The Great Lighthouse (Immortal Walkthrough)

obsolete · Dec 23, 2007

The Lighthouse (An Immortal Adventure)

Leader: Ramesses II
Speed: Normal

The only reason I call this The Lighthouse, is because I finally built the great lighthouse in this one. There is nothing in particular special about the lighthouse or how I used it here, so be forewarned! Its just another SSEWE game of mine, that is all.

Part I 4000 BC to Liberalism Race
Part II Liberalism Race to Final Turn

Some Past Walkthroughs indexed here::

BtS

WarLords

obsolete · Dec 23, 2007

Part I...

4000 BC
Alright, this one looks bad. First of all, I am starting at a sea-side tile again, which I really hate. Second of all, looks like all up North is going to be tundra/ice and the end of the world. Well whats good?

Ummm I guess there is a corn I can irrigate right off the bat, a few trees, and a LOT of hills. Too bad the sheep is going to be out of the cross. And unfortunately even the ocean has no food sources, but there is another dear in the cross. I may very well find a sea resource as soon as my border pops, lets see.

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Ohh, and we got, FREE Cows from the goody-hut turn 1, thats a good start.

obsolete · Dec 23, 2007

3720 BC
And guess what just happened?
I popped another hut and got Free Fishing. I haven’t got this lucky with huts on Immortal, ever.
-ni

2600 BC
And you want to know what else? When my border popped, I didn’t get any hidden food resources in the ocean, but I DID find Stone. How lucky is that! It was right within my fat cross, can you imagine? I wasn’t expecting to get such luck with this start, but that just goes to show you, don’t give up on a bad start cause often you’ll find stuff to surprise you and balance things out

And now, here I go completing the Great Hall. My first tech I went after was mining, and then masonary to get that stone hooked up.

Note: I went scouting off to the far east in search of marble, and I found a patch at the end of the world there. I’m going to make that a priority soon.

obsolete · Dec 23, 2007

2400
StoneFence ready for completion. Stone obviously saves on trees, and the effects here are obvious.

Note, Im running a citizen specialist. While the manual may not advise this, there is a time and a place for it, and it is here. Also, Ive run citizen specialists a lot during oracle building to get the tech-build ratio timing just right.

And now Im going to do something a little unorthodox. Im going after the Great Flashlight. Usually I dont care for it, but Im going to go for it here because well still try a gambit shot for the oracle, but Im having some doubts of hitting the free tech after this prize.

P.S. Going after junk like sailing here is going to slow us down quite a bit from our goals, but I am hoping the extra trade routes from the lighthouse, will carry over into enough science by liberalism to make it worth while enough.

Spoiler :

obsolete · Dec 23, 2007

2240 BC
We met Musa. I know a lot of people fear him and consider him a tech master. But they are doing something wrong, because in my games Ive never had a problem out-competing with him.
-ni

1720 BC
We met Brennus. Ok, thats a little alarming to some. Yes, he is aggressive, but he can be controlled in a few ways. Lets just make sure we dont do anything to press his buttons.
-ni

1520 BC
And this is something you dont see every day. Obsolete is completing the Great Flashlight!

Next, on to priesthood to see if we can still catch the Orca, but a lot of time has been lost on it now.

Spoiler :

obsolete · Dec 23, 2007

1480 BC
Great Spy pops.
-ni

1240 BC
PythonMids is just about ready. And man I cant wait, so I can bring my pop up from 5 and get my Great Spy doing some double-duty.

Note. Culture from StoneFence has already doubled.

Spoiler :

obsolete · Dec 23, 2007

1000 BC
WooHoo! And we made it!

I took a bigger gambit by stalling a bit while I researched writing, but it was a good calculated risk, cause now I get a big jump on Mathematics.

Next, we’ll go after Meditation.

obsolete · Dec 23, 2007

725 BC
Time to found our second city.

Remember that spot I said I scouted to the east, at the end of the world? Well that’s where we are settling. Unfortunately some barb city settled close by (too close). I’ll just have to razz it later. But right now, I’m happy to get this spot for the marble, and being on a river helps, though I’ll still have to make a few road-connection jumps.

P.S. My warrior there already got promoted to Level II woodsman.

obsolete · Dec 23, 2007

550 BC
The FlyingGardens is ready to go, just one more flower pot left. And I don’t even have to whip right now. Production is going strong, just 2 more hills left to mine and I won’t have to add more production until the very late stages.

