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The end-game politics from Rome's perspective;
First of all, Rome has suffered 2 major hits in history.
The first one was after the 1st and 2nd Roman/Egyptian war, which costed us a lot.
The 2nd one was after the.... 3rd Roman/Egyptian war, where Egypt invaded me and I had to draft the hell out of all my people.
Then Rome needed time.
I picked the path of corporations, which was very successful.
I was able to found 4 corporations in 1 city, which was also my religious shrine.
Only missed Sid's Sushi by 1 or 2 turns. (But got cereal mills instead)
I spread 3 corporations to all of my cities (only al co was hardly spreaded).
My HQ city got about 1400 gold per turn in the end.
So all my aim was to spread all corporations everywhere in my land and become filthy rich and productive.
So all I needed was time, time and time. I had the (perhaps insane) believe that on the long term Rome could match itself again with the big nations (effectively all other nations except Mongolia, sorry bamf
)
This worked quite ok, to be honest.
At the end I had the 2nd commercial output and the 2nd production output of the world. (and two different nations being the #1 in both categories).
I also succeeded in growing a large army inquite a short time, surpassing Sumeria already, on the long term (say, 50 more turns) my army might have become one of the biggest as well.
But then those pesky Hindustani started to spoil stuff and were close to a CV!
I could see it happening very easily. So I fully supported Egypt.
When Egypt said he wasn't sure if he could do it alone and if I would join him, I immediately did it.
I claimed the shrine city and some other cities, which expanded my commercial output even more. (all cities got all corporations of course).
My only stupidity was my desire for more money, which made me sent my executives to Egypt! This helped them a lot to get the cultural victory! (despite the promise that he wouldn't use it 'against me') (which he did, giving me the only reason to declare war on Egypt in the end).
The thing is that I was focussed so much on my goal (getting back to the top and stopping babylon from winning the game, I knew about the CV of Egypt (most probably the first) but thought it was too far away to be bothered about already.)
Anyway, so I was allied with Egypt (Despite being best buddies with Gondor for most of the game! But I just believed that it was more important to have Egypt as an allie b/c Gondor wouldn't declare war on me anyway. (Gondor did almost declare war, I believe, b/c of my cultural expansion. but I was able to offer them my corporatoins at my expense to help them a bit) (same with sumeria, btw) (I think that it helped that both of them feared Egypt and that they did not really want war)
Anyway, then I had this problem that Egypt was getting to the CV very soon, while I was their best friend! Oh horror!
I feared that other nations would NOT invade Egypt to end the CV b/c they thought I would help Egypt. And it would be impossible to get to the Egyptian CV cities b/c of the Roman buffer. (where Egypt would fight as well of course).
So I started to tell all big nations that I would not interfere with anybody who would try to stop Egypt from getting a CV (which was true! I did not want Egypt to in the CV! I even told Egypt that I would not support their CV, and would not defend them against an invasion to stop their CV, a couple of times earlier, but also that I would not actively try to stop them)
So all nations got messages like: "You can attack Egypt, I will not stop you"
to be continued (get visitors now)
First of all, Rome has suffered 2 major hits in history.
The first one was after the 1st and 2nd Roman/Egyptian war, which costed us a lot.
The 2nd one was after the.... 3rd Roman/Egyptian war, where Egypt invaded me and I had to draft the hell out of all my people.
Then Rome needed time.
I picked the path of corporations, which was very successful.
I was able to found 4 corporations in 1 city, which was also my religious shrine.
Only missed Sid's Sushi by 1 or 2 turns. (But got cereal mills instead)
I spread 3 corporations to all of my cities (only al co was hardly spreaded).
My HQ city got about 1400 gold per turn in the end.
So all my aim was to spread all corporations everywhere in my land and become filthy rich and productive.
So all I needed was time, time and time. I had the (perhaps insane) believe that on the long term Rome could match itself again with the big nations (effectively all other nations except Mongolia, sorry bamf
)This worked quite ok, to be honest.
At the end I had the 2nd commercial output and the 2nd production output of the world. (and two different nations being the #1 in both categories).
I also succeeded in growing a large army inquite a short time, surpassing Sumeria already, on the long term (say, 50 more turns) my army might have become one of the biggest as well.
But then those pesky Hindustani started to spoil stuff and were close to a CV!
I could see it happening very easily. So I fully supported Egypt.
When Egypt said he wasn't sure if he could do it alone and if I would join him, I immediately did it.
I claimed the shrine city and some other cities, which expanded my commercial output even more. (all cities got all corporations of course).
My only stupidity was my desire for more money, which made me sent my executives to Egypt! This helped them a lot to get the cultural victory! (despite the promise that he wouldn't use it 'against me') (which he did, giving me the only reason to declare war on Egypt in the end).
The thing is that I was focussed so much on my goal (getting back to the top and stopping babylon from winning the game, I knew about the CV of Egypt (most probably the first) but thought it was too far away to be bothered about already.)
Anyway, so I was allied with Egypt (Despite being best buddies with Gondor for most of the game! But I just believed that it was more important to have Egypt as an allie b/c Gondor wouldn't declare war on me anyway. (Gondor did almost declare war, I believe, b/c of my cultural expansion. but I was able to offer them my corporatoins at my expense to help them a bit) (same with sumeria, btw) (I think that it helped that both of them feared Egypt and that they did not really want war)
Anyway, then I had this problem that Egypt was getting to the CV very soon, while I was their best friend! Oh horror!
I feared that other nations would NOT invade Egypt to end the CV b/c they thought I would help Egypt. And it would be impossible to get to the Egyptian CV cities b/c of the Roman buffer. (where Egypt would fight as well of course).
So I started to tell all big nations that I would not interfere with anybody who would try to stop Egypt from getting a CV (which was true! I did not want Egypt to in the CV! I even told Egypt that I would not support their CV, and would not defend them against an invasion to stop their CV, a couple of times earlier, but also that I would not actively try to stop them)
So all nations got messages like: "You can attack Egypt, I will not stop you"
to be continued (get visitors now)
I will post some pics soon. Robert, Dani says hi as well 
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