The Community Deity Game #3 - Ethiopia

Nothing too drastic in the early stages. Stole 2 workers from Theo but made white peace as soon as I saw 1st Cata on the fields. I didn't realise the that size of the map until too late so my start was planned for a smaller one and for a change I thought of a more peaceful approach. The simple kill 1st & sort out the details would've worked much better in this case.
Also an early war with Rome just to please Wu and a similar one against William as needed to prevent his prophets preaching false messages for a while.

T56 2nd religion but by the time I got a missionary out William had made nice spread of his but he was hiding behind CSs and more I had not any contemporary units and the outdated ones including Scouts were trying to block Chinese settlers.

T81 Oracle which was the first sign I was getting somewhere but Chukos appearing two turns later on my border quickly dragged me into reality luckily she was willing to start other wars, with a hefty price but still.
T84 Enhanced, T86 CS which was nice boost for growth as I wasn't struggling with happiness, T98 5C NC and settled 2 more cities soon afterwards.




T104 Education and with JE I was fairly quickly able to buy Unis everywhere. T107 Renaissance for Wu & LToP was gone soon afterwards so I headed for Sistine which to my surprise I actually got. William was taking the religious WWs and Washy & Wu sharing the rest.
Most likely I won the WF because I once again sent Wu hunting when it started and I doubt Washy's interest was genuine either. By this time I was friends with half the world and nicely catching others but Washy who went Ratio, with tech.




T162 Industrial 20 turns after Washy, T169 Liberty finished as 2nd tree after Piety, GE to be used on Louvre T181. It also became apparent that this game wouldn't gave a peaceful solution as Washy was running away on Sci and without William from spreading the achi A would never be met but instead of Arties I was hoping for some oil & GWBs.
The Ideologies started to become a problem. Wu went Autocracy, Washy Order as did William before I took Freedom and all the rest took Order as well - this was Order civs than in my previous games this year combined so I wasn't going to switch no matter what.




T204 Eiffer, T213 Plastics and after a few backstabs and quite a few denouncement I got a triple DoW from Theo, Pacha & Gustavus but nothing major here as all my cities were relatively safe as Theo didn't bring enough melee ships. I still had next to no Army but few well placed meat shields can do wonders against AI. I think Wu was about to join but I managed to keep her constantly in war with Washy apart from few mandatory 10 turn breaks and in a number of smaller wars just to cause some havoc.
After T227 SoL the game started to look more like my usual stuff with healthy wars going on and some nice accumulating every turns. Main issues where still lack of CS allies and even those available to be allies as quite a few got swallowed by whomever. Washy wiped Sweden off the map and Rome's extinction was caused by being hated by everyone.





Not a chance here, Wu proposed, supported & won it.




Double DoW on T263 by Washy & William which was not welcomed as my TRs got wiped off - not that serious on its own but as China was embargoed my options were quite limited. Had to make peace with Monte & Pacha to have at least some.
Will had even smaller Army than I did at this point and nukes do wonders - the downside is the severely hampered movement without roads and Wu resettled the spaces I created by razing some heretic cities - the natural conversion by this stage takes far too long.
T270 Neuschwanstein for money but he happiness never hurt anyone either.




T280 Hubble mainly to prevent anyone else getting it and T287 Internet as I started to gain cultural momentum by GWs from captured cities but the lack of culture was still secondary problem to having far too many cities with heretics.

Went 5-city Tradition, pretty good start and very similar to Persian CDG. Missed Oracle by a couple of turns.

I was 1 turn late to PP and Theodora founded WC. Somehow I didn't get to make a proposal, Sweden has the player 1 spot here it seems, perhaps they were added in after the map was created. Anyway, Sweden was conveniently eliminated by America so I got to propose WF on the second congress. Forgot to take a screenshot but I won it in a very close race.

I went Industrialization first to get quick Big Ben and factories, then Sci Theory into Dynamite as I unlocked Autocracy and had Mercantilism with Big Ben. Attacked China first as they seemed more dangerous, then Byzantium. Upgraded to Rocket Artillery and took some cities from William and Augustus. Washington finished off the Netherlands, Wittenberg finished off China.


I was best friends with Washington who went Autocracy as well. I captured two holy cities, he got the other two. In the end he was fighting it out with Pachacuti while I completed IG and converted a bunch of cities with prophet spam. Took World Religion too but I don't think it made any difference.

Some endgame screenshots with achievement stuff