Really appreciated another Civ IV GOTM.
This one was made challenging initially by the lack of resources and good city sites and difficulty growing and expanding cities. Remaining solvent became a constant challenge as the game progressed, even with Financial, so research was painfully slow, requiring some extortion. (Presume the evil map-maker intended all that.)
Otherwise, it was a pretty standard single-continent catapult-facilitated Conquest game (the extensive ice fields confounded Domination), slowed a bit (finished in 1400 AD) by lack of naval transport and inability to tech to Engineering and gain faster highway speed.
Hope this is not the last IV.
CP