First of all, Suleiman survived. Somehow. And even made it to Modern. Which wasn't part of my brilliant plan at all. In fact, it kinda totally ruined my brilliant plan.
I've got Plastics, bought two research labs and one was hard built in Moscow. Bpt started to rise, but too little too late. With my 11 cities I peaked at 750
, not enough by any standard. Maria Teresa kept her 9-10% tech lead and soon after finished Apollo and Manhattan project. I could have used the scientists to bridge some of the gap, but good thing I didn't. I was struggling with unhappiness and cash deficit. Buildings and army maintenance added up, so no upgrades were possible. At times I was running at as low as +8gpt.
No rush bought nukes as well, obviously. Besides, Austria and Huns had plenty of their own uranium and got it earlier than I did. Basically, the game reached the point most of my games reach eventually and I don't know how to avoid it - I just want to finish asap, no matter what way. Tediousness of long and exhausting attrition wars when I face zillions of units makes me choose alternative paths. I'm so lazy...
And despite my very stubborn desire to beat the hell out of all these AI bullies, I beelined Globalization, bought GE with faith and started hoarding. Again waited a little too long for burning scientists, but thought I didn't have enough money. Was too cautious, I suspect, diplo win is still pretty safe. And AI was broke, because I maintained perma wars between all other civs. At one moment Attila had over 5K which I was expecting to grab, next turn - nada.
But the most interesting part began two turns before UN completion.
At first Oda DoWed me. Just like in Tabarnak's case, he was pretty down, when I left him to lick his wounds, with all major cities gone and the capital relocated to puppet-Gao. In the meanwhile he took some of the smaller Austrian cities on our half pangaea, spammed more of his own crappy ones, annexed Gao and amassed a very decent army on my border. I knew I had to take Gao for the final blow, but unhappiness was killing me and I hoped it wouldn't matter. Well, it did. Since I dismissed 2/3 of my army and did't want to spend cash on upgrades, my military was pretty outdated. I had to sell Osaka to Ethiopia for pennies, there was no chance to save it. Then Oda retook Kyoto and Tombouctu in one turn with dozen of planes. Another surprise. AI brings a well balanced army, no more trillion arties with one infantry which got killed and you're good to go. Couple of turns later I had to sell Tokyo as well, despite the fact I was sitting on 10K with enough oil and uranium to turn Japan into dust.
At least Colombo captured Toumbouctu back.
Another surprise happened when I finished UN. My long time ally Belgrade was couped by Attila. Another long time ally Zanzibar faced double shenanigans (I have no other explanation) and from ally dropped to -60.
Next turn the Huns DoWed me. No immediate danger, they had no cities close by, but two of my allies were lost for the rest of the game while couple more repelling his attacks. 3 turns before the vote I had 10 allies in total, 2 turns before the vote Maria Teresa couped 4(!!!) of them leaving me with 8/10 necessary votes. I didn't want to play cheesy, so I tried to avoid allying in last turn and selling cities and gpt for lum sums. But with no other choice left I had to wait for the last turn to throw the remaining ~6k on those CS which weren't at war with me.
The best thing I've done in this game was, hands down, keeping everybody at war. As a result all AI teched slowly and Austria was stripped off its money. Not a single diplo marriage! The biggest mistake was, I believe, not attacking Oda earlier. With my numbers he should have been a goner. You get away with having cold feet on immortal, but it's too pricey on deity. And delaying Education on top of taking Honor wasn't that smart either. This was risky move, doesn't pay off bottom line.
I should have realized there wouldn't be enough time to take care of 4 opponents with such low bpt. Once again, science is what wins games.
Not a map I'll replay, but it was fun anyways. I was never at substantial danger of losing the game despite of my very counter-intuitive play. More traditional path makes more sense on this map. Rationalism, some Patronage, RA's and upgraded army that's what should be done here. After taking out Askia it was my game to lose. AI is still clueless, but at least it tries to prevent its lost. Tries. Not there yet.
P.S. Maria Teresa, what a hypocrite! She was plotting against Haile Selassie for the whole time.
P.P.S. WTH all the engineers?
. But it is really hard to hold of the initial attack from EITHER Askia or Japan, the one who gets to be the dominant one. Puh, love it but hard 
. Maria was right behind me in tech. from mid. game until the very end, when i bulbed 7 GS and finally got away. So i never got confident in that attacking her would be the right thing to do.
