another update from my game:
its now 1832 AD, the french are a now a huge civilization, i already had the opportunity to win this game by UN-vote but they are all furious at me, so i didnt vote...i will try a domination victory i think or maybe im milking the game, but i think england or america will build a spaceship first...well, here are the details:
after finishing the aztecs i decided to go right after the germans with my knight-army. to my surprise i had no problems at all, the germans were very weak with mainly spearmen as their defenders. soon they joined the aztecs
i was still lagging behind tech-wise although the germans traded just a few techs to me, but now i was building libraries/universities like a madman...i really wanted to be the first to have steam power and industrialization.
so the time after the german war was a peaceful one, lots of building and regenerating from the wars, switching to democracy and building sistine chapel. my next target should be the romans, i planned to attack them as soon as i got cavalry. unfortunately the AI players were still ahead in the tech race, so they all had riflemen at the time i discovered military tradition. it took quite some time to build up/upgrade my cav-army and when i was ready to attack, the roman cities were defended by infantry, OUCH
so what could i do? i built lots of artillery and this combination slowly took down the roman cities. with the help of the english, caesar was finally history with me grabbing the most of his cities (btw, as u can see in the screenshot, england grabbed neapolis, which is by now surrounded by my empire, but still it won't flip to me
so this looks rather strange to me...)
another time of peace followed, finally i got the tech-lead and was first to build a tank-army. i decided to go after the iroquois next, again with the help of elizabeth (she was a nice slave to me, kicking my enemies' butt and i took all the cities
) and this is where i stand now...im in the middle of the iroquois war, i took over most of his cities and soon he will be gone...i will then still need a few cities for domination but as i said, maybe im going for spaceship or milking the game, time will tell
all in all, i really like this game...heres a shot of my world: