I didn't go for Aristocracy, so Germany beat me to the Oracle. That prevented me from getting multiple GSs in the game. There's also not much in the way of production around Gao, so that slowed me down as well. I only got the GL in place on turn 53. (for CS) Also due to the slowness, I didn't get the NC in place til way too late.
I lost a lot of units going after germany, post cleaning out the Arabs. Germany already had Civil Service, so horses vs pikes are a pain.
Lost even more units going after the chinese, then Iroquois/Siam. was constantly having to rush buy units, which cut into my funds for buildings and CSs. The chinese were harder to kill due to all of the rivers near them. I was constantly attacking across rivers, which isn't as nice.
My initial tech rate was really slow. I was only ~14 bpt before Scholasticism. That's partly due to the really slow attack on the arabs and definitely due to no RAs the whole game.
I also grabbed the Honour GG but should have just gone into Patronage earlier. I would have had a much better tech rate if I did.
I only ended up settling my cap and two other cities. All the rest were puppets and CS allies. I lost one city to the Germans, but left them with it in the hopes that they would make more cities. They didn't, so I lost out on Ivory for quite some time, which meant for awhile I was in negative happiness longer than I should have been.
I passed by the Ottomans, and even made peace for lots of gpt/gold with them, but never trimmed them down. That was bad as they spammed more settlers and cut off my cap from the road links so I had 0 trade income all game.
I also didn't steal all of the local CSs on my side of the map before the big wars, so Edinborough kept giving units to Siam which was a pain.
I did manage to break the Iroquois, so they ended up with only a few cities. my CSs fought the good fight and a few even grabbed cities.
Stockholm got a GG!
I eventually forced the Siamese to give peace, after taking some cities from them - that they took from others.
I think the Greeks want their city back
Too bad, the cannons killed them all!
Other than that, I messed up and accidentally annexed an Iroquois city which effectively meant I couldn't build Oxford in time. (also had to waste money buying a library & University) Eventually I also had to annex Berlin just to prevent a social policy from happening too early.
I did manage some nice wins in the game, but most of them are CS related.
Turn 57: Clear an encampment that nets me friendships with Genoa, Brussels and Hanoi. (trifecta of CS abilities)
Turn 78 somehow get Stonehenge finished in my 2nd city.
Turn 86: sadly.. Take Scholasticism and my bpt jumps from 14 to 42!
Silliest CS request ever!: Genoa wants dyes connected. So I ally them and their own dye kicks in the bonus for connecting dye.
Turn 72 Genoa wants gold, so Im happy to provide once my worker repairs it. (barbs pillaged it earlier - of course, I had already sold it for 300g)
I started on the Globalization path on turn 201. I popped the two free techs from Rationalism and then research Plastics, followed by using two GSs to get there.
I started building the UN on turn 209. Even with using a GE, it was taking a long time. (at ~37 hammers/turn) I eventually used my last GG for a 9 turn GA to ensure it got done.
Signed a peace treaty with Siam the turn the UN finished. They had 8k gold saved, but didn't try to buy the election. I ended up winning with 17 votes since I had bought all of their allies after we made peace.
Initial tech path:
Mining, Pottery, Writing (got Masonry from a ruin)
t29 start : Animal Husbandry, Trapping, Philosophy
t53 start: calendar, wheel, HBR
t71: Bronze working, IW
t85: Archery/Math/Currency
t94: chivalry
t103: Off to Education
t114: off to Physics
t125: getting Banking to be in the Renaissance
After this point, I headed to Military Science, then set my tech to Refrigeration and cleaned up the top of the tech tree.
Policy path:
Honour, Warrior Code, all of Patronage (left side first), Left side of Rationalism, then a bit more honor.
- Going up the left side of Rationalism, my bpt jumped to ~300 once the trading posts started to give science.
Demographics
- While I waited for the UN vote, I gifted all of my units to CSs that might have had a chance to take cities. Hence the '0' army.
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