I made an experiment today, after reading the last HOF guantlet, so I decided to go for monty on a small pangea, quick speed, noble.
I popped near a coast, so I decided to move the settler and build the city near the clam.
I immediately went for bw, so I started building a worker.
three squares far from me were the germans, four squares Hatty.
I discovered bw, but I had no bronze :|
My city was ner a river and flood plains, so was grewing in a incredible way! I switched to slavery and soon I had three archers that razed berlin before discovering IW.
First surprise: I was totally new to OCC so I was very disappointed to see berlin destroyed, what a beautiful place :|
I kept warring with egipthians, discovered IW: same story of bronze, no iron!
Damn...
Anyway I built two jags and razed Thebe in 2000 BC

At that moment I was thinking to achieve the fastest victory ever, with only two opponents, then I noticed that the AI is able to build more cities
Damn, I'm n000000000000000000000b!!
Anyway I came to a conquest win in 1500 AD vas louis and mansa with cats and elephants, very funny.
Probably I could have won in 800/900 AD couse I had a totally wrong tech path. I researched the useless priesthood, meditation, feudalism instead of horse riding and construction...