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I had a good time also - I was Chm/Fin of Arabia - I expanded too slowly and built Stonehenge. Cull settled aggressively in my direction and I noticed his city was defended only by one dog soldier. I got AH and there was horse 1W of my capital, so I quickly whipped out a chariot and razed the city.
Expanded out a bit more and eventually razed one of Ioan's cities on my east. I probably screwed up the attack there - I had construction pretty easily so I had a mini-stack of maybe 5 elephants and 2 cats. I spent like 10 turns trying to figure out a way I could surprise 2 move it but instead I just ended up going in. First attack died with one woudned spear left so I killed it the next turn.
I got CoL and used my Henge prophet to kick off a GA - I swapped to Caste and ran max artists in my capital but lost a 70/30 odds and got another prophet. I got Music with 21t to go and put a culture bomb in the east. I wanted to move it one tile further east so it would be a better bomb but couldn't get the artist there in time so had to do it 1W.
Ioan put a scare in me towards the end - he came with his own stack and kept dancing around - I had settled in a way that he could fork me. Finally he attacked and I managed to fight it off with 2 turns to go.
But all that whipping and such left me a few points shy of sunrise (901-843).