The 750 AD's GA and arms race
In 760 AD Rik started a golden age. F9 looks like :
Good to see that GNP still isnt above mine
However Rik has built the pyramids and has switched to Representation. This is giving him 3 beakers extra on every specialist and with his surplus of pop, that will add up. I have no clue if this will show in the F9 GNP however.
Luckily Rik has neglected Alphabet and so I've managed to get an espionage lead that show me his research. Comparing turns on techs he's researching to my own amount of turns I needed for those techs shows me he isn't catching up after his GA ended.
The whole GA sparked an arms race as well. I was worried about the rise in Soldiers on Rik's side so I built more units myself. Still not sure if Rik planned an attack or just built more units because he felt he should respond to my rise in soldiers. The fact that Rik has a higher soldier rating doesn't really worry me. He's got a much bigger navy then me and boats can't attack cities/land units. I also have the impression that the GW gives a bonus to soldier rating. If I'm correct about that his land based units should be about the same size as mine and won't pose a real threath. I don't expect Rik to load em all up boats and send them over leaving his cities exposed and having to attack units benefitting from city defense bonusses.
I' m researching towards Guilds so I can build knights. The extra movement makes them much more efficient in defening my territory should Rik decide to attack after all. Build the Heroic Epic in Beijing as well somewhere between 750AD - 1000AD.
How now, brown cow?
Well that about wraps it up untill the 750AD's. Atm we're at 1000AD approximately and I plan to do a final spoiler update this week.
Hope to see some comments from you all !