cheers for the info guys,
Aggie I think you're right about the French they appear to be losing money each turn on the diplo screen, and NF said the same thing last night.
I probably a bit too scared of the French, for a while they kept on declaring war with me I'd keep getting peace but they'd just invade my land and declare war again.
It looks like we going to have a race for ToE, NF is researching medicine while I'm on elec (5 turns to go) I trigger a GA a while back giving me a slight advantage although NF has Universities which I couldn't build due to the GL technique. He's probably got a leader ready for the rush but if I can get the tech first I think I can prebuild with a palace and switch the turn that I get it
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