tired of being always "politically-correct" in my last games i decided to get back to the basics of strategy games and play a game with ONLY "conquest" victory enabled.

After some fooling around with the settings i guess i got a quiet balanced map for making this more fun:

shuffle small map
10 AI Civs
marathon
Immortal

+ my usual settings: Aggressive AI and No Tech Brokering, but this time I also added No Vassal States to avoid civs capitulating and promote complete annihilation :viking:

have you tried something like this? what other settings would you recommend?