Finished my game as the Chinese at lunchtime.

Civilization Revolution

Not much competition for domination.

I’d been a Democracy for millennia by the end of the game, but the final capital city was so close and so tempting that I changed to Fundamentalism just so I could storm in with my Ninja Tank Army (who’d roamed around the world and conquered it all single-handed, pretty much) and finish things off.

At the end of the game my starting island and the two next to it were lovely, peaceful idylls full of scientists and artists and happy, wealthy citizens. The main continent was full of downtrodden peasants, cowering under the shadows of the tanks I was building in every city. Sure, I built a temple here and a courthouse there, but I was mainly just building those tanks.

In time I’d have stopped the military build-up (turned out I didn’t need them – the Greeks tried to fight off my invasion with spears and ancient rifles) and tried to make everything lovely, but the conquest phase of the game was a few brief years in which everyone (except the Greeks) declared war on me at once and invited my tanks in to play. Those cities I didn’t drive into decided to join me through choice, impressed by my culture, but I still used them as military bases.

Civilization Revolution

I also dominated in terms of points.

At the end of the game all the other civilizations had disappeared entirely, except for a couple of remaining Greek cities on some islands I’d ignored.

I really do need to try a higher difficulty setting soon – but then I might have to actually think and plan, instead of winging it.