[spoilers] We're up all night to get mamluk-y

[Rowain]

Turn 069

Only 1 News-item but a very good one:




It means I can use the money to buy a worker next turn and start improving my land.

And it frees the few Units I have from the northern border to go and kill some Barbs.

[TheArchduke]

Well, you can treat this a learning experience. I am very curious on how you will proceed. Please report a bit more regularly. One screenie is all it takes.

[Rowain]

Turn 070 and 071

Government
switch

Buy a worker (200g) move the capital from the settler to HS to get it least one of the presettled districts going.

The bigprice for Arabia:




Lands of Turn 071:

[Rowain]

Turn 076:

Take the Barbcamp


and use the money to buy the Horsetile next to Rome



We now have Coffee which makes the Empire happy.




Renewed Friendship with Japan as he is so far away and I'm sure neither he nor I have any interest in a fight the next 30 turns.

[Rowain]

Turn 77-84:

Creating workers and science and so on

Rome enters medieval age:



Turn 80 saw an interesting offer from Russia:




I accepted as the 4 are 25% of my civ-wide

Production turn 84: (with misleading info as the uncompleted HS don't cost money)



Empire (from turn 83)



And Japan looks like finally done in:

[Rowain]

Turn 085

Apparently Japan is a tougher nut than expected:



In the Empire: last turn I shuffled Colonization-card (+50% Production for Settler) into the government.

This turn:







He will move eastward (where my warrior is standing on  the coast ) to settle near Horses,Stone and Whale.

[Rowain]

Hope everybody had a nice start into the new year.

Turn  087 starts with news about Russia:




Since Rome has been stopped TBS will be the most likely winner of this game.

Domestic news: This turn there happened a double harvest. First up north at the Roman border:




Walls completed and encampment started. I don't have any intention to go to war with Rome (In fact I'm the only one at peace with him) but better save than sorry.

In the capital: switched to worker and harvested the stone into one more Worker:




Overview including the GS snooping around.

[Rowain]

The Empire and rankings at turn 090 (turn 23 since the takeover)




As comparison: The rankings from turn 67 and 90:




The difference between the score-leaders and myself remained the same. My Empire lacks population and with that science and culture.

The goals for the next turns: Settle 1-2 cities get more districts (which means more pop first) going and more Units.

[Rowain]

Turn 100 report

Overview from end of turn:




The military situation is my greatest concern. Gorgo my NW-neighbor is leading in strength. But I have finished machinery last turn and therefor I can upgrade at least 1 Archer to Crossbow if the need arises.

I also asked Rome for a continuation of our friendship. He is still at war with Russia so I hope he has no interest to come south.

The science-ranking (which misses leading Russia as the screenshot didn't take) is looking nice considering that I can now build Madrassas (+5 ) - well 1 Madrassa as I have currently only 1 Campus.

My place on civics- and tech-tree:


 

Yes Mamluks are already researchable

[Rowain]

Turn 100 part 2:

City -yields:




The low production is the reason why Urban planning is still used in Government:




My religion:



Need to get it in all my cities to utilize the faith.