Dhoomstriker
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Turn 50 We're finally almost done our first Settler. I hope that this delay in getting Work Boats pays off!
Turn 57 Montezuma shows up in a Work Boat and Stonehenge is completed by someone.
Our Veteran Lion Tamer goes poking around Sumeria's borders to see what he can see. A Worker is spotted but disappears the next turn, so peace is maintained.
A couple of turns later, though, a prize too juicy for me to pass up appears right before my very eyes!
Turn 67 has Montezuma poking around our shores with a Galley. This turn also sees Judaism being founded. Montezuma shortly turns out to be the founder of said Religion.
The Oracle was built and the following turn, Gilgamesh converts to Hereditary Rule. Coincidence? I think not. The Wonders screen confirms that he did indeed build The Oracle.
Right at the deadline, Judaism spreads to our lands. It had also spread to Gilgamesh, so I chose to convert. That means that all known AIs (just Montezuma and Gilgamesh so far) share a common Religion with us.
I also made peace with Gilgamesh on this turn by giving him a completely barren piece of junk City on an Ice island to the north-west of our starting area. Haha, what a sucker, that City will likely help to crash his economy. That'll buy us at least 10 turns of Peace, after which we'll have +2 positive Diplo points for Shared Religion.
Here's an image showing the status of our empire on T100 at 1500 BC.
Summary of our Status at 1500 BC:
5 Cities
4 Monuments (we have the Charismatic Trait, remember, so that's +1 Happiness per Monument)
2 Granaries (one more will be completed in 2 turns)
1 Lighthouse (in a City that has 2 netted Seafood Resources aka the capital)
5 Workers
1 Work Boat (trapped behind Montezuma's borders)
4 Warriors (in position to spawn-bust for Barbs)
1 Galley
Techs: All first level techs except for Hunting, plus: Sailing, Pottery, Animal Husbandry, and Bronze Working. Writing is approximately 1/3rd complete and needs about another 14 turns to be completed, at our current tech rate.
We share a Religion with both Montezuma and Gilgamesh (Judaism)
Montezuma has 4 Cities
Gilgamesh has 4 Cities, but one is a total stinker of a junk-pile that we gifted to him for Peace.
Positive aspects of this saved game:
- We've expanded nicely and another Settler is on the way
- We've got a lot squares improved, such that most citizens are working improved squares
- We have Pig, Wheat, and Fish connected
- We share a common Religion with all of the AIs that we have met
- Gilgamesh knows Writing, so we might eventually be able to get Open Borders with him, if he'll forgive our earlier war transgression with sufficient time
- Gilgamesh has been weakened by losing 3 Workers early on and by accepting a middle-of-nowhere junky City in our Peace deal
- We have a map of most of the circumference of Montezuma's continent. It looks to be HUGE, by the way!
- We have Pottery and Cottages are starting to be built
- We've started to Pasture the Horse Resource, so we'll be able to start building Chariots in about 10 turns from now
- Montezuma owns The Great Lighthouse, so it is at least potentially capturable at some point in the game. That is, if you think that you can handle a war against Montezuma!
Negative aspects of this saved game:
- We have a -3 negative Diplo modifier with Gilgamesh for having declared war on him
- We don't have Writing yet and it will be a while before we get it
- I had to make Peace because Gilgamesh was sending a stack of Vultures and Archers our way
- If we want to declare War on either of Gilgamesh or Montezuma later, we'll likely anger the other one of those two, due to the shared Religion's positive Diplo modifier. Then again, Gilgamesh will probably use his Oracle's Great Prophet to found his own Religion, so this situation could be temporary
- Only 1 Cottage has been fully-built, so more will need to be built before our economy starts to become viable
- We don't have Copper and I don't know if we have Iron because we don't yet know Iron Working
- Pretty much all of the early Wonders have been built by the AIs
Spoiler :
Turn 50 We're finally almost done our first Settler. I hope that this delay in getting Work Boats pays off!
Turn 57 Montezuma shows up in a Work Boat and Stonehenge is completed by someone.
Our Veteran Lion Tamer goes poking around Sumeria's borders to see what he can see. A Worker is spotted but disappears the next turn, so peace is maintained.
A couple of turns later, though, a prize too juicy for me to pass up appears right before my very eyes!
Turn 67 has Montezuma poking around our shores with a Galley. This turn also sees Judaism being founded. Montezuma shortly turns out to be the founder of said Religion.
The Oracle was built and the following turn, Gilgamesh converts to Hereditary Rule. Coincidence? I think not. The Wonders screen confirms that he did indeed build The Oracle.
Right at the deadline, Judaism spreads to our lands. It had also spread to Gilgamesh, so I chose to convert. That means that all known AIs (just Montezuma and Gilgamesh so far) share a common Religion with us.
I also made peace with Gilgamesh on this turn by giving him a completely barren piece of junk City on an Ice island to the north-west of our starting area. Haha, what a sucker, that City will likely help to crash his economy. That'll buy us at least 10 turns of Peace, after which we'll have +2 positive Diplo points for Shared Religion.
Here's an image showing the status of our empire on T100 at 1500 BC.
Summary of our Status at 1500 BC:
5 Cities
4 Monuments (we have the Charismatic Trait, remember, so that's +1 Happiness per Monument)
2 Granaries (one more will be completed in 2 turns)
1 Lighthouse (in a City that has 2 netted Seafood Resources aka the capital)
5 Workers
1 Work Boat (trapped behind Montezuma's borders)
4 Warriors (in position to spawn-bust for Barbs)
1 Galley
Techs: All first level techs except for Hunting, plus: Sailing, Pottery, Animal Husbandry, and Bronze Working. Writing is approximately 1/3rd complete and needs about another 14 turns to be completed, at our current tech rate.
We share a Religion with both Montezuma and Gilgamesh (Judaism)
Montezuma has 4 Cities
Gilgamesh has 4 Cities, but one is a total stinker of a junk-pile that we gifted to him for Peace.
Positive aspects of this saved game:
- We've expanded nicely and another Settler is on the way
- We've got a lot squares improved, such that most citizens are working improved squares
- We have Pig, Wheat, and Fish connected
- We share a common Religion with all of the AIs that we have met
- Gilgamesh knows Writing, so we might eventually be able to get Open Borders with him, if he'll forgive our earlier war transgression with sufficient time
- Gilgamesh has been weakened by losing 3 Workers early on and by accepting a middle-of-nowhere junky City in our Peace deal
- We have a map of most of the circumference of Montezuma's continent. It looks to be HUGE, by the way!
- We have Pottery and Cottages are starting to be built
- We've started to Pasture the Horse Resource, so we'll be able to start building Chariots in about 10 turns from now
- Montezuma owns The Great Lighthouse, so it is at least potentially capturable at some point in the game. That is, if you think that you can handle a war against Montezuma!
Negative aspects of this saved game:
- We have a -3 negative Diplo modifier with Gilgamesh for having declared war on him
- We don't have Writing yet and it will be a while before we get it
- I had to make Peace because Gilgamesh was sending a stack of Vultures and Archers our way
- If we want to declare War on either of Gilgamesh or Montezuma later, we'll likely anger the other one of those two, due to the shared Religion's positive Diplo modifier. Then again, Gilgamesh will probably use his Oracle's Great Prophet to found his own Religion, so this situation could be temporary
- Only 1 Cottage has been fully-built, so more will need to be built before our economy starts to become viable
- We don't have Copper and I don't know if we have Iron because we don't yet know Iron Working
- Pretty much all of the early Wonders have been built by the AIs