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Oh, the score counting mechanism means scores scale up as map size is. Though, I did win that one pretty early. Shocking and awing everyone to capitulate speeded up my conquest significantly. If you ask me, they should have skipped adjustment of scores according to difficulty level, and simply let a win on a higher level always count above one on a lower level regardless of score.
As you see, I was Khmer. It took me a while to discover this gem of a civ. Expansive means quick granaries - I always made sure I finished a granary before even growing to pop 2 in all cities beyond my capitol. Cultured means my cities will get access to their entire city radius without having to get a religion (which is hopeless on Emperor anyway) or having to build monuments (which delays progress). I think Khmer is the best civ for quick early growth.
The baray is nice too - an aqueduct which gives one food! The ballista elephant is too. The elephant is already a great unit considering its strength to contemporary units. It can rock and roll in the ancient age just like ordinary elephants do. And when it gets eclipsed by pikemen in the medieval age, it might not be an all-round assault unit any more, but those hordes of ballista elephants you have from your ancient conquests will find excellent use as snipers to pick off knights and horse archers from enemy stacks.
What did I do, then? This was my first real try at an active specialist economy, as I got stone early and built the Pyramids. The late ancient and early medieval ages saw almost constant war with Ethiopia and Byzantium. And I had neither copper nor iron, so I had to build hordes of elephants, and use longbowmen as foot soldiers (yeah, that's right, I used longbowmen as field troops rather than as city defenders!), and catapults and trebuchets. I went for all-out total war in the face of the superior might of the opposition. I switched to both theocracy and vassalage for maximum XP, police state for reducing war weariness and slavery to put war-weary rioters to the whip to further the war effort.
My country was left scarred, but at last I had reduced Byzantium to a capitulating rump (and I got the Christian holy city!), and reduced Ethiopia to a single city. Problem brewed, Zara Yaqob ran to Caesar for help, and I was at war with Rome, which was a real military superpower. I managed to tune the Romans out by bribing my good friend Gilgamesh to close the borders on them. As Sumeria stretched out from coast to coast, they effectively stopped anyone from attacking me from the west, while I mopped up the east. Julley agreed to peace for a symbolic tribute, Ethiopia cast off their vassalage, and subsequently was annexed by me.
I sat on a huge chunk of land, but my economy was bleeding from the overextension - I even ran a deficit at 0% research! I had to make that land turn a profit bloody quickly, so while I switched back to representation, I kept on slavery for another round of whipping while I fervently researched banking. I was slowly getting back into the tech race where I was awfully behind already (what else is new, c'mon, this is Emperor!). In the meantime, the English had requested to be my vassal, so I coordinated our research, made sure they researched things I wanted so I could research something else I could use to trade with them.
When my land finally started producing, I got into great power politics with renewed vigour. The east was subjugated. To the west of me were Sumeria, Greece and Rome, in that order, each as a band stretching from coast to coast. Greece and Rome had decided Sumeria needed to go and attacked. To dent the progress of my rivals (of which Rome was the most dangerous) I intervened and declared war on Greece. The Romans and Sumerians at this time were already sporting riflemen and grenadiers, but the Greeks were at the level of knights and musketmen. I attacked the Greeks with my musketmen, my spare elephants and my trebuchets, using Sumerian land as my base. After having razed two Greek cities and liberated a Sumerian city, the Greeks got surprisingly meek and capitulated. I declared war on the Romans to wield my newfound Greek vassal. They hardly accomplished anything, but in the meantime I had beelined for steel. Cannons gave my tusk and shot army enough of an equalizer to be able to stand up to rifles (somewhat), so I managed to raze one big and two small Roman cities.
Then came the Industrial age, I beelined to railroad and got mining inc. formed. With the abundance of resources in conquered Ethiopia and Byzantium, I got out something like +20 production per city with it. Fueled by mining, factories and coal plants grew up around my empire. In the meantime, the Greeks had tired of paying tribute and declared independence. Oh well, everything in its due time. As soon as I had industrialized, the final phase of world conquest started. Armies of infantry + artillery forced the Greeks to rethink their declaration of independence. Finally, I decided to have some payback on my old friend Gilgamesh. He had been a most useful ally earlier, but his cultural imperialism on our common border got on my nerves. With riflemen being the top of his military tech, the Khmer soon goosestepped on the streets of Uruk, and everywhere else too 
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