Hi, everybody! I usually don't post in finalspoilerthreads because they are oftenly opened so late (or I lately see that they are opened), and at that time I can't remember many of details of my game.
But this time it was a deity game and I think it deserves some comments, although I can't remember some details (I played it 21.9.-23.9. I think).
The map was interesting and easy, but the leader was a difficult one. Almost all my deity wins are made playing financial leaders. For me, it is very difficult to win on deity with non-financial leader, so this game was a real challenge.
In this game, in the ancient ages I captured a barb city SE of my capital(Saxon, I think) with archers (barbarriors and barbarchers killed majority of them in that battle). That became my best city. Before that city was founded I intended to settle there, so it was very important to capture it (even that important that I made archers instead of settlers). During next centuries I conquered barb cities to the west with 4 swords (some of them were given maces instead of swords when barbs got longer bows). My military was poor comparing to AIs, so I decided to play peacefully and economically, and that made my army more weak. I usually don't have state religion on deity to maintain good/average relationships with everybody because of techtrading and avoiding war (avoiding to be somebody's most hated neighbour).
The unpossibility of winning otherways made me to try a cultural victory (the most of my BTS deity wins were that), although imp/pro is bad for that, I had no choice. So, I won
a cultural victory in 1818. Mansa tried it too, but he was about 2 turns behind me. That cultural race was very close and exciting. The third who were trying to win were Romans, but they were unable to conquer or vassalize all of us, which was necessary for them to win diplo, dom or conq.
My wining was much slover then some of yours, but victory is a victory
And I must congratulate to Gosha190 on very fast wining! That's unbelieveable!
but not today.
Earlier Sailing and more effort against the barbs would have been enough. 
Oh, well.
It was too late for that, but I didn't feel like quitting just yet. I started conquering the barb cities on the northern continent, but Mansa started doing that too. Centuries past and then sth shocking happened : the AP victory option appeared! They all switched to free religion, Mansa was eligible because he was the owner and I kept Hindu! More than that, JC and Washington would've been enough to win against Mansa! Crazy business. Of course, the relations dropped without same religion bonuses. The plan was to adopt Representation, Free Speech and Free Market too to improve on that. Eventually I did, but just a few turns later Mansa discovered Mass Media and obsoleted the AP. I was far from Mass Media myself, with low population. At this point I finally resigned.
This was a great map and a great opportunity for a deity win, but I totally messed it up. 
Maybe next time...
