Settled Bibracte on the ivory to get the rice in the BFC. Decided to go religion first, which meant warriors to start as well.
Lost my scout to a lion. More religion:
And HE unlocked by barbs - I never did build it though:
When going the religious route, the oracle-theology slingshot is always nice.
Which led to this:
From here, I automated workers the rest of the way for speed. Justy and Augustus quickly got to friendly sharing religion, so I barely built any defense until rifling. Charlie was busy with Justy the whole time, so I didn't worry about war with him either. Oracle and some temples led to priests, which meant shrine time:
And a religious game wouldn't be complete without this:
Settled 9 cities total, enough to build my three cathedrals in each culture city. Still important to go the lib route:
Then decision time - shut off at rifling or head up the chain for electricity, mass media, radio for some culture multipliers. i decided to head up the chain...Golden Ages speed that along:
And some extra artists in my three cultural cities:
And spread culture missions are fun in 3.19:
I eventually flipped that city. Zara thinks he's coming with a surprise attack:
Except I've been building rifles, and his "stack" consisted of 5 cannons, a treb and a couple grenadiers. Nothing a dozen rifles can't handle. Finish this during the war:
And Zara can have peace for a tech - not going to matter:
Shortly thereafter, I entered a defensive pact with Augustus, which essentially ended the game. No one would DOW the two of us. I had to sweat out one UN diplo victory vote 5 turns before legendary, but Augustus couldn't get enough votes for it. All done:
Builds and three cities. I took a half hour break in the middle, so this was a nice short 90 minute game.
Relatively peaceful game - I had a total of three casualties the entire game. Except for Charlie and Justinian constantly warring, there was only one other war I recall, when Zara dowed me. I did get to have some fun with the AP, gifting one of Justy's cities back to him 3 times - each time Charlie took it, the AP gave it back.
I also defied a bunch of UN resolutions at the end - I had 15 unhappy faces at one point, but didn't matter at 100% culture.
Two of those three culture cities really were mediocre cities, but with modest diplo, it was a pretty simple win.
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