I really like the militaristic scenarios. Consequently, I liked this one quite much. I only had time for one run, so I could not optimize much.

I decided to go for two separate wars. First against Ottos, then shifting to the Spanish. Would be interesting, if parallelization is possible here. I kinda doubt it though. Both enemies have some nice stacks and the terrain is a pain to deal with. Annoyingly, I was 23 war support short to get all cities of the Spanish after the first war. The reason was that they declared the war on me, but I only had 77 WS at that time. Optimizing here would have saved me around 4 turns, I guess.

Artemis' Temple is obviously a good pick, considering wonders, because your units will be ready again sooner. Therefore, and because of having the Impi, the Zulu are a great pick for going Industrial. Civic-wise it is obviously a good move to go for Homeland-civics and use the Conscript-civic.

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