Space Race victory, 2020 AD. Not too fast, I know, never quite got research up to 4-turn times.
*Settled 1 S in 3950 BC.
*The Olmecs gave me a free second city in 3700 BC. Not the greatest location ever, but hey, I'm not complaining when I get a free city. Made it into a military base.
*Colossus in Washington in 1450 BC.
*Declared war on the Iroquois in 825 B.C. Have bad luck. Lose Philadelphia, near Salamanca, and my first attack is repulsed. Regain the upper hand and finish them off before they get a single Mounted Warrior.
*Get two cities in on the other continent.
*Carthage is already strong and wins a war against the Celts in the early AD's.
*Sistine Chapel in Washington in 1080.
*The Mongols take one of my two cities on the other continent in the 1300's. I sign Zululand against them and retake it.
*The jungle north of Zululand is a major battleground until the Industrial Ages. Everyone on the continent except Zululand and Mongolia fights over it.
*Copernicus in Washington in 1390 AD. It's a major science city.
*J.S. Bach's in Boston in 1430 AD. The two happiness wonders really help with war weariness later (I'm a Republic).
*In the 1500's the Mongols conquer Scandinavia and I conquer most of Greece.
*Smith's in 1545 in New York. Didn't actually use it as much as usual.
*In 1640 Zululand defeats Sparta, the last Greek holdout.
*Sometime around then I find out India exists.
*Newton's in Washington in 1770 AD.
*In the late 1700's, the Mongols storm my Greek lands and take almost all my holdings on the continent. My workers run for their lives, but some are captured before being evacuated to the homeland. One city alone remains mine and holds back many Mongol attackers.
*I have to trade with the Celts for coal. How inconvenient.
*In the mid-1800's the Carthaginians capture most of Greece from Mongolia in an apparent sea landing, and I capture what they don't. I then capture most of Scandinavia from Mongolia.
*Universal Suffrage in 1854 AD in Boston. One of the few times it's really worth it - usually I don't go to war so much in a war-weariness government.
*By now it's the mid-early 1900's and Carthage is still a couple hundred points ahead of me. I also have just beat everyone to tanks. So I DOW them and over the next 50 years conquer them.
*Trigger a Golden Age with F-15's about 1960. I find them kind of useful thanks to their superior range to PTW Bombers and nearly-equal firepower. I'm used to the more powerful and longer-range Conquests Bombers.
*Hoover Dam in Carthage in 1961. It's not too long after that before I take it.
*American Apollo Program in 1974 in Cadiz, which I'd just conquered from Carthage (great leader rush). Gave me a significant head start in the space race; a tech advantage of about 2 techs also was key.
*SETI in Entremont in 1997. I'd hoped to get in Washington but there simply weren't enough shields
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*The UN in New York in 1998. India was a few turns from getting it, which probably would have been disastrous for me. The same year, India
did complete the Manhattan Project, and proceeded to build a tactical nuke, but no nuclear submarine. So it was purely for coastal defence.
*The Internet in 1998 in Cadiz. Figured it would be good to deny it to the AI in a three-way Space Race.
*Mongolia DOW'ed the much-stronger Celts in 2017, apparently trying to capture rubber. As expected, their Cavalry attack on the Celtic Mechanized Infantry was a suicide charge. But what it
did accomplish was getting me to DOW the Celts, because I had a MPP with Mongolia. I didn't want this of course, so I DOW'ed the Mongols a year later for the foolhardiness. The Celts captured a couple of insignificant cities from me, but didn't even try to advance against my Modern Armor and Air Force stronghold guarding the way to my spaceship (they lacked Modern Armor). They never used their one Tactical Nuke (I'd yet to complete a nuke).
*The Celts razed the Great Wall in Zimbabwe in 2018 AD. I didn't know it was flammable. Learn something new every day I guess.
*Launch in 2020. India had 2 parts completed and was working on 1 at the time; the Celts had 1 completed and were working on 2. Mongolia had just made it into the Modern Age.
Overall a very fun game. Rushed it a bit because I got a very late start on it, but managed to pull out a win, if far from my most impressive on Warlord. Got a good variety of warfare - Ancient, Industrial, and even some Modern. Also had opponents with nukes (OK, one per nuclear opponent) for the first time in a very long time.
How did you finish off your game? Any problems at all with the AI? And did anyone go for conquest?
too Paul#42! I had already agreed to join his OCC 20K Challenge, but then I ran out of time on COTM47 and only got 1900 Jason points for an unfinished game, so I wanted to play GOTM78 for full score. And Paul let me do it!
Therefore here are a couple of thoughts about where I went wrong:
I remembered that I had read a thread in the strategy forum or in one of the older GOTM discussions, which explained the mechanics of how triggering the GA via Great Wonders works and dug it up again. Apparently capturing a wonder does not trigger a "GA check", only completing one yourself does. And then it does not matter, what kind of wonder you build, as long as you already have two wonders corresponding to your civ-specific treats. In the end I had to build another wonder (Leonardo's) to trigger my GA. To sum it up: the correct setup for this game would have been: a) forget about the Colossus, b) capture two wonders, one expansionst and one industrial, and c) time a prebuild for any wonder to coincide with the completion of my second core.
). And they were a long, long way from my FP core in former Zululand.
Oh boy, that close to the end zone he dropped the ball! 
