This is what Ear said some days ago... I didnt notice it, but i want to say a couple of things. Like i said, for some wierd reason most people got their explorers sooner then i. True, i did get 3 explorers and a conquistador late in the game, but then Dominus asked us to end the game because he had to do something. I didn't use the conquistador because we ended right away (i just had time to get it to guantanamo, cuba), 2 of these 3 explorers just came 2 years before game ended, and Columbus came in 1497 if i am not mistaken. I did
not abuse the ToT, nor i could, Portugal didn't exist, it never existed in this game. Indeed, i could have asked for a rehost and for an edit, but do you remember what just hapened in the Dfg this week? Yes, i know i took far too long to so little editing... But it isnt nice to make people wait 30 mins or something like that.
And, i didn't colonize "heavily". I was just getting 1.2 colonists by then, if i am not mistaken... After i annexed Morroco, i got a frontier country bonus, plus i moved dp sliders towards free trade. I had time only to colonize Bermuda, Azores and established 2 TPs, one in guantanamo and another in Havana. If you think that this is colonizing heavily, wait till next session...
We ended in 1501, that week, so i didn't do almost anything. I just managed to get to mexico's bay, but so did KoM (well, he just got a bit past florida). The only thing you can say i "abused", was the war i had with you, because i took my 2 generals down there. Still, they weren't that good, and you had LT11 anyway (and i had LT6). What could i do? I just won like 3 battles out of 11.