The Deity Challenge Lineup - Game #9 - Rome

Using "my" Wide Commerce Strategy, I managed to score a really easy win on this really terrible map.

Screenie 1: Thanks game for letting me know there's an antiquity site 50 turns before I'd get to dig it up

Screenie 2: Thanks for the free money, buddy

Screenie 3: Aaaah maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan >_<

Screenie 4: doesn't matter, we win

Some comments: I piled all this religion for nothing, didn't get to finish Commerce in time to buy 3 Merchants with it aaaand do absolutely nothing with them Megabucks were rolling steadily than ever but it was a struggle until Markets and City connections were up, as Rome you fall easily to the trap of "build everything in every city", a neat UA but a tad useless. Conquest was only manageable post Frigates but I couldn't be bothered obviously. Culture was a bit slow, I suppose with one city less it would have been faster but meh, it wouldn't really matter. I estimated the vote on the next session, but one of them hit Atomic just one turn before the vote. That got pushed back and we were in the UN session. After that I only had 11 turns to prepare everything, guys didn't want to vote for me o_O fortunately I only needed to win over one of them (got 2 in the end), even my longtime allies turned their back on me, hmph

LOL that WF vote, that sucks!

I had factories and everything, If I staffed them with engineer specialists, I would have walked that competition. It wouldn't have mattered anyway because the vote was right around the corner innit

T302 Science Victory

Very late CV. Start was extremely slow, eventually had 7 city liberty.
NC 5 city 125
Education 143
ST 195
Plastics 237
internet 257

Unreal gap between internet and win, wow

Science Victory, turn 341. SV was backup plan after Globalization when it became clear I would never get my Freedom Trade routes online for any kind of timely DiploVC. This was my second try at the map after loosing by SV on T328 with an Autocracy run.

Went Liberty but missed the &#8217;mids and only put down four cities because three of my expo locations were spoiled. Tried to clear out a forward settled expo with the UU but had no success at all, and ended up waiting on arty to take that city.

I wanted to try this map because it is listed as one of the harder ones and the start looked to be about perfect for Dance of the Aurora. I really like the UA.