how do you wipe 'em out early?

[Scouse Gits]

Just reread the thread and no-one has mentioned the interesting fact that the AI normally mirrors your research - if you want early conquest decide what is, for you, the KEY advance, normally Monotheism or Steam-Engine and then turn all your research OFF - if the box fills due to trading just invent a scientist for a single turn, but otherwise do NO research - the three toed sloth brilliantly copies you and your crooks and 'clads wipe the board with no real opposition ....