Yeah, i'm kind of with Somebody on this. Playing in the middle-east is almost certainly easy mode, being able to create a 2-6 city contiguous empire from day 0 cities while everyone else is still thousands of turns from tribalism means you're the default permanent hegemon unless you start to actively stabotage/hinder yourself. Worst comes to worst you just have some cities run meager wealth for however long it takes to raid for more captives to rush hammers and whatnot, AI isn't good enough at pressing you to do any sort of real containment strategy that wont feed you more
and an actual day-0 great natural wonder building is gonna compound that advantage that much more, given how ridiculously strong they are in early prehistory.
Middle east is more easy yes, and yes israel got the easy start wonder, but still hard for him and he cant make +12 gold in 40 turns in his early stage.

He will never get so many captives in 40 turns to build so many buildings.



Waiting for his save games.

He game so GOOD that he dont knows that a city will be razed if he attack it with pop 1, before one day.

(Also as we saw before, same recon/scouting on map on his screenshots, so he reloaded a lot to get the outcome he likes. So he dont game good, he is cheating.)
But he got a bit better, now he can try it without cheating. He just dont want to show that he conquered to much cities to fast and was not able to hold it.
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