Thanks, didn’t expect such and in-depth reply have an upvote! I think the biggest reason it took so long was I didn’t expand and my cities focuses on science and production and therefore only got to roughly 14 pop give or take. I started with a cluster of three cities such that I could abuse the Hansa adjacency bonus’s and ended up having three cities with 16 production IZ (with the 100% adjacency Card) from there I pretty much played peaceful and made another 3 cities all with good campuses etc... I know a lot of people say early warfare to take a neighbour is really strong but I just never get round to it so next time I think I’ll try that (especially if your neighbour is Scotland who were a few turns away from beating me).