January 28th, 2014, 12:38
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Barbarians have once again been exterminated! Except that one camp in the east, cause they are targeting Azza and not my city 
Meiz is running away with the game. Jkaen and Azza did not punish him for overextending. This era would have been the perfect time for Jkaen to strike, I'm not sure what he's planning.
I'm also falling behind due to lack of trade routes. Just one cargo ship by T85 is pretty pathetic :P
Got my first Mosque this turn.
January 29th, 2014, 13:14
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STOP! Hammer time!!
Boom baby!!
Well, shit! I know where I went wrong, I had been planning to build that caravan once I've got a caravansary up, but went ahead and built it before I've even got the tech 
I sent the Caravan on a mission to grow Salzburg.
This is where I'm gonna settle my next city. One further back would be more defensible, but I want that ivory in buy range (3 tiles).
Tech path is so set in stone that I can just queue it up right now 
This is late for Civil Service, but I had no need for extra food until recently.
Now that I got Theology, I can choose a Great Engineer next turn as my free GP from Liberty, rush Hagia Sophia, and get a free Great Prophet from that to enhance my religion.
If I've calculated it correctly for Quick speed, the GE should be able to rush the full wonder.
Demos during Golden Age (before National College).
January 30th, 2014, 10:50
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Liberty at last! And the Golden Age keeps on trucking
I might actually get the next social policy before I unlock Rationalism, which is quite impressive considering how much I've tried to neglect it :P
And here we go!! Delays the settler by a turn, but the workers are still roading so whatevs.
Science jumped from 46 to 57 thx to the National College. It's cool but it's more of a long term investment, those jungles are gonna produce beakers soon enough. Neat, huh?
February 1st, 2014, 12:16
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Here is the north uncovered! Didn't extend all the way to the other "finger", which is probably a good thing!
Only a really crappy city spot, though 
Yesss! We got Hagia Sophia and here's the Great Prophet!
Here's what I chose. Both are really good enhancements for a wide empire. Which we aren't yet, but we should be
My scout slipped by Meiz' borders and is scouting the south. He seems to have a lot of uncontested land over there. I was supposed to take a pic, but accidentally ended my turn. Whoops!
I think Meiz got this game in the bag if he plays it right. But this is my favorite thread to update and I'll definitely try everything to beat him! 
February 3rd, 2014, 15:54
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Uhhh Hello there Azza's military unit! I'm just uh, roading for umm.. a thing, yeah... 
February 4th, 2014, 12:19
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We have our first war!! Azza decided to be a pain in the ass and not move his unit away, so I declared war on him to remove it forcefully.
Hopefully he will get the hint, but I'd also not be surprised if he locks himself to eternal war with me since he's not doing so good in this game.
February 6th, 2014, 11:53
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Boom! We're still in war, Azza is demanding a resource for peace. I'll never take that deal, he's the one who forced this conflict by not moving his unit!
I'm building some military for backup, just in case he gets any cute ideas.
Meiz reached the Renaissance era and unlocked spies for us. I'm sending one his way
Here's Austria in all it's glory! I have two workers on sentry duty since they are so good at their job that every tile I wanted has been improved!
And I only ever built one worker..
February 9th, 2014, 06:42
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The scout found a new natural wonder last turn, which happened to be one of Yerevan's quests:
The other quest is to connect iron. I asked Jkaen for 1 iron for 1 GPT. He's got 10 iron sitting around doing nothing, surely he won't miss one?
Azza has now gone from asking for a resource, to asking for a city. Yup, congrats Meiz, you were in the lead anyway, eternal war between two other players just seals the deal.
I'm gonna take a detour to Chivalry for Knights and Castles to deal with Azza.
February 10th, 2014, 10:41
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Woot! Jkaen accepted the deal, and we're now allied with Yerevan.
Yerevan sent us their wine (+4 happiness), which in a chain effect made Genoa our friends (+3 happiness from Mercantile CS).
We are too short on gold to marry Yerevan, but I think it's better to not do that anyway. It's our only trade partner and it doesn't have enough units or tiles to be worthy.
Luxury for a luxury deal with Jkaen ran out this turn, so I sent him a request to renew it. It should get accepted unless he's about to connect cotton.
Azza is now lowest in Soldiers, so I shouldn't have much to fear from him short term. Chu-Ko-Nu's will come eventually, and the war also removes him as a possible trade partner.
February 11th, 2014, 14:43
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Aw, the new city converted to Azza's religion. I swear the religious pressure suddenly jumped for all cities. Maybe because of Meiz reaching a new era, maybe just a random bug.
Or it could just be a coincidence, with Azza's pressure just now hitting our new city, and our own cities pressuring each other more now that I've converted most of them with missionaries.
Our other cities will be following the ways of Cash Money, with Klagenfurt converting next turn.
Happiness is at +19 and will climb even higher with shrines up and mosques up. Expansion is on the way.
Jkaen did renew the cotton for silver deal with us!
We got Education. Because of the Golden Ages and City State bonuses, we will get a cultural policy before we could get to the next era, so I might as well go for that Chivalry and then Banking after that.
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