Leowind
Emperor
Haven't played GOTM in quite a while, but this one looked doable in my time frame, which turned out to be a good thing. Actually I got just sick enough the first two days I played to stay home, but not too sick to play
. First Civ I've played since Sept 11, and the most fun I've had playing Civ in a long time
. I think I largely got lucky. I never once got barbarains or weeds from a hut. Was able to research Monarchy as my 2nd tech!! Discovered the Romans when they only had one city (which didn't last long). Blocked the isthmus, then later sailed South and landed in the heart of the Carthaginian empire and took their capital. From there pretty much just steadily munching cities. finally got down to one Egyptian city left by mid-1800s. Realized I had not bothered to grow at all under Republic, but will be maximizing growth under demo now until becomes too difficult, or the end of the month, whichever comes first. My score won't approach the masters of this game, but it felt good to be totally kicking a$$ the whole game on Emperor. I think all my games in the future will be on small map.

