The Immortal Alphabetical Game #16 - Gajah Mada

Yeah regarding culture, I played a test game on Immortal NQ Mod a few days ago and
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Won a peaceful CV as France on turn 200. With a little more attention, might have been around 190 as well
 
Nice game, Sclb! (FWIW, in NQ Mod fishing boats are only 30 hammers vs 50 in the base game. And there are 2 sea pantheons which are quite beefed up from the base God of the Sea. Maritime Inf and Treasure Fleets really help the hammers - but I got stuck only being able to buy GP and GAdm. :()

t323 DomV - 30 points, 450 fpt!

I can pretty easily turn this map into a Scenario where all civs are playable, is there any interest?
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I can't believe my fpt, but I guess with 23 cities with Candi's, and 7 Holy Sites, you get up there. I also rush bought all faith buildings in late conquests just before taking Washington...

This game took a long time - I focused so much on water tiles, and didn't work specialist slots much in late expos to grow as much as possible. Definitely my biggest navy ever, maybe biggest military as well. My Range BBs took forever to get from India to USA due to no world wrap, several of them not taking a shot until taking Washington. I only had 5 techs to finish, so I just steamrolled my long-time E buddies. The mainland invasions weren't too hard either, as I had early air superiority. I could have left Oda with one interior city, but took cash in peace, and he actually stayed relatively strong. Harun was also left with 3 cities, and he stayed plenty aggressive with neighbors as well. I recalled Siam 2-3x, and recalled Bill-o from Maria as I started my E push.

I was getting a Heathen barb ship almost every turn off an island camp W of Malacca - I gifted a ton before I started to think it wouldn't hurt to have a lot more Privateer-->DDs. I ended up with 38, 23 BBs, 15 subs.

After Electronics (I like Infantry there) I went top of the tree to get wonders and decided to take Internet just to apply more pressure, but never flipped anyone. A CV would have been very easy, but I never went into Aesthetics. I gapped out on more Honor - I didn't realize until way late that gold for kills is only 2nd level on NQ Mod. So my last 3 policies went into Honor. Full Piety and Exploration, 4 in Patronage, 3 in Commerce, and 9 in Freedom.

With naval melee getting movement after battle, it was so easy to keep pushing by burning GAdm's for insta-heal. I think I created 11 of them total. I wish they had more than 4 movement - you had to really plan ahead to have them be anywhere useful.

Again, I think the religion sub-game might have been much more interesting with not founding, and then seeing who tries to convert. I used a lot of TR just to get pressure to/from various cities, part of why I had 9 cities with 3+ religions.

From a scenario standpoint, I think I should have given all civs but Japan another 4-8 Oil, and scattered more Fish throughout the map. Plus given every civ at least one desert tile for Petra. Perhaps given Japan the Liberty or Exploration opener instead, with the idea of incentivizing him to settle islands more (he only settled 2 in my game, which were captured by myself and USA). India needed more food. It really was a crap-shoot as to how things developed on the mainland in all the Firetuner play-throughs. The idiot AI who sent his 2nd or 3rd Settler far away always got slaughtered - a solid 3 city core is essential.

I really want to make a Solomon's or Pacific WWII scenario, but with Civ6 coming, it probably wouldn't be played much!


Achievements:
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Religious
3 -- 1 pt for every religion in Jakarta
8 -- 1 pt for every expo that has at least 3 religions
9 -- 1 pt for every 50 fpt (rounded down)

0 -- Kris Swordsmen (I think I only had 1 from one of my 2 Warriors - most early units were converted Barbs)

5 -- Territory

2 -- Diplomacy/Roleplaying - wailed on Bill-O, DOF with Maria and USA most of the game until a late push DomV. Oda would not DOW me, and he never had a ton of units near me as he often does. So I decided to take the war to him.

3 -- Victory Type - DomV

30 POINTS TOTAL
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I have tried several civs now on this map. First was Siam - it was incredibly OP. I had over 100 happy in the 100s, way before Ideologies. :crazyeye: You can snag so many lux with just 3 or 4 quick cities. I simply choked off Arabia's expansion. Glory of God is so powerful in NQ Mod.

Next I played USA - it was a terribly slow start, much worse/harder than the original Indonesia location. Second city had only one 3rd ring hill, and so much jungle. Hydro Plants were fantastic, and getting Maria's Pantheon culture from jungles via Piety - sweet! Barbs everywhere. I finally filled New Guinea, and still settled Sulawesi and Timor. I quit after establishing an unstoppable military and allying all CS. Washington had something like 6-7 workable mtns!

Now I am playing as Japan. (I think DomV players would enjoy this start as there is action immediately - it's sort of like a Continents game.) I left Hong Kong as an ally, and took Hanoi. Mecca was a bit tricky with CB, as there is such poor LOS with the jungle hills. But Bushido Swords are pretty nifty. I let Siam wipe Arabia out, then razed Siam's 2 captured cities - I did not see any point in recalling Arabia as he would just continually Denounce me.

I just puppeted Siam's best expo, and am upgrading to XB to assault his cap. He has the 50% city fire - ouch. Plus I purposefully placed a river tile in front of his cap to keep him safer, LOL.

I will likely play more peacefully for a while - meet the interlopers... Maybe settle Sumatra - depending on lux. I have not been pumping out units non-stop - Gandhi built the GW a while ago, and I just don't want to deal with him at all with all the jungle hills.

I think Arabia might be pretty fun to play as well - just race for the lux and prepare for the inevitable Japanese aggression.
 
Siam are crazy OP in NQ mod because their UA stacks with Patronage finisher. And If you ally culturals early enough, you're looking at a T130ish Patronage finisher and you will snowball insanely from that point
 
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