Genghis advanced on Orleans...with a crossbow, a war elephant, and a catapult. Yeah right - you know that my whole army sits in Orleans, don't you? I might not have a big army, but *that* small stack I can deal with, especially since I'm technologically superior to you.
Uh...okay, I am technologically superior, but I do have a small army only as well...
That's a nice bunch of promotions the units of this stack have! Fortunately, they were on open ground and did not get any terrain defensive boni! I managed to wipe out that stack, but actually had to use two suicide catapults to soften them up first. Research had been set to zero for some turns to accumulate money for upgrades...which I now needed.
Genghis landed a maceman and a longbow near Tours, which was not really that well defended...but spending some money for upgrades successfully prevented them from attacking, although they pillaged instead. With my few units, I had to decide to let them pillage because I couldn't afford to lose units attacking them at the moment! At Orleans, only a trickle of units came now, and my musketeers were able to handle that without many problems. Unfortunately I had no navy, so Genghis managed to pillage some working boats as well.
Mid-war, I discovered Democracy.
I used a great engineer I had saved to rush the Statue of Liberty, but I still needed another 25 turns to complete it!
That's what you get for building too many cottages and lacking copper...
In 1645AD, Genghis was willing to talk again, and we made peace. The Statue of Liberty was finished in 1696AD, and again
I sold some outdated techs around to sustain deficit research, like astronomy to Alex for 300 gold, or Liberalism to
Gandhi for a mere 100 gold. I also adopted representation again now - I lost the extra hammers from universal suffrage,
but the combination of a free specialist in all my cities from the Statue plus three extra beakers for each specialist
from representation was just too good to pass up. 
Orleans, my science city, got the Oxford University built in 1710AD, and I now beelined to Computers for labs. In 1738AD, I got another great scientist - now what to do with him? I didn't need another academy, nor would making a scientist specialist out of him be a good choice, now that the game was nearly over. If I told him to discover a tech for me, what would that do?
He would instantly give me 2970 beakers towards Computers. How much would that save me?
I produced 1180 beakers per turn at the moment, so he would save me less than three turns of research. I still had the great merchant from Ecnonmics sitting in Paris, so I figured starting a golden age would give me more than that! Well, as it turned out, the golden age helped me to make 1402 beakers for 10 turns, thus giving me 222 beakers more per turn. That actually was less than the great scientist would have given me if I had used him directly on Computers - ah well, live and learn. Maybe the increased production in my cities would bring some scientific building online earlier, so it might be the same after all.
I found the following situation quite amusing, and not honorable at all:
"Dear citizens of this town, which in fact dates back to BC times and is a world heritage...you will have to be deported to other towns because we have discovered a source of oil beneath your houses. Building the well will destroy this town, but I'm sure you won't be angry about that, now will you? ... What? You thought we were a honorable, modern, enlightened civilization, holding values high like emancipation, free speech, and free religion? That may be so, but when it comes to oil...now be quiet, and PACK YOUR BELONGINGS!"
During the following turns, I maximized Orleans and Rheims for science output, and let them produce science. Paris was building some tanks while emphasizing commerce, and the other cities were still busy building infrastructure. I ignored all the modern wonders; I wouldn't need any of them to launch! The only exception of course was the Space Elevator, which I beelined next to, and built In Rheims, my high-production iron works city, in 1830AD.
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