It's been a while since I played this game, but let's see what I remember. From my
first spoiler:
By 1 AD, I have 9 cities (31 pops) plus 3 more settlers already completed. Confucianism has been spread to 8 of my 9 cities. I finished the Great Library in the capital in 425 BC. Im getting 143 sustainable at 60% and 229 and -59 at 100% with 252 gold in the bank. I know all ancient techs plus HBR, Alphabet, Literature, Music, IW, Monarchy, Construction, Currency, CoL, CS, Paper and 25% of Education. Ive circumnavigated (700 BC) and met all 7 AI. I have one GS (525 BC academy) and the GArt from Music. Ive built 9 granaries, 5 libraries plus one under construction and 3 lighthouses. I've built the Oracle, GLH and GLib.
I recently found the Easter egg island to the east. Ive connected ivory and Ive got 5 barracks under construction. My plan is to take out Navajo on said island with cats and elephants. Well see how that goes
maybe not so well based on kenwyn's comment above.
Before I get a chance to do so, I finish Education. I have to decide whether to focus on Oxford or war. Since Im going to space I chose Oxford, although Im not sure that it was the optimum choice since the AI would be more advanced by the time I got to them. So I spent the next several turns building 6 universities and then Oxford in the capital.
As always happens with my games, one citys university was holding up Oxford, so I set out to build a force big enough to take out Navajo in parallel with my university/Oxford push. By 720AD, I have 10 elephants and 4 cats (still working on Oxford in the capital
). I lose 3 cats and 4 elephants in the attack against 1 longbow and 4 archers. I too tried to bombard the city with no success. But the collateral damage from the cats made the archers easy pickings once I killed the longbow. As soon as I captured the city, I realized that wed have issues hooking up the city to our capital. In hindsight, I should have razed the city and put two cities there, one on the coast and one inland. However, I just couldnt force myself to raze a mature, size 12 city. This city eventually got the Globe Theater and the National Epic.
After finishing Oxford, I had about 3000 gold in the bank. Qin and Catherine are both Friendly and Ive managed to pick up Calendar, Philosophy, Metal Casting and Drama in trade. I still have CS, Paper and Education on Catherine. Everyone else is quite backwards.
After taking Navajo, I set my sights on Qin (1070 AD to 1160 AD with 2 cities left), Shaka (1160 AD to 1300 AD dead), Ragnar (1300 AD to 1430 AD with 1 city left) and Catherine (1490 to 1525 with 8 cities left). Both Qin and Ragnar slipped settlers off to remote islands, otherwise, I would have finished them off. With the Catherine war, she learned Rifling on the turn I declared war on her, so instead of my cavalry having an easy time against the longbows and muskets I had seen, I was facing rifles which get a 25% bonus against mounted units. After taking all of her northern cities and Moscow at heavy losses, I decided to cease fire to regroup. However, I was getting close to the end game and I felt that additional warring would have slowed down my spaceship date, so I decided to stop even though I had about 15 cavalry plus several elephants, trebs and maces sitting in Moscow just itching for action. To be honest, the war weariness was killing me and I didnt want to go through it again. Plus I was getting tired of the logistics of moving units all over the map. In hindsight, I should have captured her remaining 6 cities on the mainland since their culture pressure caused me issues not to mention the We want to join our motherland! crybabies in all of the former Russian cities. Had I been able to hit her about 5 turns sooner, I could have easily wiped her from the continent down to two island cities.
I got a scout into the Easter Island west of our starting continent. After not being able to hook up Navajo, I decided not to settle here. I was hoping for something good from the huts but instead got 2 warriors, experience and a map.
From there, it was a typical race for Space with the exception that I was going for the cow too, so I built more farms than usual and grew my cities up to the happy cap as much as possible. Looking back, I should have just focused on Space since just about any Domination game is going to beat my score most likely since I was well short of my targeted "close to domination" land count. Plus, rather than continuing to war toward the domination limit, I felt like I had to stop fighting to focus on infrastructure and science, which stunted my score somewhat. Oh well, it was fun even though I may end up losing both the Cow and Space.
End result: Spaceship victory in 1725 AD (T255) with a base score of 5,661 and a final score of 85,224.
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(Only now, while writing this report, have I realized what I needed to do on that island to make use of the resources!)
)... especially if some clever fellow comes up with an idea that makes it possible.
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to go) and score a more expensive tech with it, but I distracted and Cathy's took it by the 1200s 
