it's a good thing this is only a game!

[Lt. Killer M]

Sometimes, CIV BtS games make me realize how much of a dictator is burried in my genes. A machiavellian monster.

and isn't it great fun to clobber hopeless civs with privateers, gaining several generals, settling them all in a coastal city, add a drydock, and punch out new privateers with instant 7-tile range? Then later upgrade to destroyer and declare war on the entire world - only to sink their wobbling galleons carrying the precious riflemen by the dozen!