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Turn 143 (or 142?) Culture Victory. What turn is the culture victory calculated? I had enough tourism at turn 142 but the victory screen triggered at the start of turn 143 so which turn do we count as the victory? This game required me to perform a different build order and strategy than usual...

That's an incredible start. I don't even know where to place my capital... ;) One left to settle on the luxury + fresh water or one right and skip fresh water but get very good tiles to work early? One sw would also be possible but I think housing might be a problem there. But given the civ...

Turn 168 Science Victory Mali start is slow as always but speeds up quickly in the end. I did a mistake to take take the belief that automatically spreads my religion to new cities. I conquered Poland before starting my second wave of settlers and because of that didn't have a majority...

That's a Petra city if I ever saw one. A few generic questions: 1) Mali's -30% prod towards units, does that include civilian units like builders, traders and settlers? 2) Mali's -30% prod towards buildings, does that include wonders and districts? 3) Highland map is generally a single continent...

Domination victory T106. I usually don't like domination and not a big fan of the real starting location maps as it gives away some of the mystery of the map. I conquered a coastal city early using 2-3 galleys. I didn't realize I was going to lose it to loyalty, but I had a scout close that...

SV, turn 284 (Krampus challenge) My plan for this game was simple - Expand as quickly as possible. Build Audience chamber. Get Liang with 2 promotions and move him around to build fisheries adjacent to water resources. Get magnus in same city as plaza and use domestic trade routes to that...

Wow, this is a rough start and a weak leader. On top of that no city states and no warring and likely very little room to expand (archipelago). This is going to be one of the slowest science victories so far... I love it! ;)

Thanks for the tip, but I'll skip this one. Not to keen on creating unnecessary accounts.

I tried to set up the 2k acct as well but I fail to download the mod. Is it possible to change this map to avoid using Julius Ceasar? Otherwise I guess I will have to skip this challenge.

I played this after the deadline and I also restarted a few times. I ended up in a religious victory at turn 132 and realized I will probably avoid religious victories on deity from now on, at least if there are multiple continents to move troops through. Anyway, a fun game in the first part of...

Culture victory turn 197. I started out agressively and captured 2 cities from Poland and made peace in hope that I could get some tourism from them later. But their last 2 cities revolted and joined me instead so she was exterminated. Switched to a peaceful game after inital rush having around...

Nice, Gorgo is one of my favorite leaders. Never played her wih a culture victory though and generally a victory condition which I am not so used to playing. I guess I will have to find out how it plays out with stealing AI wonders. ;)

RV T107 Was planning for a 1 city challenge first, but then I found such a good place to found my second city so I settled another one. Captured one city rather late and razed a few ones. How did the leader bonus and civ unique ability impact your plan/play, if at all? Very good to get so many...

This is going to be interesting and a real challenge I think. Especially the dramatic ages and apocalypse modes. Is there any way to know which way will lead to the civ continent and the city state continent? Feels like a gamble which one we will end up with?

SV t209 I played almost entirely peacefully except for a short war with Egypt in the start as she denounced me. I had a long think if I wanted to go peaceful or war and in the end decided to stay peaceful as I had a lot of land to settle in the east. If I replayed I think I would have done an...

Interesting start. Now the question is: archer rush or not? I have never played Nubia so not sure if it's viable to do an archer rush with them on deity difficulty? I guess there is a risk to start on an isolated island on "continents and islands" as well?

@Brokencar: Interesting game, quite a lot different from the approached I took with only 7 cities. Good to see there are more ways to play the game. I can see you moved away your capital 3 turns from the starting location, what was the reason for moving that far before settling the first city...

Replay (unofficial game) SV T197 This is the first time I finish a science at game prince difficulty and I needed a few restarts to get into the rhythm of the prince game and how the game feels like on this difficulty. In the end I played 100% peacefully and I only built 7 very strong cities. I...

Very nice challenge! I really like science as win condition for low difficulty games as it gives a secondary added challenge. I think the Gaul civ looks very interesting for a science challenge as well with an early rush. No problem to start the game for me.

DV T126 (according to Hall of fame, T127 ingame), Score 859 - What was your plan for achieving a Domination VC? What are the major steps you planned to take? What events, if any, changed the plan in execution and to what new plan? Any interesting decision points? My plan was to build 2-3 strong...