[tibbs]

I think you need a very good gem income by the time you reach late age. Ideally you would want one or two of the gem globals going, but I think that is going to be hard because you have 61 other nations trying to do the same thing.

If you are surrounded by friendlies, you will need to make one of them "unfriendly" and take em out! Or I guess you could teleport to an enemy province, build a castle and establish a beachhead and wage a war from there.