Yeah that I am in despotism so late in the game. I was reading a story a couple of days ago that was aborted, forget why. Anyway it was a DG continents game, so I figured that sound like as good any any. I had gotten into a late AA war with the Inca lads and had just taken a town with ivory.
No one had even started SoZ for some reason. I then realized I had just gotten my fourth lux, all within a stones throw from the capitol. Shortly there after Montie was sending a bunch of archers, jags and horse through my land.
I was sure he had decided to jump on the Inca boys while they had their hands full. Montie had recently eliminated the Arabian nation and had nothing better to do right then.
I hustled around and was able to prevent Montie from getting any of the land, but he did help me by killing many units. The last town left from the Inca lads was blocked by me, so I made a 2gpt gift to Montie. I wanted to get him to let me be and go home.
Two turns later I see he is dragging a leader with the troops, so I dialed him up to demand he leave and he was gracious enough to DOW. Saved me the 2 gpt and let me kill the leader. He had about 26 units in my land. I killed them all, so that is when I decided to play all the way to the IA in despotism to give a small variant to the game.
So the anomaly is that I am about to finish the Middle Ages and I am still in despotism. I finally made the revolt in 860AD. My timing was not so good as I had just declared on Egypt, biggest on the other continent. They had tried to demand twice, so it was coming sooner or later anyway.
I had the world seed and settings:
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France, Zulu, Egypt, Spain, Az, Arabia, Inca.
Continents
std map
80% water
Temperate
4byo.