1240AD - guilds...
1250AD first golden age...
1270AD - prepare stack wait for Ap voting to go through
1310 capture Antium
1320 - get counter stack near Dheli who is defended by single axe... Call for cease fire rearrange troops...
1370 -got to view Rome from inside...
That is enough for Julius to cap... I take Drama from him feeeling that is upcoming...
more or less how my city look...
just need to replace that stupid engineer with mine for extra 2 hammers...
Another city screenshot from later day
With nearly dozen of these i can clean my wy...
1400AD tech out printing press... Why i did that instead of steel? guess was trying to prove myself i can do that with trebs+muskets+knights with no slavery or drafting....
Selll liberalism to Stalin for 800 gold start optics...
1410 AD Optics in and same turn Darius founds me... I combine his map and Julius map and... get circumnavigation
Meanwhile Stalin is not doing bad.... Already researched constitution but skipped both gunpowder and engineering... Too bad another continent will mess trades....
1420AD - russian stack is prepared...
1450AD capture of Rostov...
1470AD - culture goes through 20%...
1480AD - take Yekaterinburg as i can't get into Moscow before AP voting and have no wish to defy it...
1490AD - As peace treatty was signed vote pops for city return. I calculate and it looks like julius+stalin can vote for it...
suddenly i have creative idea... I bribe Julius to free religion and revolt to hinduism myself... Recalcalution showns i can block AP this way... So i rearrange trrops for couple of turns and redeclare...
1515 tech Astro....
1525 get St. Petersburg. At least solves Chitzen Itza problem...
1545- block war stop voting just by saying no...
1550 Ad get Moscow... Suddenly i remeber i was against SoZ also... now it is clear why i need 40%cultrue already... start gifting missionairies...
Unluckily Stalin won't cap so i beeline his new capitol [also highest pop city as in theory i can win through him with enough population...]
1580AD get Libyan [ex barb city current capitol of Russian]. Stalin is till not wishing to cap...
1585 AD - capture Yakutsk... which is enough. I took city as part of cap deal to increase my votes further...
I also immediately switch to free religion which with some gifting allows open borders with Boudica...
I also bribe my vassals into free religion...
1595 AP votes for open borders between members...
1620 finish off steel... well, i am already doing things on autopilot...
1645 - get voting for AP throne...
1670AD start another golden age [mainly to check my tech capabilities during this...]
1695 - Assembly line... and my voting...
1700AD win... no surprise since i have more population when domination limit...
On last turn is witched all cities to commerce/research to see how much i can get... reached 2K limit not bad for me...
luckily for me this was not immortal.... i also saw someone leaving second Ghandi's city to let morrons declare on him.. very bright idea...