Originally posted by Ronald
If I have time enough, I am trying to play my game till actually reaching domination. If I am able to do it, I will post my result in this thread. Maybe others could do as well.
Ronald
I was originally going to let the game be as it was in 170BC. But I decided to see how long it would take me to reach domination, I would've guessed max 30 rounds, but it took me 45 rounds to eat enough tiles, surprisingly many as I thought I had it after 35 rounds or so. Here is a short review of the turns and a screen of the victory year. I didn't put my soul into this, and if you feel this doesn't belong here yet pls edit my post Cracker.
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150BC: Chivalry researched. Change to 10% tax and start researching theology. Send all horses to closest city with barracks. Change buildorders to knights, temples in new cities and two galleis. Hanging gardens in Car.
130BC: Capture Niagara Falls. I now have 9 knight upgraded. Need every gold now for the remaining 9 HM upgr, but still 10% research, but change research to Engineering.
110BC: Usual stuff. Need to settle SE part of continent, new barb camp appears there. Order settlers from my 2 size 6 cities that has stopped to grow.
90BC: One barb warrior will reach one of my undefended cities in the south.
70BC: The barb warrior stole a whooping 4 G from my warstressed treasuries.
50BC: Captured Iroquois capitol Salamanca with the Oracle. Most of my knights have reached the frontlines now.
30BC: Found Oea some 8-10 tiles NE of Car. Capture Grand River. Lost one SH attacking Allegheny. Hurried two galleis in Arbela and Boston.
10BC: Capture the last Aztec city of Catlixlauaca, so long Monty. Capture Oil Springs. Capture Allegheny. Iroquois now has one last city remaining, Tonawanda in the north. My workers has been working overtime to connect the new cities since the former owners apperantly still tried to figure out how to build a road. I havent really thought about it, but noone has built the pyramids yet, switch to pyramids in car.
10AD: Some riots in LMi and Salam, send out the clowns.
30AD: Capture Tonawanda, exit Hiawata. I now have 18 knights, own the continent, and are allmost finished linking all cities with roads. My citycount is 25.
50AD: Found Hadremeutum. All HM upgraded to knights, 19 in total now, 1. galei reach the straits to the greek city Corinth on Cape West of my continent. Will keep the good relation to alexander to both avoid his hoplites, and speed up the conquest of the other continent. I will near the city of delphi and get a ROP, and use the roads there that connect the rest of the continent. My knights will be all over Germany in a few rounds, now if i could just get the quickly over...
70AD: Give Alex chiv and get Rop, first boatload lie ready to embark outside Delphi. The only minor hindrance now will be Chineese Riders, otherwise this should go very smooth from now on.
90AD: 4 Knights on other continent. Spot chineese galley in the continental strait.
110AD: 6 Knights on the other side.
130AD: Hurry harbour at Oil Springs. SAVE MADE.
150AD: 7knights, 3SM over.
170AD: Found Cadiz 2 tiles NW of Teotihuacan. Hurry galei at Oil Springs.
190AD: Bring some workers over to make additional roads to hurry up the unit transportation to the german border.
210AD: Now I have 6 SM, 20kn and 3 workers on, or èn route to the other continent.
230AD: A few more rounds now...Hurry a few temples in high corruption areas. Order some new settler.
250AD: zzzzzzzz
260AD: Pyramids built in Car. Order Cathedral. SAVE MADE.
270AD: Founded Cirta near spice colony in south. Rushed a few temples. Declare war on Germany.
280AD Capture Berlin. A few knights are redlined, no casualties.
290AD Capture Konigsberg. Fortify all wounded units outside Berlin, consider flipping to be highly likely.
300AD: Capture Leipzig. 1 Kn dies trying to capture Frankfurt. Hurry Settler in Berlin.
310AD: Capture Hamburg, 1 Kn dies.
320AD: Capture Munich and Frankfurt. Settle Nora on the old continent. Soon war on China. Make peace with the germans and get the city of Cologne on the deal. That city is on the much talked about slave island in the south.
330AD: Keep positioning my units for a short victorious war with China.
340AD: Found Russadir 3 tiles N of Berlin.
350AD: I declare war on Chineese and start with attacking Canton. One Kn dies in the attempt.
360AD: Capture Beijing and the hanging gardens. Capture Hangchow. Few promotions, and not a single GL yet.
370AD: Capture Canton, Mao where kind enough to leave a catapult for me. For some reason most of his units are warriors and not SM.... And I havent seen one single Rider. Still he has both iron and horses hooked up.
380AD: Alex cancells ROP, fine by me - purpose served. Found Suicis 4 tiles SE of Salamanca. Capture Shanghai. Rush settler at canton. SAVE MADE.
390AD: Capture Xinjian.
400AD: Found Saldae on the new continent. Found Carthago Novo 4 tiles SW of Tenochtitlan.
410AD: Found Malaca SE of Washington. Finally got my harbour at one of the bordertowns on the new continent. Mucho happiness now.
420AD: Capture Tsingtao, the last Chineese settlement on the new continent. Sue for peace and get Republic on the bargain. Mao has his last city on the small 'slave continent'. Shouldnt be so far away from domination now. Will rush off some temples on suitable places.
430AD: Movin units to the greek border, rushing temples.
440AD: Hmmm, I really gotta DL mapstat soon.
450AD: Cultural expansion everywhere. Finished researching engineering. Start invention.
460AD: OK, gotta move on Alex then.
470AD: Found Gade 3 tiles NW of Hamburg. Hoplites hurt. Lost one knight trying to take Delpi. Captured Sparta. Forgot all about taking the last german town on the continent, Heidelburg will fell next round.
480AD: Capture Delphi. Capture Heidelburg.
490AD: Capture Athens and Sun Tzu's.
500AD: Capture Pharsalos.
510AD: Found Calaris 2 tiles N of Tenochtitlan. Not a single flip in the entire game, quite impressive. Not a single GL, not so impressive. Adjust Lux tax to 50% awaiting domination end.
520AD: Made peace with Bismarck. Tried to grasp Corinth from Alex, but he refused. It must be only a tile or two from domination now, unless all the black areas are landareas...
530AD: DOMINATION!!!! 5335 points.
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads3/Singularity_QSC_C2r_520_AD.SAV
If anyone wanna have the other saves I made in this period I can provide them, but I really don't wanna fill more stuff into the UL archives then stricktly neccesary.