Long overdue update, turn 140.
NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION! I got Knights' Templar while the other continent didn't have amthematics and made the most of it through Spanish lands.
Diplomatic rundown:
Greece: little brother, very good terms - so good he leaves his border towns undefended. Big time tech deal with him, I'll pull him to the IA and get 2 IA techs in return. I have a well fortified border with him should he attempt anything.
Germany: little neighbor, impending doom from SW's mace stack
Spain: Poofed out
West continent:
England: Backwards, on warpath vs their AI
Ottoman: Backwards, has the smaller end of the warpath stick because they are farther down and can't profitably expand to the north where the AI's are
Amerikaner: Under siege, we pumped Feudalism into them so they have something to defend themselves with
Russia: Man Cathy is fucked. Hopefully she survives a dozen turns so we can extract an IA freebie out of her.
Techs: I'm pulling SW up for his freebie, after which I'll take a strong lead in techs again. I'm building up my tech farms in the E-NE right now, universities in the core and Coper+Newton in my capital that already has colossus and 20SPT.
My military force is strong vs everyone and I haven't built anything since before I started the war against Spain.
SW and I plan on invading the West with cavalries ASAP, maybe with infantries, maybe with just rifles/muskets. Either way, they'll weaken themselves against america and Russia on wars across the jungle and into unproductive grounds while we build up and gain an irreversible lead.