[Redeyes]

I am quite glad that we could keep the pace of the game up throughout.

Staying alive could very well be your forte, jmb. You and C'tis keeping each other from growing might very well have been my biggest stroke of luck, or perhaps that would be my start adjacent to heat nations when I had cold 3 and mountains/forests only.

I was lucky nobody took Juffos up on his call-to-arms, though I know everyone else was involved in pretty heavy warfare at the time
I don't think I had grown into a superpower yet, then, although I had a whole lot of gold from the eastern farmlands...