Although I submitted over a week ago, I wanted to make a general recap of my game. First of all, to the GOTM team, thanks for such a wonderful, exciting game! I have played around 50 games in my Civ3/PTW "career," and this one goes down as my most enjoyable! One thing that made it so enjoyable was the fact that it was a trading paradise!
My primary objectives were to get the Great Library and to create a settler factory. Both missions were accomplished, as I completed the Great Library in 490BC and had a nice settler/worker pump on the flood plains SE of the starting position.
Until 1080AD, I played as the peaceful builder, working exclusively on infrastructure and happiness. In fact, all the money that I saved up during the Great Library free tech period I used to rush infrastructure. Of course, I maintained a healthy defensive military during this time. Although, I must admit, I became overzealous at times with my empire building and would have suffered some heavy losses on the fringes of my empire if someone had sneak attacked.
Between 1080AD and 1705AD, I engaged in several swift, decisive wars, before war weariness could set in. Using the idea of "win the war before you attack," I build up hordes of units (depending on the war, either cavalry, tanks, or modern armor), and then either declared war on my enemy or angered them until they declared on me. Here is a listing of the wars, including their respective durations: 1) Germany (1080AD-1170AD); 2) Minoans (1240AD-1305AD); 3) Ottomans (1535-1605AD); 4) France (1690AD-1700AD). At the end of the the wars, I controlled the entire starting continent. (I really had not planned to take out France, but because their culture was a threat to my 100K victory, I decided to do so.) As one might imagine, I rushed cultural improvements in my newly conquered lands, especially libraries and universities.
A note on government: I was in only two during the entire game, despotism until 130BC, and Republic from 130BC until the end of the game. Why did I stay in Republic for so long? Well, I really didn't want to endure the 5-6 turns of anarchy in order to switch to democracy, and once there, I feared I may have to switch back due to war weariness in future wars. Therefore, I remained in the highly versatile Republic for basically the entire game.
Wonders I built: the Great Library, Leonardo's Workshop, Theory of Evolution/Hoover Dam, Universal Suffrage, United Nations, SETI. (Also, I captured Sun Tzu's Art of War from the Germans, and this proved most helpful during my subsequent conquests.)
I was enjoying this game so much, that I really wasn't ready to stop playing whenever my 100K victory rolled around in 1725AD. At that point, I was accruing a staggering 1500 cultural points per turn, and there was no turning back. Also of note is that I had a city, Sparta, which was in the running for a 20K cultural victory. Interestingly, Sparta had never been the capital of my empire.
My score really isn't all that impressive, which is largely explained by my not having expanded via conquest until relatively late in the game, 1080AD. My final Firaxis score was 4952, which yielded a Jason score of 5309.
I really need to put up a more details about how my game went, just for comparison. Not nearly as good as yours, but I was statisfied it all went rather smoothly after all. I got the Colossus (which helped money wise of course) but I missed the Oracle. Details & maps will follow when I'm at home tonight...
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, but also the way I eliminated the strongest civs 
, weird.
in Knossos (that I incidently visited in the flesh, so to speak, only last week). I captured Sun Tzu's and Leo from Russia. In the end only Persia had a Wonder, Magellan, all others belonged to Greece 
