If you are participating in WOTM 62 (Julius Caesar)
Well, there's no Julius Caesar in my game, but as of 1 AD:
- The Indians have lost a couple of Cities to me. Good job, Gandhi, in settling with Copper in your big fat cross but outside of your initial 9 squares, then founding a non-State-Religion Religion in that City so that I only had to fight against Archers
- The Greeks have lost their capital and one other City to me
- The Russians have lost 4 Cities to me
- The French have lost 1 City to me
I built:
- The Oracle (and took part of Metal Casting... poor planning had me self-teching part of it)
- A Holy Shrine (argh, I received a Great Prophet at low odds instead of an early Great Scientist)
- The Parthenon
- The Temple of Artemis
- The Great Library
(Yay for early Marble, right?)
I settled in place, settled an early second City to grab a Strategic Resource, and then went to war. I haven't had time to build any additional Settlers.
I do like the map layout, as it is pretty clear as to which AI Cities should get which of my National Wonders.
I'm far away from Education, yet I still want to try to make it into Space. Yes, it makes sense to use our Philosophical Trait to spam Great Scientists and Lightbulb one's way to cheap Universities, but I just haven't found the time (by being too busy warring and Marble-Wonder-mongering) and will have to do so much later than would have been ideal.
We'll see if focusing on Great Scientists now plus The Great Library can help to turn around the Great Person situation. On the plus side, I have built The National Epic, which is a rare thing for me by 1 AD, so I am hopeful that it will help out sufficiently.
A downside of all of the warring is that the AIs don't have techs to trade to me.
On the plus side, no AI has made it to Longbowmen yet.
This map does have the potential to be very hard without early warring, as the nearby settling locations are rather poor. No seafood to our west? Boo! Even 1 Fish Resource would have made a huge difference.
Of course, Gandhi starts with 1 water square in his big fat cross and he gets a seafood Resource on it! Such luck! Maybe I should have tried to grab his capital earlier, but he was spamming Archers and the Greeks had hooked up Iron, so I decided to accept my small gains against the Indians and leave the remainder of the Indian empire for later, so that Alex could be attacked before the Phalanx spamming began. Of course, "later" has turned out to be "some time in the future after declaring war on everyone else on the continent," heh.
In fact, delaying warring on this map might have been a better play for going into Space, as, with several Philosophical neighbours, it might have meant a few free Academies. But, I didn't pay attention to that detail until now, at which point it is far too late to undo the damage to the AIs' empires. No free Academies for me.
Overall, it has been a fun game so far, so thanks for preparing it for us!
I concluded that I absolutely had to settle the horses between me and Alex before Alex did. So my first build order was worker-warrior-settler. 
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