Well, I aimed for Time-ish victory to maximise my basic score and get much-coveted cow, the last remaining prise to grab Eptathlete award. Grey Cardinal said Epic would take too much time - which proves him being smarter than me, killing 20+ hours on this one 
. I grabbed gem+gold island soon and beelined for maces, then launching attack on Hatty ASAP - her capital should've been mine (moved capital there later and built Oxford and Wall Street). Not killing her off 100% but grabbing her mainland I moved towards Sally with catas to bring down the walls and phalanxes to protect from elephants. Lost several maces in a row with 90+% probability of victory, but I got used to it recently 
. Pushed Saladin into ice while making Mecca GPF and grabbing GLighthouse (Hatty) and GLib+Parthenon.
The next goal was Cyrus who haven't even had all gold and ges mined by then! This was punished severely (I picked Chemistry with Liber to speed up my conquest and promoted City Raider III maces to grens), although bad random had its say again. Without stopping Spain and Rome fell victim to my grenade (and infantry in the end) with only a few cities remaining (and Rome lost all - Caesar popped GE in his last city the turn I was going to capture it, so I waited for 1 turn to be rewarded with free Hagia Sophia).
Then came the boring part - I was balancing at the brink of domination while speedily researching towards Future Techs, had to give back many cities I captured before. The upkeep was killing me - therefore my next goal after Chemistry was Communism for State Property. After that, when I got enough happiness and health from Future Techs, I started reworking mines into mills and cottages into farms under Representation and Castes to max my pop for points (new seaside cities also to remain under domination limit) while researching Future techs to pacify new population.
Have to comment unsatisfactory on AI which insisted on hiring new citizens as engineers (not scientists) although I amplified food and science in city window - had to redo it manually for each city until I got sick and stopped for the last 80-smth turns.
As my final geste 3 turns before the end I bombed and captured by marine attack of Modern Armors most cities of AI opponents - they were low-pop though. Therefore - Domination Victory in 2048, 15K-something cow-score.
Edit: the things I could've done better:
- use my GP on GA before I start dismantling cottages
- not use 4 GP for 3rd GA, rather speed up Future techs directly
- nuke the crap out of enemy cities in the ending turn - just for the pure fun of it; gonna load the last autosave and do it
. I grabbed gem+gold island soon and beelined for maces, then launching attack on Hatty ASAP - her capital should've been mine (moved capital there later and built Oxford and Wall Street). Not killing her off 100% but grabbing her mainland I moved towards Sally with catas to bring down the walls and phalanxes to protect from elephants. Lost several maces in a row with 90+% probability of victory, but I got used to it recently . Pushed Saladin into ice while making Mecca GPF and grabbing GLighthouse (Hatty) and GLib+Parthenon.The next goal was Cyrus who haven't even had all gold and ges mined by then! This was punished severely (I picked Chemistry with Liber to speed up my conquest and promoted City Raider III maces to grens), although bad random had its say again. Without stopping Spain and Rome fell victim to my grenade (and infantry in the end) with only a few cities remaining (and Rome lost all - Caesar popped GE in his last city the turn I was going to capture it, so I waited for 1 turn to be rewarded with free Hagia Sophia).
Then came the boring part - I was balancing at the brink of domination while speedily researching towards Future Techs, had to give back many cities I captured before. The upkeep was killing me - therefore my next goal after Chemistry was Communism for State Property. After that, when I got enough happiness and health from Future Techs, I started reworking mines into mills and cottages into farms under Representation and Castes to max my pop for points (new seaside cities also to remain under domination limit) while researching Future techs to pacify new population.
Have to comment unsatisfactory on AI which insisted on hiring new citizens as engineers (not scientists) although I amplified food and science in city window - had to redo it manually for each city until I got sick and stopped for the last 80-smth turns.
As my final geste 3 turns before the end I bombed and captured by marine attack of Modern Armors most cities of AI opponents - they were low-pop though. Therefore - Domination Victory in 2048, 15K-something cow-score.
Edit: the things I could've done better:
- use my GP on GA before I start dismantling cottages
- not use 4 GP for 3rd GA, rather speed up Future techs directly
- nuke the crap out of enemy cities in the ending turn - just for the pure fun of it; gonna load the last autosave and do it
