My understanding is that historical civilization size is no longer a factor in RAND stability, so we should be able to see some interesting domination victories.
Here is a Turkey domination game, High earth likliness, largest earth, and temperate.
I started out spawning between Arabia and a collapsed Greece. Since there was no more Greece, all their cities flipped to me, and I went to town on Arabia. Next I engaged Rome in a long and drawn out 200 years war. They were the top civ at the time.
Fortunately Rome and Greece built a lot of wonders, and once I controlled their important cities, I started mass producing great people. Rome had also founded Christianity, so I got the Christian and Islamic shrines built.
After that, it was a process of fending off France and Germany who wanted my conquered Roman cities, and advancing in tech. I started three world wars by refusing to leave Rome (Which I eventually razed after Rome respawned, because it was one tile from 2 other Roman cities) I vasalized Carthage, Mali, and the Vikings, who did a wonderful job of defending off the extremities of my empire. Carthage even started to colonize Australia.
The final push saw me taking a slew of independent cities from a collapsed Spain and Netherlands, and taking over Portugal (whose cities never got out of resistance, would have been another 3-4%). Also, I used founded two cities in a huge empty area south of the Spanish area, and using great artists to snag huge amounts of land.
I had to reload and go back to found konya to win in 1961 instead of 1962 because I collapsed in 1962 (this resulted in a few less tiles, but still sufficient for the win). Note I was pushing collapse in a golden age.
Here is a Turkey domination game, High earth likliness, largest earth, and temperate.
I started out spawning between Arabia and a collapsed Greece. Since there was no more Greece, all their cities flipped to me, and I went to town on Arabia. Next I engaged Rome in a long and drawn out 200 years war. They were the top civ at the time.
Fortunately Rome and Greece built a lot of wonders, and once I controlled their important cities, I started mass producing great people. Rome had also founded Christianity, so I got the Christian and Islamic shrines built.
After that, it was a process of fending off France and Germany who wanted my conquered Roman cities, and advancing in tech. I started three world wars by refusing to leave Rome (Which I eventually razed after Rome respawned, because it was one tile from 2 other Roman cities) I vasalized Carthage, Mali, and the Vikings, who did a wonderful job of defending off the extremities of my empire. Carthage even started to colonize Australia.
The final push saw me taking a slew of independent cities from a collapsed Spain and Netherlands, and taking over Portugal (whose cities never got out of resistance, would have been another 3-4%). Also, I used founded two cities in a huge empty area south of the Spanish area, and using great artists to snag huge amounts of land.
I had to reload and go back to found konya to win in 1961 instead of 1962 because I collapsed in 1962 (this resulted in a few less tiles, but still sufficient for the win). Note I was pushing collapse in a golden age.