[Lucid:]

Venice was one of the first civs I played, and the first (only? I don't remember) win I ever got on Deity. And I DIDN'T CHEESE THAT WIN I SWEAR I had the proper number of civs on the map and I even went to war three whole times! It was just...an archipelago map...so I had my own landmass....and lots of sea trade routes....

For the most part I get to that financial point where I can buy a single key unit/building by the Renaissance era, and by industrial I can hopefully kick-start each new city by buying a monument, library, and workshop (as long as I'm not putting down cities like crazy).