The Steam Achievement Story series - #1 - Songhai, Cruel World

consentient · Mar 29, 2015

Welcome to the Steam Achievement Story (SAS) series. This is an opportunity to play along with others, collect Steam Achievements, and have more fun with your games.

- The series will be irregular, not scheduled, but at least one new map will be posted per month. Sometimes two, if there is enough interest.

- Maps will be mainly Immortal, with some Deity and some Emperor. Probably from every 5 maps there will be 3 Immortal, 1 Deity and 1 Emperor.

- Each map will have between 3 and 6 Steam Achievement targets. You can try for as many as you wish. If you already have the achievement, you are of course welcome to play along anyway.

- This series is strictly for fun, no record will be kept, and it's mainly here for people that want to play communal games in addition to the other excellent series (the DCL & ICL).

Game #1 - Songhai, Cruel World

Basics:

Map type: Continents
Map size: Huge
Difficulty: Emperor
Game Speed: Epic

Steam Achievements:

The African King - Win as Askia
The Golden Path - Win on Emperor
Ruler of the Twelve Colonies - Win on a Huge Map
Diplomacy by Other Means - Complete Autocracy
War Canoe Attack - Conquer a city on another continent
Pillage, Then Burn - Pillage 9 ~~improvements~~ farms in 1 turn

consentient · Mar 29, 2015

Starting Location and Save File

Nigel_Tufnel2 · Mar 30, 2015

Haha, looks like it could be fun! Although I'm pretty sure I have all the achievements...

stormtrooper412 · Mar 30, 2015

I've never played Songhai so I only have the "win on emperor" achievement

BlackWizard · Mar 30, 2015

Complete autocracy. Do you need every single autocracy ideological tenet for this?

consentient · Mar 30, 2015

Yes BlackWizard. If you want to get that one, you'll have to delay victory, though that shouldn't be impossible if you've dominated before then. You have Huge Map, which makes it harder, but Epic speed, which makes it a little easier again, hopefully balancing it.

I've never played a full game on a Huge map so this will be a first for me. Ditto for Epic speed.

stormtrooper412 · Mar 30, 2015

I have one win on Epic, and yes it makes things easier

Lord Yanaek · Mar 30, 2015

Wow epic speed and huge map probably means a very long game. How big is huge compared to normal? How many civs are there? Not sure i could play this in addition to the april fools DCL (i expect this one will be fun) and the GOTM (i wouldn't be surprised if they put a few surprises there too) but the idea is interesting.

However i don't think i got any steam achievement in a looong time. How do i see what i have anyway? (big steam fanboy here :lol:

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consentient · Mar 30, 2015

Standard Map - 80x52 (4160 Hexes), 8 Players, 16 City-States, 5 Religions, 4 Natural Wonders
Large Map - 104x64 (6656 Hexes), 10 Players, 20 City-States, 6 Religions, 6 Natural Wonders
Huge Map - 128x80 (10240 Hexes), 12 Players, 24 City-States, 7 Religions, 7 Natural Wonders

So Huge is more than 2x the size of Standard. This will be a long game, yes. Those looking for SVs in a few hours clicking 'Next turn' will not get down with this map - which is not to say that the next game in the series won't be Korea, Quick, Small, though.

Also, to see your Steam achievements, go to the page in Steam for your game and scroll down the little display until you see 'Show All Achievements'.

GerrardCapashen · Mar 30, 2015

BlackWizard said:
Complete autocracy. Do you need every single autocracy ideological tenet for this?

If anybody wants to get this achievement (or Freedom or Order) more quickly, you can just disable BNW and start a Gods and Kings game. The ideologies are like social policies in G&K; you will only need one opener plus 5 policies to complete the tree.

If you really want to cheese it, start in the information era and get 5 (I think) free policies. Then you only have to play a few turns for policy #6 before getting the achievement. Or, just play as Poland and complete the tree instantly (you get all the bonus SPs immediately)

I have gotten 12 ideological tenets in BNW before, but you need 14 to complete an ideology.

