- Start, not many bonus square. Hill and mountains. Not a good start

- T3, cut losses and dump capital on suboptimal square, try and locate other cities close by.

- Sokrat discovers me, somehow tells me I have met woj11 (yet I don't think I have).

- Sign up alliance with sokrat, soon turns to an 3 way alliance with woj11. Have reservations about this, due to woj11's lack of communication in past games.

- We exchange maps

- ~T20. Start collecting sheilds, trying to make GL.

- ~T35. Edrim completes Collosus, starts GL. Crap!

- ~T45. bkolta9 starts and complete pyramids relatively quickly. Crap. I'm treading a fine line between getting to Literacy fast enough, and collecting enough sheilds. I don't think I'll make it, so Hanging Gardens will have to be a plan B.

- T48. Sokrat has a spack at me for not removing my warrior fast enough. Threatens war. I'm try to get the trapped warrior away. Just not that easy. Tell him to pull his head in. bkoltai9 tells me he has build all cities on mountains and will build walls too. He planing on planing lone wolf game. I think it might a good stragegy, esp. with the food box being so large it is going to be hard to get big cities anyway....

- ~T50 I'm 3rd in research speed and Sokrat is 1st now that he is Monarchy. I try to steal Monarchy from sokrat without sucess. One diplo is caught, the other gets crappy bronze working. decide its not worth wasting more diplos as it is too hard to steal monarchy - better to disband units and make GL.

- T54 Drop from 3rd to 7th. People are starting to swap govts. Need to catch up with techs urgently. Start trying to rush the GL.

- Took a break from dear diary as nothing much was happening. GL is continuing to deliver good stuff. Republic finally turned up, but much later than hoped.

- T77 Woj, launched a sucessful raid against Maho. Not sure what happened as smoke signals to woj don't seem to work.

- T79. Discovered vonz on island right next to me. Crap. Empty city. Try to land 2 vet horses but get caught and destroyed... Need to decide if I defend/attack/negotiate.

- T80. Drive a Trireme past vonz and he tries to bribe without success - whew. He probably doesn't have enough cash. Try and negotiate some sort of peace treaty.

- T8?. Sokrat got gunpowder. I got it the same turn via GL which is not a good thing.

- T??. Elrik got Isaac Newton wonder. I suspect he was actually trying to get the King Richard Wonder but he got shafted by Edrim a little while ago. Plans are initated by Kevin (and Edrim) to go and destroy Elrik's wonder city. Only problem is nobody knows where it is and it is going to take 5-10 turns before this will happen.

- T95. Destroy pytoux's trieme near my coast. He retaliates by destroying my caraval/explorer near his coast :-( His score is about 80, whilst most others are about 120, so he is far behind.

- T96. Discover that I am stuck on theology. Thought edrim had it but he does not. Sokrat is about to finish theology but GL is not going to give it to me for free. Boooooo. Decide to try and steal Democracy and/or Theology from Sokrat. Hopefully both diplos come back with the goods :-)

- T97. Attack vonz. His coastal cities which I spotted empty a while ago are still empty! Take across 2 musketeers and 1 diplo. Capture 2 undefended cities. Things to ferry in more units will be tough as I only have 1 caravel. If he counter attacks to my island I'll be a bit short of defence! Hopefully this sends his plans into a spin. Hold breath waiting for his response. Current scores: Sokrat 166, Vonz 138, Woj11 134, MrS 130, Kevin 130, Pytoux 87.

- T123. Not a lot has been happening. Edrim has attacked Marduk, Vonz has attacked Matty, Maho is cleaning up Woj11

- T125. Get back from holiday and discover Sokrat has played with my wonder production and I'll loose 1/2 my sheilds. It was set on an already completed Liberty wonder. By taking it off the Liberty wonder that production option was lost and now I can either loose half the shields or build Eiffel tower. Contemplate backstabbing Sokrat and trying to join Edrim's group.... Decide against it for now.

- T124. Hear that things are not going well. Vonz is 100% tax and currently has 585 gold.
Edrim is 80% science - currently researching steel - has 1400 bulbs. He is now top on production 270 and science 550.

- T125. Send map to kevin. Plan attack on Vonz. Stupid TC is still in the middle of the night :-(

- T132. Send 2 rifle to northern part of vonz area. Also send 2nd party to south. Manage to capture 1 city. Vonz had figured out something was and up waiting. City destroyed.

- T134. Vonz is not around at TC. Send 2 landing parties to the north. Survive turnchange and vonz is not around. Get onto his rail network and capture multiple empty cities. Sell city buildings.

- T135. Vonz still not around (elrik says he is sick). Send multiple canons to NE and capture Pytoux city as well as attack elrik and vonz units/cities around. Kevin lands a group of units and helps to cause some havoc.

- T141. Take down a large city of pytoux. Unfortunately it seems a bunch of improvements get destroyed along the way. Pytoux gets mad and recaptures that city along with one I had previously taken from him. No big deal he has losts a bunch of units. Suprising that 2 of the cities already had factories. He has quite well developed cities.

- T145. Vonz is back. Clears out kevin's empty cities. Clears out my units on fortresses. Still have 2 cities with good defences.

- T147. Vonz continues rampage. Clears out city on hills with city walls. Must have used a diplo to destroy the walls first.

- T148. Land 2 alpines on vonz area and get them to fortress mountains. 1 survives and 1 is killed. Land another bunch of alpines via city on other island, but unfortunately don't have enough moves to get to fortresses. Vonz has left city empty, must be very short of units.

- T150. ** Major turning point for vonz & the game **. Vonz attacks 2 alpines on mountain fort with canons. They get pretty weak, so I add another Alpine from neighbouring fort. He continues to attack with riflemen. I add another alpine. He continues to attack, emptying almost all his cities. He looses 9 canons, 9 riflemen and 1 partisan. I presume he is now totally out of units. I loose no units. These alpines in mountain forts are really undestrucable. My strongest alpine has 5 hp. 3 are now elite, 1 hardened. Vonz spends about 600 gold buying units quickly. Need to decide if I should do a mass invasion into his territory.

- Vonz doesn't really return. I'm able to clean out his cities slowly. Kevin joins in as well eventually.

- Rest of the game progresses with the final 4 alliance (Kevin, Sokrat, Marduk and Mrsynical). My part involves attacking pytoux, making fortresses on mountains and filling them with alpines, and slowly advancing attack units.