Spoiler :

obsolete · Dec 23, 2007

350 BC
We met the Romans. Great, now we have the Romans and the Holy Romans. I almost thought that couldnt happen.
-ni

250 BC
Temple of Artimis coming online soon! Man, this is a biggie, and Im sure glad I got that marble online early. Now lets see, the lighthouse, combined with the ToA. Hmmm.
Can it get any better? Well yes, if the ToA worked for ALL your cities, but it doesnt.

Oh well, I cant complain, Im just happy to get a running priest for a while.

Note: FlashLight House culture has doubled.

Spoiler :

KMadCandy · Dec 23, 2007

why were you running a citizen specialist instead of somebody else on a plains forest hill when working on great wall and stonehenge at happy cap? i would understand if you were running Rep, but you didn't have the pyramids did you? not trying to criticize, i just wonder if i'm missing something or if you weren't paying attention to details is all (you wonder why i don't post games? it's because i notice those details a heck of a lot more in other people's games than in my own!!!)

obsolete · Dec 23, 2007

75 BC
Whoops! I forgot to take a shield-shot of completing the Poor Library. So instead, here’s an after-math.

Also, we popped a GM. It’s not really that bad of a pollution, because of the +1F.

obsolete · Dec 23, 2007

75
Parthenon is now on the final finishes. The tech question was to go after toilet-paper again, or Philosophy. Hard to say, but since I have no religion right now, the AngkorWhat becomes superior to the UoS. So on to Philosophy we go

Spoiler :

obsolete · Dec 23, 2007

125
Our third city is now ready for settling. That means, we are now only half-way to completing our 6-city requirement.

The spot itself is great. A seafood resource, as well as one on land, and horses. Not to mention some hills. No fresh water, but you cant expect EVERYTHING!

obsolete · Dec 23, 2007

250
We pop our first great Scientist, and use him to construct an Academy.
-ni

300
City #4 is ready to settle. The spot looks like its bad, and it is, and isnt. Bad ice/tundra, but I can at least get something from the ocean. Also I have a fresh lake, horses, and some sheep so its not too bad a spot. The thing is, we need 6 cities, so even if a few are junkers, thats fine, as long as we have one strong megalopolis.

**
300i
And lets look in the capital? Chicken Pizza is ready!

Note: Hitting 40 GPPs a turn without any running specialists, or Pacifism, or Philosophical trait.

3 Trade-Routes.

Spoiler :

obsolete · Dec 23, 2007

520
Another GM pops.
-ni

540
Here it is, from bad to worse LOL. City #5 has to go somewhere. And if I don’t put it here, Brennus certainly will! So I’m going to claim it. At least it has some copper to go along with the ice and tundra. Growth and other issues will be a problem but we’ll just have to chain-irrigate and deal with it. Which will be avail in 2 turns.

The next question is, what about city #6? To be honest, I am very seriously thinking about putting it right smack dab on the middle of the ice with all the beavers. At least I’ll grab those resources. Or, I’ll take the barbarian city, but that city I really don’t like so close to the other. So I may just razz that one.

Ohh, and good news is that Musa is running a separate religion as Caesar and Brennus. Looks like he is fueling a war and doesn’t know it yet. We’ll do our best to stay out of it of course.

obsolete · Dec 23, 2007

600
Final turn AngerWhat? is just about to power-up.

And soon, our toilet-paper tech for the University of Stinker project will be ready.

Spoiler :

obsolete · Dec 23, 2007

640
Half a Million Souls.
-ni

680
She-Male-Wagon-Paya is going to make it this turn too. Phew, thats a LOT of wonders to get through. I wasnt sure if Id hit this one or not, but I did hook up gold to get the extra 100% boost. Seems it turned out well.

Spoiler :

obsolete · Dec 23, 2007

700
We met the Holy Roman Empire. Question is, would this be a GOOD or a BAD guy?
-ni

760
Alright, I took the barbarian city. This could be city #6 for us, being our final city, but I don’t like how it’s so close to my other one. I’d rather settle in the middle of the ice-field so…..

So we Disband this city and razz it.

Ooops! A hoard of partisans uprise and take the capital!
No, just kidding. That can’t happen anyway, we have the Great-Hall.

obsolete · Dec 23, 2007

780
Great Scientist Pops. But I wanted a priest!
-ni

800
University of Stinker is just about there. The listing on the left is so packed with wonders, I dont think we have room to stock anymore. Quite a few of them have doubled culture by now, and were now on influential at 139 c/turn. Unfortunately that isnt going to help us much here, as we dont have any cities to flip. Another disadvantage for starting on an ocean-side.

Spoiler :

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