The Save
Pre-turn - Scroll through cities and make a couple of minor changes. Palace due in 18 instead of 20t in Deck. Hurry a library for 16g in Riza. Hurry another library in New Mulga for 68g. Put a few citizen on riversquares for a couple of extra gold. Looks good.
A few civs knows Feudalism.
420 AD - We learn Feudalism from GLib and reseach Chivalry - 7turns at -55. We have 2600g.
A couple of civs start building Sun Tzu. We also have 25 horses and more coming, so knights will be good to have. We can upgrade 30 something when we learn chivalry, that's sufficient enough. Perhaps I reach for invention as well.
Riza library - worker
New Mulga library - barracks
Urfa barracks - courthouse
Deck is stuck on 6 pop without aquaduct and Sun Tzu would still take 27 turns. I try for that wonder in Istanbul, 28t for now, but I will improve some tiles.
Check diplo. Get a worker and some gold from Japan for Poly. Sell WM around for 80g or so. Buy silks from Greece for wines and 210g, this allow me to set luxtax back to zero and reseach chivalry in 6t at -48g.
430 AD - Aydin marketplace - library
Ankara aquaduct - marketplace
Karabuk walls - barracks
Some horses are built, I won't mention every horse produced.
440 AD - Izmit marketplace - courthouse
Konya horse - settler
450 AD - Kirklareli walls - barracks
Hurry worker in Riza
460 AD - Have to renew the ivorydeal with Egypt and now they extort us. I have to give spices and wine + 92g, but we need it for now. Later we take it from the greedy wench.
Riza worker - courthouse
Workers mined mountain and plains by Istanbul, Sun Tzu down to 20 turns.
470 AD - The Babs are building Sistine chapel.
480 AD - We learn chivalry -> Invention 11t / -11g
We learn Theology from GLib
Switch Deck the Halls to Sistine / 21 turns. We want Leo's here.
Konya settler - pikeman
490 AD - Nothing interesting. Checked our military, we have 41 horsemen
500 AD - Aydin library - pikeman
Cankiri founded to put some pressure on an Arab city - library
510 AD - Our first knight is built in Salonika
We are 7 turns from Invention at -2g, when we have it change build in Deck to Leo's.
I think we can slow down research after this and gather more gold, we have 2099g atm.
We can probably afford to upgrade a bunch of horses to knights already and go for Arabia. They are without iron, so now is a good time. After that we can take out Egypt (when the trade deal is over in 14 turns) and teach Cleo what becomes the greedy.
Alternative civ to attacks would be Babs, they have Furs and Silks and no iron either.
We should connect Riza with the incense, workers will be available anytime now.