Enjoyed this one and that's the first game I managed to play to the end in a while.
Built 1st ring of cities at distance of 4 and 2nd ring at 8 from the capital. Built Forbidden Palace in 570 BC in native lands, then jumped the palace to former Japanese lands via Great leader in 210 AD where two rings of cities were set up at the distance of 5 and 8 from the new palace.
Research was ASAP to Map Making/Republic. Huts were handy: got couple of free expensive AA techs in the end to enter MA in 590 BC. Luck with AI freebies was not bad: AIs got feud and mono which I traded and did not have to research in MA, Medicine in IA and Computers + Fission in Modern Age. All other techs were researched by me in MA/IA/MA.
Built The Great Lighthouse and the Golden Age was trigerred in 410 BC. The order of conquests were Babylonians/Japanese/Iroquis/Carthage. Good luck with MGLs: 1st leader appeared after 3 elite victories (MGL 30BC), 2nd after 7 victories (MGL 520AD), 3rd leader appeared after 3 againa(MGL 550AD) and had 22 more elite victories after that, but did not manage to get another leader.
Spaceship launched in 1270 AD.
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