Hegemon scenario for Civ 3

The best Civilization 3 contrib scenario that I have ever played is, without hesitation, Hegemon. This is a scenario that you will want to play multiple time. Just each time with a different nation. Notes for one of the weakest nations, Ithaka, follow.

While Ithaka has strong start, their power is limited:

1. While they have an awesome unique wonder, which is buildable from the beginning, they don't have any other unique building (not even a tribal camp!).
2. While they start with 4 unique units prebuild, they are not able to create additional unique units.
3. While the motherland is fertile, it does not contain an Island resource, which is necessary for trade network construction. Hence, forget about trading strategic and luxury resources with other nations.
4. Ithaka city does not lye on river, while many other capitols do. Hence, the growth of Ithaka is capped, until aqueduct is discovered and build.
5. Ithaka belongs to Island Greeks. And Island Greeks (together with Lesser Greeks) have inferior units to everyone else (with a few exceptions during the early and mid-game when their units are just as good as everyone).

Nevertheles, contrary to what is said in the guide, it is possible to win with Ithaka.

1. Ithaka starts with 2 prebuild boats. These boats allows you to quickly uncover the whole coastline and make highly profitable discovery trades.
2. Thanks to the unique wonder, Ithaka has a lead in production capacity. Use it to build unit generating units, because own units suck. And use the generated units for early attack on weaker nations. There are four goals:
1. Get their cities. Economically wise, it is cheaper to build attack units and conquer cities than to build settlers.
2. Get workers from their settlers. They are an easy target.
3. Get a leader in order to build an army. The army will then allow you to conquer well defended capitols of stronger nations (e.g.: Sparta).
4. If you are not able to eliminate some nation completely, deny them access to cooper as cooper is necessary for building many mid-game units.
3. Rush the conquest.  Ithaka is greatly positioned to take down nations in the order they get their unique units. Sparta has early unique units. So, take down Sparta before they start to spawn their unique units. Then there are Athens and Thebians with their mid-game unique units. And finally Macedonians with their late unique units.
4. Focus on nations that have freshly build a wonder and take it from them (it is frequently cheaper to conquer a city with a wonder than to build the wonder).