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Doomsyear</u>
Nobody has Confucianism yet, so we start on a tech that has no priority with the AI: Literature. Aside from being something extra to trade, it also allows the Great Library to be built.
The delay in getting The Republic is not the worst of things that can happen. We will be bigger once we get there, which might save us a turn of anarchy. And we don't want to be caught in anarchy while we're in the middle of a war ...
1575 BC
[u]Treasury</u>: $588
[u]Science</u>: 80% (Literature in 8)
[u]Citizens</u>: Beijing=6 Tsingtao=3 Shanghai=2
[u]Production</u>: Horseman (Xinjian) Warrior (Hangchow)
[u]Settlers</u>: 12製w
It is as we feared. A Mongol Warrior blocks OUR road.
[u]Workers</u>: 2裳 3=road 4裳e 5裳w裳 8製w製w=irrigate 9=cut
[u]Slaves</u>: 1,2,3=road
[u]Warriors</u>: 13裳w裳裳
Also as a matter of course, this turn no less than 3 civs have discovered Confucianism! We are stubborn, and continue on Literature. (It's hard to say what is wisdom here. We could perhaps discover The Republic some 4 turns sooner if we switch now, which doesn't imply it would be at a time that we could easily revolt. It's not a big difference, and we don't like to throw our initial effort on Literature away.)
After our turn, a Mongol Settler appears from Almarikh which clearly hadn't built it (it just made a Worker and shrank from size 2 to size 1). Besides being weird, this is also getting extremely annoying as their Warrior/Settler pair now threatens our marked spot for claiming the Furs (presently within Khazar borders).
1550 BC
[u]Treasury</u>: $582 -> $604
[u]Science</u>: 80% (Literature in 7)
[u]Production</u>: Warrior (Nanking)
[u]Settlers</u>: 12製
[u]Workers</u>: 2=road, 4=cut
[u]Warriors</u>: 13裳w誦
[u]Diplomacy</u>: $22 + World Map (Gogury) for WM
Remember that not all the AI received the full map from us, so there are a few loose coins we can get.
1525 BC
[u]Treasury</u>: $598
[u]Science</u>: 80% (Literature in 6)
[u]Citizens</u>: Beijing=5 Tatung=3 Tientsin=2
[u]Production</u>: Settler (Beijing)
[u]Settlers</u>: 12製e 14裳裳w裳
The Mongols are standing on our planned Furs town location!
[u]Workers</u>: 5=irrigate 7裳裳w誦 8裳e裳e裳e
1500 BC
[u]Treasury</u>: $592 -> $152
[u]Science</u>: 80% (Literature in 5)
[u]Citizens</u>: Canton=4
[u]Production</u>: Settler (Canton) Worker (Nanking) Warrior (Xinjian)
[u]Settlers</u>: 12製w 14裳e裳 15製w製w製w
[u]Workers</u>: 1蜜製製 2裳 3製 6,7=irrigate 8=road 10裳
[u]Slaves</u>: 1誦裳w裳 2製e 3=w
[u]Warriors</u>: 15蜜裳裳 4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14=Swordsman
While Worker1 connects the Iron to our empire, the news arrives that Korea have built The Colossus, the first Great Wonder that is completed this game. The Pyramids cannot be too far away, since the Baekje have been working on them for a long time. Naturally that will be our first target. We upgrade 11 veteran Warriors to Swordsmen, away from the Baekje's sight. Little did we know, that the next turn would destroy all the big plans we had for the great future of the Han ...
1500 BC Standings
Rajaputana 436
Takeda 403
Han 382
Baekje 380
Korea 376
Mongolia 304
Gogury 241
Khazar 239
The death of our main plan - the Baekje could not have been more than a couple of turns from completion. They didn't even get The Oracle, that was immediately taken by the Oda - another tribe in a yet unknown part of the world.
No Pyramids on the home continent means about the biggest of set-backs that there can be in this game.
But the bad news isn't over yet.
The Mongols have settled, on a ridiculous tile, right next to our Settler, making the Furs inaccessible.
1475 BC
[u]Treasury</u>: $146 -> $106
[u]Science</u>: 80% (Literature in 4)
[u]Citizens</u>: Beijing=6 Canton=5 Tsingtao=4 Chengdu=3
[u]Production</u>: Warrior (Hangchow)
Note that after connecting the Iron we can still finish the Warriors that we had already started on, but we can't build any new ones in the connected cities.
[u]Settlers</u>: 14=
Shantung
[u]Workers</u>: 1=mine 2誦 3,5=road 10蜜裳e=irrigate
[u]Slaves</u>: 1,2,3=road
[u]Warriors</u>: 15裳蜜=Swordsman 16裳w裳裳
[u]Swordsmen</u>: 2蜜裳e裳e 4蜜裳蜜 5/11製製, 6,7,8,10,12,13,14裳orth
[u]Horsemen</u>: 1製w製w製製w
New plans have been made. We have two armies. A group of 7 Swordsmen is on their way to P'yongyang to capture the Colossus as a consolation prize, and hopefully to march on to Seoul after. They have seen our Swordsmen, but we hope to be quick and make peace fast.
The remaining forces will annihilate the Mongol town of Darhan so we can finally settle at the Furs, and then try and keep the relatively weak Mongols occupied long enough for reinforcements to arrive.
This will be a longer campaign.
Both Korea and Mongolia have been slow to build roads and neither of them has hooked op any Iron.
1450 BC
[u]Treasury</u>: $100
[u]Science</u>: 80% (Literature in 3)
[u]Citizens</u>: Nanking=5 Shanghai=3
[u]Production</u>: Worker (Nanking)
[u]Settlers</u>: 15=
Chinan
[u]Workers</u>: 2,6,7=road 8蜜裳e=irrigate 9=irrigate 11裳w裳
[u]Warriors</u>: 16裳w誦
[u]Swordsmen</u>: 2誦製誦 5,11製w製w製w 6,7,8,10,12,13,14蜜裳裳 15誦製誦
We leave a few Swordsmen behind just in case Korea will launch a counter-attack from Pusan.
[u]Horsemen</u>: 1製e製w