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[Servant Corps]

Go for the religious techs.

[mainiac]

Religious techs are a must.  Blood for the blood god!

[Archangel]

Polytheism because it leads to Judaism!

[Wimdit]

You should rename your capital Boatmurdered, because of the elephants across the river and the fact that it's built in a jungle. Forest. Whatever. If only there was an 'elephant rampage' game event...

[NUKE9.13]

Onwards! In this update:
Meet the spanish.
Spanish found buddhism
We found hinduism

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Entering the little huts (tribal villages) gives you a bonus. The village disappears afterwards. Possible rewards: Money, a technology, a settler, a warrior, or experience.
Tribal villagers: Hello!
Warrior: Give us everything you own
Tribal villagers: I say that sounds a little rash
***
Warrior: So kind of you to give us this
Beheaded tribal villagers:...

Me:So, I was sitting in my palace, looking out across the river, when suddenly-

Me:EVIL ELEPHANTS. WHAT DO WE DO?
Warrior: Sir they're just a resource.
Me: Are you crazy? War elephants, man! Strength 8, 50% bonus versus cavalry!
Warrior: Well yes but I doubt the elephants have construction.
Me: What if they get it from our enemies?
Warrior: No one has alphabet yet.
Me:... warrior, you annoy me. Other warrior, remove him.
Other warrior: Yes sir.

There are various unit classes: Melee, archers, mounted, siege to name the first few. Units can get promotions to give them advantages against other unit classes.
Other warrior: Sir why does this production review of warriors contain an entry for bauxite mechanisms?
Me: Oh hush.

This is just after our borders expanded. As you can see from the little house on the pigs, we are making good use of our new territory. The pigs are worth 3 food/turn whereas the forest we were working was only 2/turn. This way the city will grow quicker. However, whilst our borders can expand further, we can only harvest tiles under the area we currently have.

We couldn't afford a war juuuust yet so I let them live.
Isabella the religious nutjob: Bla bla bla something about religion
Me: Are you an elf?
Isabella: No!
Me: Are you suuure?
Isabella: Yes!
Me: I don't believe you.
Isabella:....aaanyway, are you foolishly going to declare war on someone you just met?
Me: Nah.

The various leaders come in many flavours. From this text we can see that she is aggressive. As it happens I know that Isabella will basically declare war on you the instant you commit heresy. An absolute nutcase, and a crappy neighbour.
Isabella: Good. Is there anything else?
Me (aside, to warrior): Look, look, there, is that, or is it not, an elven ear?
Warrior: Now you mention it...

A few turns later...

If we had chosen to take meditation, we would now be one turn away from a breakthrough, and all that effort would have been for a crappy technology no one wants.
Warrior: Buddhism has been founded in a distant land!
Me: Where?
Warrior: A distant land.
Me: ... Then how do we know?
Warrior: We just do, ok?
Me: Ok...

As it happens it was the spanish who researched it. Great. Just great. Now we have to kill her.
...
Nah, we had to kill her anyway. She's cramping our style.

Woo! As it happens, we are the first, so we get hinduism's holy city! Woop woop!
Mr Duck: Hello, Ghandi.
Sunshine man: Worship us!
Tree bark: Yes, worship us!
Several hours later.
Me: Warrior we have made an breakthrough.
Warrior: Goody.
Me: After expending the entire research budget on magic mushrooms I was spoken to by the gods. They told me to worship them.
Warrior: Gods?
Me: Yes. Not at all similar are the race of the immortal machine fairies and the race of dwarves that walk beneath the earth.
Warrior: Phenomenal. Now what?
Me: Hang on let me just skip bronze working and make a little statue to show you.

The circled icon shows that a)this city contains Hindus, and b)that it is the holy city thereof.
Me: Now do you understand?
Warrior: We are going to worship your hallucinations?
Me: HERETIC. BUUUURN.

Why on earth not? We don't get anarchy, so the conversion is free.
Me: You are all Hindus! Order of the state!
Peoples: Yay!
Me: Well that went better than expected... warrior, have some people beaten up for rioting anyway.
Warrior: Right away.

I seriously recommend fishing. Like, regardless of what people say I will take fishing first. But what after fishing? Right now we can't chop forests, perhaps we should look into bronze working? Farming is currently pretty useless, except as a prerequisite for animal handling, which lets us exploit the pigs more.
Science-type-fellow: Shit guys, Ghandi will be back for more mushrooms soon! We must find a place to hide!
Other Science-type-fellow: But le warriors, they get everywhere.
Other other Science-type-fellow: Not the sea!
Science-type-fellow & Other Science-type-fellow: Gasp!
...
Me: Where are those damn science fellows?
Warrior: No one knows, sir.
Me: Pah. Have them found, if we have to research an entire new technology to do it!

State of the empire:

To the north, the land narrows, and then the Spanish capital blocks further exploration. I don't know if the land continues, or if the spanish are on a peninsula. To the south, the land becomes jungle, ending by a small straight. There is dye there. To the east, a mountain range, unexplored as of yet.
We only have Boatmurdered, our capital. We have four warriors, one of which who is defending the capital.
We have aprox 200 gold in the treasury, as all three tribal villages gave us gold. We have no expenses, with 100% of income going to research.

What now?

As before, feel free to query about anything.

[Myroc]

Cut the science budget to 90%, so we get an income.

[mainiac]

No, with that kind of treasury there's no need for a positive budget, keep investing full pace in science.  Fishing is good for the food bonus w/ your clams (you might even want to buy a fishing boat to get it even faster) but you need to exploit your fast workers, which require land upgrades.  I suggest making a be-line for whatever will let you mine those shiny hills nearby.

[NUKE9.13]

We already have mining. It's an indian starting tech.

[Aqizzar]

Then why isn't there a gold mine yet?  I say head for Domestication.

[Servant Corps]

Wait, when you say that Isabella hates heresy, does that mean she hates people who believe in her religion but have a different Holy City so to gain more beniefts? If that is so, you shouldn't worry about her. You're an infidel, not a heretic.

[andrea]

gold mine will speed up research much, after you start using that tile.

[RPB]

Wait, when you say that Isabella hates heresy, does that mean she hates people who believe in her religion but have a different Holy City so to gain more beniefts? If that is so, you shouldn't worry about her. You're an infidel, not a heretic.

Dude, this is Isabella I of freaking Spain. I don't think she's going to be inclined to split hairs. Her inquisitors would only be too happy to split various other body parts, though.

[Rilder]

The Wheel so we can go pimpin in our chariots.

[mainiac]

Square wheels just ain't the same.

[NUKE9.13]

Right then. Current plan is:
Research: Fishing, Animal domestication (which requires farming)
(We can't even see horses yet, the wheel will not give us chariots.)
Other stuff: Gold rush.