Predator
Ancient Age
Entered Middle Ages in 330 BC.
Expansion
After miss-timing the Great Lighthouse (finished in 580 AD), I tried to claim every tile on the home continent after it was conquered in 370 AD. But I also managed to sneak in a few towns on the new continent before the Great Lighthouse. This is the new continent in 370 AD, with 6 towns and 1 settler:
Note that the spacing between the towns is 4 tiles, to gain up to three extra tiles for each new town.
This is the new continent in 590 AD, the turn after the Great Lighthouse was completed:
And this is how I got across without the Great Lighthouse. One empty boat (galley 1) is waiting on the dangerous ocean square. If it survives, the next galley (galley 2) is ready to hand over some units, which galley 1 can take over safely. After that, galley 3 is filled with more units, in case galley 2 also survives.
Finance
I researched chivalry and then stopped to upgrade chariots. Monotheism was traded from Sumeria (free tech). I then researched invention and gunpowder for no good reason. Then I stopped and increased the luxury rate to 40-50%. This was partly to gain some score, and partly to get We Love The King Day in the town building The Great Lighthouse (saved me about 5 turns).
I hurried some temples during the conquest of Portugal. I didn't want to do that in the towns previously taken from Korea, because my defence of those towns was nonexistant and I have a feeling (irrational?) that the AI are very tempted to attack empty cities with a cultural value > 0, and there were lots of Chinese and Zulu troops around.
I never researched Theology. I planned to take the Oracle from Zulu and had built Temple of Artemis myself, so there was something to gain from keeping things as they were.
Milking?
I had just started researching theology 730 AD, 11 tiles from the domination limit, thinking that I would need the luxuries from both continents if I decided to ***MILK***. In that case, Navigation would have been necessary. But I had forgotten to check how high my score increase was. I used an old utility, "ycalculator15.xls" (sorry, don't know who wrote it. Earl?), and came up with this:
71 Spaceship
56 Domination
62 Diplomatic
80 Culture100
95 Culture20
56 Conquest
If I understand these figures correctly, your increase in base score between 2 turns should be higher than these values if milking is a good option. For example, if you can win by domination you should have a base score increase higher than 56 points per turn in order to choose milking instead. Well, I only had 30, so milking didn't seem right.
Domination win in 750. That could have been 1 turn earlier, since I had two settlers fortified in 730. But I wanted to check the milking possibilities and did it a little too late.
Moral
It was very comfortable to wipe out the neighbors in this game, knowing that the people on the other continent wouldn't know anything about how it was done. Perhaps this is the most low-minded deal of all:
Guess what happens next.
Thanks for another great game and all the effort you've put into it!