The Deity Challenge Line-up #23 - Huns' invasion

hey, that's a good win. Well done.

Wandered my settler East for a bit until I came across Ethiopia's second settler, settled on the coast before he could and fired on the escort until I could grab the settler. Managed to pop a weapons upgrade for my warrior on about turn four, which made it harder to stop the second settler... But it meant I had Addis Ababa by about turn seven.

Built a couple of warriors and tracked Rome down from where his scout came from. Had his first expo by about turn twenty and had him finished off by about T30. Using his expo to destroy his troops and just leaving and retaking the city when he was getting close to nabbing it back made it a cake walk.

Cleared George off the map by turn sixty five. Now to get some galleases ready for a nice frigate rush on the other continent!

Could have won faster probably if I'd gone tradition instead of honor and razed a couple of the secondary cities on my own continent. The problem was that I didnt get frigates until after T150, so I only managed to scrape out 3/5 capitals with them, then had to wait for battleships ~T250. Could have won with them but I really wanted to hurt Assyria and Denmark, so teched to Nukes.

Given the start I had (4 cities by T27 w/ their own workers), I really feel that this time should have been much better. I think a complete Frigate rush should be doable if you can get them more like 110-120 instead of 150. This would then allow for a sub 200T victory I would think

I did several things differently this time, and caught a lucky bounce when Washington built the ToA for me instead of marching a carpet or early units on turn 50. Maybe stealing a worker from him changed his plans?

I went full Tradition this game, and stayed more in my lane in general after the open. OCC to start, and I kept 5 conquests on my continent. I stepped on a ram ruin again, and also 2 pop ruins and a culture ruin. I didn't mess around with a granny this time, and went scout/scout/warrior/archer/9 HA/horseman. I took Addis early, then finished Haile on turn 46. I had America by turn 74, and then had to hustle everyone across the map because my worker and archer couldn't hold off Caesar from getting to my borders any longer. Caesar had a nice carpet going, but everyone arrived in time to only lose my horseman and one HA. I took Rome on turn 96.

After that I slowly annexed all the cities, used my GGs to grab two out of reach luxes, and just grew my 6 cities and built infrastructure. I didn't feel good about my production or gold when frigates came around, so I ended up going for an Autocracy fueled Missile Cruiser/XCOM run, with bomber support to start and Stealth to finish. I finished commerce by wining the WF, finding and buying cultural CSs, and bulbing 3 GW right at the end of it. While I waited to tech, I bought up most of the CSs to keep Harald from passing Order as the World Ideology (Theodora was going for CV and went Freedom after Harald went Order, but she didn't have many CSs).

I set up Washington as my military hub, and managed to snag the Brandenburg Gate there. New York built Big Ben and Neuschwanstein, which was helpful for my late game conquest window. A faith GE rushed Prora in Washington. I added the Heroic Epic to Washington, and bought almost my entire navy and airforce there, along with several XCOMs. I stopped working specialists after teching XCOMs, switched to gold focus, and built out TPs after I finished my rail lines. My other 3 strong cities supported all the buying in Washington by building XCOMs while the other two made gold.

On turn 260 Clauschwitz starts, and the clock starts too. Ashurbipinal was first as he was the clear military and tech leader same as my last game, only this time he kept snowballing and had already finished the Apollo Program (my worst beat ever was a turn 218 launch by this guy on another continent). Plus everyone hated him and I was able to liberate a bunch of city-states. I worked my way around the continent from Mumbai, with a brief pause after peace with Assyria to get the cities I kept out of resistance and get some happiness headroom. I took Edinburgh and raised another city to get peace, and then wiped out Theodora to get rid of her Ideological pressure. I was impressed; she started buying space ship parts in a scramble to win before I killed her. I cracked open Exploration on the same turn I captured the GL from Theodora, so I was able to get the fleet around to Copenhagen and cap Harald the turn I DOW'd him. 9 movement double-tap Missile Cruisers are fun .

I do want to get better at winning domination with earlier units, but I really just wanted to beat this map so I went for the sure thing.