Sure as , I won in 3 turns by 2005. Domination victory, 66% of land, like 80% of population, America was down to about 200 mech infantry and assorted goodness that they had no chance of counteroffensive, while I had like 2000+. I was still eating the occasional nuke, but I don't want to spend 2 hours a turn micromanaging workers and cities and cleaning up pollution.
Attached is 1 image of the final campaign area where I took some cities - you can see that I had nuked most of the southern area to hell, dealing with their large 100 unit death stacks at first. Second is the win scene. And talk about my dysfunctional society - 400+ million people, 87 year life expectancy, annual income of 15 per capita (LOL) and a whopping 15% literacy.
At 276 hours, which is roughly 11+ days of straight playing, I finally won. This was the longest, most tedious, challenging experience I've had, not only because of the strength of the opposition, but the sheer size and scale of everything involved that I had to carefully go through. I've played and won easier games on Emperor, if that says anything. At the end it was not military strategy, but a gigantic pain in the ass.
If you guys would like a save game, please let me know. I do not recommend anyone play with 15 other civilizations on 2 huge continents with accelerated production and aggressive AI. This is the result, mind-numbing in that victory means little - but at least history will remember me as the Magnificent!
