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Really enjoyed everyone's write-ups for this game. Took the challenger save and found this hard going at the beginning. I settled 1N of the stone for an (eventual) monster coastal OU Moai bureaucracy capital. It took a while to get there though with no trading partners other than...

Yep. :) Though I might not be able to finish before the submission deadline. My last few Deity games have taken me about 3 months each to finish... Hwacha are good fun and this map seems made for warmongering.

Not sure if anyone still remembers this Deity Archipelago game so many months on... :) I ran out of time before the deadline and then had to put things on hold for some weeks while we had some visitors. Finally finished things off this weekend. In the end I had quite a straightforward...

Fun game - all going well on the way to a conquest victory, unfortunately I just ran out of time to complete. I expanded to about 8 cities and declared on Alex first with maces and cats. Unfortunately I only managed to get one city before he capitulated to Churchill, the score leader who...

I know it's a bit late, but some might be interested in a write-up still.. :) This was an interesting game for me. I took the challenger save, and deity maintenance costs combined with the small map type and toroidal wrap meant harsh maintenance costs. Even though I had expected this...

Fair enough. Actually, since you need to set "lock modified assets" on all the saves, I think they must probably all be generated from a common WB file, so presumably you explicitly added the barb techs back in on all of them, or none of them. Either way, the challenger save will still be...

Yep, it's tempting to skip Archery. It doesn't really slow down the GW because I want a worker and at least 3-4 warriors for defence before I'm actually ready to start on the GW itself - and I can have archery by then as well. (Settling by the wheat so no need for early AH - mining the sheep...

Looks like an interesting and fun start. Will be playing the challenger save and from a quick deity test game (thanks srad and ras) I think Archery and GW are pretty much essential. Screenshot from my first test game with SIP and AH > Archery > Mining > BW > Masonry. Not very efficient but...

Thanks for the shout out kcd_swede, and for a fun game. The efforts of the GOTM staff are always much appreciated! :)

Actually, no... thought I read this in one of Obermot's old posts but I was wrong. I just tested it in WB and it works the way you would expect. Extra tiles are added to your domination quota immediately, including captured cities. I for one would almost certainly play every month if you...

I think there's a 10 turn delay before new land tiles are counted towards your domination victory, so you need to be tracking border pops and cities coming out of revolt from 10 turns earlier to avoid hitting the land trigger. Makes it a bit harder to track but may explain your bad luck with...

Fun and fairly straightforward game: Settled 2S on the coastal plains hill. I did enjoy the food-scarce start as it provided some interesting variety to the usual opening moves (settle in place or go on a jesuin-style hunt for food ::yumyum:). I settled for the devil-you-know and just...

Thanks for the invite Indiansmoke. Would love to play but my civ time is a bit unreliable at the moment having recently become a Dad. :) Maybe when the little one is a bit older I'll be returning to pitboss in the not too distant future. In the meantime, this is a great initiative - I...

Thanks Kossin. I did build a few bombers (not 20 though - lacking places to station them as I'd already sent most of my workers to cover the Shaka / SB continent in workshops and watermills) and DOW'd on MM just a couple of turns after my last screenshot. Took 2 border cities, then...

Thanks for the detailed write-ups, kossin and AbsoluteZero. Two very detailed write-ups and very different approaches. I learnt a lot. I've been shadowing this game as well but am only just getting around to posting as I wanted to remain unspoiled. My early game seemed similar to kossin's...

Playing for a domination win but ran out of time and submitted a retired save with a few hours left to the deadline - #1 in land but at war with the rest of the world and a few techs behind, with Mansa the main superpower (Wang Kon, Ragnar and Napolean all vassals). Had a fairly...

Congratulations and many thanks to both you and kcd_swede for stepping up and helping to keep this great competition going strong! :hatsoff:

Having scaled back pitboss recently I had some time to have a go at this one. Played peacefully up until 1AD, and things are looking safe. Settled on the plains hill after moving the settler there in hopes of finding some seafood. :) That showed me right away the culture bridge to the...

I'm surprised - it doesn't sound like that was planned at all. Congrats to CH but hats off to Rusten. That's one of the most impressive performances I've seen in a long time (even by Rusten's standards :)) I was worried you and Elkad would gang up against the 7 of us but in the end even 8v1...

Immortal... :cool: Thanks Erkon! :goodjob: I'll probably settle 1W of the settler for a monster Financial Cottage Coastal Riverside capital. Fog-gazing the save also reveals hills 2W and 2W1S of that location, so that gives at least 3 hills in the starting BFC, plus lots of forests to chop...