·Imhotep·
Legendary Builder
de Gaulle, We sing unto the end, part I
Well, we left our French stuck in a war with Joao. I was way behind in tech and war seemed to me the only chance of getting more and better land. On the 2nd turn came a nasty surprise:
Joao was lucky here - won with 43% odds. There goes my 9th city. Roosey immediately grabbed the spot, so no re-settling there.
In revenge I took Oporto, home of the Mausoleum of Mossollus. I lost the city later on after capturing Lisbon though.
I finally got a Great Prophet for constructing the shrine. This did help greatly in terms of finances.
A nice event for a cultural game.
I then used a Spy for bringing down the cities defenses. It was a one-timer though as this did expend all my EP vs. Joao.
I then captured the Taoist Holy City too.
I then made peace with Joao - which was wise as he vassalized to Roosey shortly after.
Speaking of Roosey, he made my game:
Now I'm literally safe from everyone. No one will dare to attack me because Roosey is completely out of the roof...
I climbed out of the tech hole somewhat and snagged Liberalism and the free tech - 700 years later than most have done...
The first city flip. Note that Joao already has Infantry whereas Maces are my best units still. Scary.
To relieve my situation with Joao I decided to gift him back Lisbon, his former Capital. I then built a junk city as temple replacement. Remember I have only 2 religions available...
But gifting was weed, I only got a mere +2 for trade relations. Should have liberated it...
Yet my units got teleported back to the Taoist Holy City, including a Great Prophet. Shrine Time ! Couldn't have done this otherwise as Joao didn't open borders and the city was completely drowned in Portugese culture.
Roosey was a nice uncle. Gifted me Theology too.
Another game saver. Now I can hire enough Artists at Orleans, the gems city housing National Epic and the Globe...
World War time.
Paris goes Legendary.
The most shocking second. If Joao now comes for me I'm toast.
Never did I concede a demand more willingly ! That's 10 turns of peace that allow me winning this game...
continues...
Spoiler :
Well, we left our French stuck in a war with Joao. I was way behind in tech and war seemed to me the only chance of getting more and better land. On the 2nd turn came a nasty surprise:
Joao was lucky here - won with 43% odds. There goes my 9th city. Roosey immediately grabbed the spot, so no re-settling there.
In revenge I took Oporto, home of the Mausoleum of Mossollus. I lost the city later on after capturing Lisbon though.
I finally got a Great Prophet for constructing the shrine. This did help greatly in terms of finances.
A nice event for a cultural game.
I then used a Spy for bringing down the cities defenses. It was a one-timer though as this did expend all my EP vs. Joao.
I then captured the Taoist Holy City too.
I then made peace with Joao - which was wise as he vassalized to Roosey shortly after.
Speaking of Roosey, he made my game:
Now I'm literally safe from everyone. No one will dare to attack me because Roosey is completely out of the roof...
I climbed out of the tech hole somewhat and snagged Liberalism and the free tech - 700 years later than most have done...
The first city flip. Note that Joao already has Infantry whereas Maces are my best units still. Scary.
To relieve my situation with Joao I decided to gift him back Lisbon, his former Capital. I then built a junk city as temple replacement. Remember I have only 2 religions available...
But gifting was weed, I only got a mere +2 for trade relations. Should have liberated it...
Yet my units got teleported back to the Taoist Holy City, including a Great Prophet. Shrine Time ! Couldn't have done this otherwise as Joao didn't open borders and the city was completely drowned in Portugese culture.
Roosey was a nice uncle. Gifted me Theology too.
Another game saver. Now I can hire enough Artists at Orleans, the gems city housing National Epic and the Globe...
World War time.
Paris goes Legendary.
The most shocking second. If Joao now comes for me I'm toast.
Never did I concede a demand more willingly ! That's 10 turns of peace that allow me winning this game...
continues...