Robert FIN
Emperor
I would love to give Burger some respect in terms of wilcard trophy but he screwed up himself and he is far from victory in the last turn. It feels wrong to award Darry but who was better? Pacal? Nappy? Vicky? Not for me.
+ loads of forest. And we know the AIs are not very good CanadiansNo complaint, but i think every AI would have done bad in most games with Nappy's start land.
Lyons i.e. was bound to happen, cos all that AIs care for are resources of any kind, fresh water and hills maybe..not food
+ there was not much food in his area anyways, some Tundra and desert from what i can see too..
After thinking about it a little more, I think Charlie deserves the wildcard, certainly more than Darius at least. He did mess up badly by in effect declaring on big brother Suleiman, but other than that he did quite well, and was unlucky with Suleiman stealing a few cities. Without that, the vassal could have gone to Charlie instead, and the game perhaps taken a very different direction.
So in my opinion
1st Pericles
2nd Suleiman
WC Charlemagne
If there is going to be a Wooden Spoon or something like that, then Darius thoroughly deserves it for this game. How he didn't manage to stomp on Napoleon, I'll never know.
Darius probably couldn't make further progress because France was 'unreachable' behind (closed borders) Maya lands, requiring naval invasions on distant parts of the same landmass?What....
What?
What !! is happening !!
Darius lost Chartres to the French. He's got freaking Infantry against Muskets and he can't make progress? Ugh. I give up.
Darius should get the boob award
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