Okay update time.
So on T111 I destroyed Infernals. Gela is a nice pickup and the city isn't that bad either - sadly all the buildings got destroyed in the city
. I also got 2 well-promoted units out of this. Killing Hyborem twice with roughly 30% odds gave me over 50 xp for both of my Axes
. Also I captured something like 13 workers.
On T112 I moved my Spider to scout HK a little bit. As I had thought he had some units behind his frontline city in the north:
Orthus Axe Bambur and lots of Trebs. I don't want to park my stack in range of those trebs, that's for sure.
Next turn I scouted the city that was in dark last turn:
On T113 I got MS. Time to spam some Command posts before Iron Working.
In the north I landed units on one of the island that still had a graveyard standing there. I popped it and...
Not a bad result, althought not very useful anymore. I guess I can use it for border pops for my new island cities. Next turn I'm settling a city SE from my capital, on one island that has gems.
HK is up quite a few techs on me still. But not too bad. He could have Engineering too though, I'd expect him to build Guild of Hammers.
A general lurker question here:
If HK has some tech that can't be shown in "Can't Trade" -section because I don't have the prerequired to see further, like Mathematics is required for Engineering so Engineering wouldn't be shown there before I have Math. Would Engineering be removed from "Can Research" list if HK actually had that tech though? I hope I made myself clear enough with my question.
So if HK doesn't have Smelting when I finish IW, is it possible that he can't see me having the tech just by looking at Foreign Advisor?
Here's the current civics I'm running.
FT is awesome civic, these cottages are growing very fast now. It's slowing my growth a little, but that's okay - I'm near happy cap in most cities anyway. I might switch back to Agrarianism later, but at the moment I think FT is giving me a lot more as my economy relies on cottages. Also those traderoutes are not bad either as I have 15 cities.
Once IW is done I'll probably switch to Military State. I get 2 xp from Command Posts anyway in my best production cities anyway so why not. This will give me +45% military unit production in my core cities. I need this to get those 120h Ogres as fast as possible.
After Iron Working I'm considering either Sorcery (I already bulbed over half of it) or Priestood. Both have some obivous benefits. I already have 3 mage candidates ready, some body II/fire II mages wouldn't be bad but I also probably want to get metamagic node to switch around some of my nodes. Air II would be sweet for collateral, especially if I'm going to skip Ritualists. Stonewardens are not that great but Shield of Faith's +10% strenght is nothing to sneeze at, especially if you give it to unit that already has base strenght of 10.
Another nice thing to pick up would be few cultists. HK has a lot of coastal cities, hasted Mobility I Cultists could burn down cities very quickly. Not sure if I want to go swapping religions too much though.
Here's my GP city, it's also RoK holy city and I'm getting some money already for it. Also RoK has been spreading like a plague lately)
List of my cities above. My main "pump out units like crazy" -cities are building Command Posts.
And finally, for the very least, demos (now that HK's GA ended).
HK's GNP is very impressive still, even without GA he's beating me! I hope most of that is actually gold instead of beakers! We're almost even in power, soon with Ogres I should have pretty big spike in power...
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!). One has hero promotion, HK must've gotten an Adventurer from one of those lairs he popped. He has 10 Trebs in the area, not many attacking units yet though. 
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. I think HK wants either to grab Black Mirror or more land - or both actually. I might want to join that war actually, we'll see. I'm also preparing to capture small part of Sheaim land. And also settling one city NE of Kredom (the island in the picture).
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