I didn't have a worker farm until later in the game, by the way; they're somewhat harder to set up under the variant rules, and I got a decent number of workers by just skimming them off of food-rich cities.
I decide to take the wonder build in Entremont as the
Mausoleum. It's a neat little wonder, I think; it never becomes obsolete, it's cheap, and it eventually draws tourists. If you can build it early enough it can be almost as good as the Colossus.
London completes the
Temple of Artemis in 90 BC. I hold my breath, but no wonders crash-complete in the ensuing cascade. Then Rome city completes the
Great Library in 70 BC. Well, I didn't need those wonders anyway. :P
Viroconium flips to me in 10 AD. Thanks for the free city, Seizure! You should know better than to found cities so far away from home.
Tech moves along at a fast clip; as far as I can tell this has been an entirely peaceful game. Egypt is the tech leader, and now I see that Egypt has started Knights Templar in 70 AD. With Egypt already having a monopoly on Monotheism, that gives Cleo a clear two-tech lead. And she's my neighbor. Whee!
Carthage city completes the
Hanging Gardens in 90 AD. Oh well. Now that the Egyptian monopoly on Monotheism has just been broken, I console myself by conducting a 3-for-1 broker, getting Monotheism, Engineering, and The Republic (why not, it was basically free at this point).
Some Portuguese city that has
maybe three shields completes the
Great Lighthouse in AD 150. I thought I would get that, as all the AI's on that were very shield-poor. That starts Portugal's Golden Age, too, not good news. Well, with four of my cities trying to build wonders, I'm beginning to run out of cascade options. I decide to crash-complete my FP in Gergovia, wasting only 4 shields. It might be a tundra city, but it has a lot of production potential in this variant, and FP location does not make a difference in 1.15b except for the city it's in.
The next turn, York completes the
Great Wall. Ack. I thought I'd be doing well backed by the Golden Age, but it's tougher to build wonders in this variant. The least of my wonder-building cities wastes 63 shields building a colosseum. The turn after that, Egypt completes
Knights Templar. Whoa.
In AD 310 a 2-fer opportunity appears, and I get Theology and Invention for my two remaining wonder-building cities. The next turn, Thebes completes
Sun Tzu's Art of War. Well, I can just go capture that someday, at least.
Two turns later, Lisbon completes
Leonardo's Workshop. D'oh! The Palace is too cheap to tide me over now. Oh well, you can't win them all; and I
did get the Pyramids, so I can't complain too much. Camulodunum is now the home of the world's most expensive colosseum. Someone named Daniel Snyderbrenner buys it.
I do complete the
Sistine Chapel in Alesia in AD 380, a tasty wonder for a religious civ. One city, Memphis, cascades to Copernicus, but the massive cascading is finally over.
I'll wrap this up later; it's getting very late here.
