I didn't take many pictures during this game, cause basically nothing really interesting happened.
At the last update, I was preparing for an attack with Knights on Huayna's Macemen. He did get Feudalism somewhere in that war, but since I had way more cities than he had, it wasn't too difficult at first. When I was about to take the last of his cities on the islands, he vassaled to JC, bringing in the Romans in a war against me.
Since I was stronger than JC, especially military, I decided to continue the war. I built a large fleet as soon as I could, but then I got a nice AP dogpile on me. Kublai Khan declared on me first, and I think he got bribed by JC. Then 2 turns later, the rest of the other continent declares on me, which was probably an AP resolution. I didn't get too scared though, I was ahead of them in tech by quite a lot and I hadn't seen any sizeable fleet that could harm me.
The first few boats dropped units at HC's last cities, and I destroyed him easily. Then my main invasion force took one of JC's cities. I was ready to upgrade to Cavalry and Riflemen by then, which I did, and then I steamrolled him. After I took about 5 or 6 cities he was willing to capitulate. I gave JC back his cities, cause I didn't want to deal with the maintenance, and I figured he'd be a good ally cause of his personality and my plans to war.
During the campaign on JC, which got me a city with Judaism, the AP had a 'Stop the war on Joao' resolution. I clicked yes, but I half expected half of the world to say no. Needless to say, it passed easily, which was nice. I also sent out a little fleet to Kublai Khan, cause he seemed really weak. I should've sent a few more units, cause I only managed to take one city of him. By then I noticed the rest of the AP lovefest wanted to take peace with me, which I accepted. I also gave KK back his cities, cause it would be in a lifetime culture war and only cost me money.
I decided to persue a military victory, so I worked towards Infantry while building my empire. I never switched out of the wartime civics though. When my army was back together, I crossed the sea towards Stalin. He was willing to capitulate after 3 turns of war, in which I took two of his cities.
Surprised by this success, I declared on Boudica right away. I knew she was in a defensive pact with Kublai, but I apparantly missed she was also in a defensive pact with Joao, effectively starting World War 2. She was getting Machine Guns though, but my army was so huge I just sacrificed some units against them. After I took 3 of her cities, she was willing to capitulate. Joao also was willing to take peace, which I accepted. I gave the cities I took from Stalin and Boudica back to them, except for one of Boudica's cities which had coal. I lacked coal on my main island, so I figured it'd be better to keep it in my land, then to trade for it.
That left Kublai Khan as my next target. I got together my army, and the fleet I'd built when attacking JC was still the biggest and strongest in the world. Kublai was a bit harder to convince but he capped after 20 turns of war and 4 lost cities. By now, I expected to get a domination victory, but apparantly it doesn't work that way.
I moved my troops back to Boudica's land, teched towards Flight, and when I got some Fighters to back me up, I declared on Joao. I expected him to be persistent, but he wasn't. Only after two cities he was willing to cap. His main stack was in one of those cities though, so effectively he didn't have any military left.
Some graphs and endgame stuff:
I forgot to take a screen of units lost, but my stack was about 1.5 the size it has in that last screenshot. As you can see, I was runaway this game for all game. I settled the continent we had really agressively, and as a result I could just outpace everybody at everything. It was only my third Prince game (and my third successive win), so I was kinda surprised at how easy it was. It was also the first time ever I got a conquest victory. I'm not much of a warmonger, and also not much of a wonder builder normally, so I tried something different this game. I like the map script, but I don't think this specific setup with starting locations and all turned out balanced. Huayna was just doing nothing in my game, allowing me to settle nearly the entire continent peacefully. Maybe I should just give the next difficulty a shot and see how that goes