Hi there! im another long time lurker, first time poster.
I was really exited to play this gotm out as i tried an ICS game with Napoleon before, which ended in a surprisingly easy space victory. This time i wanted to give it a little more thought and do even better. There was much more warmongering going on and i had plenty of fun
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Score : 4633
I was really exited to play this gotm out as i tried an ICS game with Napoleon before, which ended in a surprisingly easy space victory. This time i wanted to give it a little more thought and do even better. There was much more warmongering going on and i had plenty of fun
Start:
Spoiler :
I settled in place and went for scout/worker/settler/monument(?)/pyramids/great library, techwise i went for masonry/sailing/writing/philosophy/trapping/civil service(gl)/horseback raiding. i left out on calender for quite a bit and lost to stonehenge, of course, but i successfully slingshotted civil service and got the mids, which proved to be huge for the many cities soon to spawn and i got a second city near the marble in the north. After proving to be useless to build any wonder ( it lost on the oracle ), it started to gain some gpp for the first great scientist.
Mid Game:
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Being in the middle ages, i finally spent my culture points on the commerce tree to get the 20% discount on rush buying. Sciencewise I beelined banking and the tech for big ben. Hammerwise I started settling like crazy, while building 4 horseman and a chariot . As soon as the chariot and my first 2 horseman finished, ghandi dowed me . In consequence he lost his capital and had to sign a peace treaty, for some money, of course. The settling continued afterwards , while my ever growing worker force built TPosts everywhere ... until ... Elisabeth dowed me , which was - again - easily crushed by one knight, 3 horseman and a chariot. So the settling could continue, while our capital worked on the forbidden palace and a great engineer for big ben. I spent most bucks on colosseums/tombs/circus.
Late Game:
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After getting th forbidden palace and big ben fairly early- both around turn 170-175 - and covering half of the continent with a yellow color and with uncountable white dots, i felt quite strong. I beelined astronomy next to get some deals with those unknown civs. Through these deals i got about 15 happyness and very very many "We love the King parties", which almost lasted to the end of the game. i beelined nanotechnology next, set my few policy points into rationalism and i let most of the ciies grew to size 8, then i installed 2 scientist in each of them. Becourse of my big tech lead to Napoleon and Montezuma i could fend them off with a very small army, several times. each time giving me a new tech via Research Agreement. Sadly, with all the small wars going on, I started setting up my 2 production cities too late, which costed me at least 10-15 turns. They weren't great either, only producing 140-150 hammers with almost all possible multipliers. Soon afterwars the spaceship launched. Really liked the map and the warring with those hopeless aztecs and french, who would always return to peace and a new research agreement.
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Score : 4633