Cpt Chaos
Chieftain
I have just finished playing a tall game as Monty and ended up with quite a large capital at the end of it all (slight understatement). I had originally intended to get a cultural victory using his UA, but when I realised I was on an island by myself I changed strategy and decided to grow Tenochtitlan as big as possible and see how this worked for a SV. Turns out quite well, as I made a couple of fairly big mistakes, like thinking I had built NC when I hadn't for 20 or so turns (!) and researching all relevant SV techs before I had even finished AP.
I did quite well on the early wonders front, managing to get GL, Temple of Artemis, HG and Petra (which was crucial due to the amount of desert at my spawn). The rest of my spawn that was not desert was plains. I also managed to get fertility rites (10% growth) and swords into plowshares (15% growth) from my religion. This was especially good as not one AI ever declared on me even though at one point my military was pitifully weak compared to everyone else. I filled out tradition as soon as I had got the free settler from liberty, and then went to rationalism and freedom, for the policy that allows specialists to consume half the normal food. I was not very fortunate with WLTKD, only getting it once or twice until I reached my wealthy endgame, where I could afford to spend 1000 gold to get an AI's last lux.
All in all, on King difficulty by the way, I won a science victory in 1924 AD, with the capital at 60 citizens (1 turn away from 61 and growing about every 6 turns). I think if I went up to 500 turns it could probably have reached at least 75 population. All tiles were worked, all specialist slots filled, and it still had around a dozen unemployed citizens!
Share your stories of mega-cities, and pics, if you have any!
EDIT: You may also notice there is not a single GS planted. This was not deliberate, I just didn't get any before the industrial era as I missed out on PT and LTOP.
I did quite well on the early wonders front, managing to get GL, Temple of Artemis, HG and Petra (which was crucial due to the amount of desert at my spawn). The rest of my spawn that was not desert was plains. I also managed to get fertility rites (10% growth) and swords into plowshares (15% growth) from my religion. This was especially good as not one AI ever declared on me even though at one point my military was pitifully weak compared to everyone else. I filled out tradition as soon as I had got the free settler from liberty, and then went to rationalism and freedom, for the policy that allows specialists to consume half the normal food. I was not very fortunate with WLTKD, only getting it once or twice until I reached my wealthy endgame, where I could afford to spend 1000 gold to get an AI's last lux.
All in all, on King difficulty by the way, I won a science victory in 1924 AD, with the capital at 60 citizens (1 turn away from 61 and growing about every 6 turns). I think if I went up to 500 turns it could probably have reached at least 75 population. All tiles were worked, all specialist slots filled, and it still had around a dozen unemployed citizens!
Share your stories of mega-cities, and pics, if you have any!
EDIT: You may also notice there is not a single GS planted. This was not deliberate, I just didn't get any before the industrial era as I missed out on PT and LTOP.
Yea my cities usually go into the 40's, i don't think i ever had more then 50. thats pretty impressive. 
thank you so much for that! Very impressive.
