People always talk about needing to improve the late game; but I find it's the mid game (medieval to early industrial) that's the tedious part.
You're largely done with settlers, there aren't any major grabs for resources until coal (nitre I suppose), maybe there's religion going on, just a slow upwards tick of civics and technologies, with nothing much more than the standard melee/cavalry/ranged stuff from the ancient era. Maybe it's supposed to be more for consolidating your empire, but I always find it a slog. But then I barely ever play aggressive.
Currently going for a diplomatic victory with Sweden (Civ VI), world congress always seems to propose knocking the points off me at a greater rate than I can gain them, so that's probably not going to happen. I'm very behind on the ol' military, so hoping I can churn out some reasonably modern defensive units and hold on for a culture victory. Feller I play with always plays aggressive and expansionist though, kind of has an unbreakable head of steam by dint of owning three different Civ's cities. Oh well.
