A Diety Challenge Monty

Alright let's start this off by saying I know I have +400 science at the end of this game but I peaked out at around +1200. I sold all my science buildings in the last 15-20 turns along with some other buildings and all units to get gold for stadiums. Also I thought this was a pangea map and it was but it was one of those BS pangea maps that are more like Conts or something else. I was isolated and land locked on a small cont while some of the other civs had massive land with 30 cities and damn if Shoshone didn't finish with 73,000 gold. Im sure we all have seen that many times but it still boggles my mind. Also I had to keep all my cities at avoid growth for the last 75 turns! ( Another note, if anyone can please tell me where the damn porcelain is I'd love to see a pic. I looked for a good hard 5 mins after satelites and couldn't find any. Ofcourse 4 CS's wanted me to get it all game but like most games I play that damn lux is hard to obtain! )

Ok I moved over to the silver and settled my cap. The other 3 cities went 1st to the gold by the mtn, 2nd to the far sugar with no production but great defense since the AI loves the water, and the last city went east of the gold on the hill close to another sugar which I never improved My first 10 turns I found Spain and was on the wrong side of them when my jaguar got greedy and enslaved 2 workers in 1 turn. Ofcourse I couldn't get out alive so I executed 1 worker and left my jaguar to his fate and escaped with 1 worker only. I thought it was a good trade but Spain never forgave me. Usually I know that I can't build any other cities until the war is over so they don't want your 2nd city. Well she wasn't going to give me peace so I settled 3 expo's around t55 and hoped she would calm down. On second thought it wasn't so bad because the 240 turn war (that's right 240 turn war!) gave me lot's of free culture. The inquisition was on but it was more like a bunch of kamikaze pilots jumping into the lake to their death. My build order was pretty ugly I got NC up on t107 and I had to keep my 4th city at 1 pop for over 60 turns. I did get to steal Education around t120. Everything was late for me in this game. I couldn't handle the growth with tradition and thought liberty might work better here. Anyway it was too late and I was having some serious happy issues. I don't know if they had the settings on sparse resources but it sure felt like it. Nobody hardly had any second copies of any lux till very late in the game. Also deciding not to settle on the coast hurt my gpt with no chance of cargo ships. Funny thing I didn't get to build EIC in my cap and I buit it in my 2nd city on like turn 300. I never got Nat Epic up either, also no cavanasary... what a mess. I had to deal with this constant spanish attack and it was fine for a long time because Spain split up all units to attack me at cap and another expo ( El Loco city ). She had enough of that noise and sent a wave to my cap which did some damage. They killed my favorite Xbow with logistics and I was pissed at myself for that. I finnally built up some Artys and drove her back. It took some time but 4 arty 1 worker 1 GG and 2 lancers took down Barcelona and Madrid fell on turn 251 ( Monty's Revenge! ) As for religion, I did get the cult/jungle panth and that was nice untill Hiawa. converted all my cities in the name our Lord and Savior Yeshua. I never used any of my faith either but I never had much as I finished with only +761. ( In hindsight I should of never taken Spain's cap I should of stayed in constant war with her and kept getting all that free culture! Also she did get her cap back at around t310, England never put an army in that cap and I guess she took it down pretty easy after she rebuilt her only city and army back up. )

After all that I had to raze Barcelona and sell off Madrid to England because I was -12 happy and couldn't keep Madrid. I got some nice gpt for that and peace with Spain, she gave me one more city and I sold it for 7gpt. My culture was horrid all game and I wanted to try freedom but I just love order so I went order and it was a mess with the dissidents the whole game. I only got 3 deep into order at about t 310. My culture was too fast early on and I decided to open commerce and went down to Merc Army. Very odd but Big Ben was still up for the grabs at t327. I did go full Trad and full Rationalism. So the game was a big mess with low production and moderate science. China and England went order so I got some RAs with them and a few other civs RA'd up with me a few times to help my cause. Anyway I was supposed to lose to Shoshone but the AI can't figure out what to do with all that gold and 30 cities!! I really didn't enjoy the map very much. I had alot of ugly tiles of water, mtns, and too much jungle (waaaa... sniff) but thats just the way it goes. It sorta felt like a duel map and I had a hard time getting the other civs to war with each other. They helped out and nuked each other pretty good. I didn't even get to try for the Kremlin but I did get PT(t177) and Hubble(t280ish). Anyway the pics are below and Im sure you better players will have a laugh at my growth as usual but Ill take this win. 2-3 on deity on this site now so Im hoping to get to .500 avg soon. Thanks for posting a game, this write up makes it alot more fun than the game really was! I know its another SV(t327) but really what could I do with this map, I was in no shape for Dom or Culture and for once I really had no shot at Diplo which is usually the easiest for me.