20k in 1782AD...
Great setup, once again!
Because Colussus and GLH would trigger an unwanted despotic GA, it was an easy decision to settle inland.
My 2nd city by the gems managed to build ToA, KT, Shakespeare, Sistines, US, ToE and everything else after Hoovers.
However, the oversea powerhouse India beat me to Bach's by a turn and to Cope's and Newton's. No chance at that time to sack their cities.
My GA was triggered by a redlined carrack against an indian vessel.
To take my home continent was quite difficult, France was very strong, so I took out Egypt and Russia first while picking off cheap slow French units for MGL farming after their sneak attack.
On my continent I was the only one using knights, cavs (and armies), France and Russia never got their GA, Egypt used their despostic GA to lose lots of cheap troops at the russian borders.
India was in tech lead in the beginning of the Middle Ages. So I spared them for later.
Before tanks I invaded America, keeping India neutral most of the time. To Tanks I was first, building 30 of them, before India came close to researching motorized transportation.
Invading India was a different story, my tanks had to fight lots and lots of tough infantries and pesky cavs, it was quite a take-and-retake of the former american towns for a while.
Not expanding culturally (close to dom limit) left a lot of railed tiles for quick raids for them and me, so I spread slaves on roaded tiles in neutral territory to slow down their cavs.
Railroads and like six armies helped me to end it, before ww urged me to take the lux slider to over 50%.
At the end, America was playing OCC on the three-tile island to the north.
Finally, it was clicking enter and waiting for the 20k at 135cpt.
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