bigwillystyle
Chieftain
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- Aug 16, 2006
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T286 Science Victory. I think it would have been quite a bit faster if I had gone Tradition, but I went Liberty. More in the spoilers.
Social Policy Order: Full Liberty, Opened Commerce, Full Rationalism, Mercantilism, Freedom to Spaceship Procurement.
Settled quickly in the order seen in the screen shot. I left a humble scout hanging out in the Marsh north of Teotihuacan ... blocked the Chinese for nearly 180 turns or somesuch.
Capital build order was focused on early growth (Monument, Granary, Caravan, Floating Gardens, Library, Oracle, NC). Somewhere in there Tlaleco's Settler. The Caravan went to China to speed time to Currency. Got Oracle and Petra in the T65/T68 timeframe.
3 city NC circa T78ish, followed by Texcoco to the North.
It was fun to try the "Petra Gambit" - Tlaleco was a monster city - but overall would have been much faster to do straight tradition. Hanging Gardens went on T78, so that could have been an option.
Never had a Religion, took Indonesia's and finally bought a Scientist at endgame.
I bought a few spaceship parts including the last.
Overall pretty straightforward once I had final science order prepped. Diplo was dicey until the 250s when I built two Atomic Bombs and left everyone afraid. Poland was a BEAST, but scared to death of my Nuclear Weapons.
Victory Screenshot:
Spoiler :
Social Policy Order: Full Liberty, Opened Commerce, Full Rationalism, Mercantilism, Freedom to Spaceship Procurement.
Settled quickly in the order seen in the screen shot. I left a humble scout hanging out in the Marsh north of Teotihuacan ... blocked the Chinese for nearly 180 turns or somesuch.
Capital build order was focused on early growth (Monument, Granary, Caravan, Floating Gardens, Library, Oracle, NC). Somewhere in there Tlaleco's Settler. The Caravan went to China to speed time to Currency. Got Oracle and Petra in the T65/T68 timeframe.
3 city NC circa T78ish, followed by Texcoco to the North.
It was fun to try the "Petra Gambit" - Tlaleco was a monster city - but overall would have been much faster to do straight tradition. Hanging Gardens went on T78, so that could have been an option.
Never had a Religion, took Indonesia's and finally bought a Scientist at endgame.
I bought a few spaceship parts including the last.
Overall pretty straightforward once I had final science order prepped. Diplo was dicey until the 250s when I built two Atomic Bombs and left everyone afraid. Poland was a BEAST, but scared to death of my Nuclear Weapons.
Victory Screenshot: