Settings as below, no tribal village:
Gave Louis Paper to make him adopt OR. Spread Hindu to Louis and gave Gunpowder to convert Louis to Hindu. After Louis converted to Hindu, he stopped being Zara and Biz's WE.
Went for Steel and RP-Rifling, then Communism. Built maces, Rifles, Grens and Cannons, combined with Cuirs from previous wars. Attack Biz and his vassal Shaka. Both of them had Rifling. Biz was under Nationhood and he drafted a lot. It was possible to use
to switch Biz in bureaucracy, but I was too busy spamming Cannons and forgot about espionage things
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Sometimes it's hard to understand AI's city placement: if Biz loves Nationhood, would it be logical to grab the spot marked "x" with double fish, build Global Theatre and draft like crazy? Why did he ignore the double fish spot and settle a city in the red circle
? the red circle spot has no food, no strategic resource; it's only a single flood plain with some brown tiles
After losing most of his land, Biz capitulated on T266:
Shaka capitulated on the same turn:
Research Artillery, built Arty, MGs, upgraded some units. DoW AC and his vassal Mansa. Luckily, AC adopted Free religion, which ended his Friendly relation with Zara, so AC and Zara didn't sign defensive pact.
We have enough on our hands right now
This war was surprising for me. Both AC and Mansa had Arty, AC was close to AL and he had a big stack. Since my main army was in Biz and Shaka's land, after healing the wounded units in the captured German cities, I moved my stack towards east and attacked AC/Mansa from Mansa's side. I thought AC would soon send his main stack in Mansa's land to attack me, but surprisingly, I only met a few AC's units in Mansa's land, because AC moved his stack to another direction and attacked Qin. Qin captured a border city of AC, though AC took it back one or two turns later. During the capture - recapture, AC suffered heavy losses under Qin's PRO Rifles:
Without AC's help, Mansa had only 5 or 6 units in Djenne. As a result, my stack looked ridiculous and overkill
AC refused to capitulate as long as Mansa was alive. Had to destroy Mansa. Also gifted a captured Malinese city to Shaka, since that city was surrounded by Zulu culture. AC finally capitulated on T299:
During my war with Zara, domination:
Zara had Industrialism for a long time, but he didn't have Oil so he couldn't build tanks
he's too busy building Stasis chamber 
. Got 7 GGenerals for a leader who is not IMP - there were a lot of wars, for sure
Killed 20+ Arty, all from AC and Mansa. With Zara and Mansa in the game, combined with Hindu lovefest, these AIs traded frequently between them. Zara already had Genetics at the end of the game
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While many UUs (Praets, Quechuas, Immortals...) work better under Marathon speed than Normal speed, Indian UU is the opposite: 3
faster workers can move in the forests and chop on the same turn, this is not evident under Marathon speed, but it becomes significantly better under Normal speed.
Indian UBs comes late, but +2
- is nice to deal with war weariness and emancipation anger. With cheap Org factory, most cities only need 2 or 3 turns to build Mausoleum. Constitution is required for AL, after all.
Unlike the pushover AI Asoka, in human players' hands, Asoka is a good warmonger. SPI trait offers great flexibility for the wars: he can adopt slavery, vassalage, theo, or draft whenever the situations call for it. Cheap CHs and lower civics upkeep allow people to keep some extra captured cities. I don't think ORG is as strong as FIN, but I like ORG, just because I personally like having many cities, founded or conquered. Waring as ORG leaders is fun. Maybe that's why I never play OCC - I understand some people like playing OOC, and some OOC games are fun indeed. But for me, OCC deprives me of my greatest pleasure of playing BTS.
An interesting thing about the leaders' traits combo: among the 52 leaders in BTS, there is no ORG leader who is PRO. Some ORG leaders such as JC or Darius are paired with very powerful UUs for an early rush. Maybe is this a hint from Sid
? With ORG leaders, do not turtle in the corner with few cities, the player can afford a larger empire with less cost. Expand or conquer as much as one can and never look back.
Thanks for the map
. Another factor which makes me settle on PH is the 3 
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. They made peace after several centuries.
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from Zara and Biz before attacking Qin. Didn't beg from AC though, as AC can only be bribed into wars at Friendly while he was only Pleased with Qin. Qin was willing to capitulate after losing his capital. But I took Shangai before accepting the capitulation, as there was a wonder I really wanted in this city 
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). Also need at least 7 or 8 more fast workers.
. Another trouble comes from Mansa, who trades everything to everyone. Only 2 turns after he and AC got MT, most of the AIs had it 
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