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  1. AgedOne

    Double leaders (Fixed)

    Yes, I've just started a game as Pericles and my only neighbour on my island is Pericles! We seem to be getting along fine so far. He declared our friendship to the world. On the other hand, he's annoyed at me for trying to gather up the City States (as that's his historical agenda)
  2. AgedOne

    Challenge-XIV-07

    Congratulations on your first Deity win, Qactus! ...and on making it to the top of the Challenge leaderboard. Enjoy the moment!
  3. AgedOne

    Challenge-XIV-07

    There's always the 'Found a tiny city right by his borders, spread religion to it and then gift him the city' trick
  4. AgedOne

    Challenge-XIV-02

    This was a terrible aspect of my play, and one I can improve on enormously with a bit of thought. I managed a pitiful 3 GAs in my later submission: 1 an early unwanted spy, 2 Taj, 3 unwanted artist+something(!) . Only the last 2 with MoM. I can see, looking back, that this was not even part...
  5. AgedOne

    Challenge-XIV-07

    Some AI - Gandhi is one of them - will go for the religious tech and The Oracle very early, and on Deity that does mean early! Give him marble and he is very hard to beat. I tried to avoid AI with religious flavours, but of course we can't change the ones we are given in this game. Be prepared...
  6. AgedOne

    Challenge-XIV-09

    In keeping with my theme of submitting a truly awful game just to get my name up on the board, followed sometime later by a mediocre game to improve on the truly awful one, I have just uploaded an 1832AD finish for your consideration. I went for the peaceful OCC method, but didn't progress...
  7. AgedOne

    Challenge-XIV-01

    Yeah. I was all overkill and wasted effort in this first attempt! :ar15: In my defence, I wasn't sure whether I would be meeting 2 warriors or 1 in that city. I know what you're saying about archers is true, but I still find it difficult to get past the feeling that archers defeat warrior...
  8. AgedOne

    Challenge-XIV-01

    OK. I have one up on the board for this game. 1900 BC. Could have been much quicker, had I realised most of the AI hadn't got archers yet. My army was a ridiculous overkill for my final conquest. Started with a 'walk-in' with a warrior. Continued with a '5 warriors v 1'. Moved up to archers...
  9. AgedOne

    Challenge-XIV-02

    That sounds so familiar! And painful! We get into these mental routines while playing a particular type of game (I know I do, and maybe you do too) where you are almost, like, putting tasks into slots ready to be done in a few turns time. Stacking up the Gt People is just one of these routines...
  10. AgedOne

    Challenge-XIV-02

    Thank you for noticing :) I'm very aware that I am extremely rusty after a couple of years of not playing Civ IV, but I'm also frustrated when I look back at my old games. I wasn't one of the best even then, but I was a lot better than I am now! I agree. I keep referring to Game 7 of...
  11. AgedOne

    Challenge-XIV-02

    Submitted a much more respectable finish date - 1994 - so at least I can now go out in public again :) Some of this was through searching for a better start: I got one where I could at least settle on a river-side plains hill. I had gems, only one food resource, but quite a few forested hills...
  12. AgedOne

    Challenge-XIV-02

    One submission in, but it was cringingly awful and I will definitely submit another, better attempt later. However, for the moment, a 2033AD entry will be looking up at the rest of you :lol: For the record, this was a start without any commerce resource, but 2 corn, many floodplains and...
  13. AgedOne

    Challenge-XIV-02

    I just had another look at this game, and all I can say is "I need the Great Wall!! :cry:" My 4 archers were completely overrun by the barbarians, to the extent that everything was being pillaged and I was losing valuable research progress. I packed that game in after about 70 turns of...
  14. AgedOne

    Challenge-XIV-02

    What a fascinating write-up, enKage. I would not have thought that this could be achieved without any commerce resources. But you've shown that it can be. I must have another look at this today. I think I may have been wrong in holding out for commerce resource starts, and then looking for...
  15. AgedOne

    Challenge-XIV-01

    I have to say, I haven't had a go at this one yet, but ... You took 6 enemy cities in 77 turns, Pollina!! I'll be lucky to have found 4 of the 6 in that time, going one tile at a time. I suppose, on Chieftain, you can whip warriors out nearly every turn almost without penalty, right?
  16. AgedOne

    Challenge-XIV-02

    That really sucks. And you have my sympathies. I can't think of what has happened there. Would you be able to post up a savegame file? Perhaps one of the autosaves from just before it happened? Then maybe we could find out what went on. I think, sadly, that in a HoF setting, yes - your game...
  17. AgedOne

    Challenge-XIV-02

    Don't misunderstand me. I'm not much of a micro guy myself. In fact I think I was always a big disappointment to my highly micro friend, who would spend many hours lovingly tending each city each turn :D ... and would be shocked and dismayed when I didn't do the same myself. I'm with you all...
  18. AgedOne

    Challenge-XIV-02

    Cue a Bob Hoskins (RIP) Long Good Friday voice: "6 hours! Don't make me laugh! You have to be prepared to sink a lot more than 6 hours into this! Siddown! I'm going to tell you a story" I looked back after Pollina linked those old games. I have played a game very like this one - back in...
  19. AgedOne

    Challenge-XIV-02

    If I remember correctly, this is not entirely random, unfortunately :( If you don't build a full space-ship (i.e. not all 5 casings, thrusters etc) then up in the top-left of the space-ship viewing screen it says that your chance of mission success is something less than 100%. On your save...
  20. AgedOne

    Challenge-XIV-02

    Thank you! Really good to see the discussions on these old threads. I was taking part in the Challenge series just before that time. I think 2011 was when I started to lose interest... I'm pretty sure I have played some space OCCs before, but it is a while ago, and I need all the help I can...
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