Well it was quite clear what to do. I capitulated joe instantly (what's the point in keeping him alive? Just end it babe...)
As stuge said, we were quite close to DOM, just a few squashed percents...
We'd surely get that with the first border pops...
On the IBT I had a pleasn't surprise which arrived in the form of Michelangelo. He was sent to <some lately captured portugese city>
Three turns later he arrived and renovated the sistine chapel's frescoes. Wait... Didn't know they were there... Well don't care anyway
That made every nation acknowledge the dominating power of our nation:
On the following turn, the unavoidable (yet quite pleasn't) message:
Graphs:
Score:
A few details to my set I should add:
I moved our army ready to strike on the first turn anticipating to raze a few darius cities to speed up domination (to gain access to those tiles).
I stopped all those units on the next turn and merely hit shift-enter...
I also built a few national wonders (tough not all may have finished... who cares?) and rushed one with a GE, and used the GM to bulb medicine to get the fringe researched in time... Not that it matters anyway
Save 1 turn before victory:
View attachment No espionage Stalin ;) AD-1910.CivBeyondSwordSave
After-game-toughts:
Thanks rolo for the idea and hosting the game. Sadly we seemed to lose interest midway trought the game tough it wasn't due to the game, which was always entertaining. We were rather cramped with enemies that were rather easy tough (who doesn't like industrious leaders) altough we made it ourselves harder by delaying to attack.
I'd like to play in another game (now that I'm down to 1 SGOTM + 0 SGs
long time it was quite some more...) should you (rolo or anyone) come up with an interesting idea. I'd probabely like another No Esp game tough it should be harder than normal games (as the AI doesn't waste their commerce on espionage, or we do it vice versa and have a go at the Espionage Economy (tm). I'm open to suggestions...