The Deity Challenge Line-up #24 - Arabian nights

T13 DF for pantheon due to visiting 2 religious CS.
T14 DoW Pedro for stealing many workers, more than 5, and also to stop his settlers.
T42 DoW on Vatican City to steal worker and to train my chariot archers
T59 Founded Islam in the holy city of Mecca, with Tithe and Pagoda and Monastery
T60 Made peace with Pedro
T121 Made peace with Vatican City, and DoW Napoleon with some logistic camel archers
T130 Finally captured the mountain city of Lyon with help of a citadel bomb
T140 Captured Orleans and opened the way to Paris
T146 Captured Paris after Napoleon build a new city Troyes in the far north, made peace the same turn. Meanwhile, bribed Washington to DoW Brazil.
T153 DoW Pedro again.
T157 Captured Rio de Janeiro with help of another citadel bomb. Wonders included Pyramids and Great wall.
T160 Captured Salvador quickly and razed.
T165 Captured Sao Paulo and razed, made peace with Pedro
T167 Pocatello and Genghis Dow at same time. Bribed Washington to DoW Genghis.
T170 Sejong DoW Pocatello, not much action with Pocatello as he's busy with Sejong from then on.
T171 Liberated Panama City from Genghis
T174 Captured Hamburg from Genghis which he took from Bismark, used as base for Berlin.
T183 Liberated Tyre from Genghis
T187 Captured Hsia, and sold to Washington
T189 Captured Berlin from Genghis, made peace with Pocatello. Berlin contains several wonders including Forbidden Palace which helped with happiness.
T198 Captured Karakorum, made peace with Genghis. Sejong was leading on tech, aiming for CV, and just completed Manhattan Project. Only option was to increase tech level since camel archers are obsolete against Sejong.
T215 Sejong completed Apollo Program.
T230 Mecca completed Prora
T240 DoW Genghis with help from Sejong, Pocatello, and Washington
T242 Captured Turfan and eliminated Genghis in 2 turns with the newly developed modern armor.
T249 Sejong completed Great Firewall and only way to stop CV is to conquer Sejong or win DV.
T250 Sejong DoW after a period of massing army near Berlin, quickly wiped them out with the modern armor with bomber/jet fighter support.
T258 Seoul falls after Lightning War tactics captured 3 other cities.
T265 Sejong eliminated after capturing Pyongyang with timely battleship/carrier support. Massive Korean cities are draining our happiness.

Diplo victory is now possible with 40/39 votes after passing World Ideology Autocracy, World Religion Islam and forbidden palace captured in Berlin, so DoW Pocatello for a few turns of fun.

In the end, only Washington and Pocatello controlled their capitals. Genghis and Sejong eliminated and Bismark, Pedro and Napoleon had 1 crappy city each.
Additionally Scholar in Residence and Art funding was passed in WC.

Since the area was all desert and noone else seemed to be interested in religion i thought i would try out 3 lib-piety with Jesuit Education. Settled 4 city NC and immediately started regretting going for piety - capital seemed to take forever to build the NC (miss lib finisher GE NC...) 1 city added afterwards.

Built some camel archer - second problem of few horses.... Used camel archers to take Brazil's capital (~T110) but then I encountered the third problem of no happiness in the piety tree... could have taken paris but I had no idea how to manage the happiness. Settled unhappily for 6 city and teched for a SV.

Meanwhile Sejong was going nuts building every single wonder and out-teching me. He went 4 city trad-aest-rat and I didnt catch up with him until the atomic era. He wasnt even fazed when I acquired nuclear weapons but allying 2 Culture CS and winning WF was enough to stop any CV attempt by him.

Money and faith was through the roof due to dominant religion so freedom was the logical choice. Wanted to use genghis's 17k gc to buy the spaceship (he offered DOF when i got nukes), but then he denounced me and somehow I couldnt trade for his gc. This happened twice so I just gave up and built/bought parts.

Policies: 3 Lib (free settler), 4 Piety (reform), Full Rat, Comm Opener, 6 Freedom.

I concluded that piety is a garbage tree and this is the first and only time i will spend 4 policies to get Jesuit education.

Religion: DF thanks to Religious CS, Pagodas, Tithe, RC, RT, JE. I cant quite understand how to manage both pagodas and faith Uni in the medival period before rein costs spike it to 300.

WC: WF (won), Sci funding (much hate from Sejong who wanted the whole world to dance gangnam style), IG was proposed but I dont quite remember what happened to it.

Wonders: Big Ben, Great Mosque, SOL, SOH (thought I would need another policy)

I lost the same turn I submitted delegates to make me a world leader!! The bloody Korean guy launched((( I tried reloading several turns earlier and made everybody declare on him, but he still launched((
I wanted to play small piety, but then Brazil forward-settled me, so I "cameled" him from the map, taking 2 cities + capital. One of his cities was taken by Mongolia, and for some reason I thought I can resurrect the jungle guy and make him vote for me by liberating this city. Whoops, apparently not, it works only with the capital. I still don't regret conquering him, gave me a lot of culture. My cities were big and awesomely productive in the end... Not that it helped to win(
I managed to pass world religion, but was still 1 vote short of winning on the first vote, even with all the CSs allied. The voting just came too soon! For the 2nd vote I passed world ideology and had the whooping 46 votes.... alas, the bastard Korean spoiled everything((
Still, I really enjoyed this map. Arabia is cool for both war and trading, and religion with pagodas, tithe and jesuit education helped A LOT (yay science buildings on the next turn after the tech is learned)