Because if you are then I'll start the process.

I agree with your analysis, except in one small measure. Obtaining combustion will allow them to convert to destroyers which, if one or two escape, could prove inconvenient. They are certainly far more effective than the ironclad. But it is too little too late as far as they are concerned. We now have a pretty awesome destroyer force.

They should have given up on the battle for control of the seas and concentrated on civilian tech with a huge push towards Mining Inc for which they had a Great Engineer already! It's an AI mistake to use these guys too early! But I can see why they did it - they were tempted by the newly-captured Mausolleum Wonder; "hey guys +50% GA duration! Wa-hay!!" But there we have a clue - give up a battle? Very hard for humans to do because it is an admission of defeat.

How come we are winning?

Early realisation that espionage would be an all-powerful tool;

Aggressive attitude towards our continental rivals;

Poor utilisation of potential Alphan superiority conferred by the Pyramids;

Slow Alphan realisation of the strategic picture, meaning we realised the importance of circumnavigation and a powerful navy first;

Very poor Alphan concentration on critical early Wonders;

Sluggish Alphan response to raids and threats and insufficient military defence force such that they actually lost important cities to amphibious assault;

Intensely focused plans regarding growth and progression of Omegan home cities.

In conclusion, I think Alpha treated this like a game against the AI for too long. That is just my opinion. We won't know until it's concluded. I have no doubt we will win, and very soon at that. Even now I believe our scientists probe the secrets of fission. Do Alpha suspect we will drop nuclear bombs on them? No, I do not think so.

I think they will be utterly dumbstruck that such a thing could happen.

But it's just a game.

And anything can happen. We might even lose

I wonder what they have been doing with their spy points. How many techies did we steal in the early ages? They should have at least take one civ out early on but they didn't do that. Funny thing is they were about to wipe the japs from the earth at the same time our forces created havoc on their continent; poor planning by alpha. They should have beaten Japan centuries ago.

Absolutely. I couldn't (and still can't) believe that they managed to fall behind in tech when they had the Pyramids. As for stealing tech, I think we stole banking, and that was about it. Then we saw that actually we were in a technological lead, so no need to steal technology - better to put the espionage into "investigate city" ability. This gave us the chance (among other things) to see their spending, and I never in all my years as Dictator saw them raise espionage spending once above 0%.

How did we win the technology race? It's still a mystery to me.