Recent content by WelshGandalf

Yup everyone hates Lincoln here too! Capac of the Aztecs has an amazing 3 cities!!! Too busy building wonders and establishing religions. I took CoL with Oracle (insanely late date, 1000 BC?). Converted Genghiz & the Portuguese, but then Genghiz changed to Hinduism. As all but 2 on the map are...

I had a peace vassal - see my spoiler post (rather than reposting everything here).

That was pretty much my strategy too da_vinci. I can't compete with the best toe-to-toe. It looked like prime military victory, so I went for diplo instead hoping others wouldn't, and it worked :D

Yay, a second award at last :D

1745AD diplomatic victory. Continuing from my first post.... Catapults came online so I was able to slowly capture the Indian cities. I had such a large force from the initial failed assault that only about a third of my empires were on the war effort whilst the rest focussed on the economy...

Couldn't find copper anywhere, until I saw that one to the east of the Indian empire. Duly settled it, built a big road, and got army-building. Ikhandas are great for helping with maintenance costs. Effectively 25 hammers to save 1g a turn in my outlying cities, and give upgrades to troops - a...

I was correct in guessing domination would be an unpopular choice, but I came 2nd out of 3 so no medal :(

Settled hammer site. Decided to go for medieval domination victory - mostly xows, trebs, a few macemen later on. I stuck at it despite researching all the way to Sushi. Finally won in 17-something, having taken superconductors with lib the turn before :crazyeye: 49 cities - 8 on the Japanese...

Settled on the hammer spot. Ummm boy, there sure were a lot of hammers there! :crazyeye: I built the Pyramids in 1250BC or something like that, without whips or chops. Crazy. Tech progress is pretty bad, but I did Oracle MC and then bulb Machinery with the great engineer I got from my...

@Izzul

100AD Emperor no events...

An insanely hard fought domination at 1800AD! So from my first spoiler... the Mongols did indeed take ages to take the last city of whatever empire was to the south of ours (I forget, it was so long ago) and I set about developing my cities peacefully (I had about 7 now, from the 3 I started...

Managed to squeeze it in before my busy weekend anyway :) Thanks for the clarification, and I see it says on the GOTM website exactly how long is left anyway, good to know for future reference.

When precisely is the closing time? Is it the end of 16th Feb? The start of 16th Feb? Server is US Eastern time I guess...?

About the game... SIP as every starting location has food and it can't be any worse than moving for dry rice? OR settle 1S for the extra hammer, potentially useful for early settlers? Followed by.... cottage up and hope for the best?