Well, so far I seem to be the only one who got a time victory who's posted.
Started at Adventurer and got a score of 6510
I did say this was my 2nd monarch game. I was wrong, it's my first !!
I'll try to recap the significant events, but I didn't turn the auto-logger on until part way through the game...
At the last post in 485AD, my economy was going down the drink due to too many cities, and I was a poor third.
So, the Egyptian campaign continued until 650 after taking two more of Hatties cities, and
pushing her of her starting island. I learned literature, and started on the great library,
but way to late to get it, then moved onto currency to improve my economics.
I restarted the war with Egypt with the goal of taking over some of the nice sites she had taken near my starting island. Imediatly Saladin declared on me
The 2nd Egyption campaign continued until 1124. And once I raised one of Saladin's cities on one of "my" islands, he accepted a piece treaty
I was still badly behind in tech and score and wondering how I was going to win this one. I figured the only way to keep in the running was to keep taking chunks out of the AIs whenever the chance arose, Saladin being lower in score than me, and pissed with me already seemed the right candidate. By this time hatty had a couple of remote island cities and that was about it.
Around 1268 I start teching gunpowder and chemistry and starting the tech buildup to take a chunk out of saladin. while consolodating my cities. It seems very difficult to decide how to specialize this kind of map.
Around 1738 JC declares war on me. Not sure why, all he does is send a frigate around to sink a few fishing boats. I use the opertunity to get rid of a city of his near one of my areas and then he accepts pece in 1774. I've started work on a bunch of frigates to support the upgraded gallions for moving troops about. I'm also building up grenadiers and cannons to take some chunks out of saladin.
I send some forces up to try to take a large barbarian city near Isabella's forces and eventually manage to do so. This should be a good foothold into her place when the time comes.
I declare war in 1834, and proceed to take about 5 cities on his home island, keeping clear of the one with a Machine gunner in it. It looks like I started this just in time. In 1855 I sign the first pice treaty, and start to consolidate what I've taken.
I'm not techiing Assembly line, and start building factories like mad. JC will be the next target but probably not until I have air power. I start scouting around for a suitable air base, and find one just of his mainland in the southern ice.
Around 1881 Isabella declaires war on me, and Cyrus (who we had a defensive pact with) declares on Isabella. Isabella just harries my sea forces, and not very effectively. This goes on until 1906 when I think she's had enough.
Saladin deiced to jump in at 1903, just after I discover electricity. I infantry can now take out the remaining Arabian forces on his island, push him back to his arctic outposts and sign a treaty with him in 1924.
I build Scotland yard, as I'm going to have to know what's going on inside Cyrus and JCs cities.
1913: Factories and coal plants are starting to come on line now. The buildup is continuing.
1927 I learn flight, and start a bunch of remote island cities producing fighters and main cities producing airports and my main port city producing some carriers.
When I get radio, the remote cities will switch to bombers, after creating a bunch of fighters.
Airbase 1 is founded in 1935 or JC's south-eastern coat. An airport is rushed in the next few turns.
Once I learn industrialism in 1938, the cities with airports switch to building tanks and keep on pumping them out.
1939, we start producing our 4 spies too.
1947: I create a amphibious task force of marines, promoted infantry, 3 carriers, 9 fighters, and a couple of battle ships and distroyers (and transports)
1950 I start researching fission. I figure I may need the bomb in this to try to keep Cyrus in check.
1962. I try to persuade JC to start a war with me, as he's friendly with saladin and I don't want to deal with him too, but he just sits at about -15 with me. So, when I get my air force in place, airbase1 with about 20+ tanks, and a bunch of transports and my amphibious task force in place, I declare war on JC.
Imedialty Saladin declares on me and all the war weariness comes back. Bugger. I keep the naval task force in the south to keep multiple fronts up against JC.
I should have to diverted my task force to the other end of the world to finish him off but didn't notice the war werianess was back to full streanght for a few turns. Doh!
Our forces are increasing about 3 tanks a turn right now, so once there's a few more at airbase1, I divert the rest to finish of saladin's last cities on his home island, and the task force will take care of his arctic circle islands.
