On to some funny things that I saw in this game and a twist in the tail ...
I had put off researching Astronomy because it would cancel the impact of the Colossus. However, I had been able to build destoyers that navigated by land masses and not by the stars, I didn't actually check if they went in ocean tiles or just stayed in coastal tiles ... does anyone know that? Anyway, I eventually ended up in this situation on the tech research front ...
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How many times have you seen that? Well, I have now seen it twice ... lol ...
Here is a shot after the game finished showing all my cities (blue dots because I am Greek) in the order that they were founded ...
And here is the twist ... I was scrolling around my cities, taking screen shots to show that I had build walls and castles as required when I noticed the little scroll bar at the bottom of my Athens ... my capital. I scrolled down and found ...
Arrggg - a World Wonder! I had previously woken up after building an Academy there thinking that I had violated the rules (an Academy isn't a WW - phew!) and trying to think of ways of paying penance for the Academy ... say, not working any towns, cottages, etc, etc. But penance for this? Rats - just turned my game into a shadow report. How did it happen? I put this game aside for a week or so and didn't refresh my memory on all the rules. The frustrating part is that all my waring was over by the time I built this and I was only building it for the kick in the score.