I settled in place, met my first neighbors and expanded a little bit. Around 850 BC i had to make a decision: Should i expand more into the jungled north or give the mids a try. Although i had stone i decided against the mids and for a more aggressive expand style. Here is a overview of my empire at 850BC:
And the three juicy spots i aimed for. The two left ones would make good cottage cities and the right a production monster:
I got the two spots in the west but Gandhi and Saladin settled close to the other one giving me some cultural pressure. However mids were still not gone so i gave it a try. With 6 or 7 math/stone/ind boosted chops (each worth 75 hammers) i got the baby at 250BC:
I switched into representation instantly. With my jungle resources, cheap temples and rep my cities could reach size 14+ without any trades. This and a nice bureau capital resulted in a good techrate. 1 AD empire:
Tech situation:
And AIs:
I know Gandhi would capitulate to Saladin soon and watched his city count carefully... but not carefully enough: He became vassal of Saladin which i absolutely could have avoided with a tech gift to Sala for peace. Clear missplay here. Now i had a pretty wide warfront when i decide to go for Sala/Gandhi.... but we will see. First the race to lib. I used my first two Scientists for an academy in my capital and bulbed Edu with the second one. With 3 very good cottage cities (one monster capital) I reached lib in 780AD:
Techsituation that time:
Ok i had a lot time for lib so i decided to go something else. I traded carefully, bulbed printing press, timed my research slider and switched research 1 turn before crucial techs. In 1110AD it was time: in 4 following turns i got replaceable parts, gunpowder, liberalism and:
Woohoo i never pulled that off before. This was even better when saw that none of the AIs had neither gunpowder nor replacable parts nor military tradition...good! Having Rifling in mind for lib bulb i researched military tradition and did build barracks and stables everywhere. A cavalry rush seemed perfect. But how quick can i build up the army? I didnt wanna whip away my cottages. I came up with an idea a few turns before which was worth a try. Why not create some merchants, get gold and buy halfbuild cavalry with universal suffrage. I wanted to get 3 merchants but: First one was a scientists at 40%, second on a merchant at 88% and the last an engineer at 11%. Haha you get him when you dont need him. I did build up my cavs with the one trademission and a few turns of 100% gold. Anyway in retrospect it wasnt worth it still paying around 200 gold for a halfway done cav. Anyway it was time for the trumpet. The plan was: Declare, get one city, wait and annihilate Salas stack, get one or two high pop cities (Gandhi was at 37% master pop and would break free above 50%), make peace with Gandhi, finish off Sala, cap Gandhi and then lets see where we stand. Right before my cashcav buildup i switched into war civics for 9XP cavs:
I dont know why i forgot slavery and switched into it 5 turns later. I stayed in universal suffrage over police state because i got some towns in the meantime and want to emergency rushbuy if needed. I dowed Sala/Gandhi, got the first city and waited for Salas stack (which i scouted before):
The stack is standing on the hill NW of Calcutta and was almost completely annihilated this turn by my cavalry. In yellow two possible fork attacks for the next turns. I actually did chose the left one because i wanted to head towards Dheli (18pop) for population reduction. Here another showcase why fast units are so powerful:
The stack is able to go for Salas city in the north or engage his counter stack in the south in one turn. With reinforcing cavs i was able to get the city and kill his stack in this turn. The war then became a little bit tedious because i had to go beyond Baghdad to cap Saladin which i did not expect. One turn after Saladin capitulated Ghandi came up with an offer i couldnt refuse:
He did not have that many wonders anyway... he is so wise i think he foresaw his capitulation
. In the meantime the 3 civs left on this continent got Rifling and were teching ahead. Assembly line was in reach for them so no time to waste. I gathered my horses, declared on Justinian and told Sala and gandhi to attack in hope that Justinian sends his troops to the northern cities (worked halfway i guess):
In yellow the perfekt fork attack having Constantinople in mind. However... this is how you SHOULD do it. I foolishly did send my stack 1N of the hill and lost a few more units. My quadro/penta promoted cavs were doing ok against Riflemen starting with 1% win 60% retreat odds or so. My numbers were just so big that Justinian couldnt do anything about it. Finally got his sweet capital :
... and capped him few turns later. I immediately dowed Sury and then Giggles who capitulated after a few war turns. I then switched all home cities to wealth, all captured cities to culture, went into free speech and 100% culture and stopped getting new land at 63.95% with 64% being the magical domination number. It really look all 11 turns until Giggles capital went out of revolt
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Domination in 1790 for 162000 points. Graphs:
Infoscreen:
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Victory while the 1st in score tries for a Diplo Victory . I'm still 1st in 
but it will be hard to complete everything to colonize Alpha Centaury in time.
in that city), but I still alive, and this is Immortal after all.
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needed building the Space Ship Components was so huge in favor of the AI. I wish I knew that (and played better this end-game): thinking about it, to send that ship on Alpha Centaury few turns earlier and win the game it could be enough switch to WorkShops some Farms in the end game, lowering the number of specialists in my cities, since specialists were quite useless at that point of the game with the tech tree already completed and a lot of 
. Just an academical point of view. I hope all this makes sense in English.
