10 turns (0250 AD - 0500 AD)
Ok, as I said before, I started out my turns switching our government civic to Hereditary Rule, which fixed all of our angry citizen problems. I like how we had axemen going all over the place, as that now helps us with both our military strength and our happiness. Unfortunately, I had to curtail the axemen production after that last wave came in due to us finally learning Code Of Laws. Now, I basically have every city focused on building courthouses or granaries (to help fuel slavery to build courthouses). I still think it would be beneficial to get our power rating up, but we also have to make sure we fix our economy so we can stay up to date on tech. Not much use building tons of military units if they're all last gen. I think we can have most places start on building axemen again after the courthouses are done. Started researching Alphabet. You basically know you're behind on tech when the computer learns Alphabet before you do (which Ramses already has). We birthed a Great Prophet during my turns. I don't know if you want to attach him to a city to help with our gold problems, or you want to use him to learn a new tech. I'll let you decide, but if you use him for a tech, make sure you trade for Polytheism and Monotheism first so we can get a tech that's worth something. The only other thing of note is that I sent a new settler down to found that site I was talking about in the last blog post with the dye and ten riverside grasslands. He should arrive at the site next turn, so I guess we get to add another city to our collection. The only other city sites for the near future are that site by the fish in the northeast and somewhere near that cow to the southwest.
One thing I did notice during my turns was that everyone seems to hate Ramses. I think once we establish a position of power, it might be possible to use Ramses as the hate magnet and start thinking about going for a diplomatic victory. Mutual war, all on Ramses, might be the plan when we get to the medieval age. But first, we've got to catch up in tech, or we have no bargaining chips.
