In C&D news, it's getting really hard to figure out soldier counts. I'm still tracking them because it's useful to know how much average counts went up.
Luddite got
ANOTHER tech - he has now researched 8 techs in 44 turns
We've done 5, though we're almost done with Masonry and have BW half researched.
I pegged this recent one as Masonry which could spell bad things for our GLH race, as he already has a 2nd city up to size 3. Though he could be heading towards the Pyramids as well, though I don't think I have seen stone or marble on the map (which doesn't mean it doesn't exist).
I don't know what else it can be, since with 8 techs, I already have him down for anything cheaper. His last tech was T40. Actually check that it could also be Pottery, which makes a lot of sense for him as Expansive. He has both pre-reqs for both techs, and maybe he has a gold mine that he's working (similar to our 2nd city of Reading)
The one thing we have going for us if we are racing for GLH with them is that I'm 95% sure they dont' have BW. I can't figure out what techs they are researching because they're coming so fast and there could be tech swapping.
But there's only been one turn where soldier count has gone up by at least 8000 (BW) on a turn where luddite has researched a tech, and on that one, I'm 95% sure it was plako who researched BW (T31)
Obviously the downside is that GLH is only 133 hammers for them since they're Industrious