 29g Everybody else either has it or is broke Sign ROP with Shaka to improve his testy mood to polite
SitRep
I've never seen histograph curves likes this. We are at the top of the tree with a culture bulge that looks like a pregnancy All our neighbors are polite towards us and we have tech parity Otto and Hiawatha are still at war and there is now a race to settle the former Iro lands in the east. Otto keeps pushing up to our borders in the NE and Julie is our challenger in the SE. There is a settler at Edfu and another one on a galley headed for Pithom The treasury is in good shape and we can afford to rush settlers as fast as we can Cost~110g and we've got 53gpt in hand and more on the way. If we can keep pushing south and east ahead of Julie there is a good shot at lots of luxes (ivory and gems)
This is turning out to be a fascinating game. I have to keep resisting the urge to put barracks everywhere and spend the shields and cash on culture, workers and settlers instead
Still no reliable screenshots. My old Dell keeps crashing on the graphics programs
The Empire Grows, Again and More
You shall be skipped, and I'll let gorm take the turns. I'm just trying to keep this going at a decent speed, no offence.
My ignorance spawned from my temple-marketplace-rax-and-trample-the-world tactics. Never one who is ahead in culture, hence my paranoia. 
