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    Civ VI - Beta Gauntlet I

    Hah, you and I both. While any awesomely fast win is very much a skilled game, certain aspects tend to devolve gameplay into a one-way play style. Finding a relic in a hut is exciting but it spells doom for any fast faith related game as this is crazy powerful, +4 faith and 8 tourism pre-10...
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    Civilization VI for Mac "Coming Soon" - Aspyr

    The MacBook Pro line tend to have beefier stats than the MacBook and the Air. I got mine sometime last year or so and it seems to be above the minimum standards in most cases. Notably it has the i7 quad core and the Intel Iris Pro graphics hardware. Even if I can't play it I'd still buy the...
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    G-Minor CXXX

    That seems about on the mark although its some very tight play on that last 30. I just played one thru, got PP around 90. Map form ended up hurting me, slowed down the final domination and I was scrambling to find the last CS. When all was said and done I ended up waiting 17 turns, 11 to...
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    TSG 143 after action report

    Game status: Domination Victory Game date: 1430AD Turns played: 133 Base score: 1578 Final score: 3945 Did a standard archer upgrade path with some elephants added in for spice and barb control near the capital. I opened up both sides of the initial land and attempted to send out two armies...
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    TSG 133 opening actions thread

    In what sense does it have to pay for itself? If you take it after opening Liberty, which (say) takes 8 turns, and then proceed to trim down future policy times by more than 8 turns its paid for itself. I'm sure this is the case for this map and with dromons. I saw my policy count go from 15 to...
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    TSG 131 After Action Report

    Game status: Science Victory Game date: 1770AD Turns played: 264 Base score: 1334 Final score: 2565 Time played: 6:59:00 I bulbed around turn 240-ish, only got about 6k per so it wasn't enough with ~45 pop and 6 academies; had to hard tech the last 10-20 turns. Might have been...
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    G-Minor CII

    Well played folks. Tried a few times to get a playable map, but kept getting situations where there was only one route away from my cap, no matter where I was on the map.
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    G-Minor CII

    Interesting, I was curious about that as looking at the victory screen it says that civ has not planted their capital yet! But also its not even a capital?!? Probably an oversight or bug IMO. Imagine doing this on deity, it would be like whack-a-mole. Or you just have to take them out completely.
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    Great Person Improvement placement

    Note on the cows and any other that gets a bonus via buildings where you need to improve it first (cows/stable). If you build the building first it stays active and you keep the bonus after you plant the GP. Probably only useful on a OCC otherwise probably not very useful to plant any GP...
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    Wide Play for Fast Victory: Theory

    While I agree with the overall picture painted there are a lot more variables. The free aqueducts alone will account for a significant growth increase for those going tradition. That is, with out liberty taking a sidetrack to get this tech early and then the required production to build them...
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    G-Major LXI

    I'd agree about the non-sweet spot. Also the AI being weak doesn't affect their stupidity. Just played a game to about 190 as the Inca decided to drop another near mountain city with good growth potential, was in the range of Korea so they complained. Keeping in mind this is just about a...
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    G-Minor CII

    When I get a chance to play another I'm going to try this approach more fully. I don't think I could get Compass by turn 80 as in last months diety challenge. Also, with only 3 movement and large islands, embarked units with a more straight line path may be quicker. I suppose its possible to...
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    G-Minor CII

    Played a few test games and finally settled on an attempt with just archers->comp bows. Ideally augmented by some hut upgrades. In the end I got maybe 3-4 upgraded pathfinders, but these were far flung so spent a lot of turns either getting back with a war band or just waiting for the band to...
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    G-Major LX

    Ahh, good job folks! Guess I should have finished and submitted something, Manpanzee only got bronze for that outstanding game. How many are needed for silver?
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    Monthly Deity Challenge #3 - France

    I'll await a writeup before I even attempt. I used to love CV, but the BNW change made them sort of a slow slog. Excepting the SS variety. Not sure what crack was being passed around at Firaxis but SV, CV and DV are all now all essenentially the same game of fast science to X, where X differs...
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    G-Major LX

    Tried this, no problem getting galleass out in number around turn 80. But sweeping the map in 30 turns is amazing or at least well beyond my skill. I presume you need a map that allows like say the first fleet to sweep 4-5 civs at five turns each, and have another one begin 10 turns later to get...
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    G-Minor CI

    This is about my cycle with huts. If I can time the pop for the turn I've grown naturally I do so. Also if I get a ruin the turn I settle I generally get the pop. Also, as has been mentioned, opening pottery and potentially getting any of the tier 2s seems a good idea. My problem with both...
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    G-Minor CI

    Just an addendum the faith numbers for leaders on quick are 670, 1000, 1670, 2680 and 4020. I didn't write down the 6th cost in the came I got the 5th. Thats probably even more crazy then the 5th though. I think the 5th is doable only on a hugely productive Petra city, but that probably limits...
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    G-Minor CI

    Hah, looks pretty spectacular to me! Forked rivers and all that wheat alongside the river is great, makes for a lot of early high food tiles. Great job playing this one. Close to 60 pop, I'm happy if I make it to 50. Perhaps I should work on that more. I've never tried to save either LToP...
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    TSG109 Opening Action

    I went scout, monument, scout, settler, GL and then a couple more settlers. Settled in place, second city was to the west near more salt and maybe the copper. Third was by the oranges and spices. I was tempted to settle uluru, but it was a real awkward city no matter how I placed it, and the...
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