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[ABigCivFan]

Turn 232 Science vic. It was a fun game that I did a little bit of everything. Thanks for hosting!

Continuing from turn 100, my main strategy is to strategically pitting AIs against each other. And I step in if someone is getting too strong. I bribed Monty on Egypt, Egypt is smaller but with large cities and a strong science so I thought it would be able to hold off Monty, giving me a peaceful East border. And I focus my units to the South East to keep Harun and Shaka in check. Turn 134 bribed Harun on Shaka. My 2 sights promoted scout is watching all the action on a hill. Harun has a lot of units, but they would not be able to take Ulundi. But Harun did take UMG, and Shaka took it right back. The Impis are strong against Harun's units at this age. Both wars went on for a long time and I was able to build away. Beelined to Scientific Theory and building PT in capital.

Spoiler Turn 134 Bribed Harun on Shaka :

Turn 154, Monty came after Shaka after Shaka drove off Harun. I forgot if I bribed Monty to do this. This screen only shows Monty's wave from North, he was also coming from the East. At this point, I was actually friend with Shaka, even got a Research Agreement with him lol so I help off on attacking him until the RA was done. Monty was still at war with Egypt at this time. I was going to sling Radio with Oxford at this time. I denounced Shaka right after our friendship declaration was over, and befriended everyone else. Ran multiple RAs and sold lot of resources. Even faith Engineered Broadway to put my Musicians to work. But it was probably not necessary for this game since tourism influence was never an issue as I was ahead on Science and Ideology.

Spoiler Turn 154 Monty came after Shaka :

Spoiler Turn 160 got Freedom :

All cities building World Fair. Actually won it with over 1k hammers, everyone else was at war, the hammer leader Monty was not even 2nd place.

Turn 199 joined Harun and turned on Shaka since I wanted his Chicken Pizza in Ulundi for longer Golden Ages. A small army led by 2 Rocket artillery and a single infantry did the job in 5 turns.

Spoiler Turn 199 Pile on Shaka with Rocket Artillary :

I stopped war on Shaka since I dont want him dead, and I turned against Harun since my army does not have anything better to do. I could also get some cash from him to buy space ship parts. Funny that my CS allies actually took 2 Harun's cities after I bombarded them, those CS were strong! Turn 219, say hello to my brand new XCOM.

Spoiler Turn 219 Turned on Harun :

Turn 221 extortion. At this moment, there was no point to take a size 37 Mecca, I might not be able to support the happiness, so I saw that he was willing to offer Medina for peach, so I went for the cash to buy parts.

Spoiler Turn 221 Extortion :

1325 gold + 60GPT + Gold lux

Turn 230 popped one last scientist from city but I was just 1 turn from researching the last tech anyway. Bulbed to save one turn and bought the last part the next turn.

Spoiler Turn 232 Vic :

 

[fiddlesticks]

Science victory turn 210

 

[Megalou]

Nice renaming, @fiddlesticks.

SV t260
7 city tradition setup including Thebes, Memphis, Mecca, Medina. Zulu and Aztecs gobbled up everything else, but neither DOWed me until 240 and 242 respectively. I misremembered the price of space rocket parts. Had I had enough money, it would have saved about 10 turns. But it would have been a huge gamble not to spend any money on military upgrades, so I can't say it was just a simple oversight.

As usual, growth was too slow in the beginning.

Here is an intriguing situation - one among many, thanks, @The_Black_Vegetable! - where I had to protect not only the aluminium but soon after also the space part path from Tungela to the capital.

I celebrated the impending victory by liberating Mombasa from the evil empire to the east, who only happened to have a different name in the game than in real life.