The Immortal Challenge Line-up Game #38 The Huns

All games in this series will be set to IMMORTAL difficulty. User civilizations, maps, and opponents will change each game, but the pace will always be set at standard and the starting era will always be ancient. We will try for a variety of starts, and not just having a crazy warmonger as your next door neighbor (although there will be that too). This isn't a competition so there will be no predefined victory conditions. New challenges in the series will be posted every other Wednesday.

Who can play?
Anybody can play. The more the merrier. Even if you normally don't play immortal games you are still welcome to try. The games can become great learning resources for the player trying to improve. Even if you don't finish the game, we are still interested to hear about your experience.

Do's and Don'ts
We are going to be using the honor system. Feel free to restart, reload, play the same game multiple times, but don't use the science overflow exploit. Also please don't edit the game in IGE. If you do chose to cheat, please don't share your results in the comments. Also, please use the spoiler tag if you post a picture, comment about neighboring civs, close by wonders, or locations of ancient ruins.

Also, please tell us about your Build Order, Social Policies, Tech Order, and what type of wonders you went after. I know a lot of this stuff seems pretty mundane to the experienced player, but the details are incredibly useful to people trying to learn.

Future Games in the Series
I want users to submit saves from turn 0. Preferably the person submitting the game has played enough turns to know the map is either difficult, fun, or unique in some enjoyable way. Write a short description as to why it is special and email the save to immortalchallengelineup@gmail.com

Important
If you submit a game for the challenge, you must have the DLC map packs disabled. Not everybody has them and they are honestly kind of useless. Having them disabled will allow more participants.

Game #1 - Japan
Game #2 - Poland
Game #3 - Ottomans
Game #4 - Arabia
Game #5 - Brazil
Game #6 - Denmark
Game #7 - Songhai
Game #8 - Sweden
Game #9 - India
Game #10 - Russia
Game #11 - Germany
Game #12 - Aztecs
Game #13 - Egypt
Game #14 - France
Game #15 - Austria
Game #16 - Siam
Game # 17 - Venice
Game # 18 - Iroquois
Game # 19 - Greece
Game # 20 - Persia
Game # 21 - England
Game # 22 - Ethiopia
Game # 23 - Assyria
Game # 24 - The Celts
Game # 25 - America
Game # 26 - China
Game # 27 - Korea
Game # 28 - Spain
Game # 29 - The Zulu
Game # 30 - The Mayans
Game # 31 - Midsummer special
Game # 32 - Mongolia

I thought I had cleared the continent, then with the arrival of a Byzantine scout realised it wasn't a Continents game - doh! Ah well, thinking it was helped me clear out everyone around me fairly fast so I could kill them all before anyone else showed up. Maybe I can kill Theo before she tells the world about the smouldering ruins of Jakarta, Edinburgh, Ulundi, Assur and Istanbul?

I dont think you need the NC at all. In fact, I only ever built a monument in Attila's Court and went straight to The Wheel. Much later I built a barracks, but for the first 100 turns it was only units in the cap.

1. Jakarta. 2 HAs, a Warrior and an upgraded warrior (Ram)
2. Edinburgh. 5 HAs and a different ram that had made the long march through the rough terrain a looooong time before.
3. Ulundi. A ton more HAs join in, plus the 2 rams.
4. Assur. The Western army completes its task while the 2nd Army goes East.
5. Istanbul. I killed his army, he offered me his 2 expos. Razed them, finished him 10 turns later.

Annexed Jakarta early and rush-bought a few more HAs there, mainly with the sale of the disbanded Western Army.

6. Rome. First because the Romans only had Ballistas. Pathetic.*
7. Constantinople. They had a few Dromons, but I had Range and Logistics by this point. Cataphracts might have slowed me down a bit more.

Romans

Sloppy, but on Immortal it's godd.

I need to trudge through Rome and Assur and it's over. 105 Turns have passed. Christ, the Huns are beastly

A mixture of dreadful terrain and insanely defensive Legions, Rome took a while to capture, it was the only cap remaining and after wasting enough time trying to take out the invincible Legions, they got the Great Wall up, so I quit. Screw that

I just conquered Jakarta and then went for a CV. Surprisingly lost both WF and IG to Romans by a pretty big gap - something I have never seen before on Immortal. Other than that pretty standard game. Had to defend against Ottomans and Zulus at one point, and almost lost Jakarta but luckily survived.