All this time I've been running at 0% science, figuring that I need the money for spy missions.
It's a long war.
1979 and JC has a few mechanized infantry about causing me problems, but the tanks keep flowing, and eventually I kick him off his home island and in 1986 we sign a peace treaty with JC and finally eliminate saladin.
By this time both JC and Cyrus have been building parts for their space ship, (which is what prompted the war with JC first)
My spies have found one of the production centers, but not both. And he's building the space elevator
By this time Cyrus has jets and mech infantary and has completed the Manhattan project. So, tha plan is to move consolidate all t
I relalise that I'm not going to hold of Cyrus's ship with just spies, so I plan the next war.
Get fusion, and nuke him to hell. In the mean time, take over Spain's lands, to leapfrog him in points.
1992L get fision start ICBMs at about 15 cities. Anything that will get an ICBM before the end of the game builds one.
1993 I declare war on Isabella. Swooping down from the barbarian city I took agea back. And using my naval task force to start a 2nd front. Her cities are not very well defended, and I take her 2nd and 3rd island in short order.
1999 I attack her 1st island taking Barcelona and send tanks north and south to take the rest of them with bomber support. 2003 I sign a treaty with Spain, and focus on Cyrus.
Slight problem with the original plan, Curus has SDI. Hummm. For a brief while I try to see if I can retake the city that built SDI and leave it at that, then remember it's a project and will still be there. I'm still trying to spy his space ship program into the ground but failing. There's no alternative for it, I'll have to take a large chunk out of him.
2005 we declare war on two fronts. A landing in the west of Cyrus's main island from Ex Spanish territories, and the main push from Spain's 1st island over the land bridge.
And all hell breaks loose.....
Cyrus is a lot clever than JC was. He realizes that most of my forces "back home" are hopelessly out of date (even some archers in there !!) and proceds to take a couple of my cities that are on small islands shared with him. His air force start to destroy my infrastructure, and my airforce takes heavy losses barraging his cities. He also nukes me with his only ICBM on the first turn of warfare. So, I send both my ICBMs back at his capitol, one getting through. At this point it starts to get hazy. The autologger seems not to be recording nukes, or tile damage.
Anyway, I proceed to take out 4 of Cyrus core cities, and suffer huge losses (what do you expect with tanks up against mech inf and props up agains jet fighters !!) but I think it's enough.
I use a few more nukes which seem to manage a 50% hit rate which should hopefully reduce the production capacity of the land he's got left.
in 2015 I sign a peice treaty with Cyrus and start to rebuild my infrastructure. My spies show he's got one city still building components for the space ship He still needs Stasis chamber and the engine, but he's not going to compleat it on time, especially with my spy "helping" At this time Cyrus is 400pts behind me, neck and neck when I started the war. I push some cities into the where his heartland once was, but nothing much will come of them.
By about 2030 my infrastructure is back on line, I've for about 10 nukes, and producing about 5 tanks/gunships a turn but there's nothing much left to do.
2035 I declare war on Isabella again to try to up my score and to pass the time (like I've not passed enough time with this game so far !!) but I can't get to her last city. I leave JC alown as he's got lots of mech inf now. I'm expecting a last ditch nuke launch from Cyrus in the last turn, but it doesn't happen.
Phewww
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It reckons I've been playing for 80 hours, but I've left the game running for long periods of time and while the laptop is in suspend, but it's still taken *far* too long.
I've *got* to learn how not to fight wars and keep up with the early tech race. I'm going to sit GOTM18 out, as that looks like a war-mongers one, and I need to do some other stuff for a while.
). This city gave me another religion. At the end, I had six cathedrals in my culture cities, a few wonders and about six towns each.
And I don't even know that he had another city! All my galleys and caravels then went into a worldwide search for the last city Tyre (which was built around 1200 AD according to the replay). And this search took me another 100+ years. What a mistake.
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arty: well as best you can while sitting in a chair looking at a computer (so really more like bobbing up and down and waving ones arms around than really dancing). I'd also made the discovery that if I switched the light off and played in the dark, I could actually tell my land and Cyrus's land apart. 