Lord Yanaek · Mar 31, 2015

consentient said:
So Huge is more than 2x the size of Standard. This will be a long game, yes. Those looking for SVs in a few hours clicking 'Next turn' will not get down with this map

But conquest would be even longer. Well, maybe it's possible to win in in medieval with Mankedalus. Epic speed would probably help get more of UUs. Will see how fast i can finish GotM and next DCL

Also, to see your Steam achievements, go to the page in Steam for your game and scroll down the little display until you see 'Show All Achievements'.

Found them thanks, nothing since 2013 :crazyeye:

BlackWizard · Mar 31, 2015

Bob Morane said:
But conquest would be even longer. Well, maybe it's possible to win in in medieval with Mankedalus. Epic speed would probably help get more of UUs. Will see how fast i can finish GotM and next DCL

Found them thanks, nothing since 2013

If you use mods you want get any achievements expect those 2 mod related. Also if you play offline mod you want get anything

BlackWizard · Mar 31, 2015

GerrardCapashen said:
If anybody wants to get this achievement (or Freedom or Order) more quickly, you can just disable BNW and start a Gods and Kings game. The ideologies are like social policies in G&K; you will only need one opener plus 5 policies to complete the tree.

If you really want to cheese it, start in the information era and get 5 (I think) free policies. Then you only have to play a few turns for policy #6 before getting the achievement. Or, just play as Poland and complete the tree instantly (you get all the bonus SPs immediately)

I have gotten 12 ideological tenets in BNW before, but you need 14 to complete an ideology.

Can you play Poland when BNW is disabled?

CivLeila · Mar 31, 2015

I played this game up to turn 94 (I've replayed it a few times). I usually take too long when I try to take the AI early, so in this game, I have tried to take down the first AI as early as possible. I don't have time to know the result of my last attempt, because my army just started marching.... And I had to finish my game session.

Spoiler :

salocin097 · Apr 1, 2015

What are the gpt for luxuries in Epic? Does anyone know? For example, Standard is 7 gpt for Lux or 240 flat

GerrardCapashen · Apr 1, 2015

BlackWizard said:
Can you play Poland when BNW is disabled?

No idea. I got the ideology achievements back before I had BNW. But I think the civs might be independent of the expansion mechanics. You would have to actually try it out to see.

If not, just wait a few turns, or play a real Gods and Kings game.

BlackWizard · Apr 2, 2015

GerrardCapashen said:
No idea. I got the ideology achievements back before I had BNW. But I think the civs might be independent of the expansion mechanics. You would have to actually try it out to see.

If not, just wait a few turns, or play a real Gods and Kings game.

Well I'm not sure about that.. Venice,Marocco,portugal etc have trade route based UA. There wasnt any troutes in GK. But I checked my steam satus and I already have that full autocracy achievement

Consestient one of those you achievements listed has wrong description:
Pillage, Then Burn
Pillage 9 Farms on the same turn

consentient · Apr 2, 2015

BlackWizard said:
Consestient one of those you achievements listed has wrong description:
Pillage, Then Burn
Pillage 9 Farms on the same turn

Thanks for pointing it out. I had C&P-ed from another site. I should have known better!

Sayya · Apr 2, 2015

salocin097 said:
What are the gpt for luxuries in Epic? Does anyone know? For example, Standard is 7 gpt for Lux or 240 flat

7 gpt (45 turns instead of 30)
360 flat gold
15 gpt for two (45 turns instead of 30 again)

BlackWizard · Apr 3, 2015

Spoiler :

The Steam Achievement Story series - #1 - Songhai, Cruel World

Domination!

Domination!

King

Peacemongering Turtlesaur

King

Domination!

Peacemongering Turtlesaur

Emperor

Domination!

Benalish Master-at-Arms

Emperor

King

King

Chieftain

Warlord

Benalish Master-at-Arms

King

Domination!

Chieftain

King

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