GOTM150 - Arabia Monarch 100k - Final spoiler - Game submitted

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My best game so far, though little boring. No (subjective) mistakes this time except one: I underestimate effect of unit building/disbanding for culture rushing, producing some wealth instead.

Finish in later XIV cent, 11k jason, 202 cities (yes LITTLE boring ).
Domination limit was close from around 600 ad.

this was my game...

Scout 2SW, settle in place, worker 1NE

Build order:
Scout-worker-scout-temple-granary-scout-settlers

4000bc foundation capital
3500 meet Rome, trade for Alpha
3200 meet Egypt, trade for Mas
3050 meet Babylon
3000 first hut gives HB
2950 meet Greece
2900 meet Zulu that already have 3 towns!
2850 2nd hut gives again a desert town!
3rd hut is deserted
2710 temple in capitol
2670 hut gives Writing
2550 buy last two contacs
2350 granary
2270 maps
2190 hut gives Philo
2150 settler
2030 4-turner operational
Found 3SE
1990 hut gives Maths
1950 hut gives Lit
1870 maps
1830 1S2SW, connecting 1st lux
1700 hut gives CoL
1450 hut deserted
1150 hut gives Con and gets me into MA…
Gift Scientifics up… 2x Feud+1 Eng
Trade Lit+gpt for Feud, Eng too expensive
900 Athens builds Pyras
3rd lux connected
610 Mono monopoly
Trade for Rep, Mona and Eng
590 set an end to world peace.
570 revolt to Republic
390 Chiv in
270 hardly trigger my GA with my first Ansar against the Carths. Income goes up to 182gpt.
190 culturally gain 4th lux; jump over 200gpt
10 start a war against Egypt, gain 5th lux,

30ad
I do not even dare to say it, with my first e vic i spawn an MGL
50 rush FP
And absolutely incredible: my 2nd e vic spawns another MGL!!!
Rush Leos
70 FP makes gpt jump far beyond 200gpt
However, the absolutely strange thing is that not a single town has yet flipped to me?!!??! With all my offensive culture pressing. What am i missing?
110 connect 6th lux
130 GA ends, switch back to Despo to get rid of some pop 
170 finally i can take Athens with the Pyras, and also the GB…. With actually quite good battle results. Which is important due to my minimalistic army.
300 7th lux
490 finally, the first flip towards me
880 i see AIs in the IA. 927cpt… nearly 35.000 culture in the box.
950 finally over 1000cpt!
1000ad sees 1093 cpt
1060 damn, Rome declares war…
1110 my tiny military manages to take the Roman core and I make peace again.
1150 now the f***** Zulu attack, with Cavs…
1240 after a few burnt down towns and the empire burning twice, i can make peace again.
1320 even though CA2 shows 1350 as the win date, the victory screen is there. Finally.

I never played a 100k before and sure never will again. That was tedious as hell.  However, I learnt a lot about that vic condition. Of course I made enormous mistakes. Like, I started to build culture way to early, did never expand up to the dom limit, lost turns before I found out that just one turn of despo each team for poprushing would have sufficed, and so on. Also too little military, so by the end, I was lucky the strong Persians did not also attack me.

E vics
I MGL in 30ad
I MGL in 50ad
IIIII II MGL in 1295ad

and a final pic:


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thanks so much for waiting! if it had not been for my one and only 100k submittal ever, I would not have bothered you all. thanks again!
t_x

Tried this one just for fun.
Mixed approach: temple first, then roughly half military, half culture; no ICS'ing at all, it's just silly, boring, braindead, blah blah blah, [insert synonym of / colourful expession meaning "totally not funny" here]. I didn't even finish the city name list, go figure.
End result and Jason scoring not that great. Clearly not a viable strategy to compete against die-hard ICS-ers. I'm not even making it into the podium, but who cares?

Hello, braindead and blah-blah-blah ICS'er is here.

bc 730 - stack of 6swd2arc assembled and sended to Persepolis
bc 550 - DoW Per
bc 510 - Persepolis captured (future center of second core)
bc 310 - made peace with them, after all core territory was secured
bc 270 - DoW Egy
bc 130 - Mecca switched from settlers to culture buildings (main core complete)
bc 10 - capture last Egy city, but their settler escaped to far wilderness
130 - DoW Car
210 - DoW Bab
230 - GA by anshar victory - before FP, but PYR must be captured
260 - Eridu (1pop) FLIPS to Bab, according CA2 chances was 0.2-0.2%
- Babylon captured (PYR)
280 - core cities start build settlers along culture, so ICS slowly has begun
310 - got 1st leader (by 14ew)
320 - FP hurried in Persepolis, with 11t of GA left - not bad!
370 - DoW Per (after conquest of Car core)
400 - DoW Gre
430 - LeW completed in Mecca
460 - got 2nd leader (again 14ew), spent to StZ
480 - Per detroyed
500 - Egy destroyed
520 - Rom demands wines and DoW then got refusal
530 - Gre destroyed
540 - revolt to Rep
600 - 40t to domlim
620 - give Rom peace (by threat of GA by their legs)
730 - start donating cities
850 - way too much diseases past century - 3-5 per turn
870 - decide to switch 2nd culture building from Pet to Lib in corrupted cities
970 - Rom again DoW us
1080 - CPT passed 1k mark, tot =40k
1110 - 1st ever flip attempt to me
1130 - 200 cities
1210 - Zul surprise attack (they was polite and have important resource trade)
1375 - in winning turn rampaging Rom destroyed Zul city, pushing domlim to critical - 1t!!

Despite no mistakes in initial expansion phase, I make one 100k specific: in core cities with outcompleted buildings I have producing wealth instead of units for disband. In 1250, after reading final Lanzelot's spolier for GOTM134, I have corrected this.