The third Roman UHV (first to bulb Scholarship, Politics, Architecture, and a couple others) is too luck-based IMO. Once you engineering and currency (for the forum), you have the choice to go either towards Architecture via Aesthetics or Politics via Law and Philosophy. But whichever branch you take, theres a good chance some other civ will go down the other route and beat you to a tech there. If most civs go towards Architecture and you do too, you'll probably beat them to it. But if you go the other way, you stand no chance. The condition could be changed to "XYZ techs by a certain date", which also seems more appropriate historically since the Romans weren't particularly innovative (wasn't a lot of their culture and systems just borrowed from Greece?)