I thought i was doing well in my 1st playthrough but stupidly cklicked for DOF with Siam and everyone just hated me from then on. Got Dowed by Arabs and Hiawatha at same time, then cathy and liz breaking 3 modern era RAs. and temporarily losing one city and lost of production. i wonder what finish time could have managed otherwise. lost the autosave, and sinc i also crashed and AI behaved diferently in replay i wont be submitting.
in replay i abandoned the idea of GL and went for quick archery and few archers in my cities. despite settling 4 tiles from Kyoto, Oda avoided me until he has already fought everyone else on the landmass. he kept at it for a long time and had some success kiling 3 or 4 of my SM. He built himself a GW and was a pain. When i got machinery and upgraded my first CKN he changed tune and gave me a very sweet peace deal. He broke it soon after and by then my LSM and CKNs made him pay, i took only Kyoto, having 3 of my own cities and signed an RA with him. he stayed in till the end when he has only his Osaka between Kyoto and Mecca and that is down to 1 hp but no Arab melee units in sight.
Hiawatha took the rest of his possesions and reduced Darius to 1 city across a strait deep south. Cathy has kept up with Rami this time and actually has been the agressor despite him being ahead in score. I signed lots of RA this time as i bought a trireme but still managed to shave off only 24 turns in replay. Not sure if those classical and medieval RAs were worth it. I did screw up transition to Modern era, when i missed opening both electricity and steam power at once by 1 beaker!!!
i would have then bulbed electricity and shifted my median from 12 turns to 29. instead i downshifted to 8 turns 
i did snag CI and run a perma-GA for over 50 turns at the end with TAJ and farmed GGs, but i have no idea how to do a sub 200 let alone a 184 t finish GG everyone
awesome map
in replay i abandoned the idea of GL and went for quick archery and few archers in my cities. despite settling 4 tiles from Kyoto, Oda avoided me until he has already fought everyone else on the landmass. he kept at it for a long time and had some success kiling 3 or 4 of my SM. He built himself a GW and was a pain. When i got machinery and upgraded my first CKN he changed tune and gave me a very sweet peace deal. He broke it soon after and by then my LSM and CKNs made him pay, i took only Kyoto, having 3 of my own cities and signed an RA with him. he stayed in till the end when he has only his Osaka between Kyoto and Mecca and that is down to 1 hp but no Arab melee units in sight.
Hiawatha took the rest of his possesions and reduced Darius to 1 city across a strait deep south. Cathy has kept up with Rami this time and actually has been the agressor despite him being ahead in score. I signed lots of RA this time as i bought a trireme but still managed to shave off only 24 turns in replay. Not sure if those classical and medieval RAs were worth it. I did screw up transition to Modern era, when i missed opening both electricity and steam power at once by 1 beaker!!!
i would have then bulbed electricity and shifted my median from 12 turns to 29. instead i downshifted to 8 turns i did snag CI and run a perma-GA for over 50 turns at the end with TAJ and farmed GGs, but i have no idea how to do a sub 200 let alone a 184 t finish GG everyone
awesome map
