[eek]

[shout] A spy from the enemy camp ! [aargh]

Like hell am telling you dude ! [lol]

[lol]

Come on, have a little faith, Sky, or are you still not convinced that Kemal and I are not the same person?

Maybe i should post a picture.

But i would guess you popped a settler or advanced tribe, since Edrine is obviously brand new and Istanbul has not built a settler recently.

If you post a picture then yes, I will believe you 100% :D

Yeah post a pic of both of you, as brothers, so we can see if you look alike...

OK the first turn of the game was reached and with great success !
On turn 40 my min science run on Iron Working completed and I got monopoly : I had just met the other 2 civs as well so it completed perfectly (remember I am close to the Americans).
I forgot to keep track of the exact deal sequence but I got all first level techs PLUS Writing and Mysticism...and still have 200g in the chest, so it was a nice result.
I first bought Alphabet, than saw that Babylon had Writing (I had hoped one or more civ with writing !) *and* they had no contact with America :D
So with Iron Working+contact with America+385g that I got from selling IW to Korea I bought Writing and sold it for all other techs and did a 2fer with Mysticism that Korea had.
Big round of trade it was.

During the min sci run, I bought 2 workers from America ! Gotta love a gamble !
(By the way I had extensively tested that one...)

Knowing Kemal's tech pace I need a really quick pace on my continent so I am playing differently than normal, I want the AIs to contribute as much as possible, only America will be weakened as they are so close.
Thus my next choice of going to max science on Mathematics : I want to trade Math for the post writing techs (Philo, CoL, MapMaking and Lit).
Will see how it goes...

Here is the empire : a definite farmer's gambit [eek] The advantage of Large continent max land :D The settler is going for the Incense, I am desperate for luxes. Two more cities will be built in the forests on the first ring.

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wow, did you edit the 200 AI troops out or did they really not come to attack you? If I leave any town bigger than size 3 empty I KNOW they will attack within 5 turns......

Thats only because they hate *you* personally Killer :D

Seriously I am very open to attacks here but I can quickly switch all those build orders and whip like mad if needs to be...
From now on only my 2 granny cities will produce worker/settler and the rest will go on military duty.

[lol]




erm...they seem to hate me as well :(

Great lands, Sky! Kemal shouldn't stand a chance against these Ottoman farmers ;)

[eek] [eek]
Gulp!

Indeed they are great lands but am sure Kemal's got the same so please dont expect anything [blush2]...