"Surely, you must be joking!" - Why?

[bestbrian]

I'll never get over Macho Grande.

 

[Justy]

"Jacobs, what have you got on Elaine Dickinson?"

"Well, I'm two inches taller, a better dancer, and much more fun to be with."

 

[bestbrian]

"The passengers had a choice between Chicken or Fish". "That's right, I had the lasagna".

 

[Single Malt]

This map had 8 civs, including me, Roosevelt (Friendly), Gandhi (Roosevelt's vassal)(Firendly), Suryavarman (my vassal), Justinian (my vassal), Saladin (my vassal), Joao II (my vassal) and Zara Yaqoob, the wonder hog. Now, I and my vassals controlled much more than half of the map and still had NO Aluminium. Also, oil was very scarce. So, I had to go for the civs who had oil first - Saladin and Joao II. They were also much weaker than Zara. Also Roosevelt and Gandhi had been very friendly towards me and combined, they had quite a lot of units. Attacking Zara was the easier route IMO.

Why didn't you go UN diplo?

 

[bippukt]

Because Roosevelt would have been my opponent, and he had Gandhi as his vassal. Where would I get the votes from?

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Because Roosevelt would have been my opponent, and he had Gandhi as his vassal. Where would I get the votes from?

....

If you're #1 in pop just gift mass media to the person you want to run against and you win.

 

[bippukt]

....

If you're #1 in pop just gift mass media to the person you want to run against and you win.

I had though about it, but I would have had to give 2-3 techs extra in order to give mass media to Joao, so I decided not to. In hindsight, it was a mistake - I should have gifted the techs to Joao along with a GE who was sitting around and the game would have been won then and there.

I really need to stop playing Noble, but it is no much fun in BTS. The AI isn't as stupid as it was in vanilla and I haven't really liked the monarch level the few times I have played. Still, I guess that I will have to move on to ensure that the game isn't won by the middle ages itself.