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All right, did some soul-searching, talked it through with Mackoti, and did some more calculations, and the plan is military techs. I will lib military tradition, tech gunpowder, HBR, and banking before the golden age is over, enabling mercantilism and a bunch of sweet unit builds. Also bulb PP, and after the golden age tech construction, engineering, optics, and astronomy with a bulb. Then RP-Rifling. Or something like that!
Constitution and universities are going to be ignored. 
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What units are the others fielding?
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Yuri has longbows from his earlier oracle sling.
Pindicator and Scooter are both at ancient units, but have CS and will get Machinery in a few turns, enabling their respective Maceman UUs (samurai/berserkers).
Dazed has horseback riding and ancient units including vultures.
I have primarily praetorians and archers at the moment, but also some spearmen and chariots. I'm not sure whether I will unlock a medieval bow unit before enabling Cuirassiers and muskets (which should only take 6 turns). I'm thinking no.
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Should be entertaining to watch  what are the minimum acceptable gains for this to be considered a success?
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No idea. And of course in addition to gains, losses and forced military diversions by opponents count towards success too. So does having fun. And winning.
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Got a "well done" in the save email from pindicator. I wonder what that's for? Probably it's either in general or for completing Nationalism. I doubt he's super impressed by my great wall or 3rd scientist.
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I thought video would be more effective at giving a feel of the situation than pictures. So...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRfH6KN4QZg
I tried it. I don't know if it's any good or if the things I say are at all non-obvious to people. I do know the sound quality is extremely irritating. Sorry about that. Also, apparently it's almost an hour long. I can't say I was expecting to talk so much so that's... interesting.
Let me know if you think I should try to do any more videos. As I'm sure you are aware, videos take a long time to make. Incidentally, we are already a turn ahead of the video by now. Can you guess how many things I say in the video are no longer correct? 
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It's interesting to see the posthoc reasoning, but I guess it doesn't really demonstrate the decision making process.
But that's hard to show, I'm always flicking between units and city screens and whipping out the calculator and making notes on the map.
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Yeah, I don't think decision-making is helped by being on video, because the majority of it is... thinking. Which a) involves long stretches of video/audio inactivity and b) is disrupted by the knowledge you're being recorded. I'm pretty happy with my train-of-thought decision post from earlier, by comparison.
One thing I was considering doing was a short video elaborating on a single issue, where I'd already done the calculations but the sequence of thoughts to make the decision was still fresh on my mind.
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