So I had spun off a bunch of colonies. I had also finished teching to Optics for my UU (Carracks). My first Carrack went into production on turn 237 (920 AD). One Carrack went East and one went West. I met the following:
- Saladin (Turn 251 - 1060 AD)
- Victoria (Turn 252 - 1070 AD)
- Napoleon (Turn 260 - 1150 AD)
That is all of the players on this map. All of my colonies had Hinduism (the AP religion), automatically granted by my missionaries. Only 3 AIs didn't, they were Isabella, Victoria and Napoleon. I had to remedy this before the religious victory became an option.
Isabella was an easy solution ... I just gifted my cork-city to her ...
Victoria was just a matter of sailing a missionary over to her - I had open borders. Napoleon, on the other hand, was a different proposition. He wouldn't give me open borders, even after I flipped him a tech for free.
I had to sail a settler and missionary all the way over to France, settling a city, bombing it will hindu and then gifting it to Napoleon. Hindu 100% circulated on turn 280 (1300 AD). Now I just need to wait for the AP Victory option to come up.
The next page shows some wrinkles that the game through in because it thought I was getting off easy.