So finally got this down to T160 on HK difficulty at normal speed with the following cultures: Harappans->Celts->Khmer->Joseon->France->Turks.
Yea Khmer is OP but really need that production boost at that point in the game. I tried an alternative using Siam instead of France and was surprised I only lost 5 turns on the win. Turks seems a must and as long as you have setup your research clusters ahead of time and drop in your Public Schools I reached 60k science in the end with just 6/9 cities.
I was at war either with civs or indys almost the whole game to keep those easy military stars flowing. With almost 50 territories no other civ had much room lol. I actually didn't use CM that much either, just 1 city usually while I was building all the mindless number of research quarters. Seemed to work a lot better than going CM early in most cities like I did in the past. A lot of passive science has its merits.
Also had a little fun on the side completely eliminating my early neighbor Egypt who declared war on me around T30. That was satisfying killing his last unit after taking all his cities.
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Yea Khmer is OP but really need that production boost at that point in the game. I tried an alternative using Siam instead of France and was surprised I only lost 5 turns on the win. Turks seems a must and as long as you have setup your research clusters ahead of time and drop in your Public Schools I reached 60k science in the end with just 6/9 cities.
I was at war either with civs or indys almost the whole game to keep those easy military stars flowing. With almost 50 territories no other civ had much room lol. I actually didn't use CM that much either, just 1 city usually while I was building all the mindless number of research quarters. Seemed to work a lot better than going CM early in most cities like I did in the past. A lot of passive science has its merits.
Also had a little fun on the side completely eliminating my early neighbor Egypt who declared war on me around T30. That was satisfying killing his last unit after taking all his cities.
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