I did it! I won a game on King difficulty! Look!

Civilization Revolution

USA! USA!

I actually only came third in terms of points, but I got to Alpha Centauri, so I won. I was the Americans and lucked out, having a reasonably large area to expand into at the start. My only land border was with the French. We scrapped a few times, but I kept giving them money and technology to keep them sweet. That meant that the civilizations who hated me – the English and Japanese – couldn’t wage any effective wars against me and I was able to actually improve my cities, rather than put everything I had into military units. Good stuff.