AAR time!
Takhisis Cæsar won on Diplomacy as the Romans. Got a ridiculously lucky start. See where his capital is: along a river, with a luxury next door, and a forest with game in it too. Also there was a goody hut *right there* and so he immediately got Pottery. He got a couple of warriors and then the granary and things developed from there. No cities lost to war, got pipped by the cheating Zulu to the rubber-laden forests up north but built a city to snatch it back, and got attacked by the Dutch (the southern third of what is now Persia), but he just paid the Chinese and Persians to attack them - funny stuff, they later became some of his allies. The war against them gave him Helderia Batavorum and Leidenium and a leader (hurray for armies!); the Egyptians tried the same approach and got the same treatment. The city of Bagacum stands where an old Persian city used to stand: the Egyptians decided to take it when Persia declared war on them at his instigation and then he ended up destroying it and resettling it. The Chinese and Persians later turned a bit sour when I finally pulled out of a war but they too had betrayed him by pulling back from the southern war. The city of Jinjan defected to Roman cultural supremacy.
The Inca tried a sneak attack through the Frankish kingdom but he of course immediately paid the Franks to fight the war. In the end the Franks lost some cities but two of them were given by the Inca to Cæsar Takhisis as payment for peace and then he of course gave them to the Franks to avoid an unseemly patchwork of borderlands, but three of the Frankish cities remained in Incaic hands -a small price to pay for betraying the majesty of Rome.
Finally, Roman technology got so far ahead that the third scientific leader (the other two had accelerated earlier wodners, including the Temple of Artemis in Byzantium) accelerated construction of the United Nations, which yielded a 9-1 vote against Mao with 5 abstentions.
The exclave of Cyrene is guarded by an army of infantry; the old Legio I Traiana Batavica guards Bagacum. The last of the three armies operates around Veii, where a recent landing by maverick Aztecs provoked a war that got Cæsar the sympathy of everyone in the neighbourhood, who promptly joined the war against the aggressors. Scandinavian control of the straits resulted in an impossibility of direct overland retaliation, but all ships in the invading fleet were destroyed by the aptly named destructores of the Roman fleet.
Ravenna should've been built one tile to the south-west where there was a river, but a war against barbarian camps in the area diverted attention. Two tiles further SW there is newly-discovered Uranium.
The map was weird: it was archipelago with 60% water, but ended up being a chersopangæa.