IronfighterXXX
Work Hard - Play Hard
I'm no pro, but I still have a hard time understanding how you're getting this entire strat set up without having good fortune. I noticed on your Sub 200 win, all of your cities are on mountains, you had a desert start with presumably desert faith, and there are CS chokes between you and your neighbors. That seems like a fortunate setup imo.
Well for sub 200t obviously you need good start, but not for sub 250t
It's hard for me to imagine finishing Liberty,
Rationalism, 6 points Freedom, and 2 points Commerce. That's an immense amount of culture in only 200 turns. Were you getting easy culture CS quests? Did you invest in early guilds? I know you said to bank your writers and artists, but I did that in my games with early guild slots and I still couldn't even finish Rationalism while simultaneously reaching 3rd tier Freedom.
Winning WF (on first vote) is helpful for it (and you want TRADITION)
I didn't make any LPs, but check Acken's LPs - I'm sure you find sth interesting in itI would need a video to help me understand turn-by-turn what exactly is the player doing to turn such a start into a sub-250 win.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=533320