Slitherine

That is, didnt even get to see those skeletons
Let alone cities or many of those other advanced buoldings or troops..

Any way to change the victory conditions?
Im assuming it is tweakable.. or maybe a mod somewhere..

Yes in the data\tweaks.tyxt file you can edit the WinPercentage

Hehe, I'm this far.

I think I will get some time to play this week too, so I might even finish this game soon.

Yes you have to look in the Chariots of War program files, there will be the Tweaks.txt file and in it there is a place like this:
// 10th's of a % of world to control to win game
WinPercentage 1000
WinClearPercentage 1000

I copied that from my Tweaks file, I think both WinClearPercentage and WinPercentage are at 750 before you change it. And having them both at 1000 will make the game last until you conquer the world.

very similar.. i have the whole northern anatolia, not too much of caucasus.. and the mesopotamian cities are my eastern border atm.
Also havetn taken southern arabian peninsula yet.

But i do have way more diplomats... almost all the 15? remaining nations have diplomats.
Otoh ive been civilised in that department, only once asked one to leave the nation. Unharmed ofcourse... those former friends of mine were busy stealing towns and i had decided to eliminate them.

Well, the Sherihumi (my neighbors in the east) sent the same diplomat to me 5 times, so I had to stop them. The first time I only asked him to leave, the next 3 times I had soldiers escort him to the border but they still sent him back, so I made him... Disappear.

"But good sirs! We have no idea where he is! He must have been robbed or something! We will send some soldiers out to look for him!"

And so I sent 15-20 squads out to capture their cities... They are still on their way.