Savage Empire (Ultima game)

Like Martian Dreams below, Savage Empire (SE) is part of the Worlds of Ultima series (a bit of a misnomer really since there are no other games in the series!). The 'real' Ultima of Lord British etc. never turned me on but Worlds of Ultima are true classics, still enjoyable despite the 1992 graphics and sound. Just replayed SE again recently and tried two new ways of winning (kill the myrmidex queen and smash the Black Stone). The first was to win the traditional way in the shortest time. The traditional way is to unite the tribes and then destroy the myrmidex. Did all the quests and skipped the time-wasting building of homemade weapons.
The second way was much more original. Uniting the tribes is not essential. All it does is reduce the number of myrmidex in their caves making your hunt for the queen much easier.A key part of the game is to enter the old Kotl city to get some anti-Myrmidex weapons and the Black Stone detector device. The 'usual' plot is to destroy the city power source. This frees Spector and allows completion of the Nahuatl quest. With the city power destroyed you have to flee the city as it implodes. unfortunately the city guardian robot Yunapotli dies at this point. I say unfortunately because Yunapotli is indestructibe and joins the party when you enter the city.
Here's the trick. Skip all the quest but one; free Aiela from Darden of the Urali (she has the key to the Kotl city). Get the head (Nahuatl city) and the brain (Spector's old assistant Fritz) of the Yunapotli robot. Enter the city, get yunapotli (Y) to join, send him in solo mode to get all the gadgets from the Kotl city but do not destroy the power source. Leave the city and enter the Myrmidex caves. Send Y off ahead in solo with a kotl staff; he is indestructible so the only problem is chopping your way thru the hords of myrmidex in every tunnel. Y kills queen and smashes stone and hey presto game victory sequence kicks in (even Spector is miraculously there).