Diplo win in 1928, helped by my loyal coBuddhist Isabella of Spain. Not much of a report, since my laptop can't do wonder movies in windowed mode and the game wasn't close enough to keep me interested in writing stuff down after the fact.
I built up an early tech lead, helped by popping a settler from a hut north of Russia (and by the awesome power of the Lighthouse and Colossus in entirely-coastal empires), hit the New World years ahead of everyone else, and settled everything except for the very furthest north, which was frozen and had no visible resources. I then sat back, built infrastructure, and waited for the UN to come round, since I had a huge pop lead and Izzy was a very close friend.
When I built it, I discovered two things: first, Frederick and Izzy had snuck cities into the ice to grab some modern resources; second, I was about a dozen votes short of a diplo win. The solution was obvious. I started building tanks. Frederick had just started getting infantry when he got hit by my armor rush; I captured a large city with my first wave, grabbed his New World settlement with a tank built out of my Versailles city, sat back, and waited for the next vote. My loyal supporter Isabella was allowed to keep her embassy to my private continent in return for her aid in the final election.
I built up an early tech lead, helped by popping a settler from a hut north of Russia (and by the awesome power of the Lighthouse and Colossus in entirely-coastal empires), hit the New World years ahead of everyone else, and settled everything except for the very furthest north, which was frozen and had no visible resources. I then sat back, built infrastructure, and waited for the UN to come round, since I had a huge pop lead and Izzy was a very close friend.
When I built it, I discovered two things: first, Frederick and Izzy had snuck cities into the ice to grab some modern resources; second, I was about a dozen votes short of a diplo win. The solution was obvious. I started building tanks. Frederick had just started getting infantry when he got hit by my armor rush; I captured a large city with my first wave, grabbed his New World settlement with a tank built out of my Versailles city, sat back, and waited for the next vote. My loyal supporter Isabella was allowed to keep her embassy to my private continent in return for her aid in the final election.