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It was bizarre. I easily beat him to Monarchy - if you can trust the info he gives you in KC
- and was sailing along quite nicely. Next thing ... his Civ just explodes. I haven't seen anything like it before. Unless, of course, he was fibbing in KC and had, in fact, tipped Monarchy out of a hut on the 3rd turn.

And his response was typically sympathetic!

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