I believe it is the first time I am voluntairily playing as Celts. I wouldnt play them unless my random leader generator would give them to me. Hate the traits of Boudica, and the UB. But I dont mind today.
Had a short night, bit too much to drink and I want an easy game to kill the afternoon and some AI a bit. Also I am not at my own PC, this one is rather slow, so a standard sized map will be great. isolated start will make for quiet starting game. perfect. I am a monarch player usually, but ill take this on noble to avoid any micro stuff. Ill probably just automate workers quikly and not be bothered by which city works what tile too much. expectation: space race vic.
Lets do this.
speed marathon. excuse typo's and poor english. I learned it from the TV. Blame the american sitcoms.
Start looks decent enough. 2 seafood, piggy, couple of hills. I put warrior on autoexplore. No barbs and im isolated, go have fun. I tech fishing while building a warrior. once warrior is done i build a workboat while working hammer tile, grow to size 2, build another workboat, then start on workers. once first worker is done so is bronze working, and i chop the second worker while switching to slavery. with 2 workers i chop a third, start stonehenge, build some mines and chop the forests.
Stonehenge is mine and i have a
cap of 7. yay!
In the meantime my warrior has mapped the island. I wanted to settle my second city near the deer (I like deer, and this one isnt even on tundra!) but then I spotted the stone...hmmm... what the heck, lets wonderspamm. I settle my 2nd city near stone and my 3rd near the deer. Stone means pyra means im gonna wanna run specialists. I tech writing before i do pottery. here's what it looks like 2000 years into the game.
I start working on pyramids in the stone city. Im already running 2 scientists in the capital at this point. now what? im alone, so no need for militairy. lots of pesky jungle around but that can wait. Dont have marble, but i do have plenty of time. Ill tech priesthood and build oracle in the capital. the great prophet points should stack nicely.
I pop a great prophet while doing this and settle him in the capital.
Once pyra's are done it looks like this:
I switch to rep right away, slave the library in my second city after the revolt and run 4 scientists total. I pop CoL with oracle and found taoism in Tolosa. sweet, that should make a great wallstreet city someday. Its also where i am starting the moa statues now. City will be very nice, even without any farms and with some desert tiles.
This is tolosa. The deer just blew itself up, but ill have that fixed right away.
Speaking of exploding deer, the random events are not kind to me this game. I have constant slave revolts, my quarry blew up three times, my deer exploded twice, all in the BC's. This will continue all game , as we'll see later on.
800 BC I finally pop a scientist and create an academy in the capital.
Im starting to get health problems in my cities. granaries are basically useless in countering this as I have no rice, corn or weed, err.. wheat.
So ill tech compas rather soon, to get some health from all the seafood. Vienne becomes a settler pump in the meantime.
320 BC: I finish collosus in capital. this will boost my economy a bit, since i will have mosty coastal cities.
Im starting to crash my economy (well, at least my slider) with my constant expanding. but my scientists know they will get whipped if they stop working, so my output isnt too bad. 83 at 250 BC is fine.not great, but i dont really mind.
the 1 AD situation. The "s" means i planned a city there. (city is "stad" in dutch and all) slider at 30% is not bad at all. considering i have like 5 cottages or something, and i build them way too late. oh well.
I pop another great scientist. i dont have alphabet yet, and i dont really want it either. im perfectly happy just building wonders and stuff, i dont want to start producing science. but this also means i will not pop philosophy. so be it. i build an academy in Tolosa. I spamm some more cities and build 2 more libraries. my slider is at 0% sometimes but im teching allright. I build hanging gardens which fixes my health problems alltogether.
monotheism --> org religion for faster build of buildings. then i notice theocracy is not taken. I found Judaism in my southern city.
I start on apost palace and start teching paper for uni of sankore. i want some kickass religious buildings! Taoism FTW!
apparently this plan pissed off the taoism gods somehow. they are so humble!. A storm hits my capital and destroys my 2 favorite buildings there. The hits keep on coming. I slave back the forge (build for 1 turn then whip) and take some green fog until apost is done. I start sankore in my taoism holy city. im not running that much science anymore after the slavery and after putting scientists to work in the mines.... but that builds character for them geeky guys. and I need the hammers. Switching to bureaucracy helped a bit.
600AD phil is not taken. I take it and found budhism.
715 AD I pop a great engineer! welcome mr Ford! wow, those odds were like 17%. I quikly beeline literacy and
this is about as late as you can build it i guess. If i go for the great library I usually get it in the BC's. But ill take it now anyway. I build national epic without marble immediatly. That will pop some nice great people. running 5 specialists in capital now, along with a settled priest and an academy thats pretty decent.
I really start my wonder spamm and build all that requires stone. Boudica the cultured one! so far the only trait Boudica has, that I used in any way, was building stonehenge for happy cap (cha). relaxing game though.
995 Ad i start optics, but abandon it as i pop a border in the south and
Hi Gill.
What a cute island! Its almost too nice to conquer... almost. Im getting bored buidling stuff, and I am playing boudica after all. He is backwards in tech and i guess so is HC with 3 cities. I decide i want cannons and rifles. I want that island. it is pretty.
1000 AD
I pop another GE. sweet. save him for a rainy day. Start teching lib to take astronomy. lets see what gilga has to offer in trade and what the rest of the world looks like. I also start building barracks in all my cities.
Stuff starts going faster.
1150 AD
Turns out Gilga has plenty of goodies and all he wants from me is ivory. yeah right. All the more reason to "convince" him to get off MY island.
1210 AD
I build 2 galleons and started sailing in opposite directions. I meet in order:
ghandi, Alex, Ramesses, hannibal. Also building Notre dame.
1225 AD
World is round. DoH! I was expecting to fall off the edge and have some cool adventures in the netherworld.
1235AD
I found islam (last religion to be taken. cool i have 4 now). I start on spinal in my holy city. ah, islam was also founded in my taoism holy city. sweet. i guess with so few cities to choose from you get 2 "double religion" holy city more easily. should make wall street all the better, if the game gets that far. In the meantime Alex DOW's on Ghandi. Always the whipping boy. poor ghandi. FINALLY pop a great prophet too. after settling the first i never got a second for my shrine. yay! few years later i pop another! yayay! 2 shrines for stoney in 1 city. offcource with so few cities the income isnt THAT great, but ill take it.
tech situation. not bad for a non micro game, hit end turn fast kinda game.
I burn my GE on sistine chapel. I dont really know why. Dont think ill go culture, but what the heck.
Im getting slave revolts every few turns. annoying....
Hmm i notice one city, size 12 doesnt have a unit in it. God im sloppy today. Im just clicking
I quikly slave one.
1404 AD tech economics.
started on banks and univerisities all around few turns back already. Also pop another great priest. rather had some scientists now. build budhism shrine with it. Use the great artist that has been sitting there from music for a GA and switch civics to free market. now running:
Rep, bureau, slavery, free market, org. heavy on the specialists.
1430 AD
HC vassals to gilga. who didnt see that coming?
I decided to tech gunpowder and put soem muskets in all coastal cities in case the AI gets any ideas. Some are could or should be teching astro by now, hannibal maybe.
3 muskets in every city helped my power graph a bit. once i hit rifling it should look better.
1462 AD
oxford in capital
1474 pop another GArtist.... hmm.. thats what happends when you dont specialize but just build stuff everywhere. I dont mind, ill save him for a rainy day. This game i dont have any plans yet for a victory, im basically just playing. only plan really is that Gill has to go. I start building trebs (cheap upgrades to cannon)
1546
Build loads of rifles and cannons. Put one third of them on ships and im rdy for gilga. Im fine with having to sail back and forth 3 times to ferry all units. the first on the beach will take the heat, the rest can mop up.
I land on the hill and gilga throws in his finest! 20 cats, then chariots, horsemen, macemen... i loose 0 units but do take heavy damage. the remaining units arrive 2 and 4 turns later and start kicking ass while my first arrivals heal a bit.
1606 AD gilga = gone.
Last incan city falls in 1626 AD. it was in a great tactical spot though. only acces was through river.
and there is the current situation. I am not sure what ill do now. I have a great army, but hannibal has ghandi as vassal and got steal from him. That will make my current army sufficient, but it will be bloody. I might either go for infantry or hit enter untill I launch something into space.
So far my micro was almost non existent, but i hope some struggling noble players pick up on the simple setup for a specialist heavy economy, that is easy to run when in isolation. when using a bit more micro, and actually paying attention (i forgot to build a workboat, forgot to rebuild my deer once, and i build collosus without copper when i noticed there is copper on the island... yeah im not 100% today at all) all can be done much much faster. that wasnt my goal here, in fact i didnt really have a goal here hehe. Im having fun with it though.
Endgame will follow tonight or tomorrow i think.
I don't have a final victory condition in mind but don't think I can cope with yet another game with a long period of warfare. I don't have enough espionage built up to get a good picture of who is weakest, but with Ghandi (Buddhist) pleased and Ramesses (Jewish) cautious, their enemies Hannibal and Alex (both Hindu) look like possible targets